Heavenly Immortal Academy's true mountain gate was a magnificent, enormous stone gateway standing at the westernmost end of Heavenly Immortal Giant City. It had stood there since the Primordial Era, enduring countless baptisms of wind and rain.
Outside the stone gateway, one or two stone pillars soared into the clouds, imposing and majestic.
The twelve gigantic stone pillars were incomparably thick, each requiring more than ten people to encircle it with their arms.
Various auspicious beasts and divine birds were engraved upon the pillars, bearing an ancient, weathered air. There were also many relief carvings depicting the deeds of Heavenly Immortal Academy's founding ancestor for the world to admire and extol.
As a whole, Heavenly Immortal Academy's gateway was exceptionally grand and towering, carrying a sense of accumulated years that fully displayed the deep foundations of a top Upper Realm lineage.
At that moment, beneath the mountain gate, many of Heavenly Immortal Academy's experts were already waiting. At their head stood a middle-aged man in magnificent robes and a jeweled crown, a treasured Great Sun wheel suspended behind his head. He was none other than Heavenly Immortal Academy's current headmaster.
Dao Lord Haori!
Few in the world knew that although Heavenly Immortal Academy established and perpetuated its legacy as an academy, educating the world, and publicly claimed to inherit an ancient immortal tradition while incorporating the strengths of a hundred schools and exploring all manner of divine abilities and wondrous arts,
in truth, its most essential inheritance had always come from the Daoist School Lineage: Primeval Era Daoist Magic inherited from the Heavenly Immortal Remnant Inscription.
Thus, successive heads of Heavenly Immortal Academy had always considered themselves members of the Daoist School. The current Headmaster Haori even styled himself a Dao Lord, quite bold and unrestrained.
One had to