Battle, Contest for the Martial Champion!

The wall on the southern side of the training ground.

As the cloth continued to unfurl.

One name after another emerged.

There were seven people in the first class, including Jiang Ning.

Eighteen in the second class.

Thirty-three in the third class.

The martial candidates stared without even blinking at the slowly unfurling yellow cloth.

When they failed to find their names among those fifty-eight, disappointment immediately became impossible to conceal.

Because they knew all too well that the martial examination was divided into three classes.

The treatment granted to each class was entirely different.

The first class consisted of the Martial Champion, the Second Place, and the Third Place.

They were also the three most celebrated figures of every martial examination.

The second class included several candidates, who would be granted the title of Martial Jinshi.

However, to place in the second class, one had to receive a first-grade evaluation or above in the martial examination.

Now that they had not received a first-grade evaluation, at best they could only be placed in the third class.

Though the third class also came with an official title, its treatment and status were correspondingly the lowest.

More often than not, they could only become fifth-rank sword-bearing guards of the imperial palace, fifth-rank squad leaders of the Imperial Guard, fifth-rank assistant generals, and the like.

They could only be granted the status of Equivalent to a Martial Jinshi.

Compared with the second class, their official rank and title would be at least half a rank to one full rank lower.

Those placed in the second class could generally serve as fourth-rank imperial guards or fifth-rank deputy generals.

A difference of one rank could, in some circumstances, be the difference between heaven and earth.

Yet at this moment, a great many martial candidates