Assessment Results Announced, The Weird Domain Opens

[Second Round: Bound Ghost Performance Score Rankings]

1st Place: Shen Lingman

Ancestral Home: Glory City, No. 6 Checkpoint World

Bound Ghost Performance Score: 581

Bound Ghost Serial Number: No. 12

2nd Place: Ning Shiyao

Ancestral Home: Huabang City, No. 7 Checkpoint World

Bound Ghost Performance Score: 327

Bound Ghost Serial Number: No. 22

3rd Place: Lü Xinming

Ancestral Home: Screen City

Bound Ghost Performance Score: 297

Bound Ghost Serial Number: No. 53

4th Place: Zhang Cuihua

Ancestral Home: Tong City

Bound Ghost Performance Score: 282

Bound Ghost Serial Number: No. 57

5th Place: Li Xiaoqiang

Ancestral Home: Bright City

Bound Ghost Performance Score: 244

Bound Ghost Serial Number: No. 68

...

Students in Battle Academy's plaza discussed the rankings among themselves.

"Where's Xin Yang?"

"Why isn't his name on the list?"

"Looks like he was just a flash in the pan."

"Stop talking..."

"Even if he got the lowest score in every remaining round, he'd still surpass most people."

Inside a student cafeteria at Glory University.

Every student eating in the cafeteria stared at the screen.

"Seniors, may I ask you a question?"

"Sure, go ahead."

"Seniors, what does this bound ghost performance score mean?"

"Heh, we thought it was something important."

"This bound ghost performance score refers to your bound ghost's combat performance during the newcomer assessment—the points earned when it kills ghosts."

"Senior, the assessment ring is that amazing? It can even detect that?"

"Yes. Not only that, it can also detect how frequently you use ghost skills."

"Can it detect which different ghost skills are used?"

"No. It can only detect the frequency of ghost skill usage. Different ghost skills are too complicated and varied, so it can't accurately determine which skill was used."

"But using ghost skills mobilizes the ghost energy within your body, which is why it can detect the frequency."

"Brother, stop chatting. The third-round scores are out."

"Senior, what is the third-round score?"

Without even a second's thought, that senior answered instinctively.

"Ghost skill score!"

[Ghost Skill Usage Score Rankings]

1st Place: Xin Yang

Ancestral Home: Wu City

Ghost Skill Usage Score: 999

2nd Place: Shen Lingman

Ancestral Home: Glory City, No. 6 Checkpoint World

Ghost Skill Usage Score: 331

3rd Place: Ning Shiyao

Ancestral Home: Huabang City, No. 7 Checkpoint World

Ghost Skill Usage Score: 319

4th Place: Wan Peng

Ancestral Home: Nether Soul City, No. 4 Checkpoint World

Ghost Skill Usage Score: 299

5th Place: Peng Yang

Ancestral Home: Riverside City

Ghost Skill Usage Score: 277

...

Glory University fell silent for a moment.

"???"

"Just how many times did this Xin Yang use ghost skills?"

"Is there something wrong with the ring's scoring system?"

"How could that be? Don't tell me his ghost energy is unlimited."

"This Xin Yang must have at least two ghost skills. Otherwise, it would be impossible for his ghost skill score to be this high."

Glory University, Defense Academy.

Inside Student Villa No. 1.

A bald man trained while watching the subtitles on the television. "Are this year's freshmen all this formidable?"

A closer look would reveal that the bald man was training with a ghostly item.

Glory University.

Auxiliary Academy.

Clearheart Garden.

"Xin Yang... interesting." The woman who spoke looked like a fairy. With a flick of her finger, the water in Clearheart Garden's pond transformed into a water dragon that stood tall.

Glory University, Primordial Academy.

Most of the people gathered here were students who had come to Glory University from checkpoint worlds.

"Who exactly is this Xin Yang? He's actually even stronger than Sister Shen."

"No idea!"

"Who cares? Sister Shen is definitely the strongest. It seems that after passing the newcomer assessment, Sister Shen directly broke through from Body Tempering Level Eight to Qi Refinement Level Five."

"Sister Shen has gone into seclusion again."

"Let's go cultivate too."

Glory University.

Battle Academy.

Combat Field.

"Senior, before I came to the university, my father once told me that primordial humans can't use ghost skills. Why are there so many primordial humans on this ghost skill ranking?"

"Who told you these people were primordial humans?"

"Their ancestral homes are listed as checkpoint worlds!"

"Does having a checkpoint world listed as your ancestral home make you a primordial human?"

"Then what are these people?"

"Those Cursed by Heaven!"

"Senior, what does 'Those Cursed by Heaven' mean?"

But that senior said nothing more.

"Stop talking. The realm rankings are about to be announced."

[Realm Score Rankings]

1st Place: Shen Lingman

Ancestral Home: Glory City, No. 6 Checkpoint World

Realm: Qi Refinement Level Five / Calamity Ghost Level Nine

Realm Score: 999

2nd Place: Ning Shiyao

Ancestral Home: Huabang City, No. 7 Checkpoint World

Realm: Qi Refinement Level One / Calamity Ghost Level Eight

3rd Place: Dong Shihong

Ancestral Home: Huabang City, No. 9 Checkpoint World

Realm: Body Tempering Level Ten / Calamity Ghost Level Eight

4th Place: Zhang Yunshi

Ancestral Home: Ou City

Realm: Calamity Ghost Level Eight

5th Place: Guo Wei

Ancestral Home: Dang City

Realm: Calamity Ghost Level Eight

...

"This Shen Lingman is so powerful. She arrived already at Qi Refinement Level Five."

"Qi Refinement?"

"Can any senior tell me what this Qi Refinement realm on the screen is?"

"Same question!"

"Don't be so curious. Once you freshmen start classes, you'll understand."

"That's right. You newcomers should just focus on the assessment results for now."

"You'll understand these things later. We all went through the same thing."

"The final round of scores is about to be announced."

[Ghost Kill Score Rankings]

1st Place: Xin Yang

Ancestral Home: Wu City

Ghost Skill Kill Score: Perfect

2nd Place: Shen Lingman

Ancestral Home: Glory City, No. 6 Checkpoint World

Ghost Kill Score: 874

3rd Place: Ning Shiyao

Ancestral Home: Huabang City, No. 7 Checkpoint World

Ghost Kill Score: 741

4th Place: Liang Yuchong

Ancestral Home: Myriad Source City, No. 6 Checkpoint World

Ghost Skill Kill Score: 613

5th Place: Jiang Chaojun

Ancestral Home: Bell City

Ghost Kill Score: 577

...

Glory University erupted.

At that moment, everyone was wondering the same thing!

"Who exactly is Xin Yang?"

Glory University had not seen a perfect score in hundreds of years.

Today, hundreds of millions of people at Glory University watched the newcomer assessment results.

They all came to know one person.

No, rather, one name.

Xin Yang!

After the assessment results were fully announced.

Across the vast Glory City, people rose into the sky as if by unspoken agreement.

They all "flew" in the same direction.

Yes.

They were literally flying.

That direction was the Battle Academy.

Battle Academy

Specter Technique Combat Division Director's Office

"The wolves, tigers, and leopards are coming!"

Ge Shimin, the dean of the Battle Academy, narrowed his eyes to slits, making his gaze impossible to read.

"Dean, what should we do?"

The people who had been fighting over Xin Yang just moments ago, upon hearing Ge Shimin say that the wolves, tigers, and leopards had arrived,

incredibly, lined up of their own accord.

Their expressions made them look like comrades united against a common enemy.

After taking two walnuts from his pocket and rolling them in his hand for a while, the old man slowly said,

"What else can we do? Shut the door and beat the dogs..."

"Today, we must hold on to Xin Yang. Even if the principal himself comes, we cannot let him go..."

"Open the Specter Domain!"

As he spoke, a dark purple Specter Domain spread from beneath the old man's feet, eventually enveloping the entire teaching building.