Northern Heavens Continent, Northern Heavens Spiritual Academy.
It was a boundless, magnificent land, stretching farther than the eye could see.
Countless towering cultivation halls rose from the earth.
Mountain ranges rolled beneath waterfalls that poured down like rivers of stars, while spiritual energy shrouded everything in a shimmering haze.
From time to time, tiny black figures leaped and darted between the buildings, each with a different aura.
Without a doubt, the most striking sight was the enormous stone statue towering at the center of the academy.
The statue stood tens of thousands of zhang tall. From afar, it looked like a divine bird spreading its wings.
It had the body of a Kun, but sharp, slender dragon claws and a dragon tail. Its fearsome, grotesque form had a back that stretched as far as the eye could see.
Though it was only a stone statue, a terrifying pressure still spread from it, quietly suppressing the heavens and earth around it and guarding all directions.
The Northern Heavens Spiritual Academy's Guardian Beast, the Northern Abyss Dragon Kun!
Each of the enormous creature's wings bore a towering stone stele.
Dazzling spiritual light shimmered across the surface of the massive steles, bright enough to be seen clearly from anywhere in the academy.
One was called the Spirit Soul Ranking; the other, the Heaven Ranking.
On four enormous stone platforms, the roar of rushing wind rang out without end.
One freshman after another stood like fledgling birds just hatched from their shells, sensitive and vulnerable. They raised their heads and curiously surveyed this new world, brimming with surprises.
Each platform held forty to fifty thousand people, corresponding to one Northern Heavens Realm.
By that count, this year's freshmen numbered at least two hundred thousand.
As the strongest cultivators from their Northern Heavens Realm,