Bai Yi frowned slightly. His ancestor had only told him that every round of assessment would affect his evaluation in the final round, the Heaven’s Peak Battle.
He had never mentioned that the assessments would also include an evaluation of that year's candidates.
Seeing Bai Yi's expression, Chen Yixing understood. The Qing River White Household that this genius Sword Cultivator came from was probably a lineage that had only recently advanced to golden core status.
"We'll all be Dao Students of the Four Academies eventually, so I'll just tell you outright."
Chen Yixing glanced at the two flying swords behind Bai Yi. Only after carefully confirming them did he put away the mechanical sphere above his head and speak.
"The assessment for the Four Academies and Ten Palaces began right from the start."
"It's just that ordinary Dao Students only have to worry about working hard to pass the assessment and enter the Ten Palaces."
"But candidates at the Dao Scion level have to consider how to enter the Four Academies, and how to obtain better admission privileges within them."
"To put it plainly, that Heaven’s Peak Battle is just about striving for admission privileges."
There was some conceit in Chen Yixing's words, but what he said was also utterly realistic.
Everyone in the Immortal Alliance possessed a spiritual root. Universal cultivation resulted in an enormous population of cultivators, as well as a severe resource problem.
From top to bottom, cultivation resources became increasingly scarce.
Although the Immortal Alliance continually provided grassroots households with all kinds of affordable cultivation supplies, along with mandatory benchmarks for various assessments.
Only an extremely small number of truly gifted geniuses could reach greater heights through exceptional talent. Far more still relied on their households' continual accumulation.
This was also why the Immortal Alliance released