Tianhuang Martial Arts University

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Overview

Tianhuang is regarded as Xia Country’s foremost martial arts university. Founded with support from the Authorities, it also serves as the second line of defense against the Northern Chaos Region 378 505 508.

Unlike Earth Origin and Human Mystery, Tianhuang has a complicated internal division of power among its leadership, laboratories and outside interests 378. It was founded nearly a century before Jiang Fu’s class enrolled 711.

Admissions

• Tianhuang holds an independent entrance examination; Gaokao results alone cannot secure admission 707 709.
• Admission is highly selective. Bincheng had a single Elite Candidate slot for the university, and Tianhuang accepted few Expanded-Enrollment Candidates 88 119.
• Expanded-Enrollment Candidates contribute fifty million points each semester 119.
• The first on-campus assessment requires freshmen to pass through the pressure of the Heavenly Desolation Stele. Before Jiang Fu and Shi Jiu, every freshman had crawled through the gate; their class included 3,700 freshmen 710 711.

Campus and Facilities

The campus stretches for a hundred li through the Wilderness Zone. Its main south gate functions as a Safety Passage connected to the Defense Wall system; the university also has east, west and north gates 505 616.

• Heavenly Desolation Stele — A nearly hundred-meter-tall bluestone at the south gate, carved with the characters “Heavenly Desolation” 505.
• Wind Feather Laboratory — Ning Chengfeng and Yun Luoyu’s laboratory, formerly driven out of the university and later returned. Its new home is a seven-story pavilion and Void Fortress at the laboratory’s former site 504 516 617.
• Sikong Clan Laboratory — A facility occupying an entire campus. Jiang Fu and Shi Jiu declared that its laboratory and research would remain while the clan’s people were expelled 518.
• Lingyue Pavilion Laboratory — An affiliated laboratory occupying its own campus on the outskirts. Established with Lingyue Pavilion’s technology, it normally barred unauthorized entry 528 532.
• Fruit Tree Garden — Created by the Spirit-Eating Fruit Tree on the Wind Feather Laboratory campus. Teachers and students can cultivate there, pick Spirit Fruits and learn how to absorb their medicinal properties 719.

A scheduled university-wide evaluation covered 64 laboratories, including the returned Wind Feather Laboratory. Laboratories unable to produce adequate results risked losing their status, while researchers could lose their titles or be expelled 617.

History

Kidnappings and Boundary Beast research

White-Bearded Xia kidnapped eleven university teachers and demanded eleven Heaven-Tier Upper Grade weapons. Principal Shi Yuehan stopped students from rushing out to sea, searched unsuccessfully for the kidnappers and paid the ransom 145. Jiang Fu’s examination results later credited him with rescuing eleven Tianhuang teachers, including the kidnapped teachers, and killing Boundary Beast Lan 157.

Jiang Fu later presented Shi Yuehan with Mo Ran Dongning’s human skin and questioned how a Boundary Beast had infiltrated the university. Shi Jiu announced that she and Jiang Fu could identify Boundary Beast weaknesses and see through their disguises 195.

Shi Yuehan transferred a trillion Academic Credits to support their research. Tianhuang agreed to collaborate with Earth Origin and Human Mystery researchers and publicize the findings, although Shi Yuehan warned that the announcement could provoke an attack on Bincheng 219.

Acquisition

Jiang Fu and Shi Jiu planned to use the university’s rules to take it over and return Ning Chengfeng and Yun Luoyu’s laboratory. The Authorities approved an acquisition process, which Lin Que said had entered its final countdown 238 460 504.

University leaders subsequently mortgaged Tianhuang to the Authorities to obtain Contribution Points. After the university appeared in the Authorities’ Contribution Points Mall, Shi Jiu hacked its listing with Jiang Fu’s assistance, reducing its price from 1,396,656,666,660 Academic Credits to one. Jiang Fu purchased it, and Shi Jiu took possession of the safe containing its core data and system controls 508 509.

Shi Yuehan was removed as principal and made security chief; Xia Fan was later appointed principal 514 593. The Xia Country Ministry of Education issued a document recognizing Jiang Fu and Shi Jiu’s ownership 547.

Internal conflict

Jiang Fu and Shi Jiu moved against the Sikong Clan and announced the expulsion of personnel at the Lingyue Pavilion Laboratory, accusing it of harboring a Human-Skin Boundary Beast 518 528. Their control met resistance from senior university figures, but support from Saint Entry experts deterred further argument over staffing the Wind Feather Laboratory 547.

Shi Yuehan killed Vice Principal Mo Yankong after accusing him and his allies of persecuting his loved ones and Wind Feather Laboratory researchers 593. After further killings of senior figures, the Ministry of Education took over vacant positions and laboratories 703.

University Battle

Ye Tianhe challenged Tianhuang on behalf of the newly established Shenhuang Martial Arts University. Tianhuang accepted a battle in which the winner would decide the losing university’s new name 707. The contest was held at Tianhuang’s south gate on freshman admission day and drew a worldwide audience 710.

Notable People

• Xia Fan — Appointed principal after Shi Yuehan’s removal; represented Tianhuang publicly during the battle with Shenhuang 593 709.
• Shi Yuehan — Former principal and later security chief. He paid the ransom for the eleven kidnapped teachers and subsequently acted against university leaders he blamed for persecuting his family 145 514 593.
• Jiang Fu and Shi Jiu — Students who acquired the university for one Academic Credit and brought the Wind Feather Laboratory back 504 509.
• Mo Yankong and Huyan Lie — Vice principals who participated in the decision to mortgage the university and opposed Jiang Fu and Shi Jiu’s consolidation of control 508 518.
• Shi Wu — University researcher whose laboratory ranked fifteenth among its 64 laboratories 626.
• Yu Tianfeng — A Tianhuang student who trained at Guhan Pass and later became the youngest Heavenly Being in human history 526 547.
• Spirit-Eating Fruit Tree — A nutrition professor with an official teaching certificate and university employment letter; it represented Tianhuang in the teacher battle against Shenhuang 719.