When a ray of morning light tore through the darkness on the horizon and illuminated the land, Yan Qingshan sat up inside a small building in the Northern Desolate Spirit Academy's residential district.
The Northern Desolate Spirit Academy was exceptionally noisy and bustling. At its center, both sky and ground were packed with seas of people.
Countless students wore excited expressions, and the entire academy brimmed with an atmosphere of fervent anticipation. Today marked the opening of the Spirit Academy Tournament, the greatest event among the countless spirit academies of the Great Thousand World.
The Spirit Academy Tournament was the highest-level competition gathering all spirit academies, a place where countless geniuses converged and clashed. Those who stood out here would be figures standing at the pinnacle among the myriad spirit academies.
Although the young powerhouses in the Spirit Academy Tournament could not represent the younger generation of the entire Great Thousand World, no one doubted the caliber of the champions who emerged from it.
For many talented youths of humble origins, this was also an important opportunity and stage to display themselves and break through their current social standing.
In the academy's central plaza, Yan Qingchen, Luo Li, the Su Sisters, and several other elite students of the Northern Desolate Spirit Academy had all gathered. They would represent the Northern Desolate Spirit Academy in the Spirit Academy Tournament.
They were all spirited and neatly dressed in matching attire. Their uniforms were azure, bearing the Northern Desolate Spirit Academy emblem over their chests: a green pine standing tall atop a mountain, rugged and unyielding. The mountain was shaped like a Dragon Kun, spreading its wings as if ready to soar and battle heaven and earth.
This was the Northern Desolate Spirit Academy's uniform. Since they were representing the academy in the