The Ten-Academy Joint Examination was an internal examination among the ten great immortal academies. It had arisen to determine the ranking of every newly admitted disciple among all academy students.
Of course, it did not mean that all disciples from all ten academies had to gather in one place and compete—that would take far too much time. Under normal circumstances, during the December Ten-Academy Joint Examination, Academy A and Academy B would go to Academy C for written and martial examinations. Academy C's disciples would then go with Academy D to another academy. In April of the following year, Academy A would again go with any academy other than Academy B to compete elsewhere. The Immortal Alliance would then use the results of these two joint examinations to calculate each disciple's approximate ranking.
In the final unified entry trial, the Immortal Alliance would arrange newly admitted disciples of similar rank together for the martial examination.
With more participants, the martial examination naturally took longer. The joint examination lasted six days in total, five of which were occupied by the martial examination.
Furthermore, the written examination questions of each academy were set by lecturers from other academies, with the aim of checking whether any academy's lecturers had omissions in their teaching. Changing venues, meanwhile, was meant to offset the tiny influence of "home-field advantage" on the trial's results.
As Wang Qi recalled the various rules of the Ten-Academy Joint Examination, he fell into thought. "Going to another academy would take half a day even by spirit boat. After getting off the boat, we couldn't immediately throw ourselves into battle, so that would take another half day. Five days of martial examinations and one day of written examinations... New Year's Eve is a holiday too. Counting it out, there really aren't many