Match Schedule
After listening to Lan Haitan's words, the representative from the Sky Mending Dao Academy frowned and raised a possibility.
"What should we do if the final first place Cutoff Score is not high enough to get into our Four Great Dao Academies?"
"Wouldn't that be even better? Then we'd have a legitimate reason not to admit a single one."
Lan Haitan's words stunned everyone present, but then they all understood.
The Four Great Dao Academies have extremely strict admission requirements, basically preferring to have fewer but better candidates each year. This has led many cultivators in society to criticize them for monopolizing the cultivation resources of the Immortal Sect while refusing to contribute to the public good, deeming them too selfish.
The Immortal Affairs Hall, one of the Immortal Sect Three Great Halls, is the highest authority in charge of the operation of all departments in the Thirty-Six Cave Heavens Seventy-Two Blessed Lands. It conducts a public opinion survey every ten years.
The public's criticism of the Four Great Dao Academies has been accumulating for over a century, and it's time to make some response. Therefore, this year, the Immortal Affairs Hall Master Daoist Academy to set this Spell Duel as the theme for enrollment.
The requirement is that as long as a student wins the Spell Duel and meets the admission Cutoff Score requirements, the Four Great Dao Academies must not refuse the student's admission.
Finally, to prevent College Entrance Exam migration, the Immortal Sect issued a notice that students must complete at least one semester at a local academy in the Cave Heaven Blessed Land before they can participate in the local entrance exam.
The Four Great Dao Academies, giving face to the Immortal Affairs Hall Master, all expressed their agreement.
However, the announcement was met with strong opposition from within the Dao Academy.
Why is it that in our time, it took two or three million people from the entire Immortal Sect to barely get a chance to study at Four Great Dao Academies? How come it's so easy this year?
The Four Great Dao Academies will only admit a maximum of 49 students each year.
There are fewer than two hundred people in total, truly one in ten thousand selected with immortal roots Dao Seed.
According to the requirements of the Immortal Affairs Hall Master, each Cave Heaven Blessed Land must have at least one person, and the number may need to be doubled.
It's not that the people in the Dao Academy feel it's unfair; it's mainly that they feel that lowering the standards will tarnish the reputation of their Dao Academy in the future.
You, the top student from some remote, impoverished place, actually got into Four Great Dao Academies? Do you even have the talent? If you want to get into the Dao Academy, you should be like them, winning your way through a million candidates with honor and dignity.
But the decision had already been made by the higher-ups, and even if the students had grievances, the representatives of the Four Great Dao Academies could only follow the orders of their superiors.
Lan Haitan's proposal, however, gave the representatives of the Four Great Dao Academies a legitimate reason to refuse.
Shang Qing of the Goumang Dao Academy didn't care at all about this.
With Qing Nü's Heaven Spirit Root, their Dao Academy had already filled its quota of one student in Vermilion Cloud City ahead of schedule.
"That's good. If we follow the usual practice, these 47 people might not be qualified to enter the Four Great Dao Academies and would eventually have to enter the Ten Great Academies. So, taking the exam together will allow the representatives of the academies to better judge the talent and level of these students."
The representative from the Sky Mending Dao Academy nodded and said something that made the representatives from the academy turn pale.
But they couldn't voice their opposition because they genuinely wanted to expand enrollment.
So, everyone's eyes turned to the True Person Scarlet Robe.
The one in charge is still this person.
"I think it's feasible, let's do it this way. The entrance exams for the Daoist Academy will be combined, which will also save resources for my Vermillion Cinnabar Academy."
The True Person Scarlet Robe master made the decision, and the representatives of the Daoist Academy had no objections, nodding in unison.
The document below immediately reset the pairing formula on the file, and then imported all the originally separate quotas of 47 people from the Dao Academy and 233 people from the Imperial Academy.
In a flash, a new match schedule was generated.
"Let's revise it again and then send it to all the universities. The Spell Duel is scheduled for three days from now. Since there are many participants in the first round, it will be conducted in multiple sessions..."
After reviewing it, the True Person Scarlet Robe added a few more points.
For example, students from the same school should be given priority to avoid each other, and those with higher skill levels should be given priority to face those with lower skill levels, so as to avoid having those with higher skill levels meet in the early rounds and ensure the excitement of the last few rounds.
After two more rounds of re-arranging, the representatives from the Dao Academy and the Imperial Academy were satisfied, so the matchmaking list was distributed to all high schools in Vermilion Cloud City.
Classroom 203.
He Jingshan skillfully turned on the projector, first displaying the entire huge matchmaking chart, then entered the keywords for Fifth High School, instantly filtering out the matchmaking information for each student in the classroom.
"You all take notes. The first round consists of 140 matches, 20 matches a day, and it will take 7 days in total. Check which day your match is scheduled for."
Chen Mobai looked up at his own and was lucky; it was the first day, and his opponent was from the Third High School.
Mo Simin actually knew him; he was a genius at the Qi Cultivation Seventh Layer with dual Spiritual Root, and she compared him to Song Zheng.
Chen Mobai said "Oh," and was very impressed with her analogy, which instantly made him understand the level of his opponent.
"Everyone is lucky and hasn't encountered any strong enemies. Only Chen Mobai is facing Qiao Xingwen, who is in the Late Qi Cultivation. It might be a tough battle."
Before He Jingshan arrived, he had looked at the match schedule and knew who each person's opponent would be.
Seeing that everyone in the classroom was looking at him, Chen Mobai had no choice but to stop playing on his phone.
Feeling the atmosphere was a bit stiff, Chen Mobai felt he needed to say something.
"Everyone must work hard. As the top student in our high school this time, I will take the lead and strive to defeat our opponents and promote the prestige of the Fifth High School in Vermilion Cloud City."
After hearing his words, Mo Simin turned her head away, pretending not to know him.
Song Zheng was also a little shocked, not expecting Chen Mobai to say such an embarrassing thing.
"Ahem, Chen Mobai, I'm glad you have this ambition, but I've also heard about your opponent. It's said that he might be about to break through to the Qi Cultivation Level 8. When Spell Duel on the arena, you should prioritize your own safety. Surrendering is not shameful."
He Jingshan felt it was necessary to cool down these students. Although the entrance exam was important, there was no need to risk their lives. They had a long road ahead.
Even within the Hundred and Twenty Mansions, there have been examples of people who have reached the Nascent Soul stage.
Remember not to lose your temper and become irrational in the ring.
After the principal talked at length, he mentioned a trick.
"The Talisman used in Spell Duel can be changed, as long as they do not exceed the grade and quantity specified in the rules. If possible, you can change a set after each round of Spell Duel, so that your opponents will not be able to figure out your strength."
Upon hearing this rule, Chen Mobai felt that there were both gains and losses.
Mastering Talisman takes time, and using your most familiar Spell Duel will definitely be more effective than using an unfamiliar one.
But the principal's words also Possessing the Dao. If you encounter an evenly matched opponent and expose all your spells and Talisman, even if you defeat them, the next opponent will definitely have Talisman to counter them.
At this point, changing the Talisman is indeed a very good tactic, as it can disrupt the opponent's plans.
However, this makes the Spell Duel even more interesting.
Should we first set up a set of rarely used Talisman as a decoy to attract other people's attention in the early rounds?