Chapter 394 (1/2)

Chapter 394: Door of the Northern Depths

Translator: Thyaeria  Editor: Thyaeria

“Opening the Door of the Northern Depths…”

When those words from Shen Cangsheng fluttered across the sky, the surrounding air seemed to freeze up, while the expressions of Dean Tai Cang and the various other Elders faintly changed, with dark and gloomy shadows appearing within their eyes. Clearly, all of them didn’t imagine that Shen Cangsheng would actually raise such a request.

The Door of the Northern Depths could be considered as the final tempering grounds for the Northern Heavens Spiritual Academy. However, due to the probability of death being too high, the Northern Heavens Spiritual Academy had finally chose to close it after weighing the pros and cons. Due to lacking the most important area for tempering, the results of the Northern Heavens Spiritual Academy in the past years had slid down the rankings, with imminent danger of losing its title of being one of the Five Great Academies.

If the special methods that the other spiritual academies were using to poach elite geniuses were considered as external factors, the closure of the Door of the Northern Depths could be considered an internal factor for the Northern Heavens Spiritual Academy.

Many strong and powerful spiritual academies possessed final tempering grounds, as this was a rather important factor in allowing those elite students to have a fierce leap in strength. However, compared to the other Five Great Academies, the existence of the Northern Heavens Spiritual Academy was considered the youngest. Therefore, some of its underlying aspects were lacking when compared to the other four academies.

Mu Chen went into a daze due to the solidification of the atmosphere. Only being in the Northern Heavens Spiritual Academy for a year, he naturally wasn’t as clear about the Door of the Northern Depths as the other students. However, from the expressions present on Dean Tai Cang and the other Elders, he could faintly discern how special the so-called ‘Door of the Northern Depths’ was.

“The Door of the Northern Depths, is too dangerous…” After pondering for quite a while, Dean Tai Cang finally replied in a slow voice.

“Dean, let me ask a question…”

After hearing Dean Tai Cang’s deep words, Shen Cangsheng gave a faint smile as she spoke slowly, one word at a time, “Is there any leveled road, in an expert’s path?”

Silence filled the skies once again as Shen Cangsheng’s deep voice slowly resounded across the horizon. Splendid expressions appeared on the faces of countless students as they looked at the figure in the sky, ramrod straight like a spear piercing through the heavens, while unconcealable respect and worship erupted from their eyes. This was Shen Cangsheng, the Overlord of the Heavenly Rankings. Even though he was gradually being surpassed by Mu Chen, he still possessed an immovable position in the hearts of many students.

Gently exhaling a clump of white air, Mu Chen gave a thumbs-up towards Shen Cangsheng.

Turning silent for a short while, Dean Tai Cang finally gave a helpless laugh before replying, “I’ve actually been lectured by a smelly brat that’s still wet behind his ears…”

Beside him, Elder Zhu Tian and the other Elders started laughing as a result of his reply.

“The Door of the Northern Depths wasn’t completely closed in the past. We’re also doing our best to repair and fill in the defects and flaws. Over these last few years, it can be considered that we’ve made a little progress in this. However, it’s still extremely dangerous.”

Looking towards Shen Cangsheng, Dean Tai Cang smiled, before waving his hand and said, “However, since you’ve already said those words, if I was to find more excuses, I might be inviting misfortune to myself. Hmph, alright. The Door of the Northern Depths will reopen once again. However, there’s a restriction to entry, which is that only the students in the top ten ranks on the Heavenly Rankings have the qualifications to enter, and is totally up to them to enter of their own free will.”

Hearing Dean Tai Cang’s reply, a smile that felt as if a heavy burden has been lifted off his shoulders appeared on Shen Cangsheng’s face. With a hearty chuckle and a wide grin, he replied, “Then, please allow me entry to the Door of the Northern Depths.”

“Count me in,” said Li Xuantong with a faint smile.

Not far away, looking at the awe-inspiring pose of Shen Cangsheng and Li Xuantong, before casting his gaze towards Su Xuan, who was standing in another direction, a dark shadow flashed within He Yao’s eyes. Clenching his teeth, he stood up and shouted, “Count me in, too!”

He Yao’s reply clearly caused lots of people to feel shocked, with even Su Xuan was shooting a peculiar look at him. Nevertheless, her beautiful eyes still showed dimness in them, without too much fluctuations present. He Yao’s previous actions during the hunt had clearly aroused ire and disgust in her. Although she didn’t always quite like He Yao, she was able to communicate with him just like normal friends, but that event had caused her to stop all contact with him, estranging him from her.

As He Yao’s gaze remained on Su Xuan and spotting the dim gaze present within her eyes, his expression grew increasingly dim and sad. Indeed, he had too much blood rushing towards his brain during the previous incident with her. He had only wanted to defeat Mu Chen to wipe the humiliation he received clean from the latter. Naturally, he never thought of truly hurting Su Xuan…after all, she was the girl he liked.

“Dean, what you’ve said earlier was too touching. Therefore, I wish to do my utmost and fight for our Northern Heavens Spiritual Academy. If we don’t enter the Door of the Northern Depths, I’m afraid that we might be overtaken by the geniuses from other top academies.” said He Yao with a bitter and astringent smile. Indeed, he had a rather handsome appearance, with only an extra feeling that tilted towards coldness and gloominess. However, within the Northern Heavens Spiritual Academy, there were quite a few young girls that were smitten by him.

“Boss is the best!”

After hearing his words, even those members of the Demon Gate’s were looking at He Yao with slightly surprised expressions. Clearly, this was somewhat different from the usual gloomy shadow that was present on him, causing those Demon’s Gate members to feel emotional. He Yao’s decision had caused them to feel glory and honor for being under his lead.