Whoooosh...
As the Death Storm raged, the X Advancement Academy announced that classes would be suspended for a day. Everyone learned that Dean X was going to hold an academic exchange with the dean of the distant Grand Natural Sciences Academy. Many wanted to head into the desert to witness it for themselves.
Unfortunately,
entering the Death Storm required at least a Level 2 Profound Meaning Scholar to sustain a protective barrier and barely withstand it.
Unless they possessed top-tier defensive scholarship, the protection of a Level 1 Natural Scholar was hardly enough. Most people therefore retreated into the eye of the storm again, frustration written on their faces.
However,
even those who entered the Death Storm and reached the viewing area couldn't necessarily witness the exchange as they had imagined.
Beneath the raging Death Storm, visibility was less than ten meters. Apart from a small number of scholars, most could only just make out waves of energy crashing high above. They couldn't even see the participants' silhouettes, let alone get a clear view.
As a result, only a tiny number of people were destined to truly benefit from watching the exchange.
Boom!
High in the sky, Reilo and Dean X had already been exchanging scholarship for nearly half an hourglass.
An academic exchange was different from a real battle. Following an ancient tradition, before using each technique, both sides had to explain its inspiration, intricacies, and power as thoroughly as possible. On mutually beneficial and equal terms, they then decided how long to continue based on the number of techniques they knew and their familiarity with them.
By now, after nearly half an hourglass of exchanging scholarship, Reilo and Dean X had demonstrated their insights to each other more than twenty times. It was worth mentioning that Reilo had