After Kou and Xu descended, several other disciples couldn't hold back and leaped into the arena to measure their elixir power.
Each harbored a subtle sense of competition. These individuals all ranged in elixir formation grades from six to five, yet understood their own limits—none dared to test themselves against the Sea Dragon Whale, focusing instead on the Yin-Yang Copper Fish.
Zhang Yan observed closely and noticed that all these disciples were from the Twelve Great Families, while not a single one hailed from the forty-six sects or two hundred noble clans.
This wasn't because the noble clans had no outstanding disciples over the past decade, but rather because the Twelve Great Families, as millennia-old clans rooted deeply, would never permit lower-ranking noble family disciples to step in and overshadow their name at such a prestigious Dharma Assembly.
