Banyan City.
Early that morning, five staff members from the Kyoto Ministry of Education arrived uninvited and had been waiting in Ye Corporation's reception hall for quite some time. They had originally wanted to meet Ye Lei, the person in charge of Eight Soul Suppressors, but they had come at the wrong time. He happened to be out of the country, so they could only have Ye Junqing stay behind to speak with them.
The Ministry of Education's proposal was simple: add two assessments to this year's High School Entrance Examination and College Entrance Examination—the Martial Soul Test and the Soul Tool Test.
The purpose of adding these two assessments was equally simple. This was now a world centered around martial souls, and the conventional High School Entrance Examination and College Entrance Examination were no longer enough. Thus, the education authorities had jointly decided to add Martial Soul Tests and Soul Engineer Qualification Tests to both examinations.
Some students could choose these two paths when taking the High School Entrance Examination or College Entrance Examination. Of course, they could still take the conventional examinations, but students who came through the standard route would not receive much importance in society.
After all, the path of the scholar no longer worked. Once you got onto a battlefield, who would care about the lofty principles written in textbooks?
As for the most authoritative organization in the country regarding martial souls and Soul Engineers, it was undoubtedly Eight Soul Suppressors in Banyan City. Although it was an organization founded by civilians, it held absolute authority nationwide in cultivation and Soul Tool research.
"By what you mean, you want Eight Soul Suppressors to send someone to Kyoto to provide martial soul guidance and training?"
"We can provide the person, and we can waive the fee