Prayer Cloud Mountain lay far from Great Plains Academy—so far that it was already at the edge of the territory under Great Plains Academy's control. This mountain marked the boundary between the spheres of influence of Great Plains Academy and Clear Sun Academy, land jointly held by the two academies.
An academy was a relatively loose alliance of powers, essentially a ruling class formed from countless families. The difference was that powerful families occupied positions such as academy head and vice academy head, while weaker families could only obtain posts like city lord or town chief.
The struggle for power throughout the academy hierarchy was fierce. Newly risen families wanted a slice of the pie, like Pang Shaolong's Pang Family, while the old noble clans yearned to expand their territories and gain greater authority.
For this very reason, undercurrents surged between the different academies. If not for Great River Academy's powerful **, the academies below would likely have gone to war several times already.
Prayer Cloud Mountain stood at the border between the two great academies, an exceptionally unsafe place. Not only were there demon beasts in the mountains, but people from the other academy could often be encountered here, and a single disagreement could lead to a fight.
If you were lucky, you would merely be mocked and beaten black and blue. If you were unlucky, you might lose your life!
This was not inside the academy. No rules against private fighting, no rules against killing—out in the wild, survival belonged to the fittest. Anyone who did not want to die should not come here at all!
Zhou Heng's group of eight continuously used the teleportation gates. With their academy Identity Tokens, the teleportation fees were greatly reduced, leaving them to pay only the cost price—merely one hundred Great