Incarnate as Ten Suns!

So-called tribulation was actually just a broad term. Specifically, it referred to the hurdle encountered when each type of enhancement reached a certain stage. Naturally, this was no ordinary hurdle. To third-year students, it was an insurmountable chasm!

It was said that crossing this chasm meant stepping through a new door and entering a new world! Why "it was said"? Because even third-year students could not gain an accurate understanding of it.

Thus, tribulation was regarded as a sword hanging over the head of every third-year student!

However, third-year students had the right to choose whether or not to undergo tribulation. The prerequisite was obtaining a certain rank of "professional title" from the academy. Those unwilling to undergo tribulation could remain at the academy as academy staff. Since the great tribulation was far too dangerous, very few chose to undergo it. They would remain until after their third-year final exams, when the Headmaster would forcibly expel them from the academy, sending them off to some unknown destination...

Furthermore, it was not necessarily true that those who underwent tribulation were stronger than those who did not. Take Chong Ming and Lord Hou, for example. It would not be easy to determine who was superior.

At the academy, many things had no fixed pattern. The Headmaster granted every student ample freedom.

In truth, one could not undergo tribulation simply by wanting to. Chong Ming was an exception, because his purpose in undergoing tribulation was not pure. He merely wanted to use tribulation to "cross beyond the academy"! Thus, he used the Fate Fragment in conjunction with Kong Ming's Grand Prophecy to control the timing of the tribulation, pinpointing it to the exact moment he wanted. At the same time, the "fortune" represented by Yin Kuang and the "vital energy" represented by Lu