The tied scores still did not make Cheng Moyang stay in the courtyard to cultivate.
He left early as usual.
But after returning, he never went out again.
In the past, he would go out to clear his head and toy with the poor.
But ever since the rumor that Jiang Man never slept had spread, he had not gone out for a single day.
Second place among the Six Pavilions hung like a mass of dark clouds over them.
It made them feel pressured.
This was the first time the Six Pavilions had felt such pressure.
But the rising prices of pills let those wealthy geniuses breathe a sigh of relief.
Under these circumstances, no matter how hard Jiang Man worked, he would not advance too quickly.
Jiang Man paid none of this any mind.
Now, he had thrown himself wholeheartedly into cultivation.
He had even set spell arts aside for the time being.
Teacher Fu had tried to persuade him.
But Jiang Man merely nodded and did not continue improving his spell arts.
Zhao Leming watched without saying anything more.
During this time, those lineages had done a few things to target Jiang Man.
In particular, they wanted to make an issue of his staying up late to cultivate and make him rest properly.
If they had demanded something like confinement, the Azure Cloud Pavilion could have rejected it.
But over this balance between work and rest, the Azure Cloud Pavilion wavered.
It even chose to accept the suggestion and offer him advice.
But Mr. Zhao blocked it.
Besides these, there were also petty tricks to falsely accuse him.
They said he had bought two catties of coarse rice but only paid for one.
With those lineages helping, the matter quickly blew up.
But before it could reach