However every now and then, some anomalies would appear among them. Some Yang members who didn't care for the body refinement realm or had any interest in pouring their whole lives into it. Ma Bo often waited around for those anomalies, but unluckily none of them were talented enough to have a guaranteed entry into the Academy, that was until Yang Qing's father.
He had top-notch skills in alchemy, one that was enough to even draw Ma Bo's attention, and the best part was Ma Bo had long since noticed his dissatisfaction with the ways of the Yang family. He thought surely he could get him to accept his recommendation. However, he had severely underestimated how deathly afraid Yang Qing's father was of his grandfather. He refused him only for years later to run away from the Yang clan.