Compared to the other two major institutes, the Sword Institute is indeed too downcast.

The number of participants from the Sword Institute is not even half of that from the Pill Institute, only about twenty or thirty people. Moreover, most of them are at the seventh or eighth layer of the Hundred Refinements, with only a mere five or six having reached the Qi Transformation Realm.

The disparity in both quantity and overall quality is too great.

"Senior Brother, there's nothing we can do about it..." Wang Zhan scratched his head, feeling a bit helpless and despondent.