Yang Lingshu's success in establishing his Dao had made the name of Heaven-Clearing Academy resound throughout the Canglan Righteous Path.
In scale and sheer strength, Heaven-Clearing Academy still could not compare with Lingxiao Dao Academy. But as long as it possessed the Nascent Soul Truth-Seeking Method, it was enough to draw every faction to its doors.
After this trip to the Northwest, whenever people mentioned the Yang Clan, their focus was no longer its stale internal feuds. Instead, they tried every way they could to find out when Heaven-Clearing Academy would next open its gates to recruit disciples, so they could prepare in advance.
This time, the Yang Clan's factional struggle had clouded their judgment, causing their younger generations to miss a golden opportunity that came once in a thousand years. Next time, they had to seize it.
Discussion of Heaven-Clearing Academy continued to swell across the Central Region. Drawing on the accounts brought back by returning cultivators, the various factions delved into the causes, consequences, and finer details of the affair.
Among those following the matter were, of course, the cultivators of the Lower Realm controlled by Ascendant Wills, as well as those Jun Qian had influenced through his dream-making art.
They had no interest in Yang Lingshu's establishment of a Dao and ascent as its founder, nor in the Nascent Soul Truth-Seeking Method he had cultivated.
Much like the Heavenly Thunder Bureau, which had paid no heed to Yang Lingshu even after he drew down the Dao-Overturning Seven-Kill Tribulation, they considered his cultivation far too shallow.
He had only just crossed the threshold between the Path Seeking Realm and the Path Enlightenment Realm. Whether he could attain Profound Insight or Treading Void remained uncertain, let alone achieve the Dao and become an immortal someday.
Likewise, the Nascent Soul