A few months have passed since the tournament, and the White Bamboo sect has completely ceased to exist. Each one of their members has been baptized as a citizen of Xingcai city and treated as one of its own.
Sect Master Ma Ling, no-- it was Headmaster Ma now. Headmaster Ma has been charged to be the Headmaster to the newly founded Xingcai Academy for Drifters. As its name suggests, it's an academy that would specialize in teaching drifters. Helping them to adapt to the world as soon as possible.
Sofia was also a part of the Academy, or more specifically, below it. Her request for a laboratory was, of course, approved by Viel. She had the entire underground of the Academy all to herself. It also worked well since Sofia would be needing assistants in the future, and what better place to get them than the Academy.