Mo Shen walked to an old man seated at the gate of the hall. His eyes were closed looking tranquil. Mo Shen was a bit surprised to see that the man was in the 1st stage of the Empyrean realm, but he didn't think it was abnormal. "Good day old man." Mo Shen greeted.
The man opened his eyes in shock. To think with his cultivation, he never noticed the youth in front of him till he spoke."How can I help you young man." The old man said in a low polite voice. "I am Mo Ding, you can call me Old Man Ding. You should be a new student right?""Yes, I am a new student." Mo Shen informed Old man Ding. "Where is the registration point for new students?""Over there!" Old man Ding said as he pointed to the right end of the hall. There weren't much people there as in other parts of the hall. "Because new students are not usually much at this time, not much attention is put on them.""Thank you." Mo Shen said as he left the man and walked in the direction he was directed at."An interesting student has appeared in the academy this time." Old man Ding said as he sighed, stroking his beard softly. "To think I couldn't even sense his cultivation. And his eyes are so cold that I couldn't even look into it for a second. Even the time I released my aura on him, it was like he didn't even feel it, there was no change to his expression."There was a large table at the registration point. There were already 4 new students there. Behind the table were 6 people. 5 of them were students as they wore matching white robes. They looked like they were above 1000 years of age. The last man was a middle-aged man. He was in the 2nd stage of the Empyrean realm."Are you also a new student?" The only lady among the 5 old students stood up and spoke in a seductive tone. Her voice contained a large amount of soul power that could bewitch men when they look into her eyes. She seemed like she had 'devoured' many men like this.Mo Shen was instantly disgusted hearing her voice and seeing her bewitching eyes. Although it could only bewitch men with low willpower, it still made him disgusted.As he looked at her, a trace of the ruler dao flashed in his eyes. To her, it was like a powerful soul attack, and she flew back and coughed up a mouthful of blood."You brat, how dare you do this to senior sister Hongyue?" A burly man among the students stood up in anger, ready to attack Mo Shen. But the moment he met his eyes, it was like a bucket of cold water was poured on him. He sat down meekly and lowered his head, not daring to meet Mo Shen's gaze.It was then that the middle-aged instructor spoke up. "Young man, you must be a new student right?" The man was at the 1st stage of the Empyrean realm.Mo Shen nodded without speaking.The man did not seem angry in the slightest. He even smiled at Mo Shen, but Mo Shen knew his smile was a sly one. His soul had already surpassed the Universe Dao realm, his spiritual sense at full range could more than cover the entire Eternal Demon Empire. He could basically sense every fluctuation of power in the air around him, even without releasing his spiritual sense. It seemed like these 6 people were the man's disciples or students."My name is Wan Jue, I am in charge of your entrance test." The man explained then he stood up. "Follow me."The man walked to a large room at the side of the hall. It was quite large. "Stay here." He instructed Mo Shen and the other 4 students. Then he walked to the other side of the hall."The testing ground is here. The test this time is your will. You will have to withstand the pressure on your soul for 30 seconds. If you can withstand the pressure for 10 seconds without falling, you will have passed and will receive 100 merit points.""There are 100 steps between us. If you can cross 10 steps under the pressure, you will receive 1000 merit points. 20 steps for 2000 merit points, and like that till the 50th step. After the 50th step, the pressure will be doubled for every 10 steps you cross. At the 60th step, you'll receive 5000 merit points. At the 70th step, you'll receive 10,000 points, at the 80th step, 15,000 points, and at the 90th step, you'll receive 20,000 points.""If you manage to cross all 100 steps, reaching me, you'll receive 100,000 points. But note that, if you should fall at any step, you'll be considered only to have withstood the pressure and will receive only 100 points for passing, so know your limits and stay within them."The 5 of them stood in a straight line side by side as the pressure was released. Mo Shen stood in his position unfazed throughout the first 30 seconds. The other 4 with him also withstood it, but 2 of them were barely able to withstand the pressure and couldn't move forward, they collapsed on the floor after the 30 seconds had passed.The other 2 who looked better decided to walk to the 10th step, and they were successful, they continued walking past it till one of them stopped at the 30th step, and the other at the 50th step. Mo Shen watched them from the 1st step, wondering whether he should also move or be satisfied with just passing.After thinking for a while, he decided to move on. The main reason for his decision was to get the merit points. With 100,000 points, he could basically do all he wants for the next 6 months he was here.He walked forward like there was no pressure at all. When he reached the 50th step, he discovered that the pressure had increased by at least 10 times and not the 2 times the man announced. It seemed like the man didn't want him to pass so well. But Mo Shen continued walking, without even stopping at the 50th floor.By the time he reached the 90th floor, the man was already using all the pressure he could release. Mo Shen kept walking like nothing was happening. In fact, the pressure was like breeze to him. Even if it was someone whose cultivation was way above the Universe Dao realm, Mo Shen might not be too affected. After all, his will and mental state had reache a very high level. Will wasn't something that depended on cultivation. Although, the higher your cultivation, the higher your mental state; it wasn't absolute. Some people with high cultivations had low mental states, and some people with low cultivations had high mental states if they trained it.When Mo Shen crossed the 100th step to reach Wan Jue, the man took a step back in shock. He was even slightly feeling fear.Mo Shen looked at him with his cold eyes, the Ruler Dao flashed for a brief second in his eyes making the man kneel down in submission. He felt like he was about to collapse as an invisible pressure pressed down on him. It was now he felt the fear and pain that Hongyue felt."I hate being bothered unnecessarily. So this should better be the last time you will ever have any useless intention towards me, otherwise, I'll annihilate you, and any other person related to you that will cause me trouble, without hesitation."After talking, Mo Shen left the room to the outer hall. Wan Jue soon came following behind with the other 4 students. His face was pale and drained of blood. If not that he had to process Mo Shen's admission himself, he would have ran away from here in fear.When they got to the registration table, Wan Jue took out a purple-gold card and made some inscriptions on it with a special pen. He then handed it to Mo Shen to drip a drop of his blood on it.Mo Shen was a bit reluctant to do so. It wasn't that he felt it was a waste of his precious blood, but his blood contained a terrifying power and vitality. Once it comes out, it would be like a supreme treasure was brought out, and will attract unnecessary attention.After thinking for a while, a solution came up in his head. Since he had comprehended one of the Supreme Dao, the Dao of Infinite space, he could isolate the drop of blood in a separate space, while it seeming like it was here. Then he will insert the card into the space for the blood to merge with it.Although he had never tried doing something like this he felt a bit confident. It also made him to know that although he had comprehended the dao, he had never practiced them. Although this world had very little knowledge concerning the dao, he could just explore into them by himself.Mo Shen formed out a special small space above his palms, the cut his palm with his fingernail. He allowed a drop of blood to flow out into the space immediately by speeding up the time around him a bit. The last step, he put the card into the little space and allowed the blood to drop on it.He didn't even know that a drop of sweat had fallen from his forehead. Although he wasn't scared of anyone, he was a bit curious and excited as he was using the dao in such a way for the first time. And he had succeeded. He was quite happy with himself at this result.The next thing was to register for classes. Mo Shen was astonished when he saw the list. Although he had learned from his father about the courses, he never knew their names. Some names caught his eyes.The first one was Zither class. From the memories he had of other worlds, he knew of the existence of the zither. Some cultivators even used it as their weapons by using it to shoot out energy at their opponents. Some skilled cultivators played notes with it that could kill their opponents silently. He was looking forward to learning to play it and creating his own notes.Another class name that caught his eye was Acupuncture. It wasn't like he desired to be a life savior helping out the sick, he just felt it was a necessary skill for a powerful cultivator. It could be useful at times.Other ones like Alchemy, Artifact forging, Medicine also got him interested. There were also some special courses like Divination, Catering, Qi among others. Like how he had planned before, he registered for 44 classes.In fact, for most of the profession courses like alchemy, artifact forging/blacksmithing, formations, medicine and others, he had a good idea of it from his memories. What he wanted by taking these courses was to get the basics of it. After all, he couldn't just leap into being an expert before knowing the basics. So these 6 months were more than enough for him to learn everything he wanted to learn.All of them at the table were shocked at Mo Shen's choice of courses. He actually registered for 44 courses at once. In the academy, it was rare for students to register for more than 20 courses. And those that had registered for over 30 courses since the history of the academy could be counted on one hand.Although shocked, Wan Jue didn't comment on anything. His fear for Mo Shen presided over every other thing. He went and processed the courses, and handed a schedule of the courses to him.