Inside the ten-thousand-seat Grand Auditorium of the Cosmic Public Cultivation University, you could have heard a single pine needle drop onto the polished marble floor.
Sitting in the tiered oak pews were ten thousand adult transfer students from across the upper realms—including former Immortal Emperors, reformed Galactic Clan Elders, retired Sword Saints. Ancient Sect Patriarchs—all wearing neat blue university student badges over their robes and holding their breath in unison.
At the front of the auditorium, twenty-seven-year-old Chancellor Ye Xiao (Rank 10 Righteous Ruler-Sword Sovereign) slowly set his red grading brush down on its porcelain rest.
In the cruel, discarded draft of the Chief Author’s original manuscript, Ye Xiao had been doomed to have his innate Double-Pupil eyes dug out in childhood. To spend his youth crawling through dark alleys as a blind, coughing assassin. To perish alone in the cold rain without a single friend to bury him.
Instead, because Gu Changsheng had stepped in eighteen years ago with a pair of silver spectacles, a warm bowl of soup. A stack of Five-Three Workbooks, twenty-seven-year-old Ye Xiao now stood at the very pinnacle of creation as the revered Chief Chancellor of the Cosmic Public University. Educating trillions of students across three thousand worlds with two crystal-clear, radiant Rank 10 Sovereign Pupils!
