The next morning, Huo Yuhao reluctantly climbed out of bed. As he left Ma Xiaotao's residence, his steps inevitably felt weak and unsteady. Fortunately, it was nowhere near as intense as last time with Zhongli Yu, and at least it would not affect today's assessment.
The Academy's freshman assessment area was located in the north-central part of the Martial Soul Department, adjacent to the Soul Fighting Area. Compared with the Soul Fighting Area on the other side, the assessment area covered far more ground. For students of every grade in Shrek Academy's outer court, this was a paradise where outstanding students could show off their abilities, but also a nightmare for those with low cultivation. Every year, a large number of students were eliminated for failing the freshman assessment or annual assessment, and most of those assessments took place here.
The Academy's assessment area was oval-shaped, unlike the enclosed stadium of the Soul Fighting Area. The assessment grounds were an open expanse, surrounded by a low wall. Inside, partitions made of special stone divided it into individual sections. These partitions could be dismantled and rearranged through Soul Tool facilities to alter the size of the areas.
The annual freshman assessment was always when the assessment area was divided into the most sections. It was not merely because there were many freshmen; after all, freshmen with one or two rings had limited destructive power and attack range, so they did not need much space. It was enough for them to display their abilities.
The Academy's entire assessment area covered roughly twenty thousand square meters and was divided into fifty sections. Each section was around four hundred square meters, a square platform with sides twenty meters long. For freshmen who generally possessed only one or two rings of cultivation, this was already