Deep in the lush mountain forest, spiritual energy filled the air, and birdsong mingled with the fragrance of flowers.
The top thirty on the Heaven Ranking had all gathered here.
More than two months had passed since the Great Cauldron Spiritual Academy had come to challenge them.
Shen Cangsheng, Li Xuantong, and the others had returned with abundant spoils.
They had wiped out nearly half of the top fifty on the Blood Ranking, leaving bodies strewn everywhere.
A colossal light array, roughly ten thousand zhang across, lay hidden deep within space, forming a world of its own. Vast, pure spiritual energy flowed inside like an ocean, completely liquefied.
This was the Northern Heavens Spiritual Academy's only Level Eight Spirit Gathering Array, the foundation of the academy. It supplied spiritual energy to the entire academy, sustaining the cultivation and daily lives of a million students and teachers.
Who would have thought the Northern Heavens Gate was hidden here?
The Northern Heavens Gate was the Northern Heavens' supreme cultivation secret realm, capable of rapidly improving the cultivation of living beings.
The Holy Spirit Academy, for instance, had its own Sacred Spirit Heaven. All the major Spiritual Academies had one.
However, because the Northern Heavens' foundations were too shallow, its secret realm had always suffered from certain flaws.
In fact, a few years ago, they had been forced to shut down the Northern Heavens Gate, much to their regret.
This was also a major reason why the Northern Heavens Spiritual Academy's strength had kept declining, leaving it at the bottom of the Five Great Academies, even as some quasi-super Spiritual Academies caught up.
After Bei Ming, the Northern Abyss Dragon Kun, had reached the Earth Sovereign level, he had repaired it completely.
The Northern Heavens Gate had been opened half a year early