Chapter 4 Selection
Walking on the path, Xiao Yun had a bad feeling when he saw the family suddenly become empty. Today, the Canaan Academy's recruitment team was going to arrive in Utan City. Judging from the situation, most of the family members were probably going to watch the selection. If the Xiao family was like this, then the others would probably not be so good either. Xiao Yun estimated that the square for the recruitment selection was probably already flooded by the excited crowd.
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He quickly ran to the Canaan Academy's specific recruitment square. Although he had already prepared himself mentally, when Xiao Yun arrived, he was still dumbfounded by the endless crowd.
"What are you doing here, a bunch of lunatics? Do you think more people will make the test easier?"
On the huge square, loud noises rose to the sky, and countless young people were desperately trying to squeeze into the square.
In the square, the army sent by the City Lord's Mansion was maintaining order, but because there were too many people, it was like scratching an itch, and it didn't work.
Staring blankly at the sea of people, Xiao Yun sighed lightly. Looking at this situation, he had no intention of passing the test today.
After walking around the huge square, Xiao Yun finally revisited the old place.
Originally, he wanted to see if he could find the Xiao family's main force and see if he could follow the main force, but outside the perimeter, there were only fully armed troops and some ordinary people who were just joining in the fun, and there was no shortcut at all. Xiao Yun didn't have the ability to ask the soldiers responsible for maintaining order to open a back door for him, so he could only return to where he was.
"Forget it, let's just use the stupid method and squeeze in." Relying
on his height advantage, Xiao Yun squeezed the waist of the crowd for a long time before finally seeing the light of day again with sweat all over his head.
"Huh, I finally got out. These guys who are here to watch the excitement are really good. They are still squeezing together to watch the excitement in such a hot day." Looking at the green tent not far away, Xiao Yun finally breathed a sigh of relief.
The distance between the crowd and the tent was not short, and there were several passages in the middle. In the passages, young men who looked like trainees held fist-sized blue crystal balls in their hands for people to test.
Xiao Yun walked straight to a passage where few people were, and soon it was his turn to go forward for the test.
Looking at Xiao Yun's childish appearance, the male student who was taking the test was very curious, "Little boy, this is not a place to play games, this is the enrollment selection of Canaan College, where are your family members? They will be worried if they can't find you later."
"Well, I know, I am here for the test, and I would like to ask this senior to take the test for me." Xiao Yun rolled his eyes silently. He was also at the disadvantage of his age. Anyone would think that he was playing some childish house games.
"Then you can inject your fighting spirit into this test crystal. After injecting the fighting spirit, as long as your cultivation reaches the eighth stage of fighting spirit, the crystal will automatically light up, and you will pass the preliminary test." The male student did not believe what Xiao Yun said, but testing the fighting spirit was not troublesome, so he just played with the child in front of him for a while.
"Well..." Xiao Yun nodded in understanding, stepped forward and stretched out his right hand to place it on the crystal ball. After a moment's pause, he waited until the crystal ball lit up before retracting his palm.
Ah, this, it really lights up! The male student looked incredulous, wondering if the crystal ball in his hand was broken because there were too many people testing it.
"Wait a minute, I'll get another test crystal." Without waiting for Xiao Yun to answer, the male student turned around and ran quickly to the others and got another crystal ball. Xiao Yun did not say anything. He knew that the man in front of him could not accept that he could pass the test at such a young age. He silently put his hand on the crystal ball. After a moment, the crystal ball lit up again.
"!" The male student's jaw almost dropped to the ground. He did not understand why the gap between people was so big. After all, Xiao Yun was too young. When he was this age, he was still playing in the mud.
"I passed now, right?" Xiao Yun's voice woke him up. "I passed, I passed, come in quickly."
Xiao Yun nodded and walked slowly towards the tent. Walking into the big green tent, I saw more than a dozen men and women gathered in several small circles and chatted with each other in the cool shadow of the tent. Outside the shadows, there were more than 20 young men and women sitting on the ground under the scorching sun, with sweat pouring down their faces due to the high temperature. However, their faces were full of restraint, and it seemed that they were freshmen who had just passed the outer test.
"Cousin Xiao Yun, come here!" Someone among the freshmen saw Xiao Yun coming and shouted in surprise.
Looking over, two young men wearing Xiao family clothes waved to him with sweat all over their foreheads. These two people were the ones Xiao Yun saw on the training ground a few days ago and thought they had a chance to pass the Canaan College admission test. Unexpectedly, both of them were lucky enough to join Canaan College. Their shouts undoubtedly attracted the attention of many people, and those freshmen were curiously looking at the rumored number one genius in Wutan City.
Ignoring the gazes of those people, Xiao Yun walked straight to the two Xiao family members.
"There are so many people in the family, are you the only two who passed the test?"
It was not surprising that someone from the Xiao family passed the test, after all, it was one of the three major families in Wutan City, but it was surprising that only two people passed the test. The Xiao family's coming-of-age ceremony required that the sixteen-year-olds reach the seventh stage of fighting spirit, so it was not surprising that no one under the age of sixteen passed, but it was a bit tragic that only two people over the age of sixteen passed.
"Only the two of us have passed, but there are actually some people in the family who have met the requirements, but they don't want to go to Canaan Academy, but go to other sects to practice."
Xiao Yun nodded suddenly. Maybe for many people, Canaan Academy is a holy place in their hearts, but there are always people who think that practicing in a sect is better than in an academy.
Under the scorching sun, Xiao Yun sat on the ground and chatted with two fellows. As time passed, the sun gradually moved to the sky above his head, and the number of new students waiting around increased by more than a dozen.
After just chatting, Xiao Yun knew the names of the two fellows, Xiao Long and Xiao Hu. The two are brothers. Xiao Long is one year older than Xiao Hu, but their cultivation is the ninth stage of fighting spirit. The three of them got to know each other better, and Xiao Hu dared to complain to Xiao Yun, "Damn it, these old students just let us show off here on purpose, and didn't even come to take care of us."
Xiao Yun glanced at Xiao Hu, he knew that this was an old tradition of Canaan College, those who could reach the admission threshold were generally young people with good talents, and they should be pampered in their own little place on weekdays, and rarely be ridiculed or mocked. And if you join Canaan College, where there are many outstanding people, with this mentality, it is easy to get into trouble with a fight. Therefore, when recruiting students, the old students have to let the new students know their own strengths and weaknesses, and wear down their fearlessness, so as to avoid unnecessary troubles in the future.
What Xiao Yun and his friends are going through now is the phase of grinding away their sharpness.
Xiao Yun personally doesn't feel anything. Although this behavior is a bit excessive, he is not the kind of Long Aotian who is always angry with everyone. As long as it is not specifically aimed at him, he would not bother to do it. However, if there is a blind and unknown little rascal who wants him to slap him in the face, he can also reluctantly smash the opponent's face.
Seeing Xiao Hu's dissatisfied expression, Xiao Yun smiled helplessly, "Just be patient a little longer, these old students just want to dampen our enthusiasm. We are not strong enough, and there is no point in complaining."
"It's true that we are not strong enough, cousin Xiao Yun, you are so talented, I believe you can beat those old students."
Xiao Yun was frowned when he heard Xiao Hu say this, "Although I am talented, I am young. What's the use of you believing in me? I don't even believe in myself." God, he was only seven years old, and his cultivation was only one-star fighter. Those old students had practiced in Canaan Academy for at least one year, and most of them had a cultivation level of more than one-star fighter. If he went there pretending to be crazy now, he would probably be beaten to a pulp.
Hearing what Xiao Yun said, Xiao Hu lost his temper. Even the first genius of the Xiao family was willing to sunbathe outside, what else could he say?
Fortunately, it didn't take long before the senior students in the tent informed the freshmen that they could go in. The freshmen were overjoyed when they heard the announcement. They got up from the ground quickly, patted their butts and walked into the tent. Xiao Yun also pulled Xiao Long and Xiao Hu into the tent. Although he didn't say anything just now, he was really hot.
"Hahaha, it seems that I really received a monster this time. I was wondering if you would come directly to this tent, but I didn't expect you to stay outside until now. You are extremely talented, not arrogant or impatient. Not bad, not bad." As soon as Xiao Yun entered the tent, he saw a broad and fat man looking at him as if he was looking at a treasure. The students around him called him Instructor Xu Ning.
"Hello, Instructor..." Seeing that he was staring at him, Xiao Yun couldn't pretend not to see him, so he nodded and greeted him politely.
"Not bad, not bad, you are quite polite. Wait a moment, I will record your talent level." Xu Ning was very satisfied with Xiao Yun. He regarded the simple polite greeting as a great advantage of a genius.
I have to say that although Canaan Academy's method of tempering the newcomers' tempers was a bit excessive, it did have some effect. At least the freshmen, who were sweating profusely under the scorching sun, were much more restrained when they first arrived. They all huddled in the shade of the tents and did not confront their instructors.
After everyone was present, Instructor Xu Ning took out a parchment scroll and a pen from his ring and said, "Dear students, congratulations on entering the gate of Canaan Academy. But before that, I need to know each of your real ages and cultivation levels, and classify your talent levels according to the potential values set by the academy."
"Eighth level of fighting spirit, potential value is F level, this is the minimum standard for joining Canaan Academy.
Ninth level of fighting spirit, potential value is E level,
one-star fighter, potential value is D level, two-star fighter, potential value is C level, and so on. The highest level is five-star fighter, with potential value of S level! Of course, all these cultivation levels require you to be under 18 years old."
"The academy hasn't received any students with S-level potential for a long time. I have a feeling that one of you will be an S-level student!" After Xu Ning said this, he looked at Xiao Yun. It was obvious that the S-level he was talking about was Xiao Yun. Sometimes age is really a huge plus. Xiao Yun was able to pass the test at such a young age. It was almost a sure thing for him to be an S-level potential student.
"Okay, now all of you line up in a row and report your age and cultivation level from left to right." Xu Ning stood in front of the crowd and shouted loudly.
"Wang Lin, age, 18 years old, fighting spirit level 9." A thin young man at the head of the left row, with a red face, excitedly shouted out his age and cultivation level.
Xu Ning nodded with a smile, and quickly wrote down the information of the student with his right hand, "E-level, keep practicing."
"Lin Shan, age 17, fighting spirit 8th stage."
"F-level."
"Heishi, age 18, fighting spirit 9th stage."
"E-level."
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Most of the freshmen who passed the test were below the fighter level. Of course, there must be many freshmen who were originally fighting spirit 9th stage, but were demoted to fighting spirit 8th stage because of the failure of the impact fighter. It
will soon be Xiao Yun's turn. Before him, the best was only a one-star fighter with D-level potential. The two brothers Xiao Long and Xiao Hu also finished the test and both had E-level potential. Xiao Yun was not prepared to hide his strength. He knew that in Canaan Academy, the better he performed, the more resources he would get. There was no need to hide his weaknesses.
"Xiao Yun, age, seven years old, cultivation, one-star fighter." As Xiao Yun's voice fell, everyone in the tent who heard it opened their mouths unconsciously and took a breath of cool air.
Xu Ning was so ecstatic that he almost tore the brush in his hand. He originally thought that Xiao Yun was at most at the level of the ninth stage of fighting spirit, and that he would have to wait until he entered Canaan Academy to break through to the fighter level. Unexpectedly, he had already broken through and stabilized at the one-star fighter level. Xu Ning lowered his head and stared at Xiao Yun with a more fiery look than before. He really found a treasure this time. Xiao Yun was such a genius, and he would definitely be rewarded by his superiors when he returned to the academy.
"Okay, okay, a seven-year-old fighter, S-level potential!" Xu Ning smiled.
After everyone's information was collected, Instructor Xu Ning asked everyone to go home, enjoy the last leisure time, and say goodbye to their families. Everyone will meet here again in three days, and then the exclusive monsters of Canaan Academy will come to pick them up to Canaan Academy.