(￣︶￣) People just don't like fitting in
Time passed quickly, and in the blink of an eye, it was afternoon.
The Immortal Selection Bureau's martial arts examination venue was the training platform on the floating island of Lingyun Pavilion. This was one of the Divine Capital's designated venues, established by the Heavenly Court specifically for the martial arts portion of the Immortal Selection.
At that moment, a gigantic phantom of an ancient bronze mirror hung above the platform. Light rippled across its surface, projecting every scene within the grand formation below onto the bronze mirrors on the desks before the supervising officials. It even allowed examiners to monitor any individual examinee, making full use of every anti-cheating measure.
Of course, none of that mattered. What mattered was that the ancient runes engraved on the twelve towering jade pillars around the platform were trembling and humming, poised to activate.
Because today's martial arts examination—the first stage of the Immortal Selection's martial arts trial, the Break the Army Formation—was about to begin.
The rules for this examination were simple. It mainly tested teamwork: the hundred examinees would be divided into a group and work together to form a formation, then face the "Celestial Star Array" laid out by the Heavenly Court's standard-issue army of one hundred and eight Heavenly Soldier puppets.
If the examinees could hold out for a quarter of an hour without their formation collapsing, they would pass!
And if they somehow managed to break the formation, they would receive an "exceptional" rating and be exempted from the next two stages of the martial arts examination, advancing straight to the Palace Trial.
However, that was basically impossible!
In the millions of years since this first examination stage—the Break the Army Formation—had been established for the Immortal Selection, no one had