The Elite Dormitory was separate from the residential area for ordinary students.
It stood alone on an open stretch at the outermost edge of the Martial Hall Complex. Not far away was an outdoor training ground, and farther beyond that stood the wall.
Beyond the wall lay the boundless northwestern border Protective Farmland. Should the Border Wall come under attack, the Martial Arts Teachers and high-level powerhouses of Heavenly Dao Martial Hall could immediately reinforce the border defenses.
"This whole huge building is for the Elite Class?" Qin Heng looked at the thirteen-story building in surprise and could not help asking, "How many students are there in our Elite Class now?"
In his mind, the Elite Class should not have had more than twenty people. Why did it have such a large building?
Zhong Wanshan replied, "Including you, there are thirteen in total. On average, two or three are selected each year. This year was not good; the other martial halls snatched them away first, so there's only you."
Qin Heng blinked. "Thirteen people living in a thirteen-story building, one person per floor?"
Zhong Wanshan said, "The first floor is a public area, so it doesn't count. The previous twelve students happened to get one floor each. You're new, so there's no way to give you an entire floor to yourself, but each floor has four apartments for you to choose from. It'll still be very quiet."
Qin Heng: ...
So, the building had originally contained forty-eight apartments, but there were too few Elite Class students, so it had become one person per floor.
Thinking of the old, cramped apartment in the Slum District where he used to live with his parents—where a single building housed more than a hundred families despite having nowhere near the floor area of this