Hi all, thanks for your answer. Regarding my novel, is a cultivation novel but it is different from the normal cultivation novels. My MC is raised since birth by a spider spirit beast in a forest, like a kind of mogli/tarzan situation. His mother is a divine beast, the ultimate form of spirit beast. So he is human but consider himself more like a spirit beast. Spirit beasts in my novel are not the usual violent creatures you see in other works. The more they are stronger, the more intelligent they are. Anyway, my MC start from a remote island region and now he has reached the Continent that it’s like our Pangea, meaning it’s the only continent in the world so it’s immense.
The reason for the academy arc in this point of the story it’s that my MC has no knowledge about the Continent society and needs a place where he can become strong. The academy, called also war academy, is a system created by human society in the continent and replaced the old system of sects. The war academies serve as a place where train the future heroes in the war against the demon race. They teach classes as war theory, hand-to-hand combat, weapon combat, and elemental laws combat. Secondary activity also are very supported: alchemy, formations’ study, blacksmithing, medics, musicians, chefs. The academy arc would also serve as a place where the MC gathers companions.
Regarding the opness of the MC, he is strong but I worked hard to create a power system that didn’t let the MC to become so OP. For example, cultivation manuals affect only speed cultivation, that’s all. In the islands MC had an advantage for his particular cultivation method, but in the Continent there are others with similar speed cultivation. The Laws or Dao in my work are only 18 and focus more elements like fire, water etc etc, so they don’t include abstract laws, although there other things like Concepts that could be considered as abstract Daos in other cultivation novels. To improve your law comprehension, you need constant practice for each technique you want to improve. So you won’t find a cultivation manual that increase your cultivation and laws at the same time. Martial artist in my novel can only have 1 elemental law: two if they have a bloodline. The bloodlines increase only speed Law comprehension and the power of elemental laws, they don’t affect speed cultivation. I also implemented other different combat methods, like fusing with elemental essences instead of bloodline, using spirit beasts like a tamer and others. Ah, regarding bloodlines and elemental essences, there is a rejection rate and you can’t absorb any bloodline you want or you will die. So martial artists with bloodlines just have only one. My MC has a poison spider bloodline.
If someone is interested, the novel is called Son of the Spirit Beast. You can find it on scribblehub