"What do you think? He's challenging Jiang Yuan."
In the audience stands, Li Chengyi rolled his eyes: "We've all been hammered down by him, how can we not know his strength?"
"You don't really believe what he said, do you? That Jiang Yuan climbing to the first place is just our Academy putting on a show, right?"
Li Chengyi felt somewhat helpless; recently, a theory had also emerged online.
It suggested that Jiang Yuan's success in securing the top rank in the sixth-year leaderboard was due to Zhongyuan Academy's meddling, manipulating it just for show.
After all, among the four top tier academies this year, Zhongyuan Academy's recruitments were many more than the other academies.
This was all brought by Jiang Yuan.
And with the consecutive breakthroughs of Wu Ying and Ji Daolong, those conspiracy theorists were even more convinced it was all a setup.
They surmised that before their breakthroughs, they agreed to the Academy's arrangement, giving Jiang Yuan a boost.
