Saturday.
Noon, at a luxury hotel in the Imperial Capital.
Since it was the weekend, the students who wanted to grind kept grinding, while those who wanted to take it easy did just that.
As the principal of the nation's number-one university, Yue Taibai needed a break too.
Of course, this wasn't some dubious academic exchange meet. A few principals from the Top Ten Universities Nationwide had simply gathered for drinks.
At the table, Principal Yan of Jingzhou University spoke first. "How are you fellows getting ready for the National Campus Tournament in a few months?"
The National Campus Tournament was held once every four years.
This year happened to be the fourth.
During the tournament, every university in the country would send representatives to compete for their school's honor.
Naturally, the rewards were incredibly generous too.
In fact, the preliminary selection would begin in just a week.
But that only applied to ordinary universities.
Highly ranked universities first held their own Campus Tournaments, selected their strongest School Teams, then entered the later Confrontation Tournament and Elimination Tournament directly.
They didn't need to work their way up from the preliminary selection against ordinary universities.
"What's the rush? We've still got three months," Principal Yue said dismissively.
Since the National Campus Tournament had first been established, Imperial Capital University had claimed nearly half its championships.
So he didn't take it all that seriously.
That was the strength of the nation's number-one university.
The World Tournament that followed the national competition was the truly daunting one.
They not only had to compete against top students from other countries, but also outstanding Ninja under thirty-five who had qualified through their countries' National Tournaments.
After all, university students had trained for several fewer years than those Ninja who had already entered society.
Those who