Although the Empire's technology was extraordinarily advanced, the Star Sea Network covered every star cluster and city.
In education, however, it still followed ancient traditions. The vast majority of students studied in schools, classrooms, and martial arts halls, communicating face-to-face with their teachers rather than taking the most cost-efficient online courses.
Wang Chen was currently a third-year student at Third Middle School in Changhai City. He had long since completed the elementary and intermediate curriculum, while both his body arts and combat techniques had reached the second tier.
All that remained of his daily coursework was preparation and review for the Advanced Martial Arts Test.
Timing it precisely, Wang Chen arrived at the school's martial arts hall.
The martial arts hall was already bustling. One or two thousand third-year students, all like Wang Chen and about to take the college entrance examination, had gathered together.
The martial arts teacher in charge of today's lesson had yet to arrive. The students sat in little clusters of three or five, whispering among themselves or chatting and laughing, exchanging views with great enthusiasm.
Naturally, the topic of discussion could not stray from next month's higher examinations.
The Empire attached the utmost importance to the annual higher examinations. The examination content was strictly confidential, and the test sites changed every year. Even the vast majority of nobles could not find a loophole to exploit.
Over the past several centuries, the heads that had fallen over higher examination scandals would have been enough to pile into a hundred-meter-tall mound of skulls!
Few dared challenge the majesty of the Imperial Inspectorate.
Thus, although the Empire's hierarchy was rigid, the higher examinations undoubtedly gave countless commoner children a chance to change their fate. They also allowed the Empire's middle and upper ranks to continuously absorb fresh blood,