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Whoosh!

A figure appeared out of thin air. It was Ink Daoist, who had led their assessment earlier.

"Ji Ning, Mu Zishuo... Xia Manggan."

Ink Daoist looked at the three of them, his gaze finally settling on Xia Manggan.

"From today onward, the three of you are Formal Disciples of our Black-White Academy. I hope you will not take the various unpleasant incidents during the assessment to heart. I believe that joining the Black-White Academy will not disappoint you."

Ji Ning and Mu Zishuo both looked toward Xia Manggan.

Ink Daoist's latter words were clearly directed at Xia Manggan.

"Mm." Xia Manggan nodded lightly.

"The disciple-taking ceremony will only be held after the recruitment of disciples concludes over the next two days."

With a flick of his hand, Ink Daoist produced three Letter Talismans. One side of each talisman was black, while the other was white.

"These are the disciple Letter Talismans of our Black-White Academy. Once you refine them, you will be able to freely enter and leave many places within the Black-White Academy without being attacked by its many formations."

Whoosh.

Xia Manggan took the Letter Talisman flying toward him and refined it with a thought.

The instant he refined it, he sensed the vast formation faintly permeating the entire Black-White Academy.

Many places that Divine Sense had previously been unable to probe were no longer blocked by the formation, allowing his Divine Sense to easily envelop the entire Black-White Academy.

Good heavens, our Black-White Academy covers roughly nine hundred li. This little fellow's Divine Sense can cover it all at once? How exactly did he cultivate his soul?

Sensing the Divine Sense Xia Manggan had released, Ink Daoist secretly clicked his tongue in amazement.

Even he had only attained such a range of Divine Sense after entering the Primordial Spirit Daoist realm, when his soul had been nourished by his Primordial Spirit and undergone a transformation.

Yet Xia Manggan was only at the Purple Mansion stage and already possessed such Divine Sense. Once he became a Wanxiang Daoist, then a Primordial Spirit Daoist, would he not surpass the vast majority of Earth Immortals and Loose Immortals?

What a monster!

Fortunately, Xia Manggan's Divine Sense was withdrawn as soon as it was released, without conducting any detailed investigation.

Thus, aside from Ink Daoist, who was right beside him, most of the others in the Academy who possessed Divine Sense merely sensed that it had enveloped the Academy, without knowing who had released it.

"Come. I'll take you to arrange your residences."

Ink Daoist beckoned, and clouds and mist rose around them, carrying the three through the air.

On the clouds.

Ink Daoist produced three booklets with a flip of his hand. "These contain the rules of our Black-White Academy, as well as other matters you need to know. Once you have selected your mountain residences, read them carefully first, lest you unknowingly violate the Academy rules."

"Yes." Ji Ning and Mu Zishuo both accepted the booklets.

Xia Manggan also opened his and gave it a quick glance.

As they spoke, the clouds flew to the eastern region of the Academy. Below them stood low mountains ranging from several dozen to several hundred zhang in height.

Atop every mountain stood already constructed courtyards and pavilions.

The open spaces between neighboring mountains contained lakes and forests, or deserts and plains...

The entire eastern region stretched nearly three hundred li in both length and width, resembling an independent miniature world.

"Formal Disciples of our Black-White Academy are extremely few in number. Each of you may choose any mountain as your own residence."

Ink Daoist explained, "The Peak Name Stones atop those mountains that bear no inscriptions belong to ownerless mountains. Once you have chosen one, you need only refine its Peak Name Stone to leave a mountain name upon it and gain control of the formations and restrictions across the entire mountain."

"As for everything else you need to know, it is all contained in the booklets I gave you. Read them yourselves."

After speaking, Ink Daoist nodded to the three of them, then transformed into a streamer and flew toward a distant mountain.

The enormous black stone atop that mountain bore the name Ink Peak.

That was presumably Ink Daoist's residence.

"New disciples get to occupy an entire mountain each? Hehe, having few people really is amazing!"

Mu Zishuo excitedly looked around. Spotting three mountains not far apart in the distance, he suggested,

"Senior Brother Xia Mang, Senior Brother Ji Ning, we entered the Academy together and are all new disciples. Why don't we choose residences close to one another? We can look after each other. What do you think?"

He was only fourteen this year and considered himself the youngest, so he proactively addressed Xia Manggan and Ji Ning as senior brothers.

"Alright."

Ji Ning nodded and looked toward Xia Manggan.

He also wanted to remain closer to the goal he had set for himself, so he could constantly remind himself while cultivating.

"Fine."

Xia Manggan cared even less about it.

Thus, the three landed atop the Azure Dragon Puppet controlled by Mu Zishuo and flew toward the three mountains that were practically connected as one range.

"My mountain shall be called Twin Wood Peak."

Mu Zishuo directly chose the shortest mountain on the right, sending out a strand of Origin Force that instantly refined its Peak Name Stone.

"I..." Ji Ning glanced at the remaining two mountains before choosing the one on the left.

He left the tallest and most magnificent central mountain for Xia Manggan.

"Beiming Peak?" Mu Zishuo smiled. "I only know of the North Underworld Sea."

"Mm, that's exactly it."

Ji Ning nodded, silently thinking, Father, Mother, I became a disciple of the Black-White Academy. If you are still alive, you must be proud of me too...

"Senior Brother Xia Mang, what will your mountain be called?"

Mu Zishuo turned to Xia Manggan.

His own Twin Wood and Senior Brother Ji Ning's North Underworld clearly both carried special meanings. He wondered—

Whoosh!

A strand of Origin Force shot out, enveloping the black boulder more than five zhang tall at the summit of the central peak.

Screech, screech, screech~~~

As stone chips scattered, three large white characters gradually appeared upon the black boulder—Di Ta Peak.

"Di Ta Peak..." Mu Zishuo exclaimed. "A peak trodden upon by an emperor?"

As expected of someone born into the imperial clan. Even the name of his residence mountain was so domineering.

A glint also flashed through Ji Ning's eyes as he secretly admired the boldness of the target he had chosen to pursue.

"Then let us part here for now."

Xia Manggan did not answer Mu Zishuo's question.

After bidding the two farewell, he stood in midair and silently gazed down at the mountain.

It had been exactly one month since his reincarnation.

From the moment he entered the Black-White Academy.

The future would mark a new chapter where he would climb to the summit!

Xia Manggan stepped forward.

Tap.

He officially descended upon the summit of Di Ta Peak.

Outside the main gates of the Black-White Academy.

The first day's entrance assessment had already ended.

Those young Purple Mansion cultivators who had been eliminated, along with the elders of their clans who had accompanied them, had all departed.

Outside the main gates, the usual emptiness had returned.

But as for peace and quiet—

"Beishan Hu, aren't you usually quite talkative? Why are you mute today?"

Beishan Baiwei stood before his Nine-Star Immortal Carriage and shouted across the air at another Immortal Carriage in the distance. "Now that you're someone else's follower, can't you speak without your master's permission? Hahaha, Beishan Hu, you should just change your name to Beishan Dog."

"Beishan Baiwei, don't push people too far."

The deep voice contained deliberately suppressed fury.

Even without seeing him, Beishan Baiwei could imagine Beishan Hu stomping madly in rage after being provoked by him.

"How am I pushing you too far? Was I wrong? Aren't you just someone else's dog?"

Remembering what he had seen upon arriving—Beishan Hu feeding a tawny little snake—Beishan Baiwei could not help clicking his tongue. "You even help your master care for his spirit beast. Beishan Hu—no, Beishan Dog—you really are obedient!"

"..."

When Beishan Hu no longer responded from within his Immortal Carriage, Beishan Baiwei felt so pleased that he wanted to sing aloud.

They had fought for so many years.

He had finally suppressed that damned Beishan Hu!

From now on, whenever I see him, I'll disgust him to death with the fact that he became someone else's Servant.

Beishan Baiwei thought delightedly.

But suddenly—

"Chirp, chirp!"

Accompanied by several strange cries, an enormous dragon head abruptly emerged from Beishan Hu's Immortal Carriage.

The instant the dragon head appeared, it opened its huge mouth with an "Awooo!"

At once.

A monstrous suction force descended upon where Beishan Baiwei stood.

Fortunately, the Puppet maid seated outside the Nine-Star Immortal Carriage reacted with incredible speed. Within one ten-thousandth of an instant, she shoved Beishan Baiwei away.

However, the maid herself, along with the Nine-Star Immortal Carriage, was swallowed whole by the dragon head.

Even the Nine-Star Heavenly Fire released by the Nine-Star Immortal Carriage in response...

That terrifying Heavenly Fire, capable of directly burning weaker Primordial Spirit Daoists to death, could not escape its fate either.

Sucked into the dragon head's enormous maw as well, it became a streak of fiery light and flew into its mouth like noodles being slurped up.

"Heaven-Eroding Yellow Dragon!?"

A graceful figure approaching from afar happened to witness this scene. Her beautiful eyes immediately widened, as if she had seen something utterly inconceivable.

"Heavens! How could a divine beast of this level appear in Anchan City!!?"

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