"Master, at what time does this entrance examination end?"
Yu Feng asked Fu Yang as he watched an Examinee fighting with a 1-star phantom of a Red Giant Rabbit Monster Beast.
"The usual duration is about 4 hours, since they started at 1p.m. the first one should be out by 3p.m."
Fu Yang explained while fidgeting with his Energy Phone.
Ever since the part 2 of the entrance examination started, the other elder were asking for updates in the Elder group chat at the Celeste Messaging App.
Potion Master- Lu Cao: @Youngest Elder- Fu Yang, did you see any examinee with some talent for potion making?
Blacksmith's are busy so don't chat me with unnecessary things- Lan Jian: @Youngest Elder- Fu Yang, find me a strong person for blacksmithing!
Innovation is the future for all- Wen Zhi: @Youngest Elder- Fu Yang, if any examinee is interested with inventing just accept them. This course is too underrated so we badly need new disciples.
Famous and handsome- Su Minghao: No new disciple for our Idol department. We have too many disciples currently.
Youngest Elder- Fu Yang: You have too many request, why don't you just come here and take any examinees you want?
Famous and handsome- Su Minghao: Busy.
Innovation is the future for all- Wen Zhi: Currently, I am creating a masterpiece.
Potion Master- Lu Cao: My shop in the Cosmic Pharmacy still need some restock.
Blacksmith's are busy so don't chat me with unnecessary things- Lan Jian: Isn't my username answering that question already?
Youngest Elder- Fu Yang: @Blacksmith's are busy so don't chat me with unnecessary things- Lan Jian If you are busy, why are you even chatting?
As soon as he sent that message, each of the online elder change their status to offline immediately.
"These guys are too lazy, tsk."
Fu Yang put down his Energy Phone and resumed watching the monitors.
Cosmic Hell Cave is an ancient cave created by the First Master of the Sect. Initially it was created for disciples as a training ground, however, over the course of tens of thousands of years, it's power started to run out.
In order to limit the use but still honoring the ancient traditions, it was decided to be used only once a year for the Entrance Examination.
A few decades ago they set up a monitoring room in order to understand and see the strength of each examinees.
But the main reason as to why the monitoring room was created, was to avoid rejecting a possible strong disciple just because they weren't lucky enough to have an easier trial.
"Master, why did those Blue and above talent are exempted from the part two of the examination?"
As one of the examinees jealous of the exempted one, he couldn't help but ask why there was such a privilege for those geniuses.
"The testing machine you currently see on the market was actually invented by an Elder of the Sect. It was based off from the Cosmic Hell Cave. Initially it was made to prevent those talented examinees go meet their end. You see, before the invention of the testing machine this cave could actually kill people..."
The reason why the Cosmic Hell Cave received such name, was due to the amounts of talented disciple and examinees losing their life at the hardest level of the cave, the Hell Level.
The only way to trigger the Hell Level being part of the trial is when geniuses took part of the trial.
Blue Talent was the lowest threshold with a 0-10% chance of triggering it.
Although the chance of triggering it was small, the Sect Master didn't want to take a risk.
"... So it became a rule that above Blue Talent are immediately taken as Inner Disciples."
Hearing the words of Elder Fu, the three youngster besides him were scared of the horror of the Cosmic Hell Cave behind.
Specially Shi Wen, who started shaking because of fear.
"Master, D-do you mean that t-there are many p-people who died here? Doesn't i-it me-mean this was a grave?"
Shi Wen recalled the story he often heard growing up. 'Many scary skeletons crawled up from their grave, taking all the people that steps on their tomb with them in the abyss.'
"I-I'm scared, l-let's go back home Master?"
Recalling the story he heard before, Shi Wen started to get even more scared. He really want to get out from here.
This place was too scary.
"Elder Fu, if you want I can take him back?"
Fu Cheng was also starting to get scared staying here, so he presented himself to take Shi Wen back to their courtyard so he can also get away from here.
"How can you be scared because of the story behind the Cosmic Hell Cave? Sigh, Fu Cheng take Shi Wen back to the courtyard."
When the two went back to the courtyard, Yu Feng and Fu Yang resumed watching the monitor.
"Yu Feng, aren't you scared?"
Fu Yang remembered that Yu Feng has a trauma about his parents' passing. He was curious as to why he wasn't scared of the Cosmic Hell Cave.
"Why should I be scared when being weak is far scarier?"
Hearing such answer from Yu Feng, Fu Yang understood where he was coming from.
Back when his parents died in front of him, he was spared because he was weak to even catch the eye of their murderer.
After watching the monitors for a few more hours, the last examinee was finally out.
For this year's part 2 of the entrance examination, no one was eliminated.
As expected of Fu Yang's decision of cutting the threshold for the first part of the entrance examination at 15 Aptitude value was right.
No one among the people he chose were eliminated.
He guided all the new disciples to their temporary dorm for the first week.
The first week is the probation week for the new Disciples of the sect, either they pass as an outer disciple or inner disciple.
All of them are required to stay for one week at the traditional building near the examination plaza.
During the one week that they stay there, they will be doing various things in order to measure their capabilities and judge what course they are most suitable with before they met the other elders.
Before leaving them all in the building, he posted the schedule for their first week.
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"Master, what are they doing for the first week?"
Yu Feng was curious as to why the new disciples are required to be on one week probation, unlike him.
"The one week time is needed in order to see what course they would take among potion, blacksmithing, technology development and etc..."
The Heavenly Cosmic Sect has many courses that they offer to new disciples, yet many of these courses required further assessment to ascertain the ability of each disciple.
The elders in charge of each course had grown tired of constantly devising new examinations for prospective disciples, prompting the Sect Master to decree that the first week following the Entrance Examination would serve as an additional evaluation period.
Upon completion of the examination, the results would be forwarded to the respective elders to determine the disciple suitability for their chosen paths.
However, some courses, such as Technology, imposed fewer prerequisites on choosing new disciples.
One of the biggest factor, as to why each of the disciples under the technology course were able to fully dedicate their time in inventing is due to their high interest with the subject.
Without interest, they pretty much just stay doing nothing at all.
While certain courses demanded a high level of interest in their respective fields, there are other course that, despite their interest towards the course was high, they are not allowed to even be part of the course as their skills were lacking.
Potion Making served as an example of such a course.
The fundamental requirement for becoming a disciple in Potion Making was proficiency in Fire manipulation.
Even though there are many new inventions that could aid with controlling fire, with the Sect unwavering commitment to quality over quantity, the Elder could only accept disciple that pass their standards.
"...Meanwhile, for your cases you are exempted from taking this one week probation. As my disciples, you have the freedom to choose which course you like."
Hearing that being a disciple of an Elder give him a wide advantage, Yu Feng feels like his revenge will happen sooner.