Ch. 201The Heaven Dou Imperial Family's Preemptive Strike
Huyan Zhen and Huo Yanbao offered gifts and pledged friendship to Luo Nan and Moonlight Pavilion as its new city took shape. Meanwhile, the Heaven Dou imperial family began centralizing talented young Soul Masters in Heaven Dou City, leaving local academies afraid they would lose their best students and influence.
- Huyan Zhen and Huo Yanbao presented gifts to Luo Nan and Tang Yuehua and offered the Elephant Armor Sect's and Fire Leopard Sect's support to Moonlight Pavilion.
- Luo Nan welcomed the two sect masters as friends, and they eagerly accepted the connection.
- The Heaven Dou imperial family ordered academies to report children with Innate Soul Power of level five or above and recruit outstanding twelve-year-olds with Soul Power level twenty-one or higher and two hundred-year Spirit Rings.
- Imperial officials began escorting talented children from across the empire to Heaven Dou City or nearby royal camps, while families received a few Gold Soul Coins.
- Local academy teachers and headmasters lamented that the imperial family had taken their best students and feared their academies would be left to powerful local families.