tronger than the few schools which are very close to reaching the top ten schools in status.
“However, the five elements reinforce each other and are like birds of a feather. These schools have been in alliance and doing things together since they were created. It’s because of this that they are listed among the ten great schools together. Of course, you could also regard these five schools as a single school, but then it would become ‘top six schools’ instead of ‘top ten schools’.
“The Wind Lightning School is a school that mostly uses techniques related to wind and lightning for cultivation. It’s usually in disagreement with the Five Elements Schools. It fought the Water School once, and when it was winning, the other four element schools came to help the Water School and greatly damaged the Wind Lightning School’s vitality. They have been feuding with each other ever since and both sides’ disciples often fight as soon as they see each other.
“The Beast Taming School is a very special school. The people from this school almost never use their own bodies to fight. Instead, they mostly control soul beasts. Unlike the other soul cultivators, who can form a spiritual bond with only one soul beast, they seem to be able to control multiple soul beasts directly using a secret technique, just like controlling puppets. Therefore this school is the arch-enemy of all soul beasts. Rumor has it that a level 8 soul beast in the depths of the Soul Beast Forest once led an army of soul beasts and attacked this school’s headquarters, wanting to rescue the soul beasts enslaved by the Beast Taming School. But they had to fight the controlled soul beasts. According to legend, the Beast Taming School even unleashed a level 8 puppet soul beast in this battle. In the end, both sides suffered great losses, but I don’t know the specific circumstances.
“The Soul Refining School doesn’t refine their own souls, but other people’s souls! If the Beast Taming School is the arch-enemy of all soul beasts, this Soul Refining School is the arch-enemy of nearly all soul cultivators! All the people of this school are very evil and malicious. Their cultivation technique is extremely strange. They absorb other people’s souls to strengthen themselves. The most powerful people among them can even refine other people’s souls to absorb the power of soul essence! Even though the world of soul cultivators is a place where might is right and power talks, the Soul Refining School is publicly accepted as an evil power that everybody has the right to punish!
“The Heavenly Soul School has the same name as the empire. The only reason for this is — the Heavenly Soul School is a school controlled by the imperial clan of the Heavenly Soul Empire! As a school built with the resources of an empire, it’s worthy of being the most powerful school of the continent. In the school, able people are present in large number and new talents never stop coming out. It’s also the most ideal school in the eyes of most ordinary soul cultivators. The headmaster of the Heavenly Soul School is the reigning emperor, His Majesty emperor Wu Hong, and at least half of the vassals in the sixteen provinces of the empire came from the school. It can be said that the Heavenly Soul School is the empire’s protector. It seems to never participate in power struggles but it checks and balances the powers in the world all the time. In addition to the wise politics and management of successive emperors, the empire’s two-thousand-year prosperity must be due in part to this Heavenly Soul School.”
“Prosperity, wise politics and management?…” Bai Yunfei curved his mouth slightly downwards in an unnoticeable manner while thinking to himself with a mental shake of his head: “This is only true in the case of those who are rich and live happy lives. It’s just your wishful thinking. Only a few people know about the darkness at the bottom of the society and the painful struggles of those ‘lowly’ people…”
With her teacher mode on, Qiu Luliu seemed to become more and more excited as she talked. Perhaps because she found the way Bai Yunfei was listening to her earnestly like an obedient child amusing, she covered her mouth and gave a gentle laugh then continued: “Next, I’m going to explain to you the situation of the Crafting School, which is what you want to know the most…”