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Chapter 181: Contention in the Final Test
July 12, Immortal Alliance Year 24523, 8:00 a.m.
Today was the day the College Entrance Examination's Final Test officially began.
Outside the Azure Firmament Immortal Sect's blessed land, Examination Site Five.
Chen Beiwu looked around and found that noticeably fewer candidates were taking the Final Test than had taken the Retest.
Buzz!
The examination site's large screen lit up, and True Lord Jiang Chuan appeared on it to announce the examination rules.
"This year's Final Test will be Contention!"
"Next, you will enter the Strife Realm and randomly challenge the phantoms of all the Immortal Alliance cultivators it has recorded throughout history."
"Candidates who successfully defeat a cultivator phantom and clear one stage will receive a grade-B evaluation, qualifying them to join the Seventy-Nine Upper Sect."
"Those who clear two stages in succession will receive a grade-A evaluation, qualifying them to join an immortal sect."
"Those who clear three stages in succession will receive a top grade-A evaluation, qualifying them to join the Three Upper Immortal Sects and become illustrious Nascent Soul True Lords of the Immortal Alliance in the future."
At these words, more than a dozen Golden Core True Persons serving as proctors frowned slightly. Only a few Golden Core True Persons remained composed.
Although the rules of this College Entrance Examination's Final Test were unpleasant to hear, they had to admit that, among the Thirteen Immortal Sects, the Three Upper Immortal Sects truly stood in a league of their own.
Chen Beiwu narrowed his eyes, keenly detecting something amiss.
What was going on?
The way True Lord Jiang Chuan put it, joining the Three Upper Immortal Sects and becoming a Nascent Soul True Lord seemed as certain as a nail driven into a board.
*Could he have chosen the