June 8th, morning.
The sun of the dog days was somewhat scorching. Even with the Cloud Mountain Mist Shroud Array providing a slight shading effect, a trace of summer heat still inevitably hung in the air over Xinyue Mountain.
The trial grounds north of the main headquarters had been expanded fivefold several days ago. The ten great immortal academies' ten thousand examinees would undergo their final trial here—the final martial examination.
Chen Jingyun and Deng Jiaxuan stood atop the main headquarters building, looking down. To the two great Free and Unfettered Cultivators, the densely packed crowd below looked like countless tiny black dots. Yet with the eyesight of Free and Unfettered Cultivators, everything below was visible down to the finest detail.
Deng Jiaxuan smiled at Chen Jingyun. "These kids really caught a good time. When we entered the path, where was there such a fine system as a unified trial?"
Immortal academies and unified entrance trials had only emerged after the chaos of the Demon Emperor. Chen and Deng had entered the path right in the midst of that upheaval.
Although some pedantic, impoverished scholars among the teachers had stepped forward to criticize this and that about the unified trial, every person of insight understood that this trial was the system closest to "fairness" in the history of the Divine Land's immortal path.
As long as one worked hard, there would surely be rewards.
Even great clan families such as the Ai Family of Lie Peak and the Bo Family of Baling did not dare openly cross the line. They could only rely on their own strength to take the examination.
Chen Jingyun ignored Deng Jiaxuan. Sky Sword Palace was not an "ordinary sect"; it specialized in protecting the world and had nothing whatsoever to do with the "Immortal Alliance