Mock College Entrance Examination

Three days later, Tailing No. 1 High School's advanced class.

Fang Chengyi said solemnly, "Today marks the start of the mock college entrance examination. The first tests will be academic subjects! I wish you all the best of luck! Do your best!"

The following days were all devoted to academic exams. Yang Lie completed them with ease. The massive amount of Ferocious Beast Life Source within him had granted him learning abilities far beyond ordinary people, and he had never neglected his studies. The academic exams posed no challenge to him at all.

Several days later, at the Martial Arts Practice Field of Tailing No. 1 High School.

"I am Zhou Cong, the examiner for this test! This is the Examination Robot Type 36, our Alliance's latest product. Only students who defeat an examination robot adjusted to the seventh level of the Essence Solidification Realm may advance to the next stage of the mock college entrance examination."

"Now, I will call roll. Students whose names are called may come to the center of the Martial Arts Practice Field and fight the examination robot, which possesses the combat strength of a seventh-level Essence Solidification Realm martial artist. Those called may choose to forfeit. If you do not forfeit and are severely injured or killed by the robot, it has nothing to do with us!"

A burly middle-aged man held a roll book and spoke calmly. Two other examiners stood beside him.

At the center of the Martial Arts Practice Field stood an examination robot two meters tall. It looked like an ordinary human whose gender could not be discerned. Only its emotionless eyes revealed that it was a robot.

"Fang Ji!"

"Here! I forfeit!"

"Next, He Xin."

"Here. I forfeit!"

"..."

Many students decisively chose to forfeit as soon as their names were called.

Even many graduates from ordinary universities only possessed seventh-level Essence Solidification Realm cultivation. Only by defeating that examination robot could one qualify to take the examinations for First-Rate Universities.

The Human Alliance's college entrance examination gave every high school student with official enrollment a chance to leap from carp to dragon. Even top-tier clans like the Four Great Families of Konghe Star could not easily interfere with the Alliance's college entrance examination.

However, the Human Alliance still placed the greatest importance on geniuses capable of entering First-Rate Universities and peerless geniuses capable of entering the Four Super First-Rate Universities. After all, the Human Alliance's continued existence depended primarily on those terrifying beings who stood at the peak of martial arts.

"Yang Lie!"

"Here!"

Yang Lie responded and walked straight to the center of the Martial Arts Practice Field.

"Begin!"

At Wu Cong's command, the examination robot pushed off the ground and pounced toward Yang Lie like an extraordinarily nimble ape.

The examination robot had been loaded with the Yellow Rank Martial Art: Ape Fist. This martial art was unremarkable, but it was steady and well-balanced, with no obvious weaknesses, making it ideal for testing martial arts.

Bang!

Yang Lie took a step forward and appeared before the examination robot as though teleporting. He struck its body with a palm, blasting it away in a single hit and sending it crashing heavily to the ground.

"As expected of Yang Lie! The second-youngest genius!"

"He's already in the Hundred Refinements Realm. Naturally, a mere seventh-level Essence Solidification Realm examination robot is no match for him! Still, he really is strong!"

"..."

The students below exchanged a few comments.

"Pass!"

Zhou Cong gave Yang Lie an extra glance and spoke flatly.

Student after student came to the center of the Martial Arts Practice Field to battle the examination robot. In the end, only twenty-seven students from all of Tailing No. 1 High School defeated it and earned the right to participate in the next stage of the mock college entrance examination.

As for the students who had failed or forfeited, they remained behind to continue studying.

Two days later, all the elite students of Tai Ling City who had passed the examination robot test gathered together and took a high-speed train to Striving City, the capital of Konghe Star.

After arriving in Striving City, everyone boarded luxury buses and traveled to a Great Forest located in the southern outskirts of the city.

Before that Great Forest was a massive plaza, where martial arts geniuses from the entire senior class of Konghe Star had gathered.

Konghe Star had more than sixteen million high school seniors, yet there were only a little over a thousand students in this enormous plaza. Everyone gathered here was a one-in-ten-thousand genius, each capable of defeating a seventh-level Essence Solidification Realm combat robot.

Around the massive plaza stood talent scouts, headhunters, and reporters from the major factions of Konghe Star.

"I am Lin Yu, the chief examiner for this test! I will now announce the rules. All students may form teams freely, but each team may have no more than five members."

"You will enter the Red Maple Great Forest to search for ten treasure pearls. After finding a treasure pearl, you may head to the central plaza of the Red Maple Great Forest. There are ten arenas in the central plaza. Embedding treasure pearls into designated positions on the arenas will earn you a large number of points."

"Killing ferocious beasts in the forest can also earn points. Defeating an opponent will earn you half of their points, and defending an arena for three days will likewise earn a large number of points. The arenas must follow one-on-one rules. Only single combat is allowed."

"Your points will be updated in real time on this large screen!"

"Each of you will receive a wristwatch. When you encounter an enemy you cannot contend with, you may press the button on the watch to call for rescue."

"You may now form teams freely! You have only ten minutes to do so. Once your team is formed, come register!"

A tall, handsome middle-aged man with short hair, dressed in a uniform and exuding a cold, stern aura, looked down at the many students below and spoke indifferently.

The mock college entrance examination was close to real combat, so teams were permitted. Teaming up was likewise allowed during the preliminary stage of the actual college entrance martial arts examination. Only after rounds of selection would individual battles begin.

In the Human Alliance, a five-person squad was the most basic combat unit. That was because an elite five-person squad possessed the ability to fight opponents above its level.

Furthermore, those monster-level martial arts geniuses from the major top-tier planets could also easily defeat five-person squads.

For the Human Alliance's top prestigious schools, the martial arts geniuses they sought to recruit either possessed exceptional organizational ability and intelligence, or were monster-level martial arts geniuses capable of crushing an entire squad alone. Mediocre martial artists who were neither were not their recruitment targets.

Zhao Meixian smiled confidently. "Let's go, Yang Lie!"

Yang Lie nodded slightly. "All right!"

Yun Rou walked over from the side. She bit her silver teeth, looking somewhat uneasy as she said, "Wait! May I join your team?"

Ever since Yang Lie had saved Yun Rou, she would occasionally come talk to him and invite him to activities such as singing. However, Yang Lie devoted himself wholeheartedly to cultivation and turned down all of Yun Rou's invitations, so they remained merely ordinary friends.

Yang Lie said, "I have no problem with it, but you need to ask Zhao Meixian. After all, Zhao Meixian is my teammate, and we agreed to form a team beforehand. Anyone joining the team needs both of our approval."