Academy

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Institutions

“Academy” refers to several institutions in the story, not one continuous organization.

Recruitment and Training

Nanzhou Academy

• Annual recruitment draws talented young people from across Southern State. Applicants climb the pressure-filled Heavenly Ladder, and the academy recruits at most one hundred people a year 6.
• Strong examination results attract senior attention and can lead to an elder taking an applicant as a disciple 6.
• Its cultivation towers support body refinement, law refinement, and enlightenment. The Gravity Cultivation Tower has ten floors and bells that test the force of a cultivator’s attacks 8 9.
• Its laws permit punishments ranging from expulsion to abolished cultivation or execution 6.

Great Dao Academy

• Reception Envoys recruit disciples; applicants must first meet a talent standard and then reach the top of the academy’s stairway. Inspector Envoys patrol its branches and represent its authority 274 296 297.
• Its training grounds include the Great Dao Tower, Saber Cliff, and the Life and Death Stage 80 145 204.
• Its headquarters have a spirit-gathering formation and a Rainbow Divine Bridge leading to a hidden floating mountain and Battle Stage 452.

Myriad Laws Academy

• The academy embraces paths taught by the Sword Academy, Alchemy Academy, Artifact Academy, Monster Academy, Talisman Gate, Body Sect, and Blade Alliance, among others 581 588.
• New disciples can collect pills, choose a treasure, and receive a cultivation method and Divine Ability. Joining a school can bring additional rewards 588.
• Its Sword Academy is described as its foremost branch, but it rarely recruits outsiders 594.
• The Cultivation Tower charges even academy members for entry 587.

Major Events

Nanzhou and Great Dao academies

• Ye Qiu enters Nanzhou Academy after climbing the Heavenly Ladder. A registration elder initially withholds his standard Spirit Crystal reward, then pays him more after learning his identity and seeing Nan Qingyue approach 6.
• The Central Province Grand Selection determines the resources Great Dao Academy grants Nanzhou Academy. For cultivators from humble Southern State families, the branch is a crucial path into cultivation 86.
• Great Dao Academy’s handling of the conflict around Ye Qiu drives him and several gifted disciples away. Lu Li later attacks its headquarters and warns that it will be renamed 280 318.
• After the academy’s defeat, it is dismantled and renamed Ye Huang Palace, with Ye Qiu as Ye Huang and Lu Li as Empress Li 477 481.

Myriad Laws Academy

• Ye Qiu wins its Freshman Grand Tournament after revealing his identity and Divine Gate; Elder Ji Wei publicly confirms him as its top new student 585 586.
• His demonstrations win acceptance from multiple schools. At the Alchemy Academy, its ancestral masters grant him a blessing, and Gao Da claims him as a junior brother rather than an ordinary disciple 590 594.
• Leaders from several schools unite to protect Ye Qiu’s group against the Sword Academy. Their subsequent fight with Sword Academy members exposes the division within Myriad Laws Academy 702 707 708.
• After learning the extent of Ye Qiu’s abilities and the inheritances he has shared, Dean Zhang Fu orders the academy’s leaders to find him, declaring him too valuable to lose 710.