Immortal Sect Citizens Mobilize

Jiang Ding flew through the sky, gazing down at Pure Breeze University.

He did not know how many years it had been since he last returned to his hometown in Banyan City. Dust covered his home in that old residential compound. The people there had long forgotten that a boy had once grown up there. Among hundreds of thousands, there was not a single familiar face. It had become part of history.

Pure Breeze University occupied an ever-greater place in his life, gradually beginning to surpass his hometown.

In the past, his feelings toward True Person Bai Mei and the Seven Feathers Sect had been hazy, something he had not deeply understood.

Now, he had personally experienced this new kind of attachment.

Within the seemingly ordinary plants, trees, mountains, and stones of a sect gate lay the emotions and memories of a Golden Core cultivator's entire life. So much laughter and bitter weeping had taken place here; unless it was a matter of life and death, it was difficult to let go.

"The little ones are getting nervous too..."

With one glance, Jiang Ding easily noticed what was different about the campus.

The formerly relaxed and lively atmosphere was gone. Students coming and going, from first-year freshmen to third- and fourth-year students, all wore tense expressions and hurried along. Laughter and playful horseplay were almost nowhere to be seen.

Before graduation, they faced no pressure of military service.

Education was the foundation.

As long as the Immortal Sect's homeland had not come under attack, schooling had to continue—though only for those below the Golden Core realm.

But their parents, families, friends, and classmates had likely already been drafted, joining the military as soldiers and officers of every rank.

The various reserve divisions and skeleton divisions rapidly filled out, hastening to