Jiang Ye - Ch. 4 - Triple Blades

[MangaDex]

 

[Zael]

I think the question is rather how weak are the "elites"? Why are they all not from the academy?

 

[Glomoro]

@Zael The elites in question are still just normal people. The ones at the academy are becoming practitioners and maybe shouldn't even be considered "human" anymore. In all of these "wuxia" series becoming like that tends to have certain limitations or requirements. Some stories, anyone has the potential to cultivate the special martial arts but it's immensely expensive in time and resources to make even one person strong enough to matter so a lot of people never bother with anything past basics. Others, only certain people can even cultivate at all in the first place and it's still stupidly expensive to boot.

I forget what it's like in this series in particular, but the basic answer either way is nobody can afford to give that kind of training to all their subordinates. There's also other concerns I suppose even if money isn't the issue this time around. The people running things probably don't want every Tom, Dick, and Harry on the streets running around with super powers, y'know? I think one of the pages mentioned an exam for entering the academy, there's one way of limiting it to people they consider "worthy" of the training. You'll notice a recurring theme in martial arts content in general where the teachers are super picky about who they'll train.

 

[Zael]

@Glomoro, yes, I understand, but in these settings where super people exist (and in pretty large numbers too) they are by definition the "elite". "Normal" people just don't compare. (Like you said, they just didn't make the cut, and thus, are no where close to "elite".)

Id is one of the rare stories that actually properly appreciates the kind of might these individuals bring.

 

[permisan]

man it really shows how laughable the witch is trying to reroute and shit and then he does this and the arrow move..