The most awaited day among many young men and women in the Eastern Region of Celestia finally arrived.
The Entrance Examination of Heavenly Cosmic Sect, one of the 5 major sect of Celestia, will soon start.
Even before the sun was up in the sky, the plaza for the entrance examination was already full.
At the center of the plaza there stood a 3 meter radius stage with a 1.5 meter height.
Even looking from a far place, anyone could tell that the stage was already full of people.
Most of the people in the stage thought that if they waited there, they would be the first to be tested. They believed at the saying that those who get tested first were bound to be lucky.
Away from the stage at the very back of the crowd, there stood a young man with blue eyes and silver hair named Fu Cheng.
He was a servant of someone participating in the Entrance Examination.
Due to orders from his employer, he came at the Entrance Examination in order to help his young master, Zhang Hao.
"Fu Cheng, look! Soon I will be a disciple of this sect. Meanwhile, you will remain as a servant of my family!"
The young master that Fu Cheng was serving was very pompous and arrogant. He looked down at Fu Cheng, his servant.
"Yes young master, you will become part of the sect soon." Clenching his fist, Fu Cheng said with a forced smile.
Fu Cheng wanted to get away from this family, he didn't want to be their servant anymore. However, where would he go?
The world is not simple as it seems. He needed money in order to survive, specially since he wasn't a cultivator.
He haven't even started body cultivation yet.
Soon he would be 15 years old, the hope of starting the journey of cultivation was very slim.
He looked towards the center of the plaza, where the testing will take place.
'If only... If only I was a body cultivator. I could test myself and finally leave this damn family.'
He recalled how he came to serve this family.
He grew up in an Orphanage, his life there was a happy one.
He wasn't serving anyone and he could play with his friends for as long as he wanted. However, everything change when he was 'adopted'.
The Zhang Couple wanted to find a brother for their child, and he was chosen because he had the same birthday but a year younger than their child.
Thus, he became the adopted son of the Zhang Couple.
However, he never knew that his life would change as soon as he went inside the car.
He was pushed by Zhang Hao and his back became a resting place for his legs.
He looked at his supposedly parents, wanting them to say something at Zhang Hao but they just smiled.
"Fu Cheng, from now on you will have to follow what your elder brother says."
Recalling his past still made him very angry.
'How come the world is so unfair?'
He wants to leave, he wants to change his life... but how? He doesn't even have any relative... He is all alone in this world.
After a few minutes, the elder in charge for the Entrance Examination arrived with his flying bike. He was holding a mirror while flying above the plaza.
When Fu Cheng looked at him, he was stunned to see a face similar to him.
"Why does he look like me?"
***
5am, the day of the Examination Day.
Fu Yang didn't take Shi Wen with him, as he didn't want to disturb his sleep. He will go back and fetch him later at 11:30 am, after the first part of the testing.
"16, 19, 8, 17... How come I haven't seen someone in the 20s yet? Yesterday there were some people in their 30s, but now I can barely sight them."
When he arrived at the center, he used his pressure to push away all the people surrounding the testing machine in the stage.
After that he took a stack of big orange cones, that reach up to his waist, from his spatial ring and used his power to put them around the stage.
'Fortunately, I have this with me. Otherwise they will crowd the testing area.'
"If someone was to come inside this orange circle without my guide, you will be eliminated!"
He enhanced his voice with his power so he would be loud enough to be heard, even by those at the back.
"Now, let's start alphabetically. Those with with surname starting with A, come in front."
Fu Yang looked at the 100 pages stack of paper filled with name in front of him and at the testing machine with an annoyed face.
When all the people surrounding the machine finished arranging themselves, Fu Yang took his mirror and casually started fixing his silver hair. After that, he pointed towards about 10 people.
"You, you, you... and you! Go to the stage."
'Hmm... This batch are good. There are two geniuses and twins too!'
He repeated the same thing until it was letter D. Seeing that inside the circle he made was already full, he stopped.
What he did right now was to evaluate all the people with his mirror. To others it may look like he was pointing randomly, but he carefully selected them.
The minimum aptitude value he chose was 15, those below that will not be given a chance to test themselves on the testing area.
He chose 15 as this was the minimum number he saw when he looked around the outer disciples of the sect.
He sat in a table near the testing area.
"In order to test you, just stand in that platform. After that, you will be surrounded by a colored light. If the light is either white, red or orange you are disqualified. If you got yellow, green you will go to the 2nd part of the examination. If you got Blue, Indigo and Violet you are immediately accepted as inner disciple and you do not need to go to the next part."
He used the same loud voice in order to have the others hear it. He didn't want to repeat his words again as this testing machine was a common testing machine that can be bought outside.
He was sure that all the people who came for the entrance examination are already aware of how it function.
As soon as he finished saying the threshold, many people among the examinees were in uproar.
"Yellow is the lowest threshold? I thought it would be orange!"
"Why did they suddenly raise the threshold? When I tested myself before, I was only at the orange threshold."
"Shouldn't they have informed us about the change of threshold before the examination?"
"How come they change this year's minimum threshold?"
As the voices among the crowd increases, Fu Yang was slowly feeling annoyed. They were too noisy.
"Silent!"
Not even a minute later, the whole plaza suddenly became quiet.
"If anyone got Blue, Indigo or Violet, please go towards that building and wait for me. " He pointed towards the nearest building of the plaza. "If I can't see you there after I finished here, say goodbye to being an inner disciple. You will need to start from being an outdoor disciple."
Hopefully with this threat, no one would be stupid enough to let this opportunity slip by their fingers.
"Now, let's start with the testing. An Yingli... Blue! Next, An Yingqi... Blue!"
Looking at the twins directly entering the sect as inner disciple, made all the people in present stare in awe and disbelief.
"An...sounds familiar...An! The daughters of that famous self-made conglomerate woman!"
When the people heard the young woman's exclamation, the other started to discuss the two people too.
"Is it the same An family, the owner of An Makeup?"
"Didn't they own a food company?"
"They actually own a fast food chain!"
"They own all the company you just mentioned!"
"Really?! They are too rich! And now they have two genius cultivators!"
"It was said that the owner paid a large sum in order to buy the semen of a cultivator!"
"Is that the truth?!"
"The owner really got lucky birthing twin geniuses—"
As the chattering among the crowd become increasingly loud, Fu Yang decided that using threats works all the time so he threatened them, again.
"Silent! If you cause too much uproar, I will immediately stop this entrance examination! I don't care if only 2 passed this year's entrance examination. We already got many disciples, what we search for is quality!"
As soon as Fu Yang said that, he resumed with the testing.
"Ang Wei your next... Ang Liang... Ao Ling..."
When all the people in the stage passed the first part of the examination, Fu Yang wasn't surprised at all. He already expected it.
However, there weren't any other examinees who were accepted immediately as inner disciples.
"It seems like the saying 'Those who come first to be tested are lucky,' was true after all."
Someone among the crowd whispered to his friend, a girl with a boyish hair cut.
"Why did this year started alphabetically? Even the starting time was early too..."
"Apparently they change the Elder in charge for this Examination. He seems to be a newly promoted outer elder who likes to check his appearance everytime."
"Well, if I was handsome like him, I too would like to admire myself in the mirror."
"You need to grow a third leg for that."
"There's no need, I can be handsome and beautiful at the same time."
"Wait, the elder is calling the H surname."
"I will now go, see you on the next part of the examination!"
The same scene happen to many examinees, group of friends saying they will see each other at the next part of the examination.
This was not because of confidence, but for hope that continues to stay even if they stood no chance at all.