At the Mysterious Academy, where the Crow Department's teaching castle was located, Gu Xi appeared before the castle's main gate with Li Yufang and Liu Yongcheng, who had wanted to come along and take a look.
Looking at the castle before him, Gu Xi could not help sighing. The power of time truly was formidable.
When Gu Xi had left back then, this place had still been a newly built tower-style castle, with seven Towers of varying sizes inside.
It covered an area of roughly thirty thousand square meters, and the city wall was at least thirty meters high.
Everything else had been brand-new.
But now, standing before the castle again, Gu Xi felt that the castle had completely changed.
The castle's walls had turned black, looking as if they were covered in all kinds of moss and mold.
Countless crows, large and small, perched atop the castle's city wall. When Gu Xi appeared, every crow turned to stare at him, their blood-red eyes filled with killing intent.
But in the very next instant, that killing intent vanished completely.
One crow cawed loudly, "The Department Head is back! The Department Head is back!"
Then all the crows rose like dark clouds, circling constantly around Gu Xi.
The three teachers in the Crow Department quickly brought the students out.
Although Gu Xi had not returned in years, and usually contacted them directly through oil paintings whenever something came up—even sometimes handing matters over to Luna to handle—his position in the Crow Department had not changed.
Everyone working here was a teacher. Only he was the Department Head.
It was not that these teachers had lacked ambition over the years, but they could not even find Gu Xi. How were they supposed to overthrow him from below?
Now the three teachers walked