The Selection Begins

Shen Yi was meditating in the dormitory when he heard someone push the door open. He opened his eyes and looked at Jiang Zidao, whose head was swollen like a pig's head, and didn't recognize him at first.

After asking around, he covered his face, not knowing what to say.

He patted Jiang Zidao on the shoulder, then returned to his bed and began to meditate.

Jiang Zidao didn't say anything more, with a face full of despair, but from beginning to end, he never doubted Shen Yi's method, only feeling that he didn't know how to adapt.

The next day, he didn't go to class either, only staying in the dormitory to study the notes.

In the evening, Xu Yingshi contacted Shen Yi, telling him that the selection for the Outer Academy students would begin tomorrow morning.

She would also participate. After telling him the things to pay attention to, she left, saying that she also had to take her mid-term exams.

Early in the morning, Shen Yi arrived at the entrance of the selection venue. It was said that this selection was not just a simple test of strength; it was different every year.

The selection venue was a place similar to a virtual reality simulator. This time, a total of one hundred students participated.

A teacher led the participating students to the Training Room.

They were asked to enter the training pods in the Physical Training Room one by one.

Shen Yi familiarly stepped into the training pod. When the helmet was placed on his head, a prompt voice sounded.

【 Please enter your student ID number 】

After entering his student ID number, the scene before his eyes changed.

He appeared on an arena similar to the last time, except this time, no matchmaking option appeared on the arena.

【 Please defeat the Fierce Beasts that appear within thirty minutes. No use of abilities is allowed. Note: The shorter the kill time, the higher the score received 】

【 Please choose your weapon 】

After choosing his weapon, two Fierce Beasts appeared on the arena in front of him.

"Yadilong Beasts?" Shen Yi recognized the Fierce Beasts that had just appeared. During his previous special training, he had come into contact with this type, and their physical constitution was exceptionally powerful.

The two Yadilong Beasts appeared and immediately rushed straight toward Shen Yi.

They attacked him in a pincer movement, one in front and one behind. One of them opened its mouth, and a terrifying fireball flew toward him.

Just as he was about to dodge, he felt the wind behind him.

By reflex, he ducked, and a massive tail swept past his scalp.

The flames directly enveloped his body.

"Boom!"

The body enveloped in flames directly shattered. Shen Yi slowly materialized his figure not far away.

The body in the flames was only an afterimage of Shen Yi. His speed was extremely fast. After raising his spear technique to the perfect level last time, he had also become much more agile.

When he exerted his full strength, his speed was invisible to the eye.

Holding the spear in one hand in a starting stance, the two Yadilong Beasts saw that their strike had missed and launched another attack.

"Clang!"

A metallic sound rang out. The spear in Shen Yi's hand, with extreme speed, precisely stabbed into the eye of one of the Yadilong Beasts.

Sparks flew in all directions. Its eyelid was incredibly hard, and the spear tip only left a white dot.

"This selection is indeed formidable." He knew that getting selected into the Inner Academy was difficult, but he didn't expect it to be this hard.

As expected, those who could enter the Inner Academy could no longer be described as geniuses; they were all monsters.

Failing to land a solid blow, he turned and retreated.

The two Yadilong Beasts rushed toward him, and Shen Yi used all his strength.

He swung hard at the two Fierce Beasts, creating a sonic boom.

"Boom!"

The two Fierce Beasts were directly knocked flying.

The parts of their bodies that were hit had shattered scales, and fresh blood splurted out.

The fresh blood made them even more furious, and they rushed toward Shen Yi again.

But his speed was even faster, directly circling behind the two Fierce Beasts, his spear tip aiming straight at the wound of one of them.

"Rip ~"

Half of the spear shaft stabbed into its body. He twisted it hard, and this Yadilong Beast let out a miserable shriek.

Releasing his weapon, he grabbed the tail of this Fierce Beast and pulled back hard, lifting its entire body.

Grabbing the tail, he swung it like a Meteor Hammer, slamming it toward the other one.

His strength of over one hundred points was fully displayed at this moment. This was absolutely not the strength that an ordinary Tier Four ability user could possess.

In just a few minutes, the two Fierce Beasts turned into a white light and vanished from the arena.

【 Congratulations on passing the first stage. Please prepare, the second stage will begin immediately 】

The prompt voice sounded again.

Following that, the scene before his eyes changed, and he appeared in a void space.

【 The second stage, testing Mental strength. The longer you endure, the higher the score 】

As soon as the prompt ended, an inexplicable pressure began to appear in the originally void space.

At first, Shen Yi didn't feel uncomfortable, but after about five minutes, he felt a bit strained.

And while resisting the pressure, all kinds of Fierce Beasts appeared before his eyes.

After appearing, they rushed toward him, and Shen Yi raised his hand to resist.

The weapon in his hand directly pierced through the bodies of these Fierce Beasts. They were not physical entities and could not be attacked at all.

But the attacks of the Fierce Beasts could strike his soul.

Every single attack brought him unprecedented pain.

At first, it was like ant bites.

Gradually, as the Fierce Beasts grew more numerous, the pain became more and more intense.

None of his attack methods could cause damage to the Fierce Beasts, while every one of their attacks made him wish he were dead.

Ten minutes had passed, and the Fierce Beasts seemed endless.

【 Ding ~ 】

【 Soul power detected. Absorb? 】

In Shen Yi's mind, the System's voice rang out.

At this moment, he could not hear the System's prompt at all. The pain from his damaged soul could not be described in words.

【 Soul power detected. Absorb? 】

The System prompted again.

【 Detecting no response from the host, defaulting to absorption. 】

Following that, with every attack of the Fierce Beasts on Shen Yi's soul, the System absorbed the soul power of that Fierce Beast into his body.

His mental strength was rising rapidly. Although he could absorb this soul power, it could not alleviate his agony.

His mental strength, which was originally only 75 points, increased by one point every time a soul was absorbed.

In just five short minutes, his mental strength broke through one hundred points.

The rapid increase in mental strength also brought corresponding side effects to his body.

It gave him a splitting headache, as if countless red-hot iron nails were stirring in his brain.

At this moment, Shen Yi could do nothing, only able to lie passively on the ground, rolling in pain.

At the place where the school's teachers were responsible for monitoring the students, several people were looking at the screen.

"Training pod number 288 has encountered an issue," a staff member beside them said to the teacher.

Hearing this, several people hurried over, and one of them asked, "What happened?"

"In training pod number 288, a large amount of the Fierce Beasts' soul power has disappeared."

"Huh??"