Chapter 523 (2/2)

Fang Xingjian asked another question, “Then what about the National Selection? Has it ended?”

Fang Qian shook her head and said, “It has been decided that this year’s National Selection will be postponed to three months later.”

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Elsewhere, in the Great Western Region’s Regional Academy, a young man with a pair of upward slanting brows, who was wearing a Knight’s attire, headed in the direction of the Sacred Land. He exuded a sharp aura, as if he were an unsheathed sharp sword. The young man seemed like he would not cower in the least, regardless of what would happen before his eyes.

Behind him, the academy’s Superintendent quickly said, “Sir… Sir… Please wait… Fang Xingjian is still training in seclusion. Why don’t we wait for a few more days?”

The young man came to a stop and turned to look toward the academy’s Superintendent, saying coldly, “I’m Lord Benjamin’s Chief Assistant, and I’m now left to be in charge of the Regional Academy’s matters. Fang Xingjian is merely a student without even any official post. What right does he have to turn me away?

“Moreover, his right to use the Sacred Land has long expired, yet he has still been hogging the spot all this time. It has affected the resource distribution throughout the entire academy. This is something I can definitely not tolerate.”

Fang Xingjian had been allocated one year of use of the Sacred Land by Governor Devitt. One year had already passed since the Regional Selection last year. So, of course, the limit for his use of the Sacred Land would already have been up.

With the world’s metamorphosis, the density of ether particles had soared tremendously. The density of ether particles in the Sacred Land had also soared to even greater heights due to the increase of the ether particles’ density in the outside world. Therefore, the value of the Sacred Land was now even higher than before.

Hearing what the young man said, the academy’s Superintendent just felt he had a great headache.

This young man was not an ordinary person. His name was Asto. He had the title of Swordless Sword and had been ranked number three in the previous National Selection. Right now, he was also Deputy Governor Benjamin’s Chief Assistant, and for the last month, he had held control over the entirety of the Great Western Region’s Regional Academy.

This young man, the Swordless Sword, was most well-known for having been able to stand up to The School of Sword Arts’ Supreme Chief, Heng Tianxiao, for a total of 3,000 moves. In the end, the young man had lost because he had been too tired to keep up. He then became a renowned Demigod in the Empire.

Considering the moves the First Prince had been making during the last three months, his next move would be to have a great reformation, splitting up the roles of the Regional Academy’s Headmaster and the region’s Governor.

In the past, the positions of the Regional Academy’s Headmaster and the region’s Governor had both been assumed by the same person. This was a drawback left behind by the eight Divine Continent experts who had founded the country. Right now, the First Prince’s reformation was clearly to further weaken the power held by the Governors of the various regions.

With how each region’s Conferred Knights emerged from the Regional Academy, and with the Headmaster being the Governor of the same region, how immense would the Governor’s influence be?

The First Prince wanted to make use of the news that he had successfully attained Divine level and that both the Empire’s King and Ancient Path of Hell’s Sect Master, who had been Divine level experts for a very long time, were supportive of him. Furthermore, he had numerous experts under him. These allowed the First Prince to have an overwhelming influence.

Relying on his current overwhelming prestige and influence, the First Prince wanted to completely reform this drawback in the system.

From there, the Great Western Region, being the Second Prince’s important base, was given special attention by the First Prince.

Right now, even the blind could tell that the future Governor of the Great Western Region would probably be the current Deputy Governor, Benjamin. Meanwhile, the future Regional Academy’s Headmaster would probably be the current Chief Assistant, Swordless Sword Asto.

The academy’s Superintendent would suffer from bad headaches each time he thought of all those chaotic and dangerous conflicts.

Regardless of whether they were the previous Governor, Head of Department, and the others… or the future powerhouses backed by the First Prince in his plan for the reformation… The Superintendent did not want to offend any of them.

The Superintendent could only sigh and continue to follow Asto, as they headed toward the Sacred Land.