At the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy, casualty counts, investigations into the explosion, and a whole series of other operations were underway simultaneously.
The explosion at the Central Armory was an extremely serious incident. For unknown reasons, more than ten thousand Fixed Soul Cannon Shells of various levels stored there had detonated simultaneously, leveling every building within several kilometers.
The Sun Moon Academy stood right beside the armory. A considerable portion of its grounds had been caught in the blast, while Illustrious Virtue Hall, built underground, had been wiped out entirely.
The one silver lining was that the academy had given everyone a month off for the Soul Master Tournament. When the explosion occurred, only a tenth of the usual number of researchers had been inside Illustrious Virtue Hall.
Even so, it remained a tragedy that broke everyone's hearts. Some students had also lost their lives in the explosion.
On the day after the explosion, Jing Hongchen personally delivered a public address and offered a sorrowful eulogy.
He knew perfectly well that those people had not died in the armory explosion, but in Xiao Ze's earlier attack. The armory itself had also been detonated by this former trusted subordinate of his. The entire chain of cause and effect seemed to have begun with him, the Hall Master of Illustrious Virtue Hall.
Overnight, Jing Hongchen had grown visibly older and thinner.
As soon as Crown Prince Xu Tianran heard the news, he sent his condolences to the Sun Moon Academy and allocated various metal resources to rebuild Illustrious Virtue Hall. Jing Hongchen had no choice but to accept.
Perhaps, in his heart, the Crown Prince even regarded this explosion as an unexpected blessing.
Prince Xu Guozhong, one of the representatives of the older generation of the Royal Family, was dead.