Afterward, aside from Wang Shouzhe, the others, under the Artifact Spirit's urging, also passed the enlistment assessments one after another and were required to take their graduation examinations within a year.
As for Zongchang, he naturally took a make-up examination as well.
In that gladiatorial arena, he faced a Demon Puppet with strength around the fourth level of the Celestial Realm.
Zongchang himself only possessed D-grade Heavenly Prodigy aptitude. In terms of combat power, he could not compare to Great Heavenly Prodigies like Wang Shouzhe and Liu Ruolan, so the battle was exceptionally difficult.
Still, he was a Heavenly Prodigy after all, with considerable practical combat experience accumulated over the years. Relying on his Xun Wind Bloodline, his elusive cultivation technique, a fighting style of fleeing far away and concealing himself whenever a strike missed, and all manner of underhanded tactics, he took advantage of the Demon Puppet's insufficient brains without suffering the slightest loss.
Even so, it took him an entire day to barely pass the make-up examination.
The Artifact Spirit issued him a military token for an elite reservist. Afterward, the Artifact Spirit mechanically had him take the enlistment examination. The enlistment examination was far easier than the make-up examination; it felt like a loophole in the procedures.
Yet during the Divine Martial Dynasty's heyday, it truly would have been difficult to imagine that traveling from a recruitment point to a new recruit training camp could be delayed for a full sixty-four years!
For young Heavenly Prodigies or Great Heavenly Prodigies, sixty-four years was already enough time for their strength to undergo earth-shaking changes.
Afterward, at Fourth Uncle's request, Wang Zongchang temporarily declined to take the graduation examination right away. Using the excuse that he still needed further tempering, he asked the Artifact Spirit for a short leave