Douluo Continent, my martial soul is a mushroom.

Chapter 42 Admissions and Assessment

Everyone at Shrek Academy is very busy.

The students were busy cultivating and training their teamwork, honing their skills for winning the Soul Master Competition.

The teachers are busy building the new campus, learning how to be a qualified teacher, and dealing with various forces for the development of the college.

Chi Ping was even busier, as he was not only a student, but also the successor to the dean, and the person in charge of Shrek Academy's transformation and development.

He needed to maintain his rapid advancement in cultivation, invite experts and scholars from all walks of life to work at Shrek Academy with Flander, plan the academy's development, handle various emergencies, find a way to utilize medicinal herbs, and so on...

Everyone wants to use an hour in eight parts, but Ikehira is a bit more extreme; he wants to use it in sixteen parts.

Ikehira was very grateful that he had developed the skill of intuition, as the ability to enter a state of mental concentration on his own was extremely important to him.

Busy, busy, busy, before we knew it, it was Shrek Academy's annual admissions season again.

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[Establish the school with wisdom, and nurture the pillars of the mainland!]

Want to become a genius? Want to change your destiny? Then come to Shrek Academy of Soul Masters! You can get everything here!

The path of becoming a Soul Master is fraught with thorns, but only the brave and resolute forge ahead!

Anyone who is 12 years old or older can register for the assessment, and those who pass the assessment can enroll.

Shrek Academy Address: Yuanshanzhang Village, five miles south of Soto City, Principality of Barak.

Registration point: South Gate; registration fee: 1 Silver Soul Coin.

"Is this Shrek Academy?"

Holding a promotional poster, the boy nervously approached the 4-meter-wide marble door.

Next to the stone gate was the reception area, where a long queue had formed. Some were parents with their children, while others were students registering on their own. Regardless of the situation, only students were allowed to enter the school.

The teacher at the reception desk was a young man who was very efficient, and the boy was served very quickly.

"Take out the Soul Master's Manual."

The Soul Master's Notebook is not made of paper or cloth, but a palm-sized metal plate. It is said that only the Spirit Hall can manufacture this metal, making it very difficult to counterfeit.

On the palm-sized piece of metal, the dates of each Soul Master's advancement were engraved. There were ten lines in total. The first line showed the registration time and place, as well as the Soul Master's Martial Soul. The second line showed the advancement time and the level of the Soul Rings.

The other side of the Soul Master's Notebook is engraved with the first mark of the Spirit Hall: a long sword.

All Soul Masters' Soul Master Notebooks are the same, except for those belonging to the Spirit Hall, which have more variations.

The boy's journal contained the following:

Name: Gao Yan; Gender: Male; Registered in the Spirit Hall of Soto City in the year 2638 of the Douluo Calendar; Spirit: High-Horned Antelope;

Level 10 Soul Master; registered in the Spirit Hall of Soto City in the year 2640 of the Douluo Calendar; ten-year Soul Rings;

"What level of soul power do you have now?"

Level 16.

The teacher handed a registration form to Gao Yan.

"Put the registration fee in this box, take a campus map, and follow the instructions to take the assessment."

The teacher pointed to a box next to the window and a stack of maps next to the box.

"Thank you, teacher."

Gao Yan paid the registration fee and took a map.

Upon entering the stone gate, a garden comes into view. To the left of the garden is a lotus pond, and to the right is a leisure corridor. Several evergreen trees and climbing plants are planted along the corridor. The scenery is beautiful, and even Gao Yan, who has never studied aesthetics, feels refreshed and relaxed.

Gao Yan did not enter the garden, but instead turned right along the bluestone avenue of the academy.

At the end of the road was a large cafeteria. Gao Yan turned left and went straight. Two rows of buildings extending to the end of the road appeared on both sides of the road. The building on the left was only one story, painted white, and there were no windows in sight. The building on the right was six stories high and painted orange.

According to the map, on the left are the "Intuition Training Room" and the "Qi and Blood Training Room", further to the left is the "Large Playground", and on the right is the "Dormitory Area". The dormitory area has ten buildings, arranged in two rows. Buildings one to five are in front and are the boys' dormitories, while buildings six to ten are in the back and are the girls' dormitories.

Gao Yan walked into the large playground and arrived at the door of the "Intuition Training Room".

This is the assessment area for the "Intuition Assessment".

Shrek Academy only has two tests: "Intuition Test" and "Qi and Blood Test". Gao Yan is not yet clear about the test content.

"Registration Form"

Gao Yan handed the registration form to the blond, handsome man with bright eyes standing at the entrance of the training room.

"Level 16 Soul Master, Room 23. Go in and hold out for 16 minutes. You pass the test when you hear 'Pass.' Remember, you are not allowed to use your Martial Soul or Soul Skills. Using them will result in immediate elimination. Go." Dai Mubai opened the door and let Gao Yan in.

"Registration Form"

Dai Mubai called out to the next trainee to be assessed.

After entering the room, Gao Yan found a corridor illuminated by oil lamps on both sides, the dim light making the corridor appear eerie and terrifying.

Gao Yan swallowed hard, took a deep breath, and walked deeper into the corridor.

The corridor is symmetrically lined with wooden doors, each painted with a number in blue paint, totaling 100 numbers.

Gao Yan quickly found room number 23, opened the door, and went inside.

Using the corridor lights, Gao Yan carefully surveyed the interior of the room.

This is a completely enclosed room, with all six walls black; I don't know if it's due to paint or some special material.

Click!

The door suddenly slammed shut, the crisp click startling Gao Yan.

Glug!

The complete darkness filled Gao Yan with fear, but Dai Mubai's request made him refrain from opening the door.

Bang!

Something hit Gao Yan's face, and the impact was so strong it felt like someone had punched him.

Gao Yan collapsed to the ground, his mind reeling, and he instantly lost his bearings.

"who!"

There was no response, only the echo bouncing off the wall.

Fear began to spread.

Bang!

Another attack from who-knows-where.

Gao Yan's fear began to deepen.

Unknown attacks come from all directions without any pattern.

The fear deepened, but Gao Yan gritted his teeth and persevered.

He lay on the ground, covering his head, letting the attacks, which came from nowhere, strike him.

Perhaps ten minutes had passed, perhaps a day had passed, when a gentle male voice rang out in the room, "Passed."

In a room on the other side of the corridor, Tang San announced "Pass" to the trainees who had passed in a dark room.

A beautiful path of fireflies illuminates the darkness, leading to a door at its end.

The male voice didn't urge him. It took Gao Yan a while to recover before he walked out of the room and into a bright corridor. The corridor was full of students around his age, both male and female. Some were happy, some were troubled, but everyone's face showed lingering fear.

When the last door opened, a fit young man with a mohawk appeared at the end of the corridor.

"My name is Ma Hongjun. I'm your senior from the previous year. Those who passed, come with me. Those who didn't pass, go out over there and leave the academy on your own."

The students began to line up.

Some tried to slip through, but the strong, muscular men always spotted them immediately and threw them out of the line. Those thrown out tried to resist, but Ma Hongjun's eyes instantly filled with authority, purple flames ignited in his hand, and three spirit rings—two yellow and one purple—appeared. The resisting person immediately fell silent, leaving the line looking disheveled.

—So strong!

Gao Yan's pupils trembled wildly.

There were 50 people in the corridor, corresponding to 50 rooms. 12 of them passed through. They lined up obediently behind Ma Hongjun and entered the large playground from one side of the corridor. They arrived at the door of the "Gravity Training Room" and met up with another group of students led by Oscar.

Ma Hongjun and Oscar handed the students over to Ning Rongrong, who was waiting at the door.

Ning Rongrong's beauty attracted the attention of the boys in the queue, but Oscar and Ma Hongjun's thousand-year soul rings made them feel intimidated and they didn't dare to look at them for long.

Ning Rongrong led everyone into the room.

This place is very different from the Intuition Training Room. It is a large, open, and bright room with a gray floor and a white "runway"-like structure.

The bear-like teacher, Zhao Wuji, waited by the running track not far from the entrance.

The students came to Zhao Wuji's side.

Zhao Wuji's voice boomed like a megaphone, "I am now the examiner for the Qi and Blood assessment. Your assessment is very simple: start from here and run one lap around the track, with no time limit. If you pass the assessment, you will become a formal student of Shrek Academy!"

The trainees looked at each other in disbelief that the assessment was so simple, and all turned to look at Zhao Wuji.

Zhao Wuji revealed a profound and inscrutable expression. "Let's get on the track."

Once everyone stepped onto the track, they understood what was going on.

As soon as they stepped onto the track, they felt short of breath and wanted to question Zhao Wuji, but Zhao Wuji said expressionlessly, "Leaving the track is considered a failure of the assessment."

The trainees could only move forward along the track.

But the track was like it was covered with super glue, making every step incredibly difficult for the trainees.

—How did Xiaoping do that? How come it's so similar to my gravity enhancement effect?

As Zhao Wuji watched the trainees struggle on the track, he thought to himself.

The track is 200 meters long, and it gets harder to walk as you go further in.

One by one, the trainees left the track, but some persevered until the end.

"Xiao Wu, see those who failed off. Zhu Qing, take a few of them to Teacher Lu's place in the dormitory to get their bedding and room keys."

Zhu Zhuqing came to Zhao Wuji's side and led away the 15 students, 9 men and 6 women, who were almost lying on the ground.

(End of this chapter)