Four Elements City lay in the northwestern Heaven Dou Empire, sprawling over an enormous area.
The city was also much like Spirit City. It did not look as majestic or imposing as those great metropolises, but most of its residents were Soul Masters.
In fact, long ago, this city had not been called Four Elements City, but Three Elements City.
It had been formed by the city's three clans of wind, water, and fire. These clans had established three elemental academies-Skywater Academy, Blazing Fire Academy, and Godwind Academy-giving rise to the name Three Elements City.
However, these three clans were stronger than those below them but fell short of those above, so both Spirit Hall and the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan wanted to draw them into their camps.
Spirit Hall had dispatched the Elephant Armor Sect, one of the Lower Four Sects, to establish Elephant Armor Academy in Three Elements City. The Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan had likewise sent some of its disciples to establish Thunder Academy.
With the two sides keeping each other in check, the three clans had instead gained a temporary reprieve. Neither side wanted its pressure to drive the three clans straight into the other's arms.
Over time, Three Elements City had been renamed Four Elements City. There was no helping it: the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon possessed the power of lightning, so its academy could just about qualify as an elemental academy, but the Elephant Armor Sect's Diamond Mammoth had absolutely nothing to do with the elements.
Originally, Skywater Academy, Blazing Fire Academy, and Godwind Academy had been arranged like the three squares in the character 品, supporting one another.
After Thunder Academy and Elephant Armor Academy joined them, the layout became the Upper Three Courts-Elephant Armor, Skywater, and Thunder-and the Lower Two