Chapter 35: Northern Parts
In the academy, Elder Wang Kai was sitting on his chair, casually leaning back while viewing the reports of the students from Wang Ming's batch. The room was quiet, lit softly by the morning sunlight streaming through the open windows. Papers were neatly arranged on the desk before him.
Seeing the report, he thought,
"Out of forty, seventeen have broken through to the First Level Apprentice Realm—early stage. And out of them, two of the three rank three talents have broken through to the middle stages. First, Wang Ming, who broke through to the middle rank just a week after his engagement, followed by Wang Mei a month after Wang Ming..."
His gaze remained fixed on the report, brows slightly furrowed.
"Both couples are truly dominating the rankings, especially Wang Ming. The support he is getting from marrying into the Seventh Elder's clan has given him a boost he never had in his life."
Thinking about it, he sighed and muttered under his breath,
"It seems that now I too have to watch my decisions properly... Not offending the other side too much, as even I don't know when I might have to jump boats in this new political situation within the clan."
He leaned back further, the chair creaking slightly beneath him.
"And now, with the increasing tension with the Chen Clan on the border kingdoms of the clan... This has caused a huge amount of formation apprentices to be deployed there, becoming a very uncertain situation in clan politics."
"As now, within the clan, apprentices of each faction will compete in this situation to increase the glory of their higher-ups. And if a certain side doesn't perform well, his other subordinates would also have to go through the shame of it. Ultimately leading to them changing sides and finding another backer..."