Jiang Ding walked through the grounds of Pure Breeze University.
Students with youthful, immature faces streamed back and forth. Everywhere were teenagers in their teens, with the occasional mature adult being a parent seeing a student off to school. It was another year's university opening season.
Year after year, the cycle turned.
The flames of war in the Jiao Ming Domain seemed never to have affected this place. Immortal Sect Citizens grew up here, studied here, lived here, and then became powerhouses of the realm.
They changed from students into powerhouses, then into teachers, until their lifespans ended—or they entered slumber.
This was the life of an Immortal Sect powerhouse.
Zhang Junsheng and True Lord Sea-Stabilizer had lived this way in the past. Great Sun True Lord, True Lord Jin Ling, True Lord Si Yan, and the others lived this way now as well, leading students scattered across the world as they entered the Slumber Secret Realm.
Without anyone noticing, another cycle had already passed.
"Hello, Dean Jiang..."
"Hello, Teacher Jiang..."
"Hello, Teacher..."
The people passing around him pulled Jiang Ding back from his distant memories. They were students, teachers, and professors of Pure Breeze University, all greeting the sixteen-year-old Youth in Green Robes walking among the crowd.
This was what nearly a thousand years of teaching in the Adult Sword Dao Department at Pure Breeze University had brought him.
Looking around, the students, teachers, professors, staff... everyone across the campus was his junior. There was not a single person who could call him a fellow Daoist. He had watched every one of them grow from tiny children, and with the slightest recollection, he could remember the innocent, immature days of each Golden Core, Foundation Establishment, and Nascent Soul cultivator.
Heavenly Monarch Mie Ri had once worried that Great Sun