Royal City Pill Tower.
The Tiansang City delegation led by Chao Zhidao occupied a section reserved for Tiansang Spirit Palace.
Xu Xiaoshou's former "good friends" were all here.
Zhao Xidong, Rao Yinyin, Su Qianqian, Tan Ji, Zhou Tianshen, even Chao Qingteng...
The delegation's battle roster did not consider how close one was to someone else. It only considered personal combat strength and whether one could achieve a good ranking in the Royal City Trial.
Xu Xiaoshou should originally have been a core combatant of this delegation, but that incident happened in the White Cavern, and in the end, he left without saying goodbye.
Leaving was one thing, but he had also taken Mu Zixi with him—a promising seedling among the vice dean's disciples.
Most importantly, after the changes at the Heavenly Mystery Gate on the eve of the White Cavern...
Luo Leilei had left, and Zhang Xinxiong had been slain.
Mo Mo, the only one in the outer academy who had once been able to suppress Great Devil King Xu, had also vanished after being suspected of being a Ghost Beast host. Her whereabouts were further sealed off by the higher-ups of the Spirit Palace.
Meanwhile, He Yuxing and Lan Xinzi, two pillars of the middle generation, had disappeared without a trace, only for it to later be revealed that they had died in the White Cavern...
Well, this was just perfect!
The Inner Academy Thirty-Three of Tiansang Spirit Palace had originally been the class with the greatest hope of breaking the best record Tiansang Spirit Palace had ever set in the Royal City Trial.
Yet for no apparent reason, they had been thrown into smoke and chaos, their talents draining away.
From heaven to earth—the upper echelons of the Spirit Palace must have felt that way.
As for why