After handing the spear to Ji Luofei, Ning Cheng followed the other four people from Divine Wind Academy onto the square platform in front of the main altar. Apart from him and Meng Jingxiu, there were three other people from Divine Wind Academy. Gu Hong, who was tall and fit, had a cultivation level of the eighth level of True Condensation. Chu Yongxin was the one with the highest cultivation level in Divine Wind Academy, at the ninth level of True Condensation. Min Rui looked the thinnest and his cultivation level was only at the seventh level of True Condensation. Not knowing why he was also placed among the five, Ning Cheng reckoned that the Divine Wind Academy was indeed out of outstanding talents.
What surprised Ning Cheng was that of the five people from Meteorite Academy, he actually knew three of them. Meng Yu Jing, the very woman Ning Cheng was looking for earlier, had reached the seventh level of cultivation of the Condensing Truth. At this moment, there was no veil on her face, revealing an extremely beautiful face. No wonder she could be called the Academy Flower of Meteor Star Academy, Ning Cheng estimated that even in the entire Moze City, there was nothing prettier than her.
Following closely behind Meng Yu Jing was a young girl, who was currently staring at Ning Cheng. Ning Cheng nodded to her, but the young girl frowned and turned her head away. Ning Cheng also did not expect that Meteorite Academy would send Yue Ying on stage for the first round of the competition. Yue Ying’s cultivation level was only at the sixth Qi gathering level right now, so if she were to participate, she could only participate in the first or second round of the competition.
However, when he thought of Yue Ying gathering Qi at the sixth level, Ning Cheng’s heart jumped, this speed was too fast, right? When he first met Yue Ying, Yue Ying had not yet started cultivating, and in the blink of an eye, she had already gathered Qi at the sixth level?
He knew that it was only through various coincidences that he had achieved a cultivation level of the third level of Qi Condensation. For Yue Ying to have such a powerful burst of power when she came to Meteorite Academy was truly terrifying. Moreover, as this young girl’s cultivation level grew higher and higher, she had already revealed a stunning appearance that was not inferior to Meng Yu Jing’s.
The third person that Ning Cheng knew from Meteor Star Academy turned out to be that Shui Yu who had jumped down from the restaurant in white. This Shui Yu was only at the seventh level of True Condensation cultivation, and it seemed that he had just advanced not long ago. He was from the Shui family, so how could he represent Meteorite Academy in the competition?
When Ning Cheng looked at Shui Yu, Shui Yu also swept a glance at Ning Cheng, and a murderous intent flashed in his eyes. Clearly he already knew who Ning Cheng was.
Most of the rest of the people, apart from that Leng Yi Yang whom Ning Cheng knew, were unknown to Ning Cheng, and he had no interest in getting to know them. He knew that those who could be chosen to compete on this square platform for the Five Star Academy bout must have something extraordinary to offer.
Ning Cheng casually found a seat and sat down, and immediately found that his divine thoughts were completely imprisoned. Sure enough, just like before, it was impossible to use one’s divine thoughts.
The imposing man sitting in the middle of the main altar stood up, while flying down onto the square platform where the twenty-five candidates were.
He swept a glance at the twenty-five candidates sitting on the square platform and said in a slow voice, “Those who can sit on the platform for the first round of the written test should all be among the elites of the Huazhou Continent. The time for the first round is only one incense stick ……”
Ning Cheng thought that the first round of the great competition between the five-star academies must be very long, or at least longer than the fifth preliminary round he had participated in. I didn’t expect that it would only be one incense burning time, which was a little too short.
An incense burner was thirty minutes here, how could one conduct a written test when one still had to read questions for half an hour?
Not only Ning Cheng, but also the rest of the candidates looked at the imposing man who was presiding over the first round of the competition in confusion, not understanding why the time was so short.
The man didn’t even care about the reactions of the twenty-five people on the stage, and directly took out an ancient leather scroll that couldn’t be seen as a material and said, “The content to be tested in the first round is on the leather scroll in my hand, I will personally open the leather scroll in a moment, you have close to one incense burner to read the questions, and then finish answering them before the incense burned out.”
It was that simple? Ning Cheng was somewhat in disbelief, the leather scroll in this man’s hand was only three feet long and one foot wide at most, even if it was unfolded. To ensure that they could read the words on it clearly, the handwriting must not be too small. How much content would this have?
It dawned on all of them, no wonder it only took one incense stick of time, so it seemed that this first round was a complete walk in the park.
The man had already opened the scroll, and a kind of vicissitudes of age came to the fore, and the twenty-five people on the stage immediately fixed their eyes on the scroll in the man’s hand.
The words on the scroll were not very large, but they were not small either. As the crowd were all cultivators, they could still see it clearly from this distance. Ning Cheng estimated that the words on the scroll were only a few thousand at most, so it was not challenging for him at all.
But the next moment Ning Cheng felt that something was wrong, the words on this scroll were unrelated and could not form any sentences or meanings at all. Every two words were worlds apart from each other, as if they were linked together like a cow’s head and a horse’s mouth.
Ning Cheng reacted quickly and almost at the same time, he reacted that this leather scroll did not seem simple. He no longer dared to have any other thoughts and directly placed all his mind on memorising the contents of the leather scroll.
Ning Cheng’s powerful memory ability was undoubtedly highlighted at this time, as his thoughts turned last in the first second, and in the next two seconds, he had completely memorised the contents of this leather scroll.
Just as Ning Cheng breathed out, he suddenly realised that the contents on the leather scroll were completely different from before. He subconsciously opened his eyes wide and this time saw clearly that it was indeed different from before, and not a single word was the same.
It was indeed not simple, Ning Cheng no longer dared to think wildly, his entire mind was once again put into it and began to memorise the second content.
A few seconds later, the contents of this one image disappeared in the same way, and was replaced by a third one with completely different contents. Again, the content was made up of some irrelevant words that had no connection whatsoever.
Ning Cheng already knew that it was not simple, and was completely unsurprised by the change in the contents of this leather scroll, as his entire mind invaded the contents of this leather scroll. At that point, he even forgot that he was still participating in the first round. He seemed to see a picture among the different contents, and he even saw a note in the picture.
“Alright, that’s the end of the question reading.” An abrupt voice interrupted the various images in Ning Cheng’s mind.
Ning Cheng subconsciously winced as he knew that the one incense stick had arrived. The one who spoke was none other than the imposing man, and the leather scroll in his hand had already been put away.
Ning Cheng’s heart was in shock, he still had those hundreds of different magnificent images in his mind. There were also the contents of those hundreds of leather scrolls, which looked different, but hid such mysteries within them.
a*sociated with the vicissitudes emanating from this leather scroll before, Ning Cheng was certain that the contents of this leather scroll was a very remarkable set of gong methods, or spells. He even had an intuition that once the images were completely blended together, it would be a great secret.
At this point, Ning Cheng finally understood why this man was holding this leather scroll for them to see. There was only one side of this leather scroll, and only by staring at it with their own eyes would they be able to know the mysteries of it.
This Intermediate Continent was really broad-minded, this kind of bullish thing was also brought out as an exam topic for the benefit of the candidates.
Ning Cheng suddenly felt that something was wrong when he thought of this, there were countless ways to test this kind of first round topic, so why did he have to bring out this kind of leather scroll?
Just at this moment Ning Cheng heard some of the candidates next to him discussing.
“Do you guys feel that the content of this leather scroll is changing?”
“No way, I just saw one side of the content ah, although it was difficult, in one incense stick time, I did remember a lot.”
“Yes there are changes, and there are three more changes, and I didn’t remember them all ……”
To Ning Cheng’s surprise, the majestic old man did not forbid the chatter below, and waited for a while for the chatter below before saying, “Alright, now start answering the questions.”
Ning Cheng picked up the pen and paper on the table and first wrote down his name and the Five Star Academy he represented, only then did he realise that there were already ten questions on the white paper.
The first question, are there any changes to the contents of the leather scroll? If there are variations, how many are there in total?
Ning Cheng frowned for a moment, various images were still rolling around in his mind right now, and he was certain that once they were fully comprehended by him, it would be a very impressive thing. He had already reacted and simply did not believe that the people of the Intermediate Continent were that noble to share such good things out. He had heard people on the sidelines talking about it earlier, some of whom could see several transformations, and some of whom could not see any at all.
Instead, he saw a whole six or seven hundred transformations, and they were still being derived as he understood them. Could these things be written on? Maybe the person who took out this leather scroll didn’t even know there were so many variations ……
Ning Cheng’s mind flashed with fire as he thought of this, and he suddenly understood.
He had always believed that it was absolutely impossible for a pie to fall in this world for no reason, and the person who took out the leather scroll must not have known that there were so many changes either. This person had taken out the leather scroll and then summoned all the cultivators with strong memories from the Hualu Continent to take the test, just to see if anyone could see more variations.
This man should have known that this leather scroll was extraordinary, but he was unable to crack it open himself. As long as someone could decipher the variations of this leather scroll, he might immediately have to be taken away and then come to study this leather scroll specifically. Otherwise, why would the Five Star Academy Grand Competition need to test such irrelevant topics?
Thinking of this, Ning Cheng did not hesitate to write down no changes. Even if he failed in the first round, there were still the next two rounds.
Then Ning Cheng saw that the second question was, regardless of whether there was a change or not, write the five hundred and sixty-seventh word of the content on the first side. This question was not difficult for Ning Cheng, and he immediately wrote the five hundred and sixty-seventh word of the page before the change.
But then the third question to the tenth question, Ning Cheng was dumbfounded, the third question was if there was a change, please write out the second number of words of the second change, the fourth question was to write out the third number of words of the third change. After that it was and so on, all the way to the tenth question.
Ning Cheng sighed and simply put down his pen, he could do all these questions. Even the content of the variations that he thought he could see, the person who wrote the questions did not know. But he didn’t dare to do one and didn’t want to do the second. This kind of heaven and earth divine object was memorised by him, and the thing he wanted to do most was to find a quiet place to close down and then quietly enlighten himself.
After thinking about it, Ning Cheng felt that the reason why he was able to perceive so many changes was still caused by the Xuanhuang Origin. Without the Xuanhuang Origin, he would at most just be an ordinary memory powerhouse.
The Xuanhuang Origin? Ning Cheng vaguely felt that he had once again grasped the same thing, why did the Xuanhuang Origin help to see multiple changes?
“One incense burning time is up ……” The man hosting the competition once again interrupted Ning Cheng’s contemplation, while with a wave of his hand, twenty-five answer sheets had fallen into his hands.
All of them knew it, this majestic man presiding over the competition was going to personally read and grade the papers.
Ning Cheng was eager to know the expression on this man’s face after reading the twenty-five answer sheets, but he knew that it was definitely not wise to stare at the other party at this time.
Sure enough, only half a column of incense pa*sed before this man collected the twenty-five test papers and at the same time struck several formation flags.
A moment later, the rankings of the first round were already displayed on the first formation projection screen.