Following Su Qian and Zi Yan, Xiao Yu left Xiao City once more.
A few days later, the three arrived near the center of the Black-Corner Region.
The entrance to Jia Nan Academy lay in a small town called Peace Town.
As they entered, Xiao Yu spotted the crooked-necked tree outside the town.
The crooked tree was pitch-black, its crown spreading in all directions like claws and bared fangs. In the lingering sunset, it exuded a faint, sinister chill.
Corpses were impaled on its branches, swaying in the breeze and making spine-chilling creaking sounds.
This was the "Death Spirit Tree," whose very name struck terror into the people of the Black-Corner Region.
Perhaps because corpses had hung from it year after year, Xiao Yu actually sensed an aura of deathly stillness within it.
Anyone below Dou Wang who came into contact with even a trace of that aura would have their vitality drained and their lifespan shortened.
Xiao Yu clicked his tongue in wonder. Just how many people had been hung from it to produce such a dense aura of death?
No wonder the Black-Corner Region feared Jia Nan Academy so much. His eyes had truly been opened today.
The three did not linger in Peaceful Town, instead heading straight into Jia Nan Academy.
Even Jia Nan Academy's Outer Academy was beyond the reach of those first-rate factions.
The towering buildings, formidable instructors and department elders, and vibrant students all astonished Xiao Yu.
Most of his knowledge of Jia Nan Academy came from the original novel. The rest consisted of things he had occasionally heard during his time in the Black-Corner Region.
This was his first time truly seeing Jia Nan Academy for himself.
By his rough estimate, the current Xiao Court still fell short in many respects, even compared