Chapter 822 - Being Promoted Unexpectedly

“T–Teacher Murphy!” Leo was overwhelmed by a wave of happiness. He was so excited that he could feel tears forming.

Everyone else was dumbfounded too. Wasn’t Great Master Murphy here for Leo?

“Wang Zhong, Great Master Murphy is asking you a question. Answer truthfully!” Leo said hurriedly. He literally depended on sucking up to people for a living, so he knew what someone was thinking from their expressions and words. Obviously, Great Master Murphy had a favorable impression of Wang Zhong.

Noraba’s mouth opened so wide that a large egg could fit in it. Wang Zhong was rising up again!

……

Well, no one expected him to be promoted to Holy Disciple through this way.

All sorts of exaggerated rumors were spread rapidly, casting a mysterious veil over Wang Zhong.

On the other hand, there were even more news regarding the Holy Disciple rank-advancement competition that made the newcomers dumbfounded. The bumpkins from the Empire, and not the Federation, were the first to take the limelight. It had been a short time since they entered the Holy Land, and this group of bumpkins couldn’t mask the fact that they were uncultured even if they pretended to be calm. However, their country-bumpkin behavior didn’t matter much in the Holy Land as out of the 104 people who managed to be promoted now to Holy Disciple, more than 40 of them were newcomers from the Empire. That was an abnormally high success rate!

Although the rank-advancement competition hadn’t ended, this caused some things to change discreetly in the Holy City.

Frankly speaking, this wasn’t very fair. The Federation sent their talents to the Holy Land every year, while the Empire gathered the cream of the crop slowly and sent them to the Holy Land in one shot. That’s why their success rate was so high. On the other hand, if you looked past the fact that the Federation sent their talents every year, there would only be around thirty people in the newcomer batch this year, and it wasn’t considered a low success rate to have 10 of them being successfully promoted to Holy Disciple… However, the higher-ups wouldn’t care so much. They only cared about the results of the statistics of new blood joining them, and they absolutely didn’t care whether it was fair.

They invested a huge sum of money in the black market, using various methods to increase the popularity of the top Federation newcomers. They grabbed all sorts of opportunities to push them into the limelight, such as with the first batch of Federation newcomers that completed the Thousand Gorge Fish Forest mission; they also promoted Divian, Tianqiong Musk, and others who were hidden in the sea of newcomers previously. As long as there was something interesting, the 10 Great Families used all of their resources to hype up the newcomer’s reputation.

“Young Master.” A dark figure handed a medicine bottle to Gui Hao respectfully. The bottle was gleaming, reflecting the different colors of the contents inside. This was the spring water from the Fountain of Life.

Rather than rot slowly, he preferred to own a glorious power, even if it was temporary.

Gui Hao didn’t believe that Wang Zhong was weak like the rumors said. Although he appeared to be boorish and ignorant, he had a sensitive mind. Even when he openly belittled Wang Zhong in public, it was mostly just to vent and for his own satisfaction. That didn’t mean that Gui Hao really thought that Wang Zhong was weak. Having fought him personally, few people knew Wang Zhong’s power as well as he did. Wang Zhong was definitely not someone who was willing to stay weak. Gui Hao had seen Wang Zhong in the Holy City a few times, and he had seen the expression in Wang Zhong’s eyes. The inexplicable self-confidence in his eyes made him wary. Gui Hao’s failure previously was like a giant shadow he couldn’t get rid of. If he didn’t boost his power to the maximum limit, Gui Hao wouldn’t be fully confident in beating Wang Zhong. Gui Hao still had trauma left behind by Wang Zhong.