As the light descended, everyone around involuntarily turned to look.
The student cultivators newly promoted to the Inner Sect might not have felt much, but everyone who had seen the Stone Stele before frowned.
Rainbow light had never appeared before.
The timing of its appearance was wrong, too.
Normally, quite a few things had to happen inside before some outstanding student cultivators could make the rankings.
The scoring system did not act at random.
Only half a day had passed. There could hardly be any results yet.
Unless someone had performed exceptionally well.
But everyone still wondered just how outstanding someone had to be to receive a score this quickly.
Most people were discussing one of the Primordial Spirit heavenly prides.
Especially those three teams that had entered first.
Every one of those people was a student cultivator who had been accepted early as a personal disciple.
If anyone could make the rankings with a score in half a day, it was almost certainly one of them.
Xia Jin and Senior Brother Lu thought the same.
They stared at the very top of the Stone Stele, where flames seemed to be burning.
As the flames burned out, words began to emerge.
First place, Jiang Man of Cloud Glow Peak, Wuyun Sect.
The instant the name appeared, everyone froze.
An unfamiliar name, an unfamiliar peak.
They searched their minds for the many peaks of the Inner Sect, and for the name Jiang Man.
The Evergreen Sect and Heavenly Water Sect had done their homework, too.
But they did not seem to have heard of a Cloud Glow Peak in the Wuyun Sect's Inner Sect.
Nor had the name Jiang Man ever made it onto their watch lists.
An uproar broke out as everyone tried to discover just what sort of peak