Starlit Void of the Underworld Sea

“This world is no longer ruled by humans, and you no longer enjoy the comfortable life people had a hundred years ago. Wake up, students. If not for the efforts of the Three Kings back then, we wouldn’t even have these last three pieces of land to survive on.”

On the podium, a man turned around and placed the green teaching rod in his hand onto the desk, his gaze sharp as he looked at the students before him.

“Now, with mutated beasts rampant, our living space can only shrink further. I hope some of you will be able to enter Zixing Academy and become Star Core Warriors.”

More than fifty students sat below, most of them listening with solemn expressions—not so much to the speech as to the dazzling green rod on the desk.

These fifty students were the “top students” selected from an original three hundred. They knew that the refined man before them was the city’s only Foundation-level Star Core Warrior.

They also knew that the teaching rod in his hand was made from the main trunk of a Death Willow. Once infused with his attribute power, it could change size at will. But what they didn’t know was how fierce the competition outside truly was—just entering Zixing Academy, or obtaining such a weapon, was a matter of life and death.

“That’s all for today. For the final month, you don’t have to come to school. Review, and familiarize yourselves with your bodies. Try to awaken your attribute power before the exams.”

With a crisp sound, the refined man left the classroom.

“Wow, Teacher Lu is so handsome,” sighed a girl with a ponytail