“Don’t think you’re so special just because you’ve been to Yellow Springs. If it wasn’t for the old ancestor’s favoritism, how could you get so ahead of us? You were only rank four when you came out of the training camp, what difference was there?”

Song Zining shook his head. “The gap is so big that it can’t be remedied. You guys only see a person’s rank, but you don’t know that the true purpose of Yellow Springs is to stimulate one’s potential by having them toe the line between life and death. It trained us to maximally utilize our resources and grasp every small opportunity. These things have long since become second nature by the time we were out from Yellow Springs. So, all the chances you missed were akin to golden opportunities for me. It’s the same in the business world, and that is the reason why your business and mine are so different despite having started at the same time.”

Song Zian was livid. He was actually quite intelligent and could grasp the logic in Song Zining’s words. But that was exactly...