The Empire's Advanced Martial Arts Test assessed the candidates' combat power, endurance, intelligence, and willpower.
An utterly unfamiliar planet, an incomparably harsh environment, and mutated creatures lurking in the shadows—all of these posed an immense test of their overall abilities.
Every candidate had identical equipment and supplies, and together with the exceptionally rigorous proctoring procedures, this guaranteed the fairness of the examination to a great extent.
But absolute fairness had never existed.
If children from noble and aristocratic families possessed talent in martial arts, they would begin undergoing strict training from an early age and receive an abundance of resources.
Any Ecological Experiment Star was unfamiliar to Wang Chen, who was leaving Azure Star for the first time.
Yet candidates with resources might very well have undergone real combat training on some Ecological Experiment Star years ago, mastering all kinds of survival and hunting skills in advance.
How could ordinary students compare to them?
Therefore, more than half of the freshmen admitted to the Seven Great Imperial Academies each year came from noble and aristocratic families.
One had to know that nobles and aristocrats accounted for less than ten percent of the Empire's total population!
However, Wang Chen, who had crossed over into this world, was certainly an anomaly among this year's commoner candidates.
After walking for nearly two hours, he saw a sprawling mountain range rising ahead of him.
Although the distant mountains were also bare, their surfaces covered in weathered boulders and shattered rocks, they were far better than the completely exposed desert wasteland.
Wang Chen immediately quickened his pace.
This body was in quite good condition. Otherwise, he could not have earned the qualification to take the advanced examination.
But in order to reach his destination as quickly as possible, he still activated his psychic energy. His