Broad Continent, Conferred Empire Yang.
There has always been a floating island with a humongous white palace. The base of the mountain was guarded by two men in white armors.
From the void, a middle-aged man with long white hair walked out of the teleportation formation toward the guards and showed them a multi-color jade. The two make a path for him to walk and he flew straight toward the palace on the floating island.
He is the Third Earth Saint that is responsible to open the Grand Academy and the white palace is non-other than the Grand Academy that was spoken off.
Once he reached the door of the Grand Academy, he knelt down immediately by the pressure released from within of the palace.
"Heavenly Saint! This humble one is Third Earth Saint responsible to open the door of the Grand Academy for the Yuan Realm to use!"
A deep gentle yet domineering male voice rang from the inside of the palace.
"Only those who have Eternal Seeking Jade can enter the Grand Academy. Isn't that what We have promised?"
"Your honor Heavenly Saint, the Great War with the devils will happen again, please give the permission to open the Grand Academy."
"… Enter."
The huge door opened up and revealed a woman in the white robe. Everything about the woman and the palace is white. They have the different shade of white like pale blue-white, pinkish white and creamy white.
Those who entered will always feel awed upon looking at the sight of the Grand Academy, even the Third Earth Saint is not an exception.
As he walked and guided by the white woman, he saw the other people that have a similar appearance to the woman. He has visited the Grand Academy for so many times but he still found the Spirit Puppet made by the Heavenly Saint to be so real-life-like.
The Spirit Puppet guided him to the second floor of the palace and reached a room where one would feel nervous upon waiting in front of the door.
The white woman pushed the door and the Third Earth Saint walked slowly into the room.
If the palace is defined as noble and grand, the room where he stepped into is the heaven.
There is a garden of the various dignified color of precious medicinal plants and a magnanimous white tree stood in the middle of the garden. Underneath the tree, there is a man with soft silky short yellow hair in a pale blue robe sitting on a chair looking leisurely as he drank tea on the table beside him.
The spiritual energy inside the room is overwhelming. If a mortal cultivator entered the room and cultivate in there, they could soar in cultivation from martial warrior to immortal in just one week.
Third Earth Saint immediately knelt down to greet the man.
"Your honor, Heavenly Saint."
The man glanced at the middle-aged white-haired man before he said a word. "Stand."
The middle-aged man stood and waited nervously for the Heavenly Saint to speak.
Three thousand years ago, there were hundreds of Earth Saint and there is exactly one hundred of Heavenly Saint. After the Great War, the number of saints diminished from the aftermath of the war. Some of the saints become the devil cultivators and some of the rest were forced to turn into a mortal because their cultivation forcefully rose by one Heavenly Saint namely the Chosen One.
The Chosen One immediately soared in cultivation to be a Universe Cognizant Saint after the Great War and leave the mortals behind although the devils are still roaming around the world.
He took a total of seven Heavenly Saints with him to the Cosmos Realm and thus, the world is only left with three Heavenly Saints. The man in front of the Third Earth Saint is one of the Heavenly Saints that decided to stay in the Yuan Realm and the Third Earth Saint is the man's direct student.
"The book of fate has decided it as thus. Even if there is no one that initiates the killing, the Devils will not stop from dominating the Yuan Realm. It will only be a matter of time.
We, Heavenly Saint Yang permit the sects in Yuan Realm to take the Holy Trial to enter the Grand Academy. Ordinary mortal is also ordered to take the Holy Trial."
Third Earth Saint's eyes immediately brightened up. He bowed 90 degrees and thanked the Heavenly Saint with eyes full of reverence.
"In the meantime, We will be going down to the low tier kingdom… It's about time. We, Heavenly Saint Yang have to nurture another saint."
Third Earth Saint jolted before he looked upward with a doubtful expression on his face. "Pardon?"
"You will be staying here to manage the academy. End of reason." The Heavenly Saint Yang said coldly.
"T-teacher?"
"Out."
The Heavenly Saint waved his hand and spiritual energy whipped the Third Earth Saint immediately out of the room.
He looked at the female Spirit Puppet and scratched his head awkwardly. His teacher has always been doing whatever he wanted and he, the only direct student his teacher had had to take care of everything.
It is useless for him to make his teacher change his mind because the man may look gentle but he is the most stubborn man in this world that he the Third Earth Saint has ever known.
Just like how the time when the Chosen One tried to bring Heavenly Saint Yang to the Cosmos Realm for the Chosen One to be half God, the Heavenly Saint Yang insisted on staying in the Yuan Realm to guide the lost cultivators.
It has been three thousand years ever since then and his teacher refused to ascend to be Universe Cognizant Saint even though he could have done it for a long time ago.
Third Earth Saint walked out of the palace and transmitted his voice to the air.
"Holy Trial will be open to the residents of the Yuan Realm. Ordinary mortal to cultivators has to test the Holy Trial. The reward will be the entry to the Grand Academy."
The voice rang throughout the Conferred Empire Yang to the other Conferred Empires to even the Black and White Continent (another name for Yin and Yang continent) and of course, the voice reached the low tier kingdom like the Ru An Kingdom.
Stairs of light descended from the floating island down to the Conferred Empire Yang. Although there are many that hesitant, there already several of cultivators that climbed on the stairs of light.
Beasts and humans, everyone is climbing the stairs of light and when they reached the top of the island, they were struck by lightning. No one is harmed but every each one that was struck by the lightning was sent to another space and met their own inner demon.
The Holy Trial is not the usual entry test to enter the Grand Academy. The Holy Trial is a test for the Great War.
If the individual lost to their own inner demon, they have no chance to fight against the devil. Their mind is as weak as a baby in front of the devil if they cannot even win against their own inner demon.
At first, the Third Earth Saint would like to allow the sects to enter the Grand Academy but he felt that his teacher's arrangement is better. Regardless of whether the person can cultivate or not, there is a way to make an ordinary people into a cultivator.
Those that can win against their inner demon will be trained and their skills will be hone in the Grand Academy to fight against the devil. This is better than letting just everyone from the large sects enter the Grand Academy.
Tian Xuan in the Ru An Kingdom already recalculates his plan after listening to the Saint's voice.
He will have to hasten his plan to build the sect.
The more disciple he has, the better.