Seven years later.
In a minor world, on the Divine Seal Land.
The clear sky stretched ten thousand miles, washed clean, with a sea of clouds spread flat and spiritual energy drifting like floss between heaven and earth.
A vast metropolis spanning a thousand miles stood at the world's center. Spirit-rail cars shuttled across the sky, while strange buildings of every kind intermingled to form a flourishing Alliance city.
This was the central hub of the Divine Seal World: Wanhe City.
At that moment, the teaching hall of Wanhe Academy, the city's foremost institution, blazed with light.
Every seat in the spacious tiered classroom was occupied.
Figures of all shapes sat upright in their seats.
There were members of the sea remnant race with blue scales covering their wrists, domain clanspeople with thin wings on their backs, and powerfully built members of the Zhenhuang race-different skin colors and strikingly different physiques gathered in one hall, representing the principal intelligent races of the Divine Sealed Minor World.
On the podium, a tall, slender young man stood quietly.
He wore simple, plain-colored robes, his black hair tied back and his expression composed. Beneath his gentle demeanor lay a restrained dominance that looked down upon all races.
It was merely an ordinary lesson, yet not one of the prodigies below dared grow lax.
"Advancing life isn't simply a matter of accumulating energy. It is an evolution through self-transformation-"
The young man was explaining the fundamentals of cultivation methods for advancing life.
He broke down the underlying logic of life's ascension.
His language was accessible yet went straight to the source, integrating the sharply divided cultivation systems of different races and filling gaps in the alien prodigies' understanding.
The students below listened with rapt attention and bated breath, their eyes filled with reverence.
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