"Your student, Feng Xiaotian, pays his respects to Immortal Su."
Immortal Mountain was not actually very high. Without the formations confusing his senses and suppressing him, Feng Xiaotian soon followed the Red Maple Steps to the Maple Pavilion.
Upon reaching the Maple Pavilion, he immediately recognized Su Chen sitting inside.
But Su Chen was not alone in the Maple Pavilion.
His three disciples, Ning Rongrong, Zhu Zhuqing, and Ye Lingling, were also handling business in the surrounding Little Maple Pavilions.
Recently, they had all suspended their usual rigorous training schedules to study the reforms of the Papal Hall instead.
This was a new assignment their teacher, Su Chen, had given them.
Although Immortal Mountain had nominally absorbed the Papal Hall, and Spirit Hall's headquarters no longer dared to oppose it lightly, there was more to the matter.
The Papal Hall was not merely a building.
It handled Spirit Hall's day-to-day administration. Its work covered many areas, which naturally required a variety of departments.
These included work such as Su Yuntao's door-to-door martial soul awakenings.
The selection and education of teachers and students at Spirit Hall Academy.
The certification of Soul Masters and distribution of their subsidies.
The resolution of disputes between allies and enemies.
The expulsion and hunting of Fallen Ones.
Most of these matters were managed by the Papal Hall.
These tasks were varied and extremely tedious. If the Papal Hall were completely dismantled and rebuilt from scratch, the workload could work people to death, requiring considerable manpower and financial investment.
Clearly, Spirit Hall did indeed play a very important role on this continent.
So much so that after Spirit Hall was overthrown, not only did the Imperial War break out, but the Fallen Ones also seized the opportunity to expand, triggering the Evil Soul Master Crisis.
That