After Zhou Baitai and the children in the same area as him were teleported out of Clear Sky Peak, they all fell unconscious.
Yang Xuanqing and Yang Xuanlang secretly brought them to Tiangong Peak.
There, Chen Huaien would join several Azure Waves deities in erasing and altering their experiences on Clear Sky Peak.
Once these children woke up, the memories in their minds would be replaced with another version.
The portions of Zhou Baitai's memories containing the higher cultivator's will were also reasonably altered, ensuring that he would not suffer any mental confusion afterward.
Fortunately, Zhou Baitai had not yet formally entered the Dao and still fell within the realm of mortals. The deities could nourish his soul with divine power and repair it.
Though the lifespan drained away by the higher cultivator's will could not be restored, preserving his life and Dao path was already a blessing amid misfortune.
In the end, these children would be assigned to the outer and inner divisions of Heaven-Clearing Academy according to how high they had climbed.
Aside from them, the other mortal children from the first batch to enter Clear Sky Peak for the selection trial also gradually completed their climbs during this time.
The final results were just as the Yang Clan had expected.
Other than Jiang Pu, who later received a stroke of fortune from Chen Yang and had her qi meridians and Dao foundation repaired, allowing her to pass through Puppet Land and enter the Technique Academy as a Direct Disciple—
The rest of the mortal children had made it no farther than the misty region. The ratio between outer-division and inner-division disciples was roughly seven to three.
Of course, the results of a single entrance selection would not directly determine the future Dao paths of these mortal children.