Once the time came, the barricades were opened, and the candidates taking the regular National Higher Education Entrance Examination entered East Sea No. 1 High School's exam site one after another.
Before leaving, they cast reluctant glances at the students taking the martial arts exam, their expressions complicated.
The National Higher Education Entrance Examination was a turning point in life.
Yet at this moment, it felt like a fork in the road.
Some would head toward an ordinary life. Perhaps they would later become outstanding in their own fields, but if they did not become martial warriors, they would ultimately still be ordinary people.
Others were about to embark on an extraordinary path. Great strength and long lifespans would no longer be dreams.
Even though the Martial Arts Path was difficult, and many would fall along the way, dying even earlier than ordinary people, and though the summit was hard to scale, with most martial warriors still remaining at the foot of the mountain, there would always be those who pressed forward one after another...
After the candidates for the regular National Higher Education Entrance Examination entered, the plaza finally became less crowded.
However, buses from other schools arrived one after another, gathering at East Sea No. 1 High School.
Although there were not many martial arts exam candidates, several schools from the same district combined still amounted to seven or eight hundred people.
Especially since this year's standards for the martial arts exam had been lowered. As long as one was an Intermediate Martial Disciple, they could participate, so there were quite a few more candidates than in previous years.
The school leaders and the Class Teachers of every senior-year class had also arrived by then!
The Class Teachers were taking attendance for the candidates participating in the martial