Chapter 2280: Chapter 2284: Something Different
Faced with the rules, the Supreme Experts on both sides felt helpless. After sacrificing the lives of several Supremes, they dared not try to break the rules again, and obediently adhered to them, starting to battle according to their strength levels.
Gradually, these spaces acquired a resounding name, the Extraterritorial Battlefield!
Because of the existence of the Extraterritorial Battlefield, a group of Supreme Experts returned to the Void Nether Realm and began strongly advocating for the establishment of academies, striving to allow all cultivators with some talent in the Void Nether Realm the opportunity to receive guidance for cultivation.
From there, they could select more exceptionally talented top cultivators to enter the Extraterritorial Battlefield, competing for space in it.
The Six Great Academies on Changlang Continent were the first batch of academies to be established!
In order to promote the flourishing of the academies, the rulers of each continent devised various ways to encourage major forces to set up academies, resulting in an increasing number of academies on the Five Continents, making the influence of academies a formidable force on each continent!
During each selection of personnel to enter the Extraterritorial Battlefield, the academy forces of each continent provided nearly one-tenth of the participants.
These individuals had little background, relying entirely on their own cultivation and the teachings of the academies to grow, prompting the rulers of the Five Continents to support the academy forces even more.
This strong support from the rulers attracted more forces to transform toward academies.
As the major powers of the continent stabilized, some ancient families or sects that initially underestimated the academy model suddenly realized that academy forces had become an unignorable power on the Five Continents.
These academies could provide as much as one-third of the participants for the Extraterritorial Battlefield.
Upon deliberating among the Supreme Experts, entering the Extraterritorial Battlefield not only enabled the participants themselves to obtain generous rewards but also the forces nurturing the participants could receive rewards.
Consequently, even those traditional families and forces were spurred to develop vigorously, with some familial forces sending their members to academies to study.
With the principle of universal education, each academy did not expel members from those families, while some academy students learned something from those family forces, establishing a mutually beneficial situation.
Gradually, an intriguing phenomenon emerged on the Five Continents, where family members appeared in academies and academy-trained students were present in family and regional powers, with no conflict between adhering to academy rules in academies and following family or regional rules in their respective domains.
And this development elevated the overall strength of the Void Nether Realm considerably, prompting even more support from the Supreme Experts for the academy forces.
"That’s how it is!"
Jiang Chen nodded knowingly after listening to Sang Zhenye’s account.
This truly resembles the schools on Yuan Star, with the government providing salaries to give children a good education.
Because of an invasion and a battle on the Spatial Battlefield on Yuan Star, he could more readily accept these matters.
At this moment, Jiang Chen’s eyes showed an expression of excitement; Sang Zhenye’s story had him feeling passionately encouraged, as if a new world had been opened up, and more importantly, he heard a word from Sang Zhenye’s narrative: cross-dimensional travel!
Supreme Experts can cross the void, so wouldn’t it mean that once he reaches the Supreme Realm, he can cross the void to find his way back to Yuan Star?!
Since those hundreds of Supreme Experts came from the void, they must be able to travel from the void to other worlds. Perhaps those Supreme Experts are from Yuan Star!
Although Jiang Chen currently has no idea what kind of realm the Supreme Realm is, it does not stop Jiang Chen from considering it a goal he must achieve!
Beside him, Qin Chaolan looked at Sang Zhenye with surprise; she knew some rumors but didn’t know them as extensively as Sang Zhenye.
Lin Yuyan, meanwhile, had a face full of shock, her eyes unfocused, seemingly lost in the story Sang Zhenye narrated and not having returned to reality.
"Elder Sang, where did you learn this from? Why is what I’ve heard somewhat different from what you’ve said? Isn’t it true that people from the Four Great Continents’ outskirts were driven here by outside experts?"
Qin Chaolan looked at Sang Zhenye with confusion.
"Uh... It seems like that’s what the master said too."
Jiang Chen thought for a moment, his expression subtly changing, looking at Sang Zhenye with a peculiar gaze.
Really? Both Elder Qin and the master know versions that differ from the teacher’s, so this...
"Brat, what kind of look is that?"
Sang Zhenye glared at Jiang Chen.
He felt a bit jealous of Jiang Chen believing Hu Yiqiu rather than him.
"Back then, I was the elder responsible for organizing the classics at the Archive Pavilion of Changling Main Court. These matters were found in a notebook in the main pavilion’s Archive Pavilion."
Sang Zhenye said moodily: "That old drunkard is not interested in these kinds of things. Back then, he only knew how to cultivate, ignoring everything else. You trust him?"
Sang Zhenye directly ignored Qin Chaolan’s doubt towards him as well.
Originally, he was aggrieved that Hu Yiqiu was Jiang Chen’s master while he was merely Jiang Chen’s teacher. Now, with a chance to surpass Hu Yiqiu in a matter, he naturally seized it, wanting Jiang Chen to believe him.
"A notebook?"
Jiang Chen softly repeated, his eyes becoming increasingly peculiar.
"Brat, that was the notebook of the main court’s dean, the dean who once followed those hundreds of Supreme Experts and helped repel the Extraterritorial Alien Race’s invasion, the great dean’s notebook!"
Sang Zhenye, stimulated by Jiang Chen’s look, exclaimed with a slight roar.
"The dean who once followed hundreds of Supreme Experts?!"
Jiang Chen’s expression changed, exclaiming aloud: "Teacher, the main court’s dean once followed those Supreme Experts?"
"Of course!"
Sang Zhenye nodded proudly, showing a genuine expression of reverence in his eyes: "Back in the day, the dean personally slew numerous Extraterritorial Alien Races. Without the dean, the Void Nether Realm..."
"Stop!"
Jiang Chen interrupted Sang Zhenye, less appreciating exaggeration beyond the initial sentences.
"Teacher, you said the dean once followed those hundred Supreme Experts. Was the dean one of their kin or a native of the Void Nether Realm?"
Jiang Chen suddenly thought of something and looked at Sang Zhenye with eager eyes.
Qin Chaolan and Lin Yuyan heard this and fixed their eyes on Sang Zhenye as well, clearly curious about this question.
"Well..."
Sang Zhenye’s expression changed slightly, speaking somewhat awkwardly: "The dean is elusive like the Divine Dragon. I only saw her once during a grand event on Changlang Continent; she rarely stays at the academy."
Sang Zhenye felt uncomfortable mentioning this: "Among those who know her background, you probably can’t find five people in the entire academy!"
And, naturally, he was not among those five.
