When Ning Cheng followed the many students to the Cang Qin Two Star Academy Square, the place was already packed with tens of thousands of people, and there was even a steady stream of students rushing over.
In the middle of the square was an immense golden ring, behind which were rows of chairs. Ning Cheng roughly counted that there were at least a hundred people sitting behind the ring. Ning Cheng thought to himself that this place was probably the same as on Earth, the people sitting behind the ring were all leaders. Perhaps even the king of the Cang Qin Kingdom was there, only that he could not quite remember what the king of the Cang Qin Kingdom looked like anymore.
Ning Cheng stood in the corner, he didn’t know any of the people in the ring, and he didn’t know the details of the selection, so he could only hide in the corner and listen to the chatter of the others.
“See, the senior in the middle of the first row wearing grey cultivation robes, and the two seniors beside him, are from the Meteorite Five Star Academy, I heard that they are both experts of the Yuan Building Realm.”
“I’ve heard that the students of the Five Star Academy are all very impressive, and now the teachers of the Five Star Academy are even willing to come here to wait for their students, so it’s clear that the higher the rank of the academy, the more eager they are for talented students.”
“What do you know? If it wasn’t for our senior Lian Hao Yan from Ping Zhou, how could the high ranking people from Meteorite Star Academy come here to wait for students? They might not even know if our Cang Qin Two Star Academy has one.”
“Stop talking, Dean Yan Yuan Kai is coming out to speak. I heard that Dean Yan is already at the peak of the ninth level of True Condensation, and is only one step away from advancing to the Yuan Building Realm.”
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Ning Cheng had been listening to the chatter of the others, he deliberately paid attention to the three teachers of the Meteorite Five Star Academy, the one sitting in the middle was a middle-aged man wearing a grey robe. The man was a little chubby and looked to be wearing some smiles. The man to his left had a very stern face and could not make out any expression.
On his right was a woman of some style, dressed in a lotus-coloured wispy gold patterned dress and wearing a flipper bun, yet she looked serene, but Ning Cheng could perceive the hostile aura on her body.
What made Ning Cheng feel a little odd was that he felt that this woman somewhat resembled Ji Luofei. Thinking about Ji Luofei, Ning Cheng was a little worried again in his heart, he had also come here to see if Ji Luofei would participate in the selection. Otherwise, in such a large academy, if he were to look for Ji Luofei, he really wouldn’t be able to find her.
When Dean Yan Yuankai stepped forward to speak, the large square that was packed with tens of thousands of people instantly fell silent. Ning Cheng had an impression of Yan Yuankai’s name, but had never seen it before. At this moment, he sort of saw this Cang Qin Two Star Academy’s dean for the first time. A brown robe, although he looked very spirited, his age was obviously not young and his hair was white.
“Fellow elites of the Cang Qin Two Star Academy, as you all know, I am here to announce good news today. That’s right, the Meteoric Star Five Star Academy of the Huaxing Continent has come to our academy to select ten students, and these selected students will enter the Meteoric Star Academy to continue cultivating more advanced techniques and spells. Every student who can enter the Meteorite Five Star Academy will have a bright future. I am grateful that the seniors from the Meteor Star Five Star Academy have come three days early, giving our academy students an expectation to look forward to ……”
Yan Yuan Kai’s words were drowned out by a burst of enthusiastic applause, and Ning Cheng raised his hand and clapped a few times along with the crowd, he was already clear in his mind what was going on. According to the meteoric star five-star academy came to enrollment, the Cang Qin two-star academy must have let the student teachers arrive a long time ago, how could they still drag their feet until now. It turned out that it was because people simply did not follow the usual rules and had arrived early.
The Cang Qin Academy did not dare to make the people from the Meteor Star Academy wait any longer, and in their haste, they held the selection meeting early.
Only after the applause stopped did Yan Yuan Kai say once again, “Now we invite Senior Wen Qiliu from Meteor Star Five Star Academy to say a few words for us about the main points to note in the selection round.”
The slightly chubby man in grey sitting in the middle stood up, walked to the middle of the huge ring and said with a smile, “Fellow students of Meteor Star Academy, you should be the most talented group of cultivators in the Cang Qin Kingdom, otherwise you wouldn’t be able to enter here. But at my Meteorite Five Star Academy in the Huazhou Continent, the requirements are even a hundred times higher than entering here. Now on behalf of the Meteor Star Five Star Academy, I am recruiting students and giving a few simple conditions, firstly the age must not be too old, not too old. Secondly, those without primary spiritual roots or those with cloudy primary spiritual roots will never be considered. Thirdly those that I don’t see eye to eye with will not be considered either.”
After the male cultivator called Wen Qiliu finished these few words with a smile, he said no more and stepped back to sit on top of his seat.
The students of Cang Qin Two Star Academy were murmuring, but no one dared to stand out and speak. In Cang Qin Two Star College, even if a teacher looked at a student unfavourably, he or she would not say so. And now, people were saying outright that they didn’t want those who didn’t see eye to eye. Even if your qualifications were unbelievable, a word from someone who didn’t see eye to eye would still prevent you from entering the Meteor Star Five Star Academy.
Yan Yuan Kai was the president of the Cang Qin Two Star Academy, yet he did not dare to refute Wen Qiliu’s words in the slightest. Seeing that Wen Qilu had already gone down, he hurriedly stood up again and said, “Now I’ll announce the rules of selection, the academy selects ten core students. Each student can accept three challenges, and the students who come up to the stage to challenge must meet the requirements of being under 20 years old, having primary spiritual roots, and being above the third level of Qi gathering, and whoever defeats them will continue to stand here.”
There was a murmur from many students on the stage when they heard this condition. Even if their spiritual roots were good, there were very few who had cultivated to the third level of Qi gathering or above who were under 20 years old, and this condition almost excluded 99.99 percent of the students.
Ning Cheng’s mind was nimble and he understood what was going on at first glance. The people from the Meteor Five Star Academy were obviously impatient to wait here more, for them to come to the Cang Qin Two Star Academy to select students because it was something they had to do, who was impatient to wait here for the competition to finish one by one? That ten days might not even be enough time.
As if Yan Yuan Kai did not hear the noise below, he continued to announce, “The ten core students are Qiu Yingguang, Gu Yiming, Jian Sujie, Zhuang Tianya, Yong Yingrui, Hou Chuan, Ye Shaoxi, Zhong Yi, Yong Rui Li, and Tan Xiangling.”
The ten people were reported out without any surprises to others. These ten people had been the most powerful in the Cang Qin Two Star Academy, and the only controversial one was Yong Rui Li who was at the third level of Qi gathering. But Yong Rui Li was the princess of the Cang Qin Kingdom, so I believed that no one would dare to get into the ring and compete with her for a place. If they won and were chosen, it would be fine, but if they lost, those who went up and fought with Yong Rui Li would no longer be able to survive in the Cang Qin Kingdom.
If there was a poor man’s son among the ten, it was Hou Chuan. Hou Chuan came from a poor background, and with his parents having died early, he is now alone at Cang Qin Academy. But Hou Chuan’s qualifications are amazing. At only eighteen years old, he is already at the fifth level of Qi gathering, and apart from Qiu Yingguang of the Qiu family, there is no one else like him.
Because of the unbelievable haste in which the selection was held, the ten people who were called to the ring at this time hurriedly got into the ring, and without much preparation, stood at the back of the ring, ready to be challenged.
Wen Qi of the Meteorite Five Star Academy nodded slightly, obviously satisfied with the speed of the Dean of Cang Qin Academy.
“The challenge will now begin.” Yan Yuan Kai of Cang Qin Academy had a clear understanding of Wen Qiliao’s mind, knowing that people didn’t want to stay in this sh*tty place any longer and the sooner they left, the better. So he didn’t dare to talk too much.
“Lu Pengyun wants to challenge Zhong Yi.” Yan Yuan Kai had just stepped out of the ring when a tall boy jumped onto the ring. Ning Cheng knew this person, it was Lu Pengyun, who had tried to pick on him before, and was also at the fourth Qi gathering level. The person he was challenging, Zhong Yi, was also at the fourth level of Qi gathering, but Zhong Yi was much younger than him.
Zhong Yi was not tall and looked to be only at the fourth level of Qi gathering, so for him to be selected as a core student, he should not be as simple as he appeared.
“Wait.” Just as Zhong Yi wanted to step forward to accept the challenge, Wen Qiliu of the Meteorite Five Star Academy jacked in once again and said.
After saying that, he waved his hand and a crystal pillar with a height of one ten feet appeared in one corner of the ring, “You go and test your spiritual roots first.”
Lu Pengyun obviously didn’t expect to have to test his spiritual roots, but he was no stranger to testing his spiritual roots, and by now he had already reached his hand to the bottom of the crystal pillar and carried some true qi over.
A thumb-thick yellow light rose along the crystal pillar and reached a distance of three feet before it came to a halt. Next to this thumb-thick yellow light, there were two more thin, cloudy yellow lights, but these were only less than two feet.
Lu Pengyun took his hand away, his expression still somewhat smug. He had a primary spiritual root, and it was not even turbid yellow, it was already considered pure yellow.
Just before he was happy, he felt a powerful force slap his body, and the next moment, he flew out of the ring like a kite with a broken string, while falling heavily on the hard ground under the ring.
“A mere three-foot yellow spirit root and you want to enter the Meteorite Academy? This is the first time, the next time anyone else dares to waste time with this kind of spirit root, it won’t be a matter of a slap on the wrist.” Wen Qi’s slightly ice-cold voice came out, no longer having that smile he had before.
Some people who wanted to go up, but hadn’t yet, were subdued by this severity, and for a while, surprisingly, no one dared to go up to the ring again.
Ning Cheng was also subdued, but he was different from these people because he had seen Wen Qiluo casually throw out a testing instrument that was more than ten feet high. He had only seen Wen Qiluo tap his waist, which was simply too amazing. Could this be the legendary Sumerian space? It could fit into something huge?
After a short silence, another boy jumped into the ring and said in a loud voice, “Jiang Tu challenges Yong Rui Li.”
All the people, including Ning Cheng, were attracted to this Jiang Tu, who not only dared to challenge on the stage after Wen Qiliu’s stern words, but also challenged Yong Rui Li.
Yong Rui Li was the princess of the royal family, although she had the lowest cultivation level, but who dared to challenge the princess of the Cang Qin Kingdom? Even if she won, she wouldn’t necessarily be safe, but if she won, she could at least save herself, but if she lost, she would be completely ruined. Not only would his own life be at stake, but his whole family would be on the line.
“Don’t look, hurry up and come with me.” A warm and soft hand grabbed Ning Cheng’s hand, while a low voice came out.
“Luo Fei ……” Ning Cheng was wondering on what basis Jiang Tu was going to challenge Yong Rui Li, but to his surprise, Ji Luo Fei had already found him. It was just that Ji Luofei’s hand was slightly trembling, so it was obvious that something had happened.