Students who had just returned to the academy were amazed by the changes that were done on it. Today wasn’t the real start of classes but instead tomorrow. So, for the whole day today, students were free to roam around the whole academy. The mountain peaks which are the private territories of the teachers were still forbidden entrance. Only the disciples were allowed to climb a specific mountain peak.
The Black Cloud Academy originally only had ten official peaks, four special peaks. Ten official peaks include the main peak where Wu Yao and Wu Zhou live. It is territory under the principal’s name. The other nine peaks were for the masters and teachers. There are two mountain peaks under two great elders. One of them is the Sword Tomb Peak under the Lord Sword Immortal and the other is Auxiliary Peak where menial servants live, the one that leads this peak is also an old master who guards the Cultivation Tower. Then the seven hall masters: the hall of alchemy, hall of armament creation, hall of medicine, the hall of assassination, the hall of swords, hall of talisman, hall of beast taming.
These seven halls are proficient in their own subjects and the basics of these topics were taught to the ordinary students of the Black Cloud Academy. If one wants to earn mastery through a certain subject, a student can seek the Hall Master of the subject and ask to be a disciple to learn more in depth information about the subject itself. This process was called mastery.
Only disciples under the hall masters and the peak masters can be considered the real part of the authority within the Black Cloud Academy. After all, ordinary students can choose to leave after spending three years in the academy and become an independent cultivator of their own. They can become teachers outside if they wanted, but after a student leaves the academy they will no longer be affiliated with the Black Cloud Academy and whatever they do would have nothing to do after they graduate.
Only those who had become the disciples of the Black Cloud Academy’s Hall Masters were considered real students of the academy and they bear the name of the Black Cloud Academy even if they leave the territory of the academy.
There were some changes in the academy when the authority within the academy was split into two factions. Now that the other faction is gone, the academy’s original heritage was restored with the whole territory renovated for better experience, the students had welcomed the changes with delightful hearts.
The ordinary students who enrolled in the academy for normal cultivation lessons and education didn’t think much about renovation. But in the eyes of the people from big clans, and noble families, the moment they had entered the academy what they had noticed wasn’t the scenery but the density of qi concentration in this academy. Today, Grandpa Yue and Grandma Su arrived at the academy. They sneaked into the academy without triggering the hidden formation around the whole Black Cloud Academy.
Little they know that the moment they had entered the academy their presence had been known to those who control the formation. The control of this formation was handed to the Wu Yao and everyone staying at the main peak can feel this change.
At the main peak, Yue Xuexia is still playing at the swing not far from her Shen Jueyang was boiling some water while Wu Yao was training the little Taotie holding a big roasted meat in his hand trying to command the little ferocious beast into playing dead. All of the sudden, they heard the smallest bell hanging at the wisteria tree near the entrance of the main peak. They all looked in a certain direction where the bell was ringing.
"Two people." Principal Wu Yao gave the meat to little taotie and stood up. "Is it an uninvited guest? Or an enemy?"
"Only the smallest bell rang. It meant they had entered the academy unregistered but didn’t have any malice on them," The Immortal Sun Emperor said.
He is the one who had recreated the invisible defensive layer of formation around the whole territory of the Black Cloud Academy. This formation is only among the ones he and Yue Xuexia had made, its existence was to filter the visitors, especially unregistered ones.
The Moon Goddess on the other hand felt something else. Blood connection. This kind of feeling is not something that one can easily sense but those who can control the element of blood can sense this much more clearly. Yue Xuexia immediately stood up from the swing and commanded the puppet maids to prepare tea and desserts.
"Prepare the best tea and pastries available in the house," said Yue Xuexia to the puppet maids who immediately made their moves upon getting their tasks.
Shen Jueyang realized something and no longer worried about the guest. If Yue Xuexia is welcoming them, that means she knows who is coming. He resumed his job of brewing the master’s medicine. Wu Yao instantly asked his disciple who was coming.
Principal Wu Yao asked, "You know who is coming, Xue’er?"
"Family member," The Moon Goddess answered.
After this conversation, two figures appeared before the Moon Goddess, the Immortal Sun Emperor, and Wu Yao. The man’s face was hidden behind a mask while the Elf lady had a veil covering half of her face.
The man is wearing a black ancient robes with a silver moon and dragons embroidered on his robes. His long silver hair was untied and flowing behind his back like a silver waterfall. Beside his, stood an ancient elf with long pointed ears, and golden hair with an aureate wooden crown with glowing life gems on it. Her emerald eyes were gentle as if the mother was watching over her child.
However, the moment Wu Yao saw the pure silver hair of the man with the mask, he immediately realized where they came from. The Ancient Moon Sect.
The man in mask looked at the three of them and his gaze fell on Yue Xuexia as expected, "As expected, you are staying here, Xue’er."
Under everyone’s gaze, the man and the elf woman remove the mask and the veil covering their faces, then they see the familiar faces that look a bit like Yue Xuexia’s real face. The Moon Goddess never wore her disguise in her master’s place. Except for keeping her hair and eyes black, her face, features remained the same. She now temporarily removed this shade and returned to the silver it originally was after her ascension as a god.
Yue Xuexia approached her grandparents and greeted them.
"Xuexia greets Grandpa and Grandma!"
As soon as she got closer, Grandma Su immediately hugged her with tears on her face. Even though she had regressed to her youth, and the whole family had become a god, she still acted a bit like a mortal. Affectionate and full of love towards her family.
"Xue’er, grandma thought she would never see you ever again! The last time I saw you, your hair is still black, the same with your eyes. My darling granddaughter, how have you been all these years?" The Ancient High Elf Queen, Su Hialun said.
The Moon Goddess smiled and hugged back his grandmother while patting her back gently in comfort.
He said, "Granny, don’t cry. I am alright. Nothing bad had happened. Didn’t you find me in the end? Also Great Grandpa Andromeda had separated from me. He said that he will find a place for Great Grandma to be planted again before finding us."
"It’s good that you’re alright. After being separated for too long, it’s great that we have found you," Grandma Hialun said.
Yue Xuexia gently wipes her grandmother’s tears and pats her hand. Then she looked at her grandfather. Even though this grandfather isn’t completely like how he is compared to his clone, there is no way he would mistake him as someone else. She also smiled at him and reached out a hand to hold his arm with the other around her grandmother.
"Before the introductions, let’s move places. Come with me to the living room," said Yue Xuexia to everyone as she escorted the guests herself.
The Immortal Sun Emperor and Wu Yao didn’t follow right away. Shen Jueyang just finished brewing the medicine for the master before passing it over to him.
He said, "Master, drink your medicine first before entertaining the guests. I will tell someone in the kitchen to prepare proper meals."
"This... If I remember correctly , the grandparents of Xue’er are... one is the ancient moon god and the other is... someone from the ancient high elf race?" Wu Yao said, looking a bit confused. "Moreover, the name ’Andromeda’ sounds familiar as well. Am I hearing things?"
The Immortal Sun Emperor gently placed the medicine on Wu Yao’s hand and said, "You are not. Xue’er had an elven bloodline from her Maternal Grandmother’s side. Andromeda is the Ancient Elf King that you remember. We met him before, he is still alive."
"Ancient Elf King Andromeda? He is alive for real?! Elves are a really long lived race!" Wu Yao exclaimed and finally drank his medicine.
Only when he had finished his medicine that he and the Immortal Sun Emperor followed into the house to entertain the guests from the Ancient Moon Clan.
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