Chapter 4300 — The Opening of the Mountain
The Blossom Guardian · Page 2 of 2
"Impossible, surely? However much he values this recruitment, as the dean himself, there's no way he'd turn out in person, is there? You must have looked wrong," someone beside him immediately questioned.
"Looked wrong? You think I'm blind? Do you really think I'd spout nonsense about something like this? Look—that white-robed elder in the academy robe, right in the middle, with the air of an immortal about him—that's Dean Ling Yuanqing!" The man in the yellow hat was utterly certain.
Wei Zhao looked over without betraying a thing. The elder the man pointed to was indeed one of the three he had been watching so closely—a transcendent being above the Xuan Ascension experts.
"Hiss, his aura does look the part, but it could just as well be a vice dean or the like. I've heard people say the vice deans of the Morning Star Yellow-Tier Cultivator Academy are all monsters of no small strength, hardly much below the dean himself..." The people around him were still not entirely convinced.
"What do you know! The one in the middle is Dean Ling Yuanqing, no question about it. As for the vice deans you mentioned—see those two sitting beside him? Those are the vice deans!" The man in the yellow hat spoke with a look of scorn.
The two vice deans he pointed to were precisely the other two top-tier experts above the Xuan Ascension stage, apart from the elder at the center.
Wei Zhao nodded inwardly. It seemed the man in the yellow hat was probably right. Even for the legendary Morning Star Yellow-Tier Cultivator Academy of Eastern Continent, if strength reached such a level and even the vice deans did not qualify, that would be too astounding for words.
"Fine, fine, fine, so you're well-informed, are you? But come to think of it, Dean Ling Yuanqing and the two vice deans beside him—big shots of that caliber are dragons that show a head but never a tail. How does a young fellow like you know them so clearly?"
"Exactly. You've never even been to Eastern Continent, so how could you recognize these masters?"
"Right, right. Recognizing those two vice deans would be one thing—they've shown themselves during past recruitments, so it's no wonder. But this Dean Ling Yuanqing you speak of has never appeared before, has he? Have you seen him somewhere?"
The people nearby all asked curiously. None of them were first-timers at the Eastern Continent Academy trials; they had all heard the great names of legendary figures like Dean Ling Yuanqing, but they had never seen them, still less could they have confidently matched faces to names the way the man in the yellow hat did.
"Heh heh, that's where you're all ignorant. Of course I've never seen big shots like that either, but have you forgotten? I have a cousin who's an expert in this sort of jianghu news. I once had the good fortune to see, at his place, portraits of some top-tier experts of the Opening Mountain stage from Eastern Continent—and among them was this Dean Ling Yuanqing!" The man in the yellow hat boasted smugly to the crowd.
"Oh, you mean that distant cousin of yours who calls himself the jianghu's Know-It-All. No wonder, no wonder. If he knows these big shots, that's really not strange at all." Only then did everyone finally understand, and it seemed this Know-It-All cousin was a figure of considerable fame as well.
"Now you all ought to believe me! Though come to think of it, with the academy trials causing such a stir, there's no reason my cousin wouldn't come join the fun. How come I haven't seen him this time..." The man in the yellow hat went on gloating, though a note of puzzlement crept in. (A call for monthly votes from mobile readers—those of you on mobile can vote! If we make the top ten, there are rewards. Please support Yuren!) (To be continued) R655