The Black-Corner Region Great Plain was an ancient plain nearly a hundred thousand li from the Jia Ma Empire. Beyond its abundant resources, this fertile expanse of black soil had also nurtured endless bloodshed and wickedness.
This was an independent region beyond the reach of the great powers, a place almost entirely outside anyone's jurisdiction. Naturally, such a lawless territory was steeped in chaos.
On this chaotic land, there were no laws or morals, only strength, the strong, and the weak. Every day, countless lives quietly slipped away in the Black-Corner Region.
Yet every day also brought stories of small-time lackeys rising to become bosses.
And yet, in this utterly chaotic region stood the foremost academy the Northwest Continent had known in a thousand years. Even across the entire Dou Qi Continent, this academy enjoyed a towering reputation.
Jia Nan Academy was a premier institution that had produced many powerful experts. Rumor had it that its most outstanding graduates were already seeking an opportunity to enter the ranks of Saints.
It was a paradise for talented youths born into poverty, an academy that stood strikingly at odds with the Dou Qi Continent's rule of the strong devouring the weak.
Countless people had ascended to the heavens in a single step here, leaping across several social ranks in succession, lending the academy an even richer air of humanity.
The vast plain stretched as far as the eye could see. Wherever one looked, there was only monotonous black beneath a slightly gloomy sky.
A single glance was enough to leave someone gloomy and irritable. It was little wonder such a place had given birth to such chaotic order.
Above the silent plain, space rippled, and a black-clad figure faintly materialized in the sky.
Looking down at the boundless black plain beneath his