Elemental City was one of the most renowned cities within the Heaven Dou Empire.
Unlike Spirit City, Elemental City owed its prestige due to the proportion of Elemental Soul Masters here was astonishingly high—fire, wind, water, earth, lightning—almost every major elemental attribute could be found .
The city was jointly governed by several elemental clans.
Individually, none of these clans were truly powerful when compared to giants like Spirit Hall or the Three Great Clans. Their numbers were limited, however,each clan had refined the cultivation of a single element to an extreme, passing down unique techniques, martial soul applications, and combat styles ..
To strengthen their influence and secure future generations, these elemental clans jointly established academies aligned with their attributes. Thus, Elemental City became an academic hub, a place where talented elemental Soul Masters from across the continent gathered.
Blazing Academy, dominated by fire-attributed Soul Masters. Godwind Academy, renowned wind attributed soul masters. Skywater Academy, a place where water and ice soul masters are admitted.
Later, when Spirit Hall attempted to absorb and subdue the elemental factions, the Elephant Armored Clan stepped in, lending its support to the establishment of Elephant Armored Academy—a defensive powerhouse academy that emphasized resilience, formation tactics, and heavy combat.
The elemental clans did not wish to submit to Spirit Hall, yet they also lacked the strength to openly oppose it. To protect themselves, they leaned toward one of the Three Great Clans—the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan.
This political choice directly led to the founding of Thunder Academy.
With the prestige and backing of the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan, Thunder Academy rose rapidly, becoming the strongest academy in Elemental City in terms of pure combat power. For a time, its existence was restrained by the presence of Elephant Armored Academy, which acted as a counterweight.
Thus, a fragile balance was formed, a balance born of necessity.
Due to certain undisclosed reasons, the Elephant Armored Clan withdrew—quietly, decisively. Elephant Armored Academy soon followed, dissolving as its backbone disappeared.
A vacuum of power was left behind.
The remaining elemental clans quickly realized the problem. They were not strong enough to fill that empty position.
Their situation became painfully clear—it was like inviting a tiger to chase away a wolf, only to discover that the tiger had no intention of leaving afterward.
Without Elephant Armored Academy to restrain it, Thunder Academy's influence expanded unchecked.
At first, the dominance of the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan's Soul Masters was subtle—preferential resource allocation, quiet pressure, unspoken authority during disputes.
Knowing that Spirit Hall had withdrawn its attention from Elemental City, and clearly had no intention of interfering any longer, the Soul Masters of the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan gradually began to reveal their true colors.
At first, it was merely pressure.
Subtle suppression during negotiations and preferential treatment toward Thunder Academy.
A few months later, powerhouses from the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan arrived in force, openly stationing themselves within Thunder Academy. None of them took on the role of instructors. They neither taught nor trained students.
Their purpose was clear.They were there to watch.
To keep an eye on the experts of the Fire, Wind, and Water clans—
to remind everyone who now held the upper hand.
And today, the final provocation arrived.
Within the walls of Elemental City, the banners representing the various elements of Elemental City—fire, wind, water—were taken down. In their place rose a single flag, crackling faintly with arcs of lightning.
The clan emblem of the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan.
All of this was done under the pretext of welcoming the arrival of the clan leader— Yu Yuanzhen.
To the elemental clans, this was no longer pressure, but a declaration.
Without Spirit Hall willing to stand against the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan, the elemental clans found themselves completely cornered.
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Conference Hall
Inside a spacious yet tense conference room, the leaders of the elemental clans had gathered.
It was a meeting to decide their future in Elemental City.
Seated behind the elders were the representatives of the younger generation—the most outstanding geniuses each clan possessed.
Feng Xiaotian, Huo Wu, Huo Wushuang, Shui Bing'er, Shui Yue'er.
They had rushed back immediately after finishing their matches, abandoning rest and recovery the moment they heard of the crisis unfolding in the city.
The atmosphere was heavy. The first to break the silence was a red-haired middle-aged man, his temper as fiery as his hair.
Huo Tian, the Principal of Blazing Academy,and also the Clan Leader of the Fire Clan.
He slammed his palm onto the table.
"Damn it! Do we really have to submit to the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan?"
Across from him, a green-haired middle-aged man let out a bitter laugh.
Feng Lao,the Principal of Godwind Academy,and the Clan Leader of the Wind Clan.
"What choice do we have?" he said tiredly. "I had already contacted Ning Fengzhi, asking the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile Clan to step in and support Elemental City."
His lips curled with undisguised sarcasm.
"His response was… lukewarm. He said something about the Three Great Clans sharing the same stance."
Feng Lao snorted coldly.
"As if we don't know the truth. That profit-grubbing fox swallowed half the Clear Sky Clan's businesses after they were forced into seclusion by Spirit Hall."
The words were sharp, but no one refuted them.
A graceful woman in a flowing blue dress spoke next, her voice calm yet weighed down by regret.
Shui Ning,the Principal of Skywater Academy, and the Vice Leader of the Water Clan.
"Aren't we paying for the decision we made years ago?" she said softly.