1 Divine Academy

The wind was blowing towards a gigantic mountain while the snow was covering its tip. A man was sitting on a stone on the mountain cliff while reading a book in the lotus position.

GAHR GAHR!

A crow was flying towards the man as it began crowing.

"oh, Yue. What that in your mouth?" The man said as he looked at Yue with a curious face. Then, he took the letter out of Yue's mouth and opened it.

As he began to read the letter's contents, a wry smile appeared on his face, he quickly stood up, and a portal opened.

"I guess it's time to come back."

Walking through the portal, he felt the familiar aura of the place as a smile appeared on his face. Then, taking a deep breath, he grabbed in the air as a sword began to construct itself from the air.

The handle, the blade, everything began to appear in the hands of the man. The sword's blade was red-black, while the handle was simple-looking; all in all, the sword was looking like a regular cultivator sword.

The man then threw the sword in the air as it began to float; looking at his sword, his mouth opened, and he spoke to himself.

"Its been a while since I used you."

Jumping on the sword, he flew with immense speed towards the west. His eyes shone in the sight of the landscape, the beautiful land grass, the trees, and the wildlife. There were countless trees and mountains; it felt too euphoric.

As he flew, he counted thousands if not millions of beasts, trees, and much more.

"This is the life we all wanted. Isn't it?" He spoke to himself in a sad tone as he looked in the sky. The feeling was so overwhelming that he smiled while he shed a tear, recalling past memories. Silently enjoying the sight, he felt true happiness.

"I should very soon reach the Dynasty." After flying for a few minutes, he felt the presence of trillions of people.

'The Holy Dynasty, filled with trillions of people, has hundreds of empires under its wing, is the strongest faction within the Tianlan Continent.

Oh, it's been a long time since I've been here.' The man thought with a feeling that he almost forgot to exist, excitement!

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Meanwhile, in a pavilion...

"Director Che! I heard you invited a new teacher?" A young man about 20 years asked in an excited tone. He was about 6'1 and was rather slim; nonetheless, he had a quite handsome face. Moreover, his hair was black, which perfectly matched his green eyes.

"Vice-Director Yang, indeed, his name is Shang Di. I know you are excited to test him out, but I wouldn't recommend you look at him in a way that could offend him. Please don't bother to ask me why, even I don't know, but he is such an important figure that the dynast himself came to tell me.

The dynast only told me that he would teach this year's dragon elite class and a special class where he could select any disciple from, even outer cultivators."

Vice-Director Yang frowned, 'What kind of figure would be so formidable that the ruler of the dynasty himself would come to inform the Director?'

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(to clear up things, Shang Di is the 'man')

A cultivator stood on his sword; the cultivator wore a white-silver robe while looking down upon everyone a d everything.

He was about 6'5 and was in good shape. He wasn't too muscular or skinny, perfect for his height; his face was more than handsome and couldn't be described. But, while his appearance seemed handsome, his eyes had something mysterious; having silver-white eyes and silver hair, he seemed like one of these typical immortals.

"So this is your academy." Shang Di said to himself, forgetting every other building around him; as he descended from the sky, he landed in front of the academy's gate.

'Divine Academy of Cultivation. Quite the name.'

A guard that was patrolling immediately rushed to Shang Di after seeing him politely said:

"Excuse me, this is the ground of the Divine Academy; if you have nothing to identify yourself with, please leave."

Shang Di looked at the guard and took out the invitation letter.

"I think this should be enough" Shang Di handed out the letter and waited for the guard to approve. The second the guard looked into it, he quickly bowed and apologized.

"Honorable Senior! I really feel ashamed, you may follow me to the Directors pavilion?"

Shang Di nodded and followed the guard. As they went to the gate, the guard opened the door. And when the guard opened the door, an immense wave of Qi came toward Shang Di.

Entering Shang Di was impressed

'The Academy is 6 million square meters big and has several houses distributed around the whole property. It looks more like a city than a school, haha.' Looking around, Shang Di felt a bit nostalgic, and he smiled.

(for those who can't imagine, it's like a campus just much bigger, wider.)

Walking around many discples of the academy looked at Shang Di with a curious look. And Shang Di looked back when he noticed that all of them wore the same clothing. A simple blue robe.

"Who is this man?"

"I heard he is the new teacher."

"He looks quite young, just like Vice-Director Yang."

"Tomorrow is the school enrollment, so maybe he's going to be introduced as a new teacher."

...

Many disciples began to gossip, and Shang Di couldn't help but shake his head. Finally, after walking for 5 minutes, they arrived at the pavilion; it was an enormous building with several pillars around it; the pillars were golden and had dragons engraved in them.

"From here on, Honorable Senior has to go alone; mere guards like me aren't allowed to enter the pavilion."

Shang Di didn't talk and entered the pavilion; a few teachers talked to each other in front of him. They all wore the same clothing as the disciples, but different from them, their robe had the word "Teacher" engraved in gold.

Noticing Shang Di, they looked at him with a curious look, 'who was that man?' all of them thought as a strong aura began to spread in the whole room.

The entire pavilion began to tremble; all of them looked behind and saw an elderly man in front of them; everyone bowed, well, except for Shang Di.

"I know many of you are curious about the man in front of you, but let me introduce him to you. He is the new teacher, Shang Di. And is new to the academy, and everything else you will know when the time comes." The thee elderly man said he wore a black robe, and on his robe, the words "Director" were engraved, of course in golden.

However, for the time being, we will begin with the banquet. Director Che spoke, and suddenly golden tables appeared from nowhere. The tables were filled with fine food and drinks.

"Well then, I hope all of you can relax and have fun, since tomorrow is the school enrollment."

Everyone began talking again, and Shang Di got some wine and stood alone in the middle of the banquet as several teachers approached him.

"Welcome to the academy, Teacher Shang."

'So this is him?' Vice-Director Yang thought while looking at him, am sorry, director, but I have to...' Vice-Director then risked a gaze, he activated his Divine Eye, but that was a fatal mistake...

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To be continued...