The vacation ended, and Dihua Ability Institute, now under the control of the Masked Thirteen, welcomed its first batch of new students.
With the Masked Thirteen in power, everything had changed, from the mechanism for admitting new students to the way they were assessed.
The first step was to summon the Ten Seats and hold the new students' opening ceremony together.
A rather special test for the new students would take place shortly. Those who failed would have no right to set foot through the gates of Dihua Ability Institute.
The former internal recommendation system, which operated on a family basis, had been abolished. Any disciple who wished to attend Dihua Ability Institute had to be between fifteen and twenty-five years old and pass the institute's social preliminary selection.
Only disciples who met the requirements were qualified to enter Dihua and take this opening test.
More than 1,300 new students had arrived.
Among them were murderers from prisons, disciples who had gained power through gambling during the world's transformation, and young people who had secluded themselves within the world's unorthodox cults.
These groups had rarely appeared on the platform of Dihua Ability Institute before.
Some members of those unorthodox sects in particular might have been executed the moment they were discovered.
But things were different now. With the Masked Thirteen in power, as long as you were talented, you could come to Dihua Ability Institute and register!
The institute's assessment used an unfair combat system. The more than 1,300 new students were divided into several groups and sent into the world of a horror film, where they had to fight one of the Ten Seats. Any disciple who met the requirements could pass the test.
But what exactly those "requirements" were remained ambiguous. The new students had to figure that