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Right there in the library of the Spirit Hall Advanced Spirit Master Academy, Su Wen initiated his final step.
He produced a spirit bone—the specialized head spirit bone from Shi Nian that possessed the "Illusory Space."
Immediately afterward, he brought out another three-thousand-year-old spirit bone that featured the "Phantom Light" spirit skill.
The soul-imprint volume, which had just finished establishing the "Mountain of Books and Sea of Learning" hub, erupted in a magnificent radiance. Under Su Wen's guidance, it began to vibrate in resonance.
In truth, this change was not confined to the Spirit Hall Academy. Across the vast distances of the continent, the core soul-imprint volumes in Heaven Dou City and Star Luo City were simultaneously vibrating in sympathy.
At this moment, separated by thousands of miles, Su Wen successfully linked these three primary hubs together.
Su Wen's expression grew strained, his face turning an even more deathly shade of white. Executing such a complex operation across such staggering distances was an immense drain, even with his mastery over spatial power and the "Illusory Realm" opened by his fifth spirit skill.
However, once the resonance was established, the hardest part was over.
Su Wen's development of formations had never ceased. Once a formation was activated, it would trigger a chain reaction, automatically absorbing the elemental energy from the world to sustain its operation.
The three core soul-imprint volumes exerted their power, acting like three central hearts of the continent, radiating energy outward. Su Wen's secondary volumes in other cities felt the call of their common origin and began to resonate in turn.
In a short span of time, using the three cores as a foundation, every soul-imprint volume in every city across the continent began to glow, entering a state of collective resonance.
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*Heaven Dou City: The Academy of Learning*
Ye Luochen of the Law Enforcement Peak snapped his eyes open, looking down toward the Hall of Seeking Knowledge at the base of the mountain.
The fluctuations from the soul-imprint volume were massive. Elemental energy surged, triggered by the volume, and the resulting energy waves propagated across a vast distance.
Ye Luochen descended the mountain rapidly, heading for the Hall of Seeking Knowledge. The other students of the Law Enforcement Peak followed closely behind their leader. Simultaneously, students from the Inspection Peak, including Lin Dong and Zhou Yuan, sensed the anomaly and rushed toward the hall.
Inside the Hall of Seeking Knowledge, the Spirit Masters present were initially dazed, unsure of what was happening. Many, feeling a sudden sense of guilt, instinctively raised their hands to show they hadn't touched anything.
Only after carefully sensing the state of the soul-imprint volume and realizing it wasn't collapsing did they breathe a collective sigh of relief. The Spirit Masters tasked with maintaining order immediately grew alert, standing between the crowd and the glowing volume to isolate it.
"What is happening?" Ye Luochen's voice rang out from outside the hall.
As he spoke, the crowd instinctively parted to let him through. Although the Academy of Learning did not seek hegemony, the Spirit Master world was accustomed to the prestige of elite direct disciples. Ye Luochen was the Academy's eldest disciple, its very first student, and the "Big Brother" of the Law Enforcement Peak—the only department specifically tasked with handling force.
Spirit Masters who knew his identity, even Spirit Ancestors, treated him with respect. Ye Luochen was already a Spirit Grandmaster and was expected to reach the rank of Spirit Ancestor within five or six years—and he had the Sword Douluo as his teacher.
The guards sighed in relief when he arrived. With a proper direct disciple on the scene, the pressure on them lessened significantly.
Lin Dong and the Inspection Peak students arrived less than half a minute after Ye Luochen. With the core disciples of the two major departments gathered, the situation stabilized.
"Looking at the situation, the soul-imprint volume should be fine. It is likely Grandmaster Wen performing some operation," Lin Dong observed. He carefully felt the waves emanating from the book—highly penetrative yet seemingly without a destructive purpose. He didn't know the exact goal, but he didn't question it either. As long as the volume itself was intact, that was enough.
"To be safe, please wait until the fluctuations subside before claiming any more soul imprints," Lin Dong said, bowing slightly to the waiting Spirit Masters in apology.
"No matter, we aren't in a hurry. Looking at this commotion, it feels like something big is about to happen."
"Exactly, I have the same feeling."
"To witness such a change in the soul-imprint volume might even be an honor."
The Academy of Learning enjoyed an excellent reputation among Spirit Masters. Even with the delay, no one complained; instead, they watched the transformation with intense curiosity.
In other cities across the continent, though they lacked students from the two main peaks, there were designated personnel to maintain order. Within the Heaven Dou Empire, disciples of the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Sect stepped in to handle emergencies effectively—securing the volumes and temporarily suspending services while they waited for the resonance to end.
In the Star Luo Empire, the situation was even more stable under the supervision of the Spirit Masters Su Wen had personally trained. During his month in Star Luo City, Su Wen had done his best to establish a new order, training volunteers and preparing them for exactly this kind of contingency. Those trainees were now being put to good use in academies across the empire.
Reports from across the land varied, but nowhere did chaos erupt. In this regard, Su Wen's Academy of Learning had already proven its success as an institution.
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*Spirit City: Spirit Hall Advanced Spirit Master Academy*
Su Wen's mental strength merged into the two spirit bones he held.
Rumble!
Inside the spirit bone from Shi Nian, a localized space suddenly began to expand. This was the "Illusory Realm"—Su Wen's fifth spirit skill, which allowed him to create a phantom world and use it for spatial travel.
The Phantom Light beast spirit bone was enveloped by the four elements. As if being deconstructed, it emitted a misty glow and merged into the Illusory Space bone. More accurately, Su Wen was sending its essence into the newly opened Illusory Realm.
His "Visualized World" manifested.
This time, Su Wen did not use the projection technique. Instead, he utilized the Phantom Light spirit skill and his own advancements in illusion arts to begin constructing a "Mountain of Books and Sea of Learning" directly within that pocket dimension.
Ju Douluo and the others watched, utterly perplexed. They still couldn't grasp the magnitude of what Su Wen was doing.
However, the disturbances had already reached the Supreme Pontiff's Hall. The fluctuations from the soul-imprint volumes were designed to be highly penetrative to ensure connectivity, allowing them to travel vast distances. Naturally, the nearby Supreme Pontiff's Hall felt it clearly.
Opening a standard hub shouldn't cause such a massive disturbance.
Bibi Dong frowned, sensing that something was "off."
"Let's go!" She vanished from the hall, heading toward the Academy.
Because he was building this from the ground up, Su Wen took a long time. As he constructed this "Academic Realm," the various soul-imprint volumes across the continent used the surrounding thirty-six study halls as relays to replenish their energy, automatically absorbing elemental energy to maintain the resonance.
Back at the Heaven Dou City Academy:
"It's changing!" someone cried out. The fluctuations of the soul-imprint volume began to shift.
Lin Dong's eyes sharpened. The volume erupted with a violent pulse of energy. In the next instant, it looked as though the soul-imprint volume was about to explode.
The hearts of the Law Enforcement and Inspection students sank. They couldn't help but feel a surge of dread.
(End of Chapter)