Douluo Continent: Starting with a Heavenly Fire Judgment

Chapter 210 Inner Court Examination

Ji Lin did not stay in Xingluo City for long. He spent a few days with Xu Jiujiu and held a small banquet for Yu Mengdi and others who had just joined the Zizai Sect. Only members of the Zizai Sect attended.

As for the execution of the Sacred Mark Project, Ji Lin entrusted it to Xu Jiujiu and Xu Jiawei. He himself didn't have that much time to concern himself with it. For him, cultivating and becoming stronger was the most important thing. Promoting the Sacred Mark was just to help him obtain cultivation resources and strengthen his sect. As for alleviating the conflict between humans and soul beasts, Ji Lin was willing to contribute some effort out of respect for Wang Qiu'er and Xue Di. He also did things casually, such as opening up a new future for the soul master profession. His thoughts were the same as most people in Douluo Continent: what does the future have to do with me now?

Ji Lin didn't care whether the profession of Soul Master would die out, and he wouldn't care even if all of humanity became ordinary people in the future.

Ji Lin has always cared about himself and the people around him. Of course, while strengthening himself, he is also willing to do things as he sees fit.

When Ji Lin returned to Shrek Academy, it had been almost a month since he had taken leave to go to the far north.

When Ji Lin returned to the outer courtyard of Shrek Academy, he learned that Wang Dong'er had also broken through to level 40 and had set off with the academy's Soul Hunting Team to obtain Soul Rings. As for Xiao Xiao, it would take her some time to break through to level 40. In terms of cultivation speed, Wang Dong'er was indeed amazing.

As for Wang Qiu'er's cultivation level, it is currently only level 46. Ji Lin broke through to level 53 after absorbing the soul ring of the 80,000-year-old Burning Sun Fire Dragon. He fused three Saint Marks in succession, modified his head soul bone and right arm bone, and added two 100,000-year soul rings. Ji Lin only broke through three levels. If it were a normal fusion of 100,000-year soul bones or absorption of 100,000-year soul rings, even if Ji Lin had the ultimate attributes, he would have broken through more than three levels. However, Ji Lin did not absorb soul rings and fuse soul bones in the conventional way. In order for Ji Lin's body to withstand it, both the Snow Emperor and the Ice Emperor, and even the Heavenly Dream Ice Silkworm, sealed most of the energy. Ji Lin only absorbed a small part. Otherwise, how could he possibly fuse a million-year soul bone and a 100,000-year soul ring with his current physical condition?

Ji Lin actually absorbed only a small portion of the energy, plus an 80,000-year soul ring. The remaining 20,000 years were supplemented by the Heavenly Dream Ice Silkworm, making it a 100,000-year soul ring.

In fact, only Soul Masters are required to apply for Shrek Academy's inner court examination; whether they can pass is another matter.

Ji Lin and Wang Qiu'er have been dragging their feet for a long time. Yan Shaozhe has been urging them to participate in the inner academy assessment as soon as possible so that they can enter the inner academy to study. Bei Bei and the others have already been in the inner academy for some time now.

Ji Lin originally wanted to wait for Wang Dong'er and Xiao Xiao to come together, but Yan Shaozhe kept urging them, so the group decided that Ji Lin and Wang Qiu'er would participate in the inner court assessment first, while Xiao Xiao would have to wait until she broke through to the Soul Master level and obtained her fourth soul ring before she could apply for the assessment. Wang Dong'er had not returned yet either.

Ji Lin and Wang Qiu'er finally applied to Yan Shaozhe for the Inner Court Examination.

Yan Shaozhe said with a wry smile, "You two little guys have finally come to apply for the assessment. No other student has ever been as unimportant as you two. They can't wait to enter the inner academy to study, but you two have dragged it out for almost half a year."

Ji Lin smiled and said, "Dean, we're just preparing for this, since we've heard the inner court assessment is very difficult."

Yan Shaozhe said irritably, "The inner court assessment is for outer court disciples of level 40 Soul Sect. You're already a Soul King, what are you worried about regarding the inner court assessment? The inner court assessment isn't that difficult for you."

Ji Lin chuckled and said, "Since you've said so, Dean, why don't we just enter the inner courtyard directly and skip the assessment?"

Yan Shaozhe shook his head seriously and said, "This is the academy's rule. If you don't participate in the assessment to enter the inner academy, what will the other inner academy disciples think? Although the academy cannot achieve absolute fairness, it must achieve relative fairness."

Seeing Yan Shaozhe begin to lecture, Ji Lin quickly said, "Dean Yan, I was just joking. I didn't really not want to participate in the assessment. Even if you really give me special treatment, I still wouldn't want to go in. I don't want to be gossiped about by the senior students in the inner academy."

Yan Shaozhe shook his head helplessly and said, "Come with me, I'll take you to participate in the assessment."

Normally, it wouldn't be Yan Shaozhe, the dean of the Martial Soul Department, to personally take the outer court disciples to the inner court assessment. But Ji Lin and Wang Qiu'er are special, so Yan Shaozhe personally arranged for the two to participate in the inner court assessment.

The two followed Yan Shaozhe all the way to the assessment area of ​​the inner courtyard.

There were still some people taking the test in the assessment area, but they weren't wearing Shrek Academy's uniforms and didn't look like Shrek Academy students.

The examiner was a senior teacher from the Martial Soul Department, a middle-aged man. When he saw Yan Shaozhe arrive with Ji Lin, he quickly stepped forward and respectfully greeted, "Dean Yan."

Yan Shaozhe nodded and said, "I brought two students to participate in the inner academy assessment. You can make the arrangements."

The middle-aged man quickly replied, "Okay."

After saying that, he turned to Ji Lin and Wang Qiu'er and said, "Come with me, let's go register first."

Ji Lin and his companion followed the middle-aged man to line up for registration.

Some people queuing at the registration desk looked at Ji Lin and Wang Qiu'er's school uniforms with envy and longing in their eyes.

Seeing the confusion on Ji Lin's face, the middle-aged man said to them, "They were recommended by other academies to participate in the Shrek Academy's inner court assessment."

Shrek Academy's reputation as the number one academy on the continent attracts the attention of genius soul masters from all over the continent. These people all have top-notch talents and intend to enter Shrek Academy. The reason why they are only coming now is that some missed the outer academy assessment, some failed to obtain the city lord's recommendation letter, and some disdain the outer academy's teaching and want to directly enter the inner academy.

After all, the inner courtyard of Shrek Academy is the real Shrek Academy, and the outer courtyard and the inner courtyard are worlds apart.

Those who are preparing to participate in the inner court examination are undoubtedly top geniuses in their respective regions. Being able to obtain the examination qualification means that they have powerful forces supporting them, or at least that a strong person is optimistic about their potential and believes that they can enter Shrek Academy's inner court.

Therefore, the vast majority of test takers are very confident and have the arrogance of being geniuses.

However, in reality, Shrek Academy only admits fewer than ten students each time it recruits externally. Judging from the hundreds of people at the assessment site, less than one-tenth of them can actually enter the inner academy.

They've reached the pinnacle of their respective academies, but they can't even pass the Shrek Academy's inner court exam. I wonder if they'll be so discouraged that they'll give up.

(End of this chapter)