There Was No Rule Against Having Ten School Names

Although the Mist Lord had fled,

she hadn't left completely.

Instead, she had left a wisp of lingering mist inside the castle.

It had come along with them.

Something had gone wrong at the thirty-sixth node, turning spatial folding into spatial displacement.

She had to find out what had happened.

The Mist Lord and Xing Jun.

One hidden, one in the open.

Even if Xing Jun fell here,

at least she would learn the truth.

Then...

that wisp of mist the Mist Lord had left behind

witnessed most of what happened to Xing Jun.

At that moment,

the Mist Lord shook her head hard.

"Headquarters is out of contact. Lingyue Pavilion's forces in this world simply aren't enough to contend with the Bearded Pirate Crew..."

"No, it's not the Bearded Pirate Crew!"

"The real mastermind is Youlan!"

"Even if we wipe out the Bearded Pirate Crew, Youlan can put together a few more gangs of bandits and brigands..."

"In that case..."

"If Youlan can use items beyond this world's limits to assemble a band of enforcers,"

"why can't we..."

At that thought,

the Mist Lord slapped her own head hard.

Lingyue Pavilion really couldn't.

Because they had lost contact with headquarters.

Still,

even before they lost contact,

Lingyue Pavilion and the other forces from beyond this world

hadn't sent all sorts of advanced items beyond this world's limits here.

If anything went wrong,

they would simply be handing over treasures.

Accelerating this world's growth.

But now,

the Bearded Pirate Crew already possessed a large stock of advanced items.

Those concerns no longer mattered.

Of course,

the Mist Lord didn't believe every member of the Bearded Pirate Crew had standard-issue king-grade items. That would be far too outrageous.

Even Lingyue Pavilion couldn't manage that.

Probably only a handful of particularly important