Refinement
Ryu treated the tribulation like it was something to toy with, his casual strikes seemingly piercing into the hearts of all those who watched him.
The commotion of a tribulation wasn't something that could be ignored. Let alone the disciples in the surroundings, even the elders at the highest echelon of the Sect were alerted. But when they too turned their attention to what was happening, they couldn't believe what they were seeing.
"Who is that child?"
The elders weren't familiar with Ryu's appearance. In truth, they weren't familiar with the appearance of most disciples aside from the most astounding of the Core Disciples and the Inheritor Disciples. There was simply too much overturn, too much death, too many disappointments to care about investing so much in what was ultimately hundreds of thousands of youth.