For the next three days, Wang Lei and Shenyan went to look around the Capital City in hopes that they will be lucky like they were a few days ago and acquire some free equipment or something else but alas, there were no such thing as free food in the world.
They were extremely lucky that they were even able to acquire those items a few days so they should not be so greedy and ask for more.
With disappointment, Wang Lei led the way, as Shenyan followed right behind him as they went back to their inn and prepared for their big day tomorrow— the academy registration.
They may have been indulging in the feeling of the Capital City, but they did not forget their main goal for coming to the capital city this time, which was to register and partake in the examination. So as of this moment, they were both in their room.
Steeling their confidence and resolve in hopes that they get selected is what Wang Lei hoped for, but it turned out that he was the only one feeling anxious about this as Shenyan was completely unfazed by this pressure of life or death.
At this moment, Wang Lei could not help but ask, "Shenyan, how are feeling about tomorrow?"
"I don't know but I hope that we get selected." Shenyan calmly replied to him.
"…"
Wang Lei looked at Shenyan with a Strange expression and he did not know what to say. 'This fellow is so calm that I don't even know whether he is excited or anxious like I am or anything else, haah, why do I even bother? He was always like this.' Wang Lei thought to himself.
After a while, Wang Lei then spoke, "Anyway, let's sleep early today and wake up early to register in the academy."
"Alright." Shenyan briefly replied. And they all laid down on their individual beds.
After a while, Wang Lei quickly feel asleep. Shenyan on the other hand was still awake and raised his sword and proceeded to look at the rusty sword in his hand as he can almost feel that the sword is saying something, but he cannot make out what it is saying.
'What is it saying?' Shenyan thought to himself.
After staring at the sword for while with dazed look on his face, he put the sword down next to his bed and then proceeded to head to sleep too as they had to wake up early tomorrow.
…
The following day, Shenyan woke early as usual and proceeded to wake Wang Lei up, who still had a tired look on his face despite sleeping early yesterday. After washing up, they then made their way to the location of the academy.
…
At this moment, in front of the gate of Academy, various youngsters and their parents where waiting for the doors of the Academy to open.
Some parents were reassuring their children while other were anxious for their children possibly failing the test and failing to enter the academy. If one fails to enter the academy, they will miss their chance to progress further in their cultivation as the academy provide resources to aid student in their path of cultivation.
Those that fail will either have their cultivation path cut short or have to depend on themselves to cultivate for the rest of their lives— which is an arduous path that one can take.
Although, it is not like there were not any individuals who succeeded despite not attending the academy, but these kinds of people were rare and they go through a lot of danger to succeed, so no one wanted to take such a treacherous path full of risk.
At this moment, two youngsters made their way to the academy. Which attracted the attention of the people who were already there ahead of time.
There were wondering why these brats came so late to such an important event that could change their whole lives and on top of that based on the clothes that these kinds were wearing, without a doubt, they were bumpkins from who knows where— no wonder they did not take the examination seriously, they probably had no hopes in passing and only came to try their lucks.
Of course, those two youngsters were Shenyan and Wang Lei; they were a little late but not too late since they came right on time.
They were busy these days so they did not have the time to scout the location of the academy beforehand so they were a little lost on their way and had to ask around before they were able to arrive safely— luckily, the exam had not started yet, otherwise they would not know what to do otherwise.
"Look at how leisurely these kids are walking; do they not take this exam seriously?"
"Who cares about them, as long as my child can make it and enter the academy, I don't care about some bumpkins."
"You're right, it's just infuriating that we came here so early yet these bumpkins were taking their sweet time arriving so late."
"They might not pass anyway, so let's forget about them. Such is the fate of bumpkins with no family background."
"That's true."
Some parents who were escorting their children started reprimanding Shenyan and Wang Lei for coming in so late to such an important event. Meanwhile, Shenyan and Wang Lei walked to the front of the gate and proceeded to wait along with everyone— for the gate of the academy to open.
A few minutes later, the gate of the academy started opening and everyone who were engage in their own conversations suddenly stopped whatever they were talking about as they all had a serious look on their faces with anticipation in their hearts.
After a moment, the gate was fully opened, and a figure suddenly flew out and landed on top of the gate before announcing loudly for everyone to hear.
"The examination shall now begin, those of you who are participating, please make your way into the gate and register and as for those who are not, please stay out here!!" The figure said coldly to everyone.
Upon a closer look, the figure appeared to be a middle-aged man with a blue and white robe with some patterns embroidered on them.
He had a fierce appearance and exuded a chilly feeling that made everyone that looks at his direction feel a chill down their spine.
A few moments after the figure finished speaking, everyone proceeded to make their way into the academy, Shenyan and Wang Lei also followed everyone else.
After entering the academy, they were greeted with tall, magnificent and refined buildings everywhere, which caught their attention right away— even those rich brats from rich families had a look of surprise on their faces as they looked at the academy buildings.
The buildings all looked like they belong to some rich families— the whole academy feels like a whole town of rich families, but these were only the living quarters of the students in this academy.
There were other buildings in the far distance which appears more grander than the ones in front of them— those were probably the living quarters the Principal and Deans of this academy. One can only imagine how rich this academy was.
The name of this academy is [Deep Frozen Academy]. Just as the name of the academy suggests, they mainly practice ice related techniques— that may be true, but they also have other elemental techniques so one cannot simply look down on this academy just because of the name if they had a different elemental affinity.