Chapter 616

Chapter 616: Exam

After Yun Ye suppressed his aura, many people’s rationality returned.

However, just as Yun Ye expected, they focused their attention on his blue robe.

Everyone else wore simple casual clothes or school uniforms, which served not only stylistic purposes but also convenience for battle.

In this situation, the sudden appearance of an unusual outfit was quite striking, especially since this alternative looked impossible to ignore…

As for Yun Ye, he accepted it naturally.

Although the blue robe could change in size freely, it did not alter its style, and activating Spirit Law to cover it would be too obvious for the students at this school. This instead piqued their curiosity even more.

Let them focus on me; after a while, it will calm down.

The commotion eventually settled. After all, this was the exam venue, and their grades mattered more; they were hard-pressed to keep themselves together without worrying about others.

The enrollment exam at Zixue Academy lasts for three days, and candidates arrive in batches, with about three hundred thousand people coming each day for testing.

This number is enormous, but for Zixue Academy, which boasts top-tier land and faculty, it’s barely a concern.

As three hundred thousand people flooded into Zixue Academy, there was no feeling of crowding; they naturally dispersed into the exam halls, beginning various forms of tests.

First up was the written exam.

Like regular universities, Zixue Academy offered three subjects and six skills. The three subjects were Spirit Law, Physical Law, and Spiritual Law, with one thousand students admitted for each subject. Therefore, the written exam was also different, and candidates should choose their strongest subject.

Historically, the most applicants chose Physical Law. In this era, it was the most suitable subject for ordinary beings, allowing them to compete based on effort and talent, thus making the competition brutal.

In contrast, Spirit Law and Spiritual Law had fewer talented students despite Spirit Law currently being the top subject, earning the nickname "team brain." The number of gifted students was indeed much lower than in Physical Law and Spiritual Law.

As for Spiritual Law, it goes without saying; due to the depletion of spirit energy, almost no training could be done, leading to lower competition pressure. The number of candidates was on a completely different level from Physical Law.

This unique situation made Yun Ye realize that the issues he sensed were indeed not an illusion; the spirit energy of heaven and earth had genuinely run low.

According to the records of the celestial clans, after the fall of the Divine Monarch in New Heaven, it took merely two thousand years to attain the theory of Earth’s Wind, Water, and Fire, then another thousand years to make adjustments and select suitable genes, and only six thousand years later did he emerge.

In other words, his birth took nine thousand years.

For a person, nine thousand years is an exceptionally long time, enough to wear down an invincible Monarch.

However, placing this time frame within the context of the Red Heaven realm makes it seem somewhat insignificant. With such abundant spirit energy, could it truly have been squandered in less than ten thousand years?

This seems utterly unreasonable; based on calculations, the spirit energy in the Red Heaven realm should last for at least fifty thousand years, a time frame sufficient for technological advancements to reach the cave heaven era, where spirit energy would become nearly endless.

Yet, in just nine thousand years, how did spirit energy diminish to its current state?

This was the center of Tengzhou, theoretically a place rich in spirit energy, yet it had become thinner than even Baishi Town.

With such low spirit energy density, achieving perfection in the spiritual realm felt utterly out of reach!

"Please select your exam subject."

"Spirit Law."

"Please answer the questions."

Yun Ye and Linglong were in different exam halls, one taking Spirit Law and the other Spirit Law.

He was actually more interested in choosing Physical Law because he had already reached the peak in Spirit Law, while Physical Law was a path he had yet to fully explore.

However, the fierce competition in Physical Law determined the fate of many, so Yun Ye decided not to fight for that precious spot.

He yawned and finished all the questions in a second, then closed his eyes to rest.

Of course, since the answering was done through consciousness, closing his eyes while answering was quite normal, and those around him didn’t notice anything unusual.

The written exam time for three hundred thousand candidates was only half an hour and soon ended, with the scores calculated on the spot and distributed to all the candidates.

Instantly, cries of despair and cheers of joy intertwined.

“Haha! I passed! Haha, that was close; I almost lost my qualification by just one point!”

“E rating… How is that possible… How can it be so low?”

“Brother, what’s your score?”

“B, it’s okay.”

“This is just okay???”

“…Mm, the real challenge is yet to come; a B rating in the written exam isn’t much. If the following four dimensions take away points, the chance of entering Zixue Academy is still extremely slim.”

“Guys, come look at this genius! He actually got an A rating, a full 86 points!!!”

“A rating… now that’s truly incredible! This is the evaluation score, not the test score, and the subsequent points may increase by just one per dozens of questions!”

Amidst the noise, the score ranking list was compiled and announced to all candidates.

Many candidates pressed their ring bracelets or necklace-like Spiritual Attire to directly view the top-ranking candidate.

“Spirit Law written exam ranking!”

“First place, A rating, 100 points, Long Linglong.”

“Second place, A rating, 95 points, Zhang Xinwang.”

“Third place, A rating, 94 points, Fu Yuncheng.”

“One hundred points!”

“With such difficult questions, to achieve a perfect score of one hundred, this theoretical knowledge is truly on a whole new level!”

“Not just a level; it should be several levels higher!”

Candidates with higher scores understood just how astonishing that one hundred points was.

Once the score reached above eighty, increasing by even one point presented a challenge that ordinary beings would spend their entire lives trying and failing to achieve.

The gap in their talents was terrifyingly vast!

Moreover, Long Linglong wasn’t a one-dimensional student; she excelled not only in theory but also had incredibly high ratings across the four dimensions, which is why she was called the Princess of All Spirits.

Such nicknames are only given to those extremely famous and highly capable.

…

In the Ten Seats department of Zixue Academy.

“There are only a few geniuses who score one hundred points each year. The most at one time was only seven people. It’s no surprise that she is the princess of the Long family; her power has already reached the peak. I wonder how high her limit can go; a perfect score on the entrance exam is one thing, but within the school, that’s a different story.”

“Interested? She’s just a first-year student who still needs to cultivate for three years to reach professional level. She’s far from the level of you colleagues.”

“Haha, I’m not interested in her; I’m interested in that young man with her… He also scored one hundred.”

“Qing Liu Sheng, fourteen years old, Spirit Law, number of answered questions… one hundred thousand, are you kidding me????”

“Hey, hey, don’t exaggerate; is one hundred thousand the total number of questions? What kind of intellect can complete all of that in half an hour?”

“Just shut up, it’s the real deal! Another genius is here; I need to see this for myself!”

Smack.

The white-haired young man tossed his paper book aside and walked out the door.

“Really impatient, but his level is indeed astounding. After all, the answering time was not half an hour but one second, haha…”

The girl sitting in the Chief seat crossed her legs, a strand of purple hair wrapped around her fingers, her laughter captivating and profound.