There were many disciples in the Heavenly Academy.
They were divided into two categories. The disciples of the first category had masters, and the rest were ordinary disciples without masters.
They had different cultivation strengths and ages, but there were no ranks among them. After all, the disciples were all elites in the younger generation, and there was no need to rank them by force.
In fact, some members of the big families entered the Heavenly Academy only to get the title and cultivated their own techniques inherited from their ancestors instead of the techniques of the Heavenly Academy. Thus, these people didn't have to stay in the Heavenly Academy every day for cultivation; Xun Yuan and Tang Yu were in this category.