Passed the Assessment

Inside the first-floor lobby of Limit Hall.

Beside the small bar, Yang Wu leaned back against the sofa with his eyes closed, resting.

The trip from Yi'an District to Limit Hall took only a little over two hours, but he had switched buses four or five times. The dull process of waiting for them had felt even more exhausting than training at the martial hall.

"Yang, you're here for the test too?"

A booming voice suddenly came from nearby. Yang Wu opened his eyes and looked over. The speaker was a burly, bearded man.

The man walked around and plopped down on the sofa opposite Yang Wu. The soft sofa could barely bear his weight, swallowing up the bearded man until he looked as though he had sunk right into it.

"Tong, do your best. After this assessment, your big brother won't be playing with you anymore."

Yang Wu propped up his head with one hand and leaned back against the sofa. This bearded man was Tong Guan, who had appeared in the original novel.

Like Yang Wu, this guy had taken the assessment several times without passing. Sure enough, he had come to take it once again this time.

Seeing Yang Wu's reaction, the bearded man across from him was somewhat surprised. It seemed Yang had improved considerably and was very confident about this assessment.

To pass the waiting time, the two began casually chatting.

As time passed, more and more people gathered in the hall.

By 9:50 in the morning, with the ten o'clock Quasi-Warrior assessment about to begin, nine Advanced Students had gathered in the lobby to take the test.

"Follow me."

Led by a man in loose training clothes, Yang Wu and the other candidates took the elevator to the sixth floor of Limit Hall.

Whoosh!

When the elevator doors opened, an enormous training hall came into view.

More than a dozen people were gathered in the training hall, chatting. One familiar face among them was Jiang Nian, the instructor of the Yi'an District Limit Branch.

He was also Yang Wu's instructor.

Once everyone had arrived, the long-haired middle-aged man at the head of the instructors immediately gave an order.

This man was Wu Tong, the hall master and chief instructor of Limit Hall in Yangzhou City.

The man in training clothes who had brought them upstairs collected their ID cards and handed them to Wu Tong.

"Nine people!"

"There are quite a few this time. I wonder how many will pass."

Wu Tong smiled as he casually took out an ID card and swiped it across an activated machine beside him.

The next moment, a great deal of personal information about that student appeared on the machine.

"I'm sure you already know the testing procedures, so I won't repeat them."

Wu Tong said calmly, "Now, the first test: punch strength!"

"First up, Tong Guan."

"Here!"

Tong Guan hurried two steps forward and stood before the punch-strength testing machine. After taking a deep breath, he threw a fierce punch. The target only trembled slightly.

A number immediately appeared on the punch-strength testing machine's screen—980 kg.

"Pass."

"Next, Yang Wu."

"Yes, Chief Instructor."

Yang Wu stepped forward and replied loudly before walking toward the punch-strength testing machine.

"Whew."

Standing before the target, Yang Wu first gauged the distance to it. Then he suddenly exerted force, his fist leaving behind a faint afterimage.

With a bang, it struck the target.

"1,142 kg."

"Oh?"

A flicker of surprise flashed through Wu Tong's eyes. He stroked his chin, then nodded. "Not bad, not bad. Yang Wu, you've improved greatly this time."

"Next..."

Everyone soon completed the punch-strength test. Two people were unfortunately eliminated, one with 895 kg and the other with 898 kg.

Both had fallen just short of the passing mark. After eliminating those two, only seven remained for the next speed test.

"Next is the speed test."

"One at a time. The testing order will be the reverse of the strength test."

It was soon Yang Wu's turn for the speed test.

Boom!

Yang Wu stomped hard on the ground. With the explosive force of his legs, he shot through the testing area at tremendous speed.

"26.3 m/s."

"Haha, Yang Wu, well done!"

"Looks like you've improved quite a bit lately!" Upon seeing Yang Wu's score, Jiang Nian, the instructor standing nearby, could no longer hold back his hearty laughter.

The entire Jiangnan Base City consisted of the main urban district and eight major satellite cities.

Yangzhou City alone had twelve districts, and each district had one instructor, making a total of twelve instructors.

Once there were enough people, competition between instructors was inevitable, even if it was not obvious.

Still, when the instructors bragged with a few brothers in private or showed off to the neighboring Thunder Martial Hall,

what they talked about most was not their own strength, but the number of warriors they had trained, the quality of the geniuses they had discovered, and their teaching ability.

A student's strength represented an instructor's teaching ability. There was certainly an element of luck involved, but who could say that luck was not a kind of strength?

Yang Wu had previously been stuck on the speed test. Now that he had passed it, becoming a warrior was already inevitable.

When Yang Wu walked out of here, who could say Jiang Nian deserved none of the credit? At the very least, Yang Wu had come from his Yi'an District.

Honor aside, there was something else far more important to Jiang Nian.

That was martial hall contribution!

The warriors of Limit Martial Hall all placed great importance on martial hall contribution points. Although the fastest way to earn contribution points was to hunt monsters,

Jiang Nian had rarely hunted monsters since becoming a martial hall instructor, so his contribution points had increased very slowly.

However, aside from hunting monsters, discovering talent and training warriors could also earn a certain amount of martial hall contribution points.

If his luck exploded and he trained some world-shocking genius, he would have nothing to worry about for the rest of his life. He could practically coast all the way through it.

Investments carried great risks.

But the returns from a successful investment were equally terrifying. That was why major powers were willing to pour resources into training people.

The following speed tests eliminated another three Advanced Students, leaving only four people for the final neural reaction speed test.

"Follow me."

Wu Tong led the instructors and the four remaining Advanced Students to the neural reaction testing room in the training hall.

The first person to take the neural reaction speed test was the bearded Tong Guan. Unfortunately, he did not pass the assessment.

"Next, Yang Wu!"

"Yes, Chief Instructor."

Yang Wu walked confidently into the red circle with a diameter of 3.6 meters. One minute later, he stepped back out of it.

"In sixty seconds, hit twenty-one times, without touching the red light. Excellent!"

After announcing the result, Chief Instructor Wu Tong finally showed a faint smile.

"Not bad, Yang Wu. Congratulations. From today onward, you're a Quasi-Warrior."

After passing the Quasi-Warrior assessment, an official certificate would normally be issued within seven days and recorded in the citizen identity database.