The children went to the Heaven Mending Pavilion. Meng Chuan greeted the Fire Emperor and used his connections with him to ask him to make arrangements for them.
When a Human Deity personally asked him for a favor, the Fire Emperor naturally promised to handle it beautifully.
The Fire Emperor then spoke to the Heaven Mending Pavilion Master, used his connections in turn, and got the children admitted.
Otherwise, many of them, already in their teens and only recently having entered the Blood Moving Realm, would not have met the pavilion's admission requirements.
That was how the world worked: I used your connections, you used his, and he used mine.
A perfect cycle.
The children who went to the Heaven Mending Pavilion felt their eyes had been opened. They saw and learned a great deal.
And because the Fire Emperor had arranged their admission, everyone assumed they were his people. After the Beta Tester affair, the Heaven Mending Pavilion and the Fire Nation had become fairly close allies.
So the children from Stone Village were treated quite well.
Little Nonpoint, meanwhile, was still trudging along. At the rate he was sightseeing, it would probably be ages before he reached the Heaven Mending Pavilion.
Meng Chuan did not rush him. He could take his time.
For now, Meng Chuan's attention was on the Chat Group. He wanted to win Wang Lin over as soon as possible and help him become part of the family.
As it happened, Wang Lin's life had quieted down recently. He had found a place and begun Mortal Transformation.
Curious about the Chat Group, he came online fairly often and gradually began chatting with everyone.
Though Wang Lin increasingly felt that everyone in this place called the Chat Group had something strange about them, something utterly at