Outside Lotus City, thunder resounded everywhere.

The tremendous noise instantly alerted the cultivators inside the city.

Within the city, a woman clad in palace attire, with the highest cultivation, opened her eyes and teleported outside her cave abode.

Swish! Swish! Swish!

Immediately afterward, several Nascent Soul cultivators appeared by her side.

"Elder..."

If Lin Jing were here, he would surely recognize that these Nascent Soul cultivators were all academy elders.

Among them, there were two whose classes Lin Jing had even attended.

As for the woman in palace attire, she was one of the Divinity Transformation Elders of the academy.

Whether it was the attack of the South Mountain Demon Emperor or presiding over the autumn hunt, this academy elder would appear.

During the great transfer of the academy, not only were Foundation Establishment stage students affected, but even the Nascent Soul stage professors and Divinity Transformation stage elders lacked any resistance against the teleportation treasures at the time.

This group of academy powerhouses happened to descend upon the academicians in Qingzhou.

After arriving in Qingzhou, they did not hurry back to the ancient country. First, traversing the Mist Forest was exceedingly dangerous, and second, many students were scattered across various places. As teachers, their primary task was to gather the scattered geniuses who also ended up in Qingzhou before returning to the ancient country together.

This Heaven-Reaching Dao Lotus City became a temporary settlement where this group of academy faculty had already sent messages, encouraging academy students who arrived in Qingzhou to gather there.

"It's the little princess of the Thunder Dragon Race," one academy professor spoke. "Recently, she's been challenging human prodigies of the same realm... I didn't expect her to come to Lotus City."

"There's a Crown Prince of the Thunder Dragon Race at the Divinity Transformation stage with her. Let a few students take on the challenge, it's better not to provoke her; we don't need to intervene..."

"I remember the Thunder Dragon Race being a member of the Demon Court, right…" Another professor hesitated, "With the tangled relations between the Beast Taming Sect and the Demon Court, could our academy student Lin Jing already have been found by the Demon Court first..."

"Not sure if this Thunder Dragon Princess knows anything, should we inquire a bit?"

"Highly unlikely," the woman in palace attire spoke. "Among the various clans of the Demon Court, it's more like a loosely bound alliance. The connections between each demon beast clan aren't deep. Even though Xu Qingyao from the Beast Taming Sect became the Third Saintess of the Demon Court, large clans with Void Profound Demon Ancestors have little direct association with these saintesses. It's mainly some Divinity Transformation Demon Emperors and their clans that form deeper bonds with them."

"Only those demon beast clans without 'Demon Ancestors' overseeing would choose to invest in a Saintess to seek opportunities for their clan's rise. The Thunder Dragon Race has always been isolated and is even less likely to have much association with the saintesses."

"We needn't worry about Lin Jing's matter; leave it to the deputy dean..." As the woman in palace attire finished speaking, academy prodigies had already left city walls to face Princess Leilong, prompted by their instructors.

In Qingzhou, besides this contingent of academy powerhouses, a deputy dean at the Void Profound stage came searching for Lin Jing. It was not because of Lin Jing's identity as an academy student or ancient country prodigy, but simply to prevent Yin Corpse Sect and Gu God Sect from gaining any benefit.

Since the Yin Corpse Sect values the Longevity Body so highly, they resolutely cannot obtain it. Protecting Lin Jing is also a way to thwart the enemies of the ancient country and the academy.

However, Lin Jing is incredibly adept at hiding. Even with the deputy dean of the Void Profound stage, they couldn't locate Lin Jing in Qingzhou.

Even though the academy summoned the strong from the Celestial Secret Tower, at first, they could only deduce that Lin Jing was within Qingzhou.

The tool Elder Shen Song gifted before parting, which conceals heavenly secrets, truly aided Lin Jing significantly.

"They've arrived!!!"

Meanwhile, outside Lotus City, Princess Leilong, seeing over a dozen ancient country prodigies approaching, her eyes gleamed.

Soon, these dozen academy students also observed Princess Leilong, their expressions serious.

The astonishing, several-meters-long divine dragon's form, its gem-like scales glowing with thunderous radiance, truly left them with no heart for resistance.

"Did the professors want us to fight such a monster?"

Though the academy students had undergone various degrees of tempering while stranded in Qingzhou, confronting Princess Leilong seemed notably excessive to them.

With the royal-level pinnacle bloodline of Princess Leilong, across the ancient country, unless one ranked near the top of the prodigy list, they absolutely would not qualify to engage her.

Before the academy's great transfer event, only one person from the academy ranked high on the prodigy list.

That was Zhao Qingyue, ranked first on the prodigy list with the Taiyin Body of the Zhao Family; if Zhao Qingyue were here, combatting this Thunder Dragon Princess would pose no issue. But the trouble was, Zhao Qingyue wasn't transmitted to Qingzhou.

Among the academy students transmitted to Qingzhou, the one highest-ranked on the prodigy list was only number twenty-one.

Even though position twenty-one was high, it was still vastly different from the top.

The top ranks of the list could easily defeat those beyond ten positions.

Everyone's gaze turned to a young man in brocade robes at Great Perfection of Foundation Establishment.

"Let me face you. I am Ji Changge from Ten Thousand Swords City, once ranked twenty-first on the ancient country prodigy list!" This young man in brocade was a Sword Cultivator, soaring on a spirit sword, hands folded behind him, the spirit sword beneath him of extraordinary quality.

"Twenty-one, so low?" Princess Leilong heard and showed a disappointed look in her eyes.

"That's all in the past." Ji Changge spoke. Indeed, once he was only ranked twenty-first on the prodigy list, but after coming to Qingzhou, he had fortuitous encounters and was no longer who he used to be.

In these years, his gains in Qingzhou far surpassed those in Sword City or during his secluded cultivation at the academy.

Buzz.

A powerful sword intent surged from Ji Changge, forming tangible yellow flying swords around him, one, two, three... In an instant, one hundred and eight flying swords, entirely composed of sword intent, formed a sword array behind him.

Each flying sword exuded an aura of deadly stillness, their blades reflecting withered yellow leaves...

"Great Success Withering Sword Intent; this sword intent weakens the spiritual power of enemies..."

The surrounding academy students were astonished at Ji Changge's full-fledged display of sword intent. Achieving great success with such sword intent was as challenging as mastering some elemental spirit bodies.

Yet, even witnessing Ji Changge's powerful methods, the woman in palace attire and several professors watching the situation in the background shook their heads. Merely with this sword intent, it was still challenging to contend with Princess Leilong. They had heard she had already subdued divine bodies with ease elsewhere.

Boom!!!

Indeed, moments later, Princess Leilong, despite the numerous great success sword intents landing on her, remained unscathed, her scales unbroken.

Then, with a claw, she sent Ji Changge flying.

"I told you, you're too weak. Are you really the strongest Foundation Establishment stage here? Doubtful." The Thunder Dragon Princess had little interest in this Sword Cultivator and finally set her gaze on two relatively calm of the shocked academy students.

"Within you lies a dormant formidable power, far stronger than that guy... Should I test you?"

As Princess Leilong focused on them, everyone's attention turned to this brother and sister duo.

"The two Palace Masters of the Dragon Palace, Jiang Lin and Jiang Qi? Did the Thunder Dragon really say they're stronger than Senior Brother Ji?" The other students were stunned, knowing that while at the academy, this sibling's cultivation was only at the mid-Foundation Establishment stage and had never appeared on the prodigy list. Although they had now reached Great Perfection of Foundation Establishment, it still seemed unlikely they were stronger than Ji Changge.

Many previously puzzled why Lin Jing had entrusted his Dragon Palace to these two. Could it be this pair of siblings was not as simple as they seemed?

"How can it sense the Ice Soul Gu within us..." The Jiang family's twin spirits exchanged glances, finding the situation troublesome.

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