The Ethereal Opening realm was a stage of life and death; it was also a dividing-line. Within and without this dividing-line were two different worlds.
Within the blizzards of the Northern Reaches, a lone youth turned Southwards, his fingertips stained with blood.
Outside of the South’s Scholartree Manor, a number of green-robed scholars bid farewell to their peers.
Upon various corners of the central continent, youths that were entering the Grand Examination, began moving.
What was different from past years was that they all had the same target in mind.
That target, was the name, Chen Chang Sheng.