The Post Sky Tipping Era
Chapter 415 - 292 Elimination

Chapter 415: Chapter 292 Elimination

Li Yi roughly counted, and there were twelve people just today who came to participate in the Golden Academy’s special recruitment assessment. This number is considered relatively large, knowing that today is not any special day, just a very ordinary one, and those who came to participate in the assessment did not arrange it in advance.

After all, those who can come here must have taken a preliminary test in advance and only came to participate in the assessment if their Cultivation Value met the standard. If they didn’t meet the standard, they would not come to embarrass themselves.

As Li Yi observed the others, they were also sizing him up.

However, he was quite ordinary and did not stand out among those participating in the special recruitment assessment this time. The most eye-catching were the man with purple eyes wearing sci-fi style armor and the man with a sun totem on his forehead. Next were the woman radiating brilliance and Jiang Mingtian who had walked in with Li Yi earlier.

The rest of the people were not ordinary by any means; they just seemed mediocre compared to these individuals.

Because everyone was observing each other, the originally spacious and empty hall seemed particularly quiet, and the atmosphere even became somewhat heavy. Thankfully, there was no hostility, as everyone here was here to pass the assessment and enter the Golden Academy, with no conflicting goals.

"Li Yi, that woman has been sneaking glances at you," all of a sudden, Lin Yue came over and whispered in Li Yi’s ear.

"I noticed it too," Li Yi replied, looking up.

He saw the woman draped in plain clothes, glowing with radiance, exchange a glance with him. However, the woman did not appear embarrassed but simply gave a slight smile as a greeting.

"Perhaps she’s been charmed by my handsome appearance. After all, there are some odd fellows here, but I’m relatively normal," Li Yi said.

Lin Yue laughed and said, "Do you think that’s likely? I feel that the aura of that woman seems familiar. Do you remember the Bone Mural at the training base? Look at the halo on her body; doesn’t it resemble the glow emitted by the Bone Mural?"

"There is some resemblance," Li Yi said. "But I practice the White Bone Temple Cultivation Skill. To me, beauty is like dry bones. Sister Lin, don’t worry, I’m not interested in her."

"If you keep talking nonsense, I won’t speak to you anymore," Lin Yue scolded with a glare. "I just have a hypothesis. When you brought back the Bone Mural from the wasteland area, you only brought back a fragment. Is it possible that there are other murals? It’s just that the other murals did not appear in Tianchang City, but due to the Sky Tipping event, they appeared somewhere else and were obtained by others?"

"The aura of that woman is so similar to the Bone Mural. I suspect she got the other murals and comprehended other Cultivation Skills, which is why she achieved what she has today. And you have the White Bone Temple Cultivation Skill, which to some extent could provoke some form of identical energy response, that’s why she keeps looking at you."

Li Yi was surprised and said, "Just because someone gave me a few looks, Sister Lin, you’ve analyzed so much?"

However, he didn’t feel any particular resonance with her.

"Find an opportunity to make contact and ask her, see if it confirms my guess," Lin Yue said.

Li Yi shook his head and said, "Even if it’s confirmed to be true, what can be done about it? Let’s just forget it. Besides, everyone who comes to participate in the assessment has some opportunity. It’s easy to offend people by asking around too much."

Lin Yue laughed and said, "I’m afraid if you don’t ask, she’ll come forward and ask you instead. If it turns out my speculation is correct, then she must possess a piece of unusual mural. Aren’t you planning to cross realms in the future? Maybe you can collaborate a bit. After all, exotic items and realm-crossing are inseparable. Without the energy of exotic items, it’s very difficult to open the gate to another realm."

"So that’s what Sister Lin is aiming for," Li Yi realized.

However, while the two of them were chatting, nine o’clock had arrived.

On time, to the minute.

Three powerful presences made themselves known to everyone’s senses.

The person in charge of the special recruitment assessment had arrived.

Three Soul Realm experts?

Li Yi immediately recognized the aura because he had encountered Soul Realm experts several times and was quite sensitive to it.

Suddenly, in the quiet hall, everyone looked in the direction from where the auras were coming.

Accompanied by a series of crisp footsteps echoing abruptly, a voice came leisurely: "Just in one morning, over ten evolvers have met the value threshold. It seems that with the completion of Cultivation System and the spread of various Cultivation Skills, so-called ’talents’ are becoming more and more numerous. No wonder the special recruitment of the Golden Academy changed from direct entry without testing to now requiring an assessment."

"The timing is rather unfortunate for you guys; I just received notice yesterday that aside from some normal testing, there is also a need for a slight assessment of the Special Recruits’ strength. Can’t let too weak candidates into Golden Academy, in case they get into a fight and die confusedly. They would be better off continuing to refine themselves in the city." Another voice rang out, this one sounded familiar.

It seemed to be the assessor that Professor Zhang had greeted yesterday, whose name seemed to be Shen Chong.

"Don’t waste time with your talk, let’s get on with the assessment quickly so as not to delay everyone. Efficiency matters in work. Dilly-dallying like you two, the day will be gone," the last one to speak was a woman, her tone icy cold.

Soon, the three people in charge of the assessment appeared in front of everyone.

"If we are to speak of efficiency, then let’s get straight to the point. All evolvers participating in the assessment who have a Cultivation Value over one thousand percent, please step forward." The assessor speaking was named Yu Hai, in his early thirties, looking like a carefree uncle.

"Don’t worry. Although there are only the three of us in charge of the assessment, the entire assessment will be live-streamed and recorded, with supervision from various parties behind the scenes, ensuring absolute fairness and impartiality. No matter what family or background you come from, as long as you pass the assessment, you can smoothly enter the Golden Academy. If you fail the assessment, I’m sorry, but you will have to go back."

Shen Chong spoke calmly, sweeping his gaze around, pausing ever so briefly on Li Yi.

He had already checked Li Yi’s information before coming and knew that this was the person Professor Zhang had mentioned to take special care of.

Very soon.

The twelve Evolvers walked forward in unison, each with a look of expectation in their eyes.

But the next moment, a slight smile appeared on Yu Hai’s lips: "Cultivators with a Cultivation Value of thirteen hundred percent and above, take one more step forward."

At these words, the expressions of several Evolvers changed instantly.

What?

Wasn’t the standard for special recruitment just reaching a Cultivation Value of one thousand percent? How did it suddenly increase to eleven hundred percent?

"Suddenly raising the value standard?" Li Yi’s expression changed as well, equally not expecting such a development.

However, his Cultivation Value was twelve hundred percent, so there was no problem.

He immediately took a step forward.

Not only did his Cultivation Value exceed eleven hundred percent, the man with purple eyes, the man with a sun totem on his forehead, and that woman, as well as Jiang Mingtian, all surpassed this value.

"Five people, huh? Not bad."

Yu Hai nodded: "If your Cultivation Values are indeed so high, then in the Cultivation Value test phase, you’ve almost passed already, but mere words are not enough, to ensure authenticity, we still need to conduct a round of testing. Over there is a Cultivation Cabin, which can be used for value testing."

After he finished speaking, he pointed to the side.

"By the way, let me tell you something, the testing method at Golden Academy is slightly different from your usual testing methods, but you will understand soon enough. Start the test now, starting with the people at the back."

Then, he immediately began to call people, not even bothering to ask the names of those who came for the test.

Soon enough, a man entered the Cultivation Cabin with a mix of trepidation and unease, starting the value test.

It was thought the test would take a long time, but moments later, the Cultivation Cabin opened.

"What? It’s over already?" The man who participated in the test was somewhat bewildered.

Shen Chong said, "It’s over, you’re not qualified, your Cultivation Value is only eight hundred and fifty percent, which does not reach the standard of one thousand."

"How could this be, I clearly tested several times before coming here, and it had reached one thousand percent." Upon hearing this, the man immediately showed an incredulous expression.

Shen Chong glanced over and also said to everyone: "The testing standards at Golden Academy are a bit different, we will release over a thousand portions of cosmic energy when you enter Meditation, and it must all be absorbed within the designated time. If time is up and there’s too much cosmic energy remaining, detected by the Cultivation Cabin, you will be judged unqualified. In reality, those who just barely reach a Cultivation Value of one thousand percent through normal methods should not even bother coming for the assessment; nearly everyone will be screened out on the first hurdle."

"Only those with a Cultivation Value of eleven hundred percent and above have a chance of passing. Don’t dream of entering Golden Academy by just scraping by the line."

"So that’s how it is..."

The man’s expression flickered, and he turned pale in an instant.

He indeed barely met the standard by being on the line. He did not expect that after one test, his true Cultivation Value was only eight hundred and fifty percent, which was far too short of one thousand.

Thinking of this, he left with immense disappointment and dejection, not looking back.

"Next, continue," Yu Hai pointed to another person.

As expected.

Just as Shen Chong said, those who barely met the requirements to participate in the assessment almost all failed the hurdle, the second Evolver’s Cultivation Value was tested and fell short with just over nine hundred percent.

The third and fourth were the same.

Their Cultivation Values would be considered genius outside, but here, they weren’t even enough to cross the threshold of Golden Academy, unless they took a different path, joined the Investigation Bureau to achieve great deeds, and vied for the special quota award to enter Golden Academy.

Although the difference in values seemed small, for them to be here, their potential must have been fully unleashed, already at the limit, making it almost impossible to improve further.

"It’s too cruel, nearly half were eliminated just in the test of values among over a dozen candidates."

Lin Yue watched from not too far away, witnessing one so-called genius after another being screened out, she couldn’t help but feel perturbed. She also began to worry about Li Yi, unsure if Li Yi’s twelve hundred percent Cultivation Value could withstand such an examination.

If it couldn’t withstand, that would be bad.

However, Li Yi wasn’t too worried at the moment because even if he didn’t pass this test, worst case he would try again next time since he still had potential to tap into, and once his Martial Arts Realm broke through to Refining Gang, his Cultivation Value could still be improved.