627, The Plan for Handling the Aftermath of the Assessment; A Visit to Xueye's Home

Three days later.

Holy Martial Star.

The entire planet had been prepared specifically for the students of the Sacred Martial Pavilion. It was divided into two continents. One was set aside for the teachers and students of the four academies within the Martial Arts Academy; the other was a mysterious place even within the Sacred Martial Pavilion, reserved exclusively for the Martial Combat Institute.

Lu Lin had arrived here aboard a spaceship two days earlier. He wasn't the only one; all the students who had taken part in the second assessment and survived had been transported here as well.

The Sacred Martial Pavilion had made such a mess of the assessment this time that, to be on the safe side, it decided to modify the original assessment plan.

Originally, the Sacred Martial Pavilion's three assessments worked as follows. The first stage was designed specifically for independent Martial Artists. It tested their basic combat abilities, talent, potential, and ability to adapt. The second stage tested every Martial Artist's ability to survive in unfamiliar environments and fight in the wild. Of course, during the assessment, the Pavilion could also study footage captured by the students' intelligent devices to gain a thorough understanding of their character and intelligence.

The first two stages were preliminary screenings. Although both involved combat, the students fought virtual programs and Monster Beasts on Monster Beast planets. Only in the third stage did the assessment identify the students truly worthy of cultivation.

Combat.

Combat between people, brutal elimination, a knockout tournament in which each battle decided the winner.

In a competition like that, none of the students could afford to hide their abilities.

If you held back and your opponent suddenly unleashed their full strength, your ranking could plummet.

That was the purpose of the Sacred Martial Pavilion's third