Seven Premier Academy had successively raised extremely wise deans. Although the academy held a majestic position on the continent, they weren't arrogant in the least. The academy's attitude towards all empires was the same. Furthermore, they didn't possess any private armies, and the number of teachers that they kept was even kept at a certain limit. Because of this, Seven Premier Academy didn't cause any of the empires to feel a sense of danger. After all, Seven Premier Academy was an academy. Thus, not only did it continue to exist, but its lofty position within the continent was also one that couldn't be easily shaken by any empire.
Seven Premier Academy was located within the southeastern portion of the Heaven Star Empire, with the Spirit Hunting Forest located directly southwest from it. The Star Dust Empire was east of it, and the Spirit Star Empire was located northwards. It could be said that Seven Premier Academy was located at the intersection point of the three empires.
Grandmaster told Sai Joshi that Seven Premier Academy was currently divided into two parts: the inner courtyard and the outer courtyard. Every year, the number of new students they'd recruit was around a thousand or so, yet the total number of students within the academy had never surpassed five thousand. It would take twelve years for one to complete their studies and graduate after entering Seven Premier Academy. This also meant that Seven Premier Academy's elimination rate was extremely high every year. If one wasn't able to pass the academy's assessments, he'd be mercilessly kicked out of the academy.
However, every single person that managed to successfully graduate from Seven Premier Academy was a once-in-a-generation genius.
It could be said that Seven Premier Academy was truly a cradle filled with experts, so much so that even political issues would occur between the Heaven Star Empire, Star Dust Empire, and Spirit Star Empire due to the number of students that Seven Premier Academy would admit each year. The fame of the number one academy in the world could clearly be seen from this.
The Sun Moon Empire, on the other hand—possibly due to their enmity with Seven Premier Academy—had never asked to send people to study at Seven Premier Academy. There were also a few high-level academies within the Sun Moon Empire that had already reached a fairly high standard after experiencing a few thousand years of development. Only, the Sun Moon Empire's military strength had always been limited due to the pact they'd made after the war, which prevented them from expanding too much. Thus, the Sun Moon Empire was still keeping a low profile, at least on the surface.
"Little Sai, once you enter the academy, you'll cultivate in the outer courtyard. The outer courtyard is split into many faculties, so you should temporarily cultivateinside the control faculty. At the same time, you should simultaneously study inside of the Spirit Engineering Institution. How about it?" Grandmaster asked Sai Joshi after giving him a simple introduction to the Seven Premier Academy's internal situation.
"Teacher, what's this 'Spirit Engineering Institution'?" Sai Joshi asked.
Grandmaster replied, "The so-called Soul Engineering Institution is a place created for the sake of studying spirit tools."
"Spirit tools?" Sai Joshi was still slightly puzzled. However, you couldn't blame him. Seven Premier Academy was currently the number one academy on the continent, yet he'd grown up in a closed environment since he was young. Thus, he naturally had little knowledge and experience of such matters.
Grandmaster explaining things to Sai Joshi. "Spirit tools actually have a very large relationship with our Spirit Vert Sect. In a sense, spirit tools are weapons that we use spiriyforce to activate. Higher quality spirit tools will possess greater might. This also means that, even if you're only a tool spirit master, you'd still be able to possess considerably high attack power if you had a strong spirit tool. However, the development of spirit tools was one of the main reasons for our Spirit Vert Sect's decline."
"Our Spirit Vert Sect was still flourishing four thousand years ago. However, the collision with the Sun Moon Empire was the root cause for our Spirit Vert Sect's decline." Grandmaster spoke with a coldly tone, "Our Spirit Vert Sect was famous for spirit weapons, and our main source of income was obtained by selling this spirit weapons. In the past, almost every single country would purchase a certain amount of spirit weapons from us—even some sects would do the same."
"Over four thousand years ago, war quickly broke out when the Sun Moon Empire collided with Star Dust Empire. This empire armies, supported by the spirit weapons of our Spirit Vert Sect, collided with the army of the Sun Moon Empire. In the end, although the Sun Moon Empire wasn't strong in the aspect of spirit masters, they possessed unique insights in the aspects of spirit tools. These spirit tools were activated with spiritforce, and surpassed our Spirit Vert Sect's spirit weapons in strength as a whole, as well as in attack range. In the end, it caused the three empires of our Spirit Continent to suffer disastrous losses during the initial phase of the war."
"Although we won the war in the end, the effectiveness of our Spirit Vert Sect's spirit weapons was called into question. From then on, various Empire's started a large-scale reduction in purchasing our spirit weapons. Even though our income was still high, a large portion of it was donated out, as per the will of the first sect master. The donated money was used to improve the lifestyle of the ordinary folk who lived in impoverished areas, as well as to build schools and other public facilities. Thus, we didn't have a lot of extra cash."
"At that time, the Spirit Vert Sect had several thousand people in it. However, the speed of our decline was simply too quick. After only a mere two hundred years, our Spirit Vert Sect had rapidly declined. The former number one sect in the continent never saw its former glory again."