On the eighth of the ninth month, students of the institution and experts of the four great clans were gathered around the main entrance of the Tongyou Institution where the spatial tunnel lay.

They were split into two groups, and the group that had already stepped through the entrance and was waiting for the spatial tunnel to open was made up of cultivators who were at the very least Martial Intent Realm experts. There were custodians, instructors, deacons, and heads of the various divisions. There were more than thirty of them who hailed from the Tongyou Institution. They were also joined by experts of the four great clans. Surprisingly, there were several chosen cultivators from several other factions in the city among them. Without exception,...