Book 7: Chapter 7: Leaked Information on the Admission Competition

Book 7: Chapter 7: Leaked Information on the Admission Competition

“Ahem! Since you asked sincerely, I’ll generously share this with you. Jixia Academy’s admissions this time are a bit different from previous years, as it might open up additional slots for those newly emerging ability users, but of course, they must have exceptional talent. As you know, there has been a surge in new ability users because of the recent Spiritual Energy Resurgence events in the past two years. You’ve noticed, right?”

“Indeed, ever since that Spiritual Energy Resurgence thing, you can encounter one or two ability users just by stepping out of the door, although the quality of their abilities varies greatly,” Chen Heng replied. He hadn’t gone out in the last couple of days, but he did go out last night. While eating barbecue skewers with Yang Yan, he had observed passersby and noticed an increase in the number of ability users.

In the past, ability users were like a needle in a haystack, one among hundreds of thousands of people, extremely rare. However, since the Spiritual Energy Resurgence, the proportion had become more like one among tens of thousands.

However, for some reason, be it hasty production or other factors, most of these newly awakened ability users had a tremendous gap between the lower and upper limits of their abilities. Furthermore, the abilities of most newly awakened ability users were quite peculiar.

According to the records of the Special Affairs Bureau, the previous generations of ability users were known as golden ability users. Their abilities were stronger and more practical than those of silver ability users, who had awakened after the Spiritual Energy Resurgence. However, the sheer number of silver ability users overshadowed the golden ones.

Golden ability users also had a limitation on their potential, but later on, the silver ability users had this limit removed. In other words, their upper limits were now higher. To be honest, this irritated all the golden ability users, including Chen Heng. But the good news was that the golden ability users also enjoyed this benefit.

Still, it was irritating.

“However, since you have an invitation, Little Heng, you don’t need to apply yourself. You can go directly for the interview and then participate in the admission competition. Speaking of which, let me tell you about this admission competition. This time, the Jixia Academy’s admission competition is different from previous years, but Jixia Academy hasn’t disclosed the specifics yet.

“But, well, who is your third elder sister? I naturally have inside information.” Xuanyuan Yiyao patted her chest to emphasize how impressive she was. (In short, she wanted Chen Heng to praise her.)

“Third Elder Sister, you’re truly amazing. You know things that others don’t, even such confidential information. Beautiful, kind, generous, and gentle ladies like you are becoming rarer.”

Yes, truly rare, indeed. Chen Heng glanced at his Third Elder Sister’s still bouncing bosom as he nodded involuntarily in agreement.

“Erm...I feel like there’s something strange going on here. Never mind. On account of your accurate comments earlier, I’ll give you a little hint. The admission competition this time is...”

After listening to his third elder sister’s description, Chen Heng summarized the main points.

First, the competition would take place in a vast independent world.

This independent world was discovered by a former chancellor, also a former dean of Jixia Academy, Zhuge Ming, hundreds of years ago. It was originally an independent world created by a powerful immortal thousands of years ago. After this being fell in an accident, the independent world roamed the universe until that dean stumbled upon it during interstellar travel.DissCover updated novels at novelhall.com

This independent world had undergone multiple explorations by Jixia Academy teachers, and the major dangers had been eliminated. Only some relatively minor spirit beasts remained. Later, based on some clever suggestion, this independent world was repurposed to become the venue for every Jixia Academy admission competition.

The first half was the same as the previous admission cycles. Jixia Academy’s teachers would plant some precious materials, spiritual weapons, medicinal pills, or technique manuals in the independent world. Simultaneously, they would introduce some ferocious beasts to serve as experiential training for the participants.

Every student would receive a medallion unique to them before being allowed to explore the independent world freely. The students would get to keep everything they found, but there was a special stipulation: everything had to be stored in the school’s medallion.

“Can I—Cough! Cough!—not be shocked?” Xuanyuan Yiyao finally caught her breath after a while.

“Third Elder Sister, to be honest with you, my true identity is an alchemist.”

“Alchemist? You mean those unfortunate folks in the West who are always trying to turn lead into gold and creating stitched-up monsters with various monster body parts?”

Chen Heng’s world had alchemists, too, but they were different from the kind of alchemist he was.

In his world, alchemists generally focused on trying to transmute various things into gold, creating stitched-up monsters with various parts of magical beasts, and making all sorts of strange but impractical potions. They were somewhat similar to Western wizards. However, Western alchemy had risen only recently, leading to an incomplete system and varying skill levels.

Chen Heng’s alchemy was different. He could not only create various amplifying and restorative potions but also understand, break down, and reconstruct materials based on the principle of equivalent exchange. (Much like the one in Full Metal Alchemist.)

“No, it’s different. My kind of alchemy...”

“No, no matter how different your alchemy is, it can’t be your primary occupation. Our Xuanyuan Clan can’t afford that. At most, it can be a hobby,” Xuanyuan Yiyao replied firmly, rejecting Chen Heng’s thought of joining Jixia Academy as an alchemist.

In fact, Xuanyuan Yiyao’s opposition didn’t come as a surprise to Chen Heng. Due to cultural differences between the Eastern and Western hidden worlds, they often looked down on each other.

The Easterners believed that the Westerners relied on external objects and were worthless without those items and divine beings. Both the light and dark factions had significant weaknesses and were easily targeted.

The Western hidden world, on the other hand, believed that the Easterners were too rigid, never making use of the conveniences of objects and being overly fixated on cultivation, lacking “freedom.”

In any case, they had mutual disdain.

“Alright, alright.” To maintain the clan’s reputation, Chen Heng gave up the idea.

Suddenly, Xuanyuan Yiyao leaned in and mysteriously whispered into Chen Heng’s ear, “By the way, Little Heng, everything else does not matter, but there is one thing you must accomplish. You’d better get into Class A.”

“No.”

“Yup. As long as you agree... What did you say?”

“I said, ‘No!’” Chen Heng repeated and even made an X by crossing his hands in front of his chest. Are you kidding me? Do you really think I don’t know why you came this time?