Mingde Hall was the absolute heart of the entire Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy, and even of the entire Sun Moon Empire.
Its standing in the Sun Moon Empire was far higher than even Shrek Academy's standing in the Original Three Douluo Empires. It was truly the lifeblood of the nation, a place where no mishap could ever be allowed.
To the Original Three Douluo Empires, Shrek Academy was merely a deliberately cultivated holy land for soul masters. Its greatest purpose was to serve as their first line of defense against the Sun Moon Empire in any future continental war.
It was also their strongest line of defense. After all, even the Original Three Douluo Empires combined might not pose as much of a threat to the Sun Moon Empire as Shrek Academy alone.
Without the Sun Moon Empire as an external factor, Shrek Academy probably could never have broken away from the Heaven Dou Empire in the first place, taking Shrek City with it to become a region independent of the Three Great Empires.
Even if it had ultimately managed to become independent as it was now, its days could never have been so comfortable.
Without the Sun Moon Empire, no sane ruler would have tolerated a state within a state like Shrek Academy.
Shrek Academy was an independent power, unbound by the Three Great Empires and operating under its own system. That was the fundamental difference between it and Mingde Hall.
Mingde Hall enjoyed an extraordinary degree of independence within the Sun Moon Empire's system. It answered only to the person sitting on the imperial throne. No one else even had the right to inquire into its affairs.
Even Xu Tianran, the Crown Prince, could not involve himself too deeply with Mingde Hall. There was no helping