Chapter 957: Imparting Knowledge to the Lower Worlds (2/2)

“Therefore, the headmaster says that you should go experience the various realms of the lower worlds and battle death. Only then will you become true experts, or you’ll always be a motley crew of mediocrity,” Lu Qingshuang added the last line with no thought spared for her audience’s feelings.

It was very humiliating that one of Nephrite Major’s aces would be labeled a motley crew, but there was nothing Zhu Zheng could say to refute it.

“General Zhu can return now to report on your mission.” Lu Qingshuang turned in another direction.

“Are you not coming back with us?” Zhu Zheng asked doubtfully, taking a look at the academy disciples that were getting to know the local immortals.

“The crisis of the Blue Wilderness Continent is only temporarily resolved. Those dead spirits will be back at some point. We will be remaining here to build an academy to safeguard the continent,” the girl responded matter-of-factly.

“What?!” Zhu Zheng immediately understood Lu Yun’s plans when he heard this. He was going to establish academies in the lower world and pass on knowledge from the world of immortals!

Lu Qingshuang looked wordlessly at the general.

“Then, take care of yourself, Miss Lu.”

As a Zhu Clan descendant, Zhu Zheng was familiar with Lu Qingshuang. The Lu Clan had once been a peak faction in Nephrite Major as well. Lu Qingshuang was a Lu genius and Lu Yun’s cousin.

Lu Qingshuang was only a peerless immortal and thus Zhu Zheng doubted she could protect the continent. But since Lu Yun had decided to make his move, then the academy here would be as solid as Mount Tai.

It was at this moment Zhu Zheng understood that Lu Yun not only wanted to be a saint of the world of immortals, but that he wanted to be a saint of all life. He didn’t build academy branches in any other location in the world of immortals, choosing instead to locate them in the lower worlds. This timely assistance in the most dire straits would be more effective at winning over hearts than anything else.

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When the Vermillion Bird troops returned, Zhu Zheng made a full report to Zhao Shenguang and expressed his desire to lead his men back to the lower worlds.

Zhao Shenguang naturally permitted this deployment.

Increasing numbers of immortals activated the protocol to ascend to the world of immortals. Apart from a few who truly wished to leave their homes, most were here to request help. Their worlds wouldn’t hold on for long.

Nephrite Major sent out her other three aces—the armies of the Azure Dragon, White Tiger, and Dusk Phalanx that Lu Yun had returned to the imperial court. Each army split out a million golden immortals and sent them campaigning through the lower worlds.

At the same time, academy disciples descended en masse and built academies in the lower worlds, bringing all sorts of the combat arts, cultivation methods, and supplemental paths to these struggling worlds so they could defend themselves.

The Dao Academy didn’t open new branches in the world of immortals, but put down firm roots in the lower worlds.

Though the campaigns inflicted massive casualties on Nephrite’s armies, those who survived returned three times stronger than before, whether in terms of cultivation and battle strength.

These results finally alerted the other factions of the world what was at stake here.