The Wang family made no attempt to force any of the students who had acquired training promises to stay, as the participants in the exchange program still had to visit the rest of the four ruling powers.

Wang Yan felt a wave of envy as he watched the paper boat fly towards Dragon Mountain. "It must be wonderful to visit and train with all the different top powers."

He was the patriarch of a branch family, and he had thus always been provided with resources. There had been no worries about not being able to become an Envoy, but Wang Yan only knew a bit about the other three ruling powers. It was a rather exceptional opportunity to be able to train with each of the four ruling powers at the same time.

There was no denying that the current situation was rather unique, as the 100 students were being targeted by the four ruling powers. If the students could be enticed into joining any one of the four ruling powers, it would create a fissure between the students and the faculty and be an opportunity to seize control of Virtue Archives. There was no way anyone would ever enjoy such unprecedented opportunities in the future.

Things had been proceeding very smoothly, but they had unfortunately been disrupted by Yu Hao. The five teams of students had only thanked Yu Hao after they emerged from the Tri-Petal. Yu Hao and Yu Hao alone had invalidated the Wang family’s efforts to recruit the students, and Wang Yan had no idea how he was supposed to explain this situation.

After bidding farewell to the Wang...