Registering for the Immortal Official Examination, Training a Movement Art

On the podium, the air seemed to freeze for an instant.

"You want to enter the Immortal Official Examination?"

Zhou Changkong's eyes widened, and his voice rose without his noticing, startling several birds outside the window into flight.

He looked at the calm-faced young man before him and, for a moment, did not know what to say.

The Immortal Official Examination was the Dao Academy's main event each year, the ultimate battle in which every student hoped to leap through the Dragon Gate like a carp.

It was scheduled a few days before the academy-wide Graduation Examination, so the two did not conflict, but...

That was a true Asura Battlefield!

"Chu Bai, do you know what you're saying?"

Zhou Changkong drew a deep breath, trying to calm himself, and urged him earnestly. "You've only been enrolled for a year! At most, you're a freshman who's barely shed his inexperience."

"And those who enter the Immortal Official Examination—which of them hasn't spent two or three years honing themselves at the Dao Academy?

"Many of them have reached the peak of Qi Refining Third Layer. In their command of Spell Arts, combat experience, and reserves of artifacts and talismans, they're far beyond you right now."

"Isn't this... a little too hasty? Too soon?"

Zhou Changkong's brows knitted as he continued weighing the risks. "Yes, you've reached Qi Refining Third Layer, and your talent is extraordinary. But there are only ten Immortal Clerk places in the entire academy! That's an army crossing a single-plank bridge.

"If you suffer a crushing defeat in the Immortal Official Examination, or even get hurt, it won't just shake your Dao Heart. It'll affect your performance in the Graduation Examination a few days later.

"If that costs you first place on promotion to the second year, you'll have