Further Study

With Su Jie resolving Ghost Ridge Palace's internal conflicts, Qingzhou's development met no further obstacles, and Su Jie's various capitalization measures were rapidly implemented.

Three months later!

At the ferry crossing before Firefly Sea, several cultivators dressed completely unlike the disciples of Ghost Ridge Palace arrived.

They wore jade ornaments at their waists, plain crowns in their hair, and long robes embroidered with two crossed golden flying swords.

They were cultivators from Golden Sword Sect of Qingzhou, and also the first batch of exchange students from Golden Sword Sect to enter Ghost Ridge Palace.

There were five Golden Sword Sect disciples in total. The strongest among them was an inner disciple at the Spirit Nurturing Realm Seventh Layer named Xu Chang. He was twenty-five years old, and being able to reach this level at his age meant he had quite a bit of potential.

The other four were, without exception, disciples below the Spirit Nurturing Realm Fifth Layer.

Although Ghost Ridge Palace had forced Qingzhou's Righteous Dao Sects to send disciples over for exchange studies, Golden Sword Sect naturally had no wish to send over its true prodigies. Who knew how Ghost Ridge Palace would torment and humiliate them?

Thus, Golden Sword Sect had specially held a lottery, drawing several outer disciples to fob off on Ghost Ridge Palace.

As for why Xu Chang, an inner disciple, had also been drawn, it was because Golden Sword Sect feared that fobbing them off too blatantly would offend Ghost Ridge Palace. In any case, they had to show some sincerity and send over one inner disciple.

That way, if Ghost Ridge Palace held them accountable, they would at least have something to argue with: their sect had indeed sent a talented inner disciple over for further study and exchange.

Xu Chang was