Time passed bit by bit, and before they knew it, more than a month had gone by since the Soul Master Competition began.
During this month, the six students of the Academy shed their beginner and were promoted to Heart of Fire -tier students, wearing the three-petal cherry emblem of Heart of Fire Academy.
Students in Heart of Fire Academy have unique grade titles: Budding (new students), Heart of Fire-tier, and Flourishing Bloom-tier, symbolizing the students' learning progress with different states of cherry blossoms.
Rongrong, Xiao Wu, and Zhuqing, the six students who had access to master-level ultimate skills, were all promoted to Heart of Fire-tier students.
The remaining students were still Budding students.
"Soto City, south of the city, Heart of Fire Academy… it really is a bit out of the way. If Teacher hadn't given us the cherry blossom token for guidance, it would have taken us a good while to find this place."
"But it's so beautiful here! I could smell the cherry blossoms from afar~ We're about to see Teacher! It's been over a month since we last saw each other, I miss Teacher so much! So excited!"
"Shh, Yue'er, calm down, or else the Dean will scold you again later."
"Emm~"
Outside Heart of Fire Academy, a group of women dressed in aqua-blue clothes and ice-white long skirts appeared on Cherry Blossom Road, looking at the surrounding scenery with surprise.
The villages around the Academy had now become the outer area of Heart of Fire Academy, with red maple trees and cherry groves transplanted there.
Of course, Xin did not treat these villagers unfairly. To create a quiet training ground where students could train freely, Xin spent a full twenty million gold coins to purchase the villagers' farmlands and forests at a high price, and invited Ning Fengzhi to build them an ancient-style new town as a resettlement area.
Yao Zi, Mu Yunzhu, and Mu Yunteng of Plant Academy had also arrived at Heart of Fire Academy to report a few days ago.
Sisters Shui Bing'er and Shui Yue'er had also successively 'withdrawn' from their original Academy in the form of glorious graduation, becoming the pride of Tianshui Academy.
At Tianshui Academy, they were already outstanding graduates and role models in the hearts of countless junior sisters, but what awaited them at Heart of Fire Academy was a new beginning.
Accompanying Shui Bing'er and Shui Yue'er were teammates like Snow Dance and Qiu Ruoshui, following behind their aunt Cold Moon Han and a woman in an ice-white long skirt.
Next to the woman in the white skirt, the usually playful Shui Yue'er became very reserved, not daring to say much.