The assessment changed every semester.
The final exam details had been sent to everyone's communicator.
The rules were simple: form a team and be the last one standing.
The Star Dou Battle Network had recently launched a wildly popular new mode called "PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds."
A large number of players were dropped onto a vast virtual map to fight one another. The safe zone kept shrinking until only one victorious team remained.
Everyone else was ranked by survival time and awarded ranking points.
This time, players were assigned at random rather than by age.
In each match, though, the gap between the highest and lowest cultivation levels would not exceed three major realms.
Soul Masters of still higher realms could enter, but their strength would be suppressed.
In other words, a Soul Grandmaster might encounter a Soul King, or a Soul Emperor suppressed to the Soul King realm.
The maps were enormous, however, and contained large numbers of virtual Soul Beasts ranging from thousand-year to ten-thousand-year beasts. Various Soul Tools were also scattered randomly across each map.
These Soul Tools were custom-made by the "system." Each had a special ability, and none imposed a cultivation requirement.
That meant even a Soul Elder could use a level-five Soul Tool to blast a Soul King to death.
This mechanic gave the weak a chance to defeat the strong, especially with an ambush, where the odds of success were extremely high.
As a result, the mode had grown far more popular than ordinary ranked matches. Star Dou Cabins saw another buying frenzy and sold out completely.
For this assessment, all the students would be assigned to vast battlefields, with a thousand people in each.
They had to form teams of two or three.
The academy's teachers would grade students on their performance during the