With the final round of matches at dusk coming to an end, the first stage of the Freshman Assessment officially concluded.
Zhu Ziyang's team won all nine matches. They were one of the few undefeated teams and entered the Knockout Tournament as the seeded team from Examination Arena Twelve!
"Sigh, so many classmates have left!" As they left the classroom, Tang Ya sighed, a trace of sorrow on her delicate face.
"Yeah, I never thought the academy would really show no mercy at all!" Jiang Nannan still looked shaken. Remembering Teacher Xia Yu's grim expression in the classroom just now, as well as the pained, sorrowful looks on the faces of the students he had called out one by one, the kind-hearted young girl could not help feeling sad.
After the ranking matches ended, all freshman classes held class meetings. Once the meetings were over, ten teams from Freshman Class 4—a total of thirty students—left Shrek Academy.
Across the entire first year, a full one hundred teams, three hundred students, had left!
"There's no need to dwell on it," Zhu Ziyang said. He saw things clearly. "It isn't entirely a bad thing for them either. After all, with their talent, even if they had stayed at the academy by sheer luck, they would have lived under immense pressure. Most people in the class would be stronger than you, and they would all cultivate faster than you. You would want to catch up, yet no matter what you did, you couldn't. What a hopeless situation that would be!"
"..." Jiang Nannan and Tang Ya shuddered involuntarily at Zhu Ziyang's words. It really was suffocating just to imagine it.
Tang Ya in particular had already begun to feel that pressure. After seeing Yu Beibei and Jiang Nannan break through to Rank 27