At almost the same time.
The same scene unfolding at the Northern Heavens Spiritual Academy was also taking place one after another at the Saint Spiritual Academy, Martial Spiritual Academy, Myriad Phoenix Spiritual Academy, Azure Heavens Spiritual Academy, and many other Great Thousand spiritual academies.
The Spiritual Academy Tournament encompassed numerous spiritual academies throughout the Great Thousand.
As long as the young geniuses participating in the tournament performed well, they would obtain countless benefits.
They could rise to fame in a single stroke, gain abundant cultivation resources, join a major power, and so on.
All of this held tremendous appeal for the students of these academies, driving countless students to fight and strive for it.
For many students of ordinary birth, performing well was no different from gaining an opportunity capable of changing their fate.
Ruins Continent.
This was the venue for this Spiritual Academy Tournament.
It had once been one of the ancient battlefields where the Great Thousand and the Outer Realm Demonic Tribe had fought.
An entire continent had ultimately been almost shattered by the battle.
As a result, this ancient battlefield ruin had been left with numerous spiritual treasures, inheritances, and the like from ancient sects, factions, and powerful experts.
Of course, after tens of thousands of years, the good things visible on the surface had long since been picked clean.
It was now called Ruins Continent and used as the location for the Spiritual Academy Tournament.
Standing within it and looking out, one could see nothing but countless desolate mountain ranges, shattered landscapes, and collapsed ruins concealed beneath vegetation.
Desolation, decay, deathly stillness!
That was the prevailing tone of Ruins Continent.
Until a certain moment, when space between heaven and earth suddenly rippled, breaking the silence that had endured here for years.
Immediately afterward, pillars of