"Metropolitan Graduate Fang Yun, reporting for the Metropolitan Graduate selection for the Three Valleys Battle." Fang Yun cupped his hands and felt a beam of white light envelop him. Then his Divine Sense left his body, just as it had when he ascended Book Mountain. His vision first went black, then he found himself in a Great Parade Ground.
The parade ground measured three li in both length and width, with stone terraces surrounding it. More than a hundred outstanding Metropolitan Graduates from various kingdoms stood nearby, along with four Grand Academicians and two Great Scholars.
Some Provincial Graduates were still standing in the terraced stands and had not left.
Fang Yun's gaze passed over the two Great Scholars, and he recognized them as elders of the Hall of Punishment and the War Hall respectively. One was Gao Mo, a Great Scholar of the Legalist School; the other was He Qionghai, a Great Scholar of the School of War. Both had snowy white hair, but their complexions were rosy and their eyes bright. Upon seeing Fang Yun, they merely nodded lightly, giving him no special treatment.
Fang Yun then looked at the people around him. Most were well-known Metropolitan Graduates of the Human Race, and some had still been in Ning'an City a few days earlier, leaving after the Double-Ninth Literary Gathering.
Aside from a few younger men in their early twenties, most were older Metropolitan Graduates over forty. There was even a venerable elder in his nineties.
Quite a few talented scholars had passed the Metropolitan Graduate examination alongside Fang Yun the previous year, including Yan Yukong and Li Fanming. Ultimately, however, they were too young and lacked combat experience, so they could not qualify for the Three Valleys Selection.
The Provincial Graduate selection had already concluded. Once the