Eastsea City's Soul Planning Hall branch was far larger than imagined.
The front hall was solemn and majestic, with dark jade and gilded buildings rising in staggered rows, suffused with a sacred, oppressive atmosphere like a divine realm on earth. Beyond the central hall, however, the space behind it was absurdly vast—far beyond the scale a city branch should have possessed.
Independent cultivation rooms stood in neat rows, while faint, holy Soul Power lingered in the air year-round.
Zhou Changxi led the Zero Class group through layer after layer of halls, patiently guiding them along the way.
"Up ahead is our branch's core special training area. It'll also be where you train for most of this visit."
The group followed behind him, looking around in every direction, their eyes filled with amazement.
The cultivation environment and facility grades here completely crushed every facility at Eastsea Academy. They were not even on the same level.
Before long, they arrived outside an enormous enclosed corridor.
The entire corridor was paved with snow-white jade, its walls carved with ancient angelic patterns. Light filtered down through crystals in the ceiling, shrouding the whole corridor in hazy, sacred white radiance. Merely standing outside its entrance made their souls tremble faintly.
Before Zhou Changxi could begin his introduction,
a cool, indifferent female voice drifted over from the front of the corridor.
"You've arrived."
Ci Nian stood quietly atop the jade steps at the entrance, dressed in a crimson robe trimmed with gold.
Her red robes stood in sharp contrast against the snow-white jade. Her features were cold and striking, and the Soul Power around her was deep and heavy as the sea. As the master of the Eastsea branch and a Super Douluo, she had no need to personally wait for a group of juniors.
Yet