"Not to mention that a little prodigy also emerged from the Blessed Land this year."
A plump senior student gnawed on the roasted beast leg in his hand and spoke with utter indifference.
In the past thousand years, the Blessed Land had won more than ninety percent of the freshman entrance duels. Compared with the descendants of Nascent Soul True Lord families, who had been born and raised in the Blessed Land and enjoyed relatively abundant resources, the Blessed Land's freshmen-
Those from the Immortal Alliance were indeed at a slight disadvantage during the entrance stage. But as freshmen who had stood out from among countless geniuses of their age-
With the support of the Dao Academy's resources, their chances of becoming successful later on were nonetheless slightly better than those of the Blessed Land's students.
"You must have been off in some minor plane lately. I heard there's also a prodigy from the Immortal Alliance among this year's freshmen, specially recruited."
"Hmm? That's interesting. It's been a hundred years since the Immortal Alliance last had a special recruit, hasn't it?"
As the senior Dao Students on the main peak chatted among themselves in the air above the Dao Academy, all the freshmen on the plaza were likewise learning about this tradition from their instructors.
"Entrance duels?! Good! What kind of lousy Blessed Land is this? Today, we'll smash them right over their heads!"
"Exactly! The Immortal Alliance admits just a hundred Dao Students out of hundreds of millions every year. What makes the Blessed Land think it deserves more than us?"
"Although You Tianming lost to Feng Huachen by a narrow margin in the Heaven's Peak Battle and came in second, he still mastered four Higher Vehicle Magic Arts with perfected Dao Resonance."
"And there's an absolute monster who