Three days later, the person sent by the Magi Palace to pick Ji Hao and his teammates up, had arrived.
As soon as Yu Mu and Feng Xing, who were standing on a small hill beside the river, saw a few men wearing black cloaks, riding on the back of a gigantic eagle that was flying over, they began to curse simultaneously.
After a series of dirty words, they growled angrily, “These cowards from the outer palace again! Every time, every single time, the Magi Palace will send these ball-less bastards!”
Ji Hao’s face became dark as well. Yu Mu, Feng Xing, Taisi, and Shaosi had spent a whole day to explain the current situation of the Magi Palace in details to Ji Hao. After having joined the Magi Palace for half a year, Ji Hao had finally gained an overall understanding to the so-called Magi Palace.
The Magi Palace had first been founded back when this world was still being ruled by the first three generations of the King of the humankind. At first, the Magi Palace was only like a library, it collected all classic books and knowledge that were created by the humankind, and made sure that the wisdom of the humankind would last and be passed to the younger generations. Back when the first three generations of Kings of the humankind ruled the human world, the humankind was quite endangered. It could be wiped out by other kinds of creatures anytime. Therefore, the existence of the Magi Palace was a hope that might allow the humankind to rise.
Nowadays, human clans were not as endangered as back then. During all these years, every generation of the King of the humankind had invested quite a lot in the Magi Palace, which gradually turned the Magi Palace into a great, overstaffed organization that occupied too many materials and human resources.
Clans from the four wastelands and the Midland, which were powerful enough, had all been trying as hard as they could to get themselves involved in the Magi Palace. Therefore, currently in the Magi Palace, good and evil people were mixed up. In other words, the Magi Palace was now in a chaos. Each year, almost every powerful clan and big organization would select talented kids out of their ranks and send them to the Magi Palace. By doing so, they could not only use the Magi Palace’ resources to cultivate their children, but they could also build a shortcut for themselves. A shortcut that would allow them to step onto a higher administrative class of the humankind. Almost every kid, who had shown talents and had great achievements in the Magi Palace, could rise in Pu Ban city within a short time.
This was why small apprentice groups like the Southern Wasteland Society and the Great Dark Ocean Society had been fighting so hard against each other in the Magi Palace. Every year, quite a lot of apprentices would be found dead in the Magi Palace, and all of their deaths were related to conflicts between the small groups.
Currently, the Magi Palace could roughly be divided into the outer palace and the inner palace. The inner palace was led by elders like Wulong Yao and Kuafu Yan, who had always been concentrating on cultivating young apprentices that they found to be talented or to have some potential. They carefully selected elite young Magi, who could be put in important positions, for the Magi Palace. These master Magi tutors were more concerned about discovering the mysteries of this world and were all obsessed with the subjects that were their main research.
As far as powers were concerned, the elders of the inner palace, like Wulong Yao and Kuafu Yan, were all extremely powerful. Normally, elders of the inner palace were a lot more powerful that the elders of the outer palace. Therefore, the outer palace had been quite suppressed by the powers of the inner palace elders. This was something that had managed to maintain a relatively harmonious atmosphere in the Magi Palace, at least it seemed quite peaceful so far.
As for the outer palace, almost every powerful clan and organization had their people who were involved in the outer palace. Every single elder of the outer palace was being supported by one or even more clans and organizations, which had their own purposes.
According to Yu Mu, those outer palace elders were a bunch of vicious and greedy wild dogs. All they were capable of thinking whole day long was how to open their mouth as wide as possible to bite something off, whatever it may be. As long as they could reach it, they would certainly bite it off, even if it was a pile of shit.
“How could elder Wulong let these guys come?” said Ji Hao with a tight face, while looking at the gigantic eagle that had been flying closer and closer, “And they have wasted whole three days.”
The entirely-black eagle that had beaks and claws that were shining crystal-like, and the wingspan of over ten zhang, looked quite amazing. It hovered around Ji Hao and his teammates for a short while, then cried out proudly and landed slowly on the ground.
Mr Crow cawed scornfully. This gigantic eagle looked quite powerful, however, it was still nothing but an ordinary bird to Mr Crow. Mr Crow could crush this idiotic bird with only one claw.
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Edited by SecondRate
Translated by XianXiaWorld