"Are you saying that I won't be getting any Academic Credits?" Hearing the other party's words, Zhang Xuan was stunned.
"Of course not!" Yuan Hong flung his sleeves in displeasure. "In order to uphold the integrity of the challenge, the Passageway of Records have a system in place to check if there was any cheating involved. Now that the entire place has collapsed, how can we ensure that you didn't use any artifact inside?"
Naturally, the records must be achieved using one's own capability, and the Passageway of Records had several systems in place to allow others to check on how the challenge went. Otherwise, if one was allowed to use artifacts as they pleased during the challenge, it would become a competition of wealth instead of capability, and the concept of challenging records would become meaningless.
It might be a little confusing but at 5-star and beyond, the sub-rankings of a master teacher are classified a little differently. (Refer to the Huanyu Capital arc)
The norm would be 4-star primary, 4-star intermediate, 4-star advanced, and 4-star pinnacle.
Upon reaching 5-star, it's divided as 5-star low-tier, 5-star high-tier, and 5-star pinnacle.