Twenty minutes after completing the transformation of Supreme Sword Mountain into Campus #1, the [Lv.3 Flying Courtyard Carriage]—escorted by Saintess Lin Qing , at Rank 5 Mid, Saintess Mu Wan. Three hundred volunteer builders—glided across the sunlit southern sky toward the twin emerald ranges of Myriad Pill Mountain and Jade Lotus Mountain.
For the past three millennia, those two neighboring mountain ranges had enclosed over 50,000 acres of the richest volcanic herb valleys and warm geothermal lotus lakes in the Nine Continents.
While mortal children in the surrounding towns died of simple winter fevers for lack of a single copper coin’s worth of antipyretic grass. The elders of the Myriad Pill and Jade Lotus Sects had surrounded all fifty thousand acres with high spiked walls and poison-dart arrays. Leaving ninety percent of the herbs to rot unharvested just to keep medicine prices artificially sky-high!
Today, however, as ten-year-old Gu Nian , at Rank 5 Early. The nine hundred transfer prodigies marched along the fifty-mile perimeter, every spiked boundary wall and “HERB POACHERS WILL BE CRIPPLED” stone stele was knocked flat into paving stones within half an hour!
Yet when the flying courtyard landed beside the centerpiece of Jade Lotus Mountain—the Ten-Thousand-Acre Sacred Jade-Lotus Lake—a foul, oily black mist was suddenly seen bubbling up from the center of the lake!
