The Second Trial

After Xu Xingyu finished her assessment, the others, having recovered from their shock, also began to choose their opponents and start their own tests.

Watching the others complete their respective assessments, Xu Xingyu began to scrutinize these other candidates. She could only say that the overall quality was quite good; these candidates would be outstanding anywhere.

Judging from the relatively small number of eliminations, the senior students who were chosen as opponents probably didn't go all out and were holding back to some extent. After all, this was to allow the candidates to perform at their best in the battle, not a life-or-death struggle.

Therefore, aside from a few candidates who chose the wrong opponent or underestimated their opponent's methods, most candidates who came passed this first stage of the exam.

After all the candidates had finished their respective exams, Xuan Zi had those who had failed sent back, and then began to announce the content of the next exam.

That is, they need to team up with one of the candidates present to hunt down Evil Soul Master, and during this time, an Inner Court senior will accompany them.

As mentioned before, the first assessment was only meant to test each candidate's individual combat ability, while the second assessment was meant to test their teamwork skills.

Overall, this exam was somewhat of a last-minute decision, as most of the time it would involve forming a team and showcasing teamwork skills in the academy's Beast Dueling Arena.

However, recently, students from the Outer Court also needed to use the Beast Dueling Arena for their entrance exams, resulting in all the Beast Dueling Arena being occupied.

As for why they didn't take the exam in the Star Dou Great Forest, it's mainly because the Star Dou Great Forest itself is too dangerous and unsuitable for the exam. In addition, with the recent establishment of the forest ranger system by the Spirit Contract Pagoda, even entering the Star Dou Great Forest has become a problem.

At this time, the academy received news that several Evil Soul Master had appeared in a certain village. After inquiring and finding out that the cultivation levels of these Evil Soul Master were generally within their acceptable range, they decided to assign the task of hunting down these Evil Soul Master to the examinees.

This will not only give students experience in facing Evil Soul Master, but also allow them to get their hands dirty for the first time, realize the cruelty of this world, and understand the responsibilities they should bear as members of Shrek.

This kind of exam is just right for students from Outer Court, since, to put it bluntly, students from Outer Court are more like canaries raised in an ivory tower.

Each college has great potential, but because the environment is too stable, they cannot maximize their abilities. Therefore, it is necessary to let these students witness the cruelty of this world firsthand, so that they can adapt to this dog-eat-dog world as soon as possible.

Xu Xingyu naturally teamed up with Jiang Nannan, not only because the two were familiar with each other, but also because their abilities complemented each other to some extent.

What Xu Xingyu found somewhat strange was that the Inner Court student assigned to their team to proctor the exam was Ma Xiaotao?

Although Ma Xiaotao is very capable, I just don't think she's the kind of person who's suitable to be an examiner.

Xu Xingyu even thought that during the exam, Ma Xiaotao might just burn all those Evil Soul Master to ashes because she didn't like them.

After all, her titles of "Flame Maniac" and "Two Great Volcanoes of the Inner Court" were not unfounded; her fiery temper was well-known.

So if that really happened, would their exam be considered a failure or a success?

However, Xu Xingyu quickly put these things out of her mind. There was no need to worry about things that hadn't happened yet. If all else failed, she would Ice Seal Ma Xiaotao's relationship before she caused any trouble, so she could focus on her exams. At most, she would have to apologize afterwards.

Just then, Xuan Zi began to describe the location of the Evil Soul Master's target. To Xu Xingyu's slight surprise, the location was a small village near the Mingdu Mountain Range.

It's worth noting that a few years ago, Xu Xingyu, together with the Star Luo Empire army, seized a rare metal mine from the Sun Moon Empire in the Mingdu Mountain Range.

The reason Xu Xingyu intervened in this conflict between nations was mainly because that rare metal mine was crucial to Xu Xingyu's future Battle Armor, so she had no choice but to secretly ally with a certain country.

As for why they didn't unite with the Sun Moon Empire, it can only be said that although the Spirit Contract Pagoda and the Sun Moon Empire have maintained a non-aggression relationship and their Soul Spirit business has been doing quite well over the years, the Sun Moon Empire has always sent people to try to steal the achievements of their Soul Tool Department, so this impression is truly not good.

Of course, their subtle attempts to force Spirit Contract Pagoda to become the exclusive power of their Japanese Empire are also quite irritating.

It was only after news spread that Gu Yuena had single-handedly beaten up Shrek Academy that their actions became somewhat more restrained.

However, from then on, the relationship between Spirit Contract Pagoda and the Sun Moon Empire was purely commercial, and they are unlikely to have any close relationship in the future.

After listening to Xuan Zi's explanation of all the precautions for this test, as a reward for passing the First Trial, the candidates present were allowed to spend the rest of the day cultivating on Sea God Island. They did not need to return to the Outer Court; they only needed to gather here, and someone would take them to the location of the second test.

After saying this, he dismissed the crowd, and everyone present seized the opportunity to calm their minds and meditate.

After all, the concentration of energy on Sea God Island far exceeds that of the outside world due to the presence of the Golden Ancient Tree, and the cultivation grounds that can rival Sea God Island are either extremely rare or extremely dangerous places.

In Xu Xingyu's understanding, only the Lake of Life in the Star Dou Great Forest and the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well, which was moved to the Soul Spirit Realm, could compete with it, and the birth of those two places still relied on God Level power.

The former is the excretion point used in the previous plane, which is also the location where the Silver Dragon King landed on the Douluo Continent, while the latter is the place where the Ice and Fire Dragon Kings perished.

For a Golden Ancient Tree to achieve such a feat, Xu Xingyu could only conclude that it truly deserved to be the chosen Child of Nature, personally selected by the Star Lord of the Douluo Plane. This uniquely endowed ability far surpassed that of a certain traitorous Soul Beast.

Theoretically, this Golden Ancient Tree should be the strongest contender for the core God Position of Life Core, but due to the interference of a certain deceased person, it can only serve as nourishment for that person's mother.

Just Xu Xingyu felt a sense of closeness from that distant Golden Ancient Tree, but it quickly dissipated. Xu Xingyu thought it was just his imagination, and then he began to meditate and cultivate like the others.

However, what Xu Xingyu didn't know was that, for some reason, he was able to attract more energy than others when he cultivated, as if the spiritual energy of the island was actively cooperating with his cultivation.