Perhaps overhearing his friend talking to himself, another scion chimed in, "How is this only 'not bad'? He's even better than the teacher I'm studying under."
And that was the truth.
Everyone knew that public classes tended to be superficial without much depth. Abstruse information was valued and passed on only to internal disciples.
Hence, public classes rarely produced exceptional students.
This was a known secret across campus.
Today's class proved them wrong. In the end, the scions had forgotten their dissatisfaction toward Lin Jin's treatment of them. In fact, they paid more attention than anyone else in the lecture hall.
Despite their constant apathy and seeming lack of achievement, many of them were actually top students of the academy and highly skilled beast appraisers.