The Dragon Demon Palace had never been an academy.
More precisely, the Dragon Demon Palace was a sect.
It was simply an exceptionally powerful sect.
By relying on its own strength alone, it could stand against the Northern Heavens Spiritual Academy. Though this balance was only superficial—if Bei Ming Dragon Kun and Tai Cang, those two Earth Supreme-level old schemers, took action, the Dragon Demon Palace probably would not last a single day—even being able to contend with the Northern Heavens Spiritual Academy on the surface was enough to prove its strength.
Of course, the Northern Heavens Spiritual Academy was no simple force, and the Dragon Demon Palace was naturally not as simple as it appeared either. In truth, although the Dragon Demon Palace was a sect, its direct-line members were all Dragons. The palace had originally been founded by a group of seeds from the Dragon Clan who had been hunted into a corner by the Extraterritorial Evil Clan, then forcibly teleported into the Myriad Heavens by their clansmen to preserve their legacy. If they could one day take revenge, so much the better.
Of course, even if they could not take revenge, at least they had preserved a glimmer of hope.
When people had nothing left, they feared nothing.
The Dragon Demon Palace happened to be the same.
Thus, to the Dragon Demon Palace's higher-ups, although the palace had gradually developed over time—and, especially through its constant battles with the Northern Heavens Spiritual Academy, had lost batch after batch of fighting strength while newborns could no longer replenish their numbers—they had no choice but to relax most of their rules and allow cultivators of other races to join in pursuit of growth. Yet its true direct-line members, the foundation of the Dragon Demon Palace's inheritance, remained those cultivators