Under the agreement the two deans had reached long ago, the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy and Shrek Academy would exchange students in Tianming City on the border between the two empires, officially beginning their exchange program.
Every month, the two academies would send envoys to Mingdu or Shrek City to deliver cultivation resources to their exchange students and check on their circumstances.
If anything unusual happened to either side's students, or an envoy failed to return for too long, the consequences for the other side needed no explanation.
The Hongchen Siblings, Huo Yuhao, Bei Bei, Xu Sanshi... these promising young geniuses were exchange students, but they were also hostages who guaranteed that the program would proceed smoothly.
Afraid of smashing the vase while striking the rat, the senior figures on both sides dared not mistreat the students who had come from afar.
One month before the Soul Master Tournament, the two academies would exchange their students back in Tianming City, bringing the program to an end.
Although Kong Deming had used his strength to extort a Hundred Thousand Year Soul Bone from Shrek, the exchange program did appear fair and impartial on the surface, safeguarding both sides' interests.
Shrek Academy yearned to study soul guidance technology ahead of its time, while the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy was interested in the sacred ground of soul masters with ten thousand years of heritage. They hit it off immediately and eagerly awaited the day of the exchange.
Jing Hongchen, Lin Qing, and twelve Sun Moon exchange students-a party of fourteen-broke through the clouds, crossed the Tianming Mountain Range bordering the Sun Moon Empire and the Heaven Dou Empire, and landed outside Tianming City.
To the Sun Moon party, Tianming City was an unfamiliar frontier city. Only Lin Qing was