Blue Silver Grass Guide.

Chapter 530: Hasty Assessment
The first day of October, the 2626th year of the Douluo calendar.

"Lingyun City", the main campus in the west of the city.

"I declare that the first 'Continent-wide Advanced Soul Master Academy Unified Assessment' has come to a successful conclusion!"

Ling Yi stood on the high platform and looked around the audience. Under the gaze of more than 3,000 pairs of eyes, he looked calm and composed, and his voice was full of appeal: "Now, please invite the top three in the team battle, the top three in the individual battle, the first place in the forging subject, the first place in the carving subject, and the first place in the music subject to come on stage to receive the prizes for this assessment!"

As Ling Yi finished his words, nine figures walked towards the platform, some fast and some slow, under the watchful eyes of the crowd.

Looking at those nine young men with fresh and energetic faces, ninety-nine percent of the people off the field had envy in their eyes.

Although there were only about 300 teachers and students participating in the final assessment, the other city guards from Lingyun City were also jealous of the upcoming rewards.

Climbing onto the platform, the nine people consciously stood in positions according to their respective strengths and rankings. Ling Yi's eyes met with each of them one by one, and he saw the uncontrollable excitement and nervousness on their faces.

Although none of these nine people are familiar faces, the fact that they were able to stand out from thousands of their peers is enough to prove their excellence.

Ling Yi smiled slightly, and his warm and gentle aura enveloped the nine people, easing their tension. He waved to Qing Qiu Xin who was not far away from him, and said, "Okay, first of all, the first place in the team battle will receive a prize of nine drops of "Millennium Ice Marrow"!"

Hearing this, the captain of the 'Wuhun Academy Team' subconsciously took a step forward.

Ling Yi took a white jade bottle the size of a child's fist from the tray in Qingqiu Xin's hand and handed it to the young man in front of him named Yumin.

Yumin, martial soul "Blood Demon Bear", 22 years old, 48th level strong attack system fighting soul sect.

Yumin still couldn't help shaking his hands when he got this treasure which was judged as Grade A, first class, by the Record of Rare and Exotic Treasures, nine drops in total. Even though his grandfather was a Titled Douluo-level elder of the Spirit Hall.

Without giving Yumin too much time to get excited, Ling Yi encouraged him with a few words, then picked up another white jade bottle and handed it to Ji Cunxi, the captain of the second place team in the team battle, the 'Tianshui College Team'.

Prize: "Millennium Ice Marrow", six drops.

The third place is the 'Xingluo Royal Academy Team', and the prize is also "Millennium Ice Marrow", but only three drops.

The prize for the top three in the individual competition is "Millennium Whale Rubber", and the first place in forging, carving, and music can choose between a "Blue Silver Grass" spirit ring of any attribute below the five thousand year level and a spiritual weapon of their choice.

Soul rings are easy to understand. After reaching the soul power standard, the three students can obtain a "Blue Silver Grass" that is less than 5,000 years old as an advanced soul ring with any attribute of their choice.

Spiritual weapons are spiritually forged divine weapons. Whether they are conventional swords, guns, axes and other weapons, or forging hammers, carving knives, and orchestral instruments, they can all be specially made.

Therefore, the three captains of the top three in the team battle and the top three in the individual battle each received a white jade bottle and a sandalwood box. The first place winners in forging, carving, and music came back empty-handed, but left the pattern of their chosen spiritual weapon on Qingqiu Xin's tray.

Well, all three of them chose spiritual weapons and gave up the "Blue Silver Grass" spirit ring.

As the award ceremony ended, Ling Yi swept his eyes across the eager faces of the students below and announced again: "Others don't have to be disappointed. Although you don't have these material rewards, as an incentive for passing the preliminary assessment and successfully standing on this final stage, each of you can choose a yellow-level secret technique in [Lingyun City]. Each of the top three in the team battle, the top ten in the individual battle, the top three in forging, the top three in carving, and the top three in music can choose one more mysterious-level secret technique!"

As soon as these words were spoken, the whole audience fell silent at first, but then there was thunderous cheering.

Today, the secret method of [Lingyun City] has become a well-known ladder for the strong in Douluo Continent. It is known as the second path besides martial spirit.

The most important thing is that this path does not conflict with the path of a martial arts soul master, but rather complements each other!
The secret techniques of [Lingyun City] are divided into four levels and twelve grades: Heaven, Earth, Profound Yellow. The "Farmer's Three Styles" and "Basic Body Tempering Techniques: Twelve Forms" that are now spread throughout the Douluo Continent, the former is not graded, and the latter's twelve forms are not graded when separated. After the twelve forms are combined into one, they are ranked as the lower grade of the yellow level!
The nine styles of "Beast Martial Soul·Xingyi Boxing·Ⅰ" are all yellow-grade, which can be used to strengthen the body and as a combat skill, comparable to the white tenth-grade spirit ring spirit skills. The grades are subdivided according to the specific effects, such as the third style·Light as a Swallow, which is classified as the lower grade of yellow, and the eighth style·Dragon Lizard Shaking Armor is classified as the upper grade of yellow.

"Beast Martial Soul·Xingyi Boxing·Ⅱ" also has nine moves. As an advanced version of "Beast Martial Soul·Xingyi Boxing·Ⅰ", each move is equivalent to a yellow hundred-year soul ring soul skill, and all are ranked at the Xuan level.

As for the earth level and heaven level above, except for the high-level members within [Lingyun City], the outside world only knows that the corresponding secret methods exist, but does not know the specific information.

Because just the secret techniques of the Yellow and Black levels are enough for hundreds of thousands of combatants in the huge [Lingyun City] to practice.

Although the threshold for practicing these secret techniques is much lower than the innate soul power of a martial soul, the higher the grade of the secret technique, the more difficult it is to comprehend.

The inferior "Three Farmer's Forms" and the split "Basic Body Building Techniques: Twelve Forms" can be practiced by anyone, from an 80-year-old man to a four or five-year-old child, everyone can learn and practice them.

But starting from "Beast Martial Soul·Xingyi Boxing·Ⅰ", if you don't have a certain level of physical strength, talent and wisdom, you really can't learn it.

In addition, in addition to the early "Beast Martial Soul·Xingyi Boxing", the current [Lingyun City] secret method is also filled with "Weapon Martial Soul·Eighteen Weapons", "Sword Drawing Technique", "Thousand-pound Stick Technique", "Thirteen Spears to Break the Formation", "Mountain-Splitting Axe Technique"... From the lower grade of Huang level to the upper grade of Xuan level, everything is available.

"Nixing~" Ling Yi instructed the young man holding a spear beside the platform: "Your team and Mo Yuxiong's team will arrange people to take these students to the library in the city. After they have chosen the secret methods they want to learn, bring them back here and select corresponding personnel from the city guards to guide them..."

"Yes!" Nixing responded loudly, then waved the spear in his hand, signaling his teammates to go and notify Mo Yuxiong's team who were on duty on the other side.

Then, Nixing himself strode forward and came to the front of Yumin, the captain of the Wuhun Academy Team. He glanced at Ji Cunxi and others beside him and said in a sonorous voice: "Please call your teammates and other qualified people. I will take you out first!"

Obviously, Nixing was preparing to let his team take those talented top students who could learn Xuan-level secrets to go first, and the remaining two hundred students were handed over to Mo Yuxiong. Not to mention that Mo Yuxiong got the news later and secretly cursed Nixing for being a thief, Ling Yi himself took the teachers of various colleges to the City Lord's Mansion to discuss some issues that arose in the first 'All Continental Advanced Soul Master Colleges Unified Examination' and make corresponding arrangements for the second session.

To be honest, Ling Yi was not very satisfied with this first unified assessment.

Neither the quality of the personnel, nor the assessment items, nor the final prizes met his initial expectations.

First of all, in terms of personnel quality, because the true purpose of [Lingyun City] is uncertain, although major universities have sent outstanding students to participate in the assessment, except for a few, most colleges have retained the best talents.

You know, those most outstanding talents are basically accepted as disciples by the teachers of the academy, and they will most likely stay in the academy and become new teachers or even leaders of the academy.

The Soul Master Academy in Douluo Continent is actually more like a sect with loose management.

For those students with average qualifications, we adhere to the principle of casting a wide net and accept all who meet the admission requirements, and then provide unified teaching.

However, the academy basically does not pay too much attention to these students with average potential. The attention of each teacher, and even the dean of the academy, is focused on students with outstanding talents. They are accepted as disciples and direct descendants first, and vigorously cultivate their talents to increase their own voice in the academy.

Of course, academies such as the Tiandou Royal Academy, the Xingluo Royal Academy, and the Four Elements Academy also serve as platforms for communication among the descendants and second generations of various forces.

In addition, it also has the function of selecting outstanding talents, but instead of teachers recruiting disciples, it has become that young masters and young ladies make friends with brothers and sisters and recruit followers.

Under such circumstances, Lingyun City's implementation of the 'unified assessment of all advanced soul master academies on the continent', the proposal to select the most outstanding talents and award prizes to the winners, was intriguing in the eyes of all parties.

[Lingyun City] Do you want to pick peaches?
This thought appeared in the minds of the leaders of various forces.

Everyone can see that the development of [Lingyun City] is rapid and unstoppable. Unless [Wuhun Hall] and [Haotian Sect], as well as the two empires, join forces to suppress it, the rise of [Lingyun City] has become inevitable.

In terms of top combat power, there are the father and son 'Seven Kill Douluo' Chen Jianjun and 'Sword Douluo' Chen Xin, the unfathomable Erlang, and the Soul Douluo-level Dugu Bo and Gu Rong (who has not yet announced his achievement of Titled Douluo).

In terms of basic combat power, due to the development of body-building martial arts, [Lingyun City] has almost surpassed the [Spirit Hall]'s accumulated foundation for thousands of years in terms of combat power below the second-ring great soul masters.

To this day, the only thing that [Lingyun City] lacks is mid-level combat power.

Under such circumstances, various forces could not help but suspect that [Lingyun City] was preparing to snatch the outstanding students from various advanced martial arts academies in order to fill the combat power of its own mid-level soul masters.

It was also because of this suspicion that the quality of the students participating in the first 'Uniform Assessment of Advanced Soul Master Colleges across the Continent' was not bad, but it definitely did not reach the level it should have been, especially the students in the combat category.

Only the likes of [Wuhun Academy] and [Xingluo Royal Academy], which are not worried about [Lingyun City] poaching their talents, or the likes of [Tianshui Academy], where the team leader has complete trust in [Lingyun City], will push forward their own seed students and show them in front of the various forces in Douluo Continent in advance.

As for the assessment items and the winners' prizes, the former is because the acceptance of more detailed assessment items is not high on the current Douluo Continent. For example, there are basically not many people participating in classified items such as attack, defense, skills, speed, and assistance. Everyone still focuses more on team battles and individual battles, using combat effectiveness as the most intuitive criterion for judgment.

In order to transform Douluo Continent into the ideal state of flourishing flowers, Ling Yi estimated that he would have to spend at least several decades to guide the people's thoughts and ideas.

Finally, there are the prizes for the winners. Obviously, all the prizes this time are from [Lingyun City], or in other words, they are given out by Ling Yi personally.

For all the forces in Douluo Continent, even if their own internal personnel want to obtain those precious materials, they have to weigh the pros and cons and make various considerations. Now Ling Yi just wants to talk a few times and ask them to pay real money for the things. It would be fine if their own students win, but if they lose, then all the money will be wasted.

As the saying goes, there are people who do business that will get them killed, but no one will do business that will lose money.

It would be extremely difficult to get various forces to give out things as prizes before they can see the benefits that their side can get!
In this regard, even in the "Continental Advanced Soul Master Academy Competition" in the original timeline, the reason why [Soul Hall] offered three soul bones as champion prizes was actually because the strength of the "Golden Generation" was far ahead, and the championship position was already determined in advance.

Bibi Dong offered it as a prize for the champion of the competition, and also to silence the opposition from the elders and priests of the Spirit Hall. She never expected that a group of cheating protagonists would appear, making her plan fail.

Of course, as a qualified leader, Bibi Dong kept her word. She said that the spirit bones would be given as prizes for the champions, and she really gave them out. Even when Tang San distributed the spirit bones on the spot, she did not think of stopping him. Only after the three spirit bones were distributed did she send people to capture Xiao Wu.

……

Climbing the legendary Qingyun Mountain for the first time, Bibi Dong, Shui Qingyue, Lan Lan, Meng Shenji and others were full of curiosity and anticipation.

Ling Yi is the most legendary figure in Douluo Continent for thousands of years. Everyone has a pilgrimage-like desire to explore the place where such a being lives.

As it was still early, Ling Yi was in no hurry to take everyone to the meeting room and get straight to the point. He asked someone to notify the 'Lingyun Special Chefs' headed by Li Zhishu and Shao Xin to show their skills. At the request of Bibi Dong and others, Ling Yi took everyone on a tour of the City Lord's Mansion.

The first stop was the martial arts arena. Looking at the stone walls and jade disks surrounding the arena, as well as the lifelike pictures carved on them, everyone fell silent.

They did not stay in the martial arts arena for long. Under the gaze of Chen Xin and Gu Rong, even if Meng Shenji and others wanted to continue watching shamelessly, they could only take a few more glances at the end, and then followed Ling Yi to other places in the City Lord's Mansion, looking back every few steps and reluctantly.

However, Bibi Dong and Shui Qingyue did not care about it and focused more on Ling Yi himself.

(End of this chapter)