With the passage of time, the silence was gradually broken. A cheer rose from the autumn forest, as apparently some student of the Temple Seminary had ranked in the proclamation. Soon after, however, came the sound of weeping girls. It seemed that one of the senior sisters of the Thirteen Divisions of Radiant Green had fallen from her rank in the nineties to somewhere in the hundreds.
Just as they had been in the past several years, the end and middle ranks of the Proclamation of Azure Sky were mostly filled with youths from the south, the most numerous held by the Longevity Sect and Scholartree Manor. The Longevity Sect was truly the greatest sect in the world, as even the ranks of all the academies of the capital added together, including the Heavenly Dao Academy and Star Seizer Academy, were only enough to barely exceed the ranks held by the Longevity Sect.
