Douluo Continent: Starting with a Heavenly Fire Judgment

Chapter 56 The Assessment Begins

Huo Yuhao said, "I'll go first. My spirit-type martial soul is the Spirit Eye. My first soul skill is Mental Interference, which can interfere with the opponent's actions and interrupt the release of their soul skills."

Ji Lin continued, "I am a power-attack type battle spirit master, capable of both ranged and melee combat, and I can also fly."

He didn't mention his second martial soul. Although he had decided to reveal his twin martial souls, there was no need to publicize it everywhere.

Xiao Xiao nodded and said, "My main martial soul is the Three Lives Soul-Suppressing Cauldron, which combines offense and defense and has a certain effect on controlling the battlefield. It mainly works by colliding with enemies and creating a shock effect. Once it collides with an enemy, it will stun them and also produce an attack effect. My second martial soul is a flute, the Nine Phoenixes Come to Court Flute, which mainly serves as a support and control tool. Currently, my second martial soul only has one hundred-year soul ring, which can slow down the opponent during battle."

Ji Lin and Huo Yuhao were both a little surprised. Huo Yuhao was surprised that Xiao Xiao actually had twin martial souls. He didn't expect that Xiao Xiao, who was usually like a nobody in class, was actually a genius.

Ji Lin was surprised that Xiao Xiao had actually attached a hundred-year spirit ring to her second spirit. He wanted to know which bastard had led Xiao Xiao to obtain the spirit ring for her second spirit. The biggest advantage of twin spirits is that the later the spirit ring is attached to the second spirit, the better, and the higher the age, the better.

Xiao Xiao's decision to add a hundred-year soul ring to her second martial soul is simply too wasteful. It's like trading potential for a short-term increase in strength, which is a losing proposition.

But this was Xiaoxiao's own choice, and Ji Lin wouldn't say anything more.

"Bang, bang, bang." Three knocks rang out, and the whole class fell silent instantly, so quiet you could hear a pin drop.

Zhou Yi stood at the classroom door, her right hand just lowered; it was the sound of her pounding on the door.

Walking slowly to the podium, Zhou Yi remained as cold as ever. "I've already registered the participating teams. The competition officially starts this afternoon. In the ten rounds, you won't run into each other, only students from other classes. My only advice to you is: whoever gets in your way of passing the assessment, beat them up. Alright, everyone disperse. Meet at the assessment area this afternoon."

Time flew by. Before the assessment began, the three of them found a secluded spot to practice. Xiao Xiao and Huo Yuhao teamed up to fight against Ji Lin.

Unexpectedly, Xiao Xiao, who is usually low-key, is actually a second-ring Soul Master. Among the three, only Huo Yuhao is a first-ring Soul Master.

Xiao Xiao's first soul skill, Ding Zhi Zhen, and second soul skill, Ding Zhi Dang, are both attack-type soul skills, but they also have control effects, including stun and knockback. However, the difference in soul power level between her and Ji Lin is too great, and she is completely unable to control Ji Lin. The first soul skill of her second martial soul, Jiu Feng Lai Yi Xiao, is Slow, which can slow down Ji Lin's speed, but Ji Lin only activated his first soul skill, Yu Huo, which negated Xiao Xiao's control.

Huo Yuhao's first soul skill, Mental Interference, was even less effective. Although Ji Lin was not a mental soul master, his mental power had already broken through to the Spirit Sea Realm, far surpassing Huo Yuhao's.

This exercise allowed Xiaoxiao and her companion to witness Ji Lin's strength—a comprehensive strength with virtually no weaknesses—which gave them even more confidence in winning the championship.

Shrek Academy's assessment area is located in the northern part of the Spirit System, adjacent to the Spirit Battle Zone. Compared to the Spirit Battle Zone, the assessment area is much larger.

For the students of Shrek Academy's outer court, this is a paradise for outstanding students to showcase their talents, but also a nightmare for those with lower cultivation levels. Every year, a large number of students are eliminated because they fail the assessments, most of which are conducted in this assessment area.

The assessment area is oval-shaped, unlike the Soul Fighting area which resembles an enclosed stadium; it is an open space. It is surrounded by a low wall, and the interior is divided into sections by partitions that can be disassembled at any time to change the size of the areas.

Every year, the freshman assessment is the time when the assessment area is divided into the most regions. This is not only because there are many freshmen, but also because the freshmen's destructive power and attack range are limited, so a large area is enough for them to display their abilities.

The entire assessment area covers approximately 20,000 square meters and has now been divided into fifty zones, each about 400 square meters in size, forming a square with a length of 20 meters. This is sufficient for the new students, who generally only have cultivation levels of the first or second ring.

After a tense morning of group assignments, the afternoon assessments officially began. Since today was the first day of assessments, to allow the new students time to adjust, each group only completed one round of assessments before leaving. The college dispatched fifty teachers to register students in fifty different areas. The teams competing in today's assessments had already been drawn into groups at noon. The aim is to ensure that teams from the same class do not meet in the next ten round-robin matches.

Apart from the first freshman class, which has only 23 groups, other classes generally have more than 30 groups. Unless a student performs particularly poorly during the freshman period, the teachers of the freshman classes generally do not easily eliminate students before the freshman assessment, and always give them a chance to be assessed.

Being assigned to Class 1 of the freshmen was bad luck for those students who had been expelled early; they just happened to run into such a freak as Zhou Yi. The key point is that this freak has powerful connections and can act with impunity in the outer academy.

In the end, a total of 311 groups of students, comprising 933 students, participated in the new student assessment. Of these 311 groups, only 150 groups were able to remain and officially become first-year students to continue their studies; the rest were eliminated.

Studying at Shrek Academy is undoubtedly fierce and brutal, but it is precisely because of this that the tense atmosphere motivates students to work harder and unleash their potential, thus creating Shrek Academy's enduring success.

There are a total of fifty regions for the new student assessment, meaning that each region is assigned to six or seven teams of students. Not only today, but tomorrow they will also continue to compete against other teams assigned to the same region, until they have all met. After that, they will be regrouped and each team will complete ten matches.

Ji Lin and the other two were assigned to District 33. After having lunch together, they arrived at the assessment area. The district divisions were easy to find, with clear signs for each area. Soon, the three of them found their assigned area.

Students from other classes participating in the competition had also arrived. Some looked nervous, while others were eager to compete. They were all eleven or twelve years old, and couldn't hide their feelings. Their hostility towards each other was very clear when they looked at each other. After all, only about half of them might survive. Although the assessment consisted of ten matches, each one was crucial to their future.

(End of this chapter)