Qing River flowed leisurely, its emerald waves rippling with spiritual light.
Above a thousand-mile lake, a green mountain rose from the lakebed like a sword.
Around the mountain, formation light slowly flickered in and out, making the mountain, originally situated in the middle of the urban stretch of Qing River, appear and disappear.
Qing River Academy was a Dao Studies academy founded by Bai Yi, the most powerful prodigy and Sword Immortal in the Immortal Alliance's history, together with the White Household of Qing River.
Under Bai Yi's influence and with the Immortal Alliance's support, it had developed into a renowned first-rate academy in the Qinghua Domain in just a few decades.
Both its proportion of sword cultivators and their chances of achieving distinction far exceeded the Immortal Alliance's averages.
The path of sword cultivation, which had fallen into the middle ranks within the Immortal Alliance because of its emphasis on insight, was faintly beginning to shine with the true radiance of Sword Immortals.
It had become the first choice of countless Dao Students who yearned for the path of the Sword Immortal.
"As expected of an academy founded by True Lord Bai Yi. Just approaching it, you can feel a keen edge in the surrounding spiritual energy!"
"Of course! I don't cultivate the Sword Dao, but who in the entire Immortal Alliance can rival True Lord Bai Yi's renown?!"
On the emerald waves before the academy's green mountain stood over a hundred talented Dao Students from first-rate academies, their auras surging and their spirits brimming with youthful vigor. Dressed in their respective academies' Dao robes, they had come in teams for the exchange tournament. Gazing at the academy's green mountain, which thrust straight into the clouds like a sword, they could not help looking excited.
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