This young female professor was someone all of the new students had seen before, Medicine Department’s An Keyi. When they met her previously, she was still only an associate professor, but now, she already wore black robes unique to professors, her cuffs and collar all having special silver star patterns.

“Professor An.”

The black-robed lecturer gave Professor An a respectful greeting.

Even though this black-robed lecturer was much older in age than An Keyi, the academy’s ranks had always been determined by contribution. Apart from the students, for everyone else in the academy, seniority in status was even more important than at the imperial court.

Someone like Xu Shengmo was still naturally extremely formidable. If the students he taught had especially astonishing accomplishments, he would also be given a share of contribution, but after all these years, he still remained a lecturer, the first meaning that his luck wasn’t all that great, the other that this academy’s promotion system was extremely difficult. Someone like An Keyi who obtained professor status at such a young age definitely made many shocking contributions to the academy, attained many great achievements, enough to earn the respect of others.

Apart from Lin Xi, Qiu Lu and the others weren’t...