Just as the authorities had said, the spell-guidance methods taught by the Academy Faction were several times faster than those of the temples. The temples' prestige immediately plummeted. People were not fools; everyone knew that either the temples had been holding back and treating people differently, or they truly were inferior to the academies.
The Heavenly Dao Organization members within the temples had been dealt a solid, stifling blow this time, one they could not fight back against. If they introduced more advanced cultivation methods now, it would confirm that they had been holding back and treating people differently. If they did not reveal them, they would be surpassed by the academies.
Outstanding students chose the academies as places for further study because of the academies' strength and the authorities' prestige. Just like now, there were several thousand more students around Lu Yang.
After a brief half month of instruction, the academies decided to step in and solve the military's supply problem. Hundreds of teachers mobilized together and demanded that everyone from the temples join them in sweeping the area outside the Underground City.
In just one week, all the supplies had been recovered, and not a single mutated insect could be seen within five kilometers of the base.
Just as the Academy Faction instructors were overjoyed and the humans in the Underground City thought the world was about to return to normal, satellite television broadcast footage of a massive Twisted Void high in the sky, from which large numbers of level-seven creatures suddenly emerged.
It was not the only place. Level-seven creatures began appearing all over the world, and as they emerged, countless plant seeds fell from the Twisted Void onto Earth. The original iron ore, silver ore, and gold ore also mutated, becoming rich in magical energy.
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