"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. When the Spirit Vert Sect reached my generation, the only three people left were me, my two students. And when we were hunting some soul beasts. Thus, the Spirit Vert Sect only had only us left."
Sai Joshi murmured, "Teacher, are our Spirit Vert Sect's soul weapons truly incomparable to these soul tools?"
Grandmaster sighed and said, "In certain aspects, what you say is indeed true. What the Northern Spirit Continent brought to us wasn't just soul tools, but also a plentiful amount of minerals. These rare minerals are all extremely good conductors for soulforce, which makes them especially suitable for manufacturing spirit tools. This caused the high-speed development of soul tools to happen during the few thousand years after the war had ended, which resulted in an even smaller market for our Spirit Vert Sect's spirit weapons. However, in the field of degree of meticulousness, as well as design ingenuity, our Spirit Vert Sect's spirit weapons absolutely surpass soul tools; this is especially true of a few sharp hidden weapons, which are even superior to spirit weapons. However, the manufacturing requirements for those spirit weapons are also extremely complicated."
"The development of spirit tools has truly dealt a harsh blow to our Spirit Vert Sect and its spirit weapons. However, the facts have proven that spirit tools are capable of replacing our Spirit Vert Sect's spirit weapons in becoming weapons that are accepted by all parties, which indeed makes sense. Firstly, it's because they've simply been easily accepted by the masses, especially those tool spirit masters who don't actually have any attacking capabilities. After possessing a spirit tool, they turned into war soul masters in practically an instant, with the only cost they had to pay being spiritforce. So we decided that out Spirit Vert Sect absolutely could not continue following our old ways, locking ourselves in our own world, if we wanted the sect to flourish once again. If we want to make the glory of the Spirit Vert Sect reappear, then not only do we have to understand spirit tools, but we also need to merge them with the manufacturing techniques of our current spirit weapons to create even stronger spirit tools. This is the only way our Spirit Vert Sect will have the opportunity to grow. Because of this, each and every one of our Spirit Vert Sect's disciples must simultaneously study spirit tools while cultivating their spirits."
Sai Joshi replied, "Teacher, since spirit tools are so strong, why did the Sun Moon Empire lose to the allied army of our three empires during the war?"
Grandmaster smiled calmly and said, "That's because, although the spirit tools they possessed back then were strong, even the strongest spirit tool wasn't able to compare to the fighting power of a Titled Spirit. However, after a few thousand years of development, a few especially strong spirit tools have begun to appear, whose strength can even threaten Titled Spirits. However, spirit tools have a major issue, which is the fact that stronger spirit tools require stronger spirit masters to use them to their fullest extent. If you don't have enough spiritforce to support their usage, their power will be extremely limited. Thus, an interesting phenomena has occurred after our two continents merged together. The people over here are doing their utmost to study the methods needed to manufacture spirit tools, while the people over at the Sun Moon Empire are doing their best to cultivate strong soul masters. After these past few thousand years, our two continents seem to actually be somewhat balanced."
Sai Joshi finally had an initial understanding of Seven Premier Academy with Grandmaster's introductions.
After Grandmaster said, "Little Sai, the most important thing for you to do right now is to stay within Seven Academy. My other students are already third year students, and it shouldn't be a problem for them to rise to the rank of fourth year students. After becoming fourth year students, the elimination rate isn't that high. After a few more years, we'll have the chance to enter the inner courtyard and study there. However, you're different. After entering the academy as a first year student, the competition you'll face will be the most intense. The academy will have an assessment for new students every three months, and only students who are able to pass the assessment can stay. Although our Spirit Vert Sect has the privilege of admitting a single student into Seven Premier Academy, whether you can continue to stay will all depend on you. This is something that no one can help you with, do you understand?"
Sai Joshi nodded his head seriously as he said, "Teacher, I will definitely do my best. However, with eldest senior's power, have you actually not become students of the inner courtyard?"
Grandmaster replied, "Wanting to enter the inner courtyard of Seven Premier Academy is easier said than done. The rules for Seven Premier Academy have never been changed. The outer courtyard was only created later on, due to the three empires requests so that they could cultivate even more talented people. However, only students who have entered the inner courtyard are considered true students of Seven Premier Academy. Every single student in the inner courtyard is a genius or a monstrous genius, and some of them can only be described as monsters. Students in the outer courtyard will have a test after staying there for six years, and can graduate after passing that test. Only the most outstanding people that take the test, which number extremely few, will have the chance to take the entrance exam for the inner courtyard. Only after passing that test will they have permission to enter the inner courtyard. The time taken to complete their studies within the inner courtyard is also six years. Supposedly, every single person that has graduated from the inner courtyard is at least an expert of the Spirit Emperor rank! Furthermore, they'll receive the best treatment from all countries, including the Sun Moon Empire."