Entering the Academy Together

Needless to say, Wang Dasha, blessed with the physique of the God of Strength, passed the test without a single suspense. Si Mengling, who practiced the Azure Moon Spirit Scripture, was also accepted because her spiritual power exhibited some unique attributes.

Among the group, Nie Feiyan, the one who worried them the most, unexpectedly passed the test as well. Furthermore, instead of choosing the formation cultivation test, she miraculously passed the entrance examination of Dragon Soaring Academy purely through her cultivation as a congenital martial artist of the ninth stage. Such a result left both Wang Dasha and Si Mengling utterly astonished.

Faced with their bewilderment, Nie Feiyan explained: on the night before the test, she did not practice cultivation, but instead had a sound sleep. During her slumber, she dreamed of an immortal elder who told her that if she wanted to pass the entrance examination of Dragon Soaring Academy, she had to choose the martial cultivation test; otherwise, she would never make it through!

Nie Feiyan, who originally had very little confidence, had been pondering this matter all day long. When the time came to make a choice, she ultimately chose to trust her dream. During the test, she merely executed a set of Wind and Snow Ethereal Palms—a martial technique that could not even be considered top-tier within the Wind and Snow Pavilion—yet it miraculously allowed her to pass the examination.

"As long as you passed, that's all that matters!" Seeing that Nie Feiyan had also passed the test, the stone that had been hanging in Wang Dasha's heart finally landed.

However, Si Mengling felt a trace of doubt in her heart regarding this matter and was about to inquire further when Ding Mengqiu, who had also passed the test, pulled her along to choose their dormitories.

Worried that Nie Feiyan might feel lonely by herself, Wang Dasha once again displayed his extraordinary intelligence. After letting Nie Feiyan and Si Mengling go together to choose a dormitory, he rushed off to pick his own as well.

"By the way, Mengling, how many academic credits did you get?" Ding Mengqiu, coming from a distinguished background, was naturally quite familiar with the rules of Dragon Soaring Academy. "After choosing our dorms, how about we go together to cultivate at the Inquiring Dao Pagoda?"

"I only got one hundred and fifty points, but looking at the academy rules... the path to enter the Inquiring Dao Pagoda doesn't seem all that smooth!" Si Mengling said somewhat worriedly.

Ding Mengqiu immediately patted her chest and said, "Don't you worry. By then, a few good sisters of ours will travel with us, so we won't be afraid of anyone trying to rob us of our credits. Getting one hundred and fifty points is already quite good for you; I only got one hundred and forty."

"Right, Feiyan, how many credits did you get?" Si Mengling was still full of doubts as to how Nie Feiyan had managed to pass the test.

"I only got seventy points!" Nie Feiyan stammered, looking somewhat unconfident.

Given Nie Feiyan's cultivation level, the other two were not too surprised by her credit score. After offering some encouraging words, the three of them began to select their dormitories.

The dormitories at Dragon Soaring Academy existed in the form of traditional quadrangles, with each courtyard capable of accommodating four students. In addition to the three of them, they were joined by Ding Mengqiu's friend, Bai Lanxue from the Tianyuan Hall, while the other two companions who had traveled with Ding Mengqiu were housed in a different dormitory. After everything was settled, except for Nie Feiyan, the group of female warriors rushed toward the Inquiring Dao Pagoda. After all, besides the library's rich collection of books, the opportunity to cultivate inside the Inquiring Dao Pagoda was one of the main reasons they came to cultivate at Dragon Soaring Academy.

Nie Feiyan returned to her room, took out her jade token, and began to read the information contained within it. If Si Mengling had been by her side at that moment, she undoubtedly would have been terribly shocked, because the number displayed on Nie Feiyan's jade token was actually four hundred! In other words, Nie Feiyan had passed the entrance test based on her own innate talent and had been awarded four hundred credits...

On the other end, Wang Dasha found himself embroiled in a dispute over dormitory arrangements.

The reason was very simple: Wang Dasha wanted to occupy two rooms all by himself, his justification being that he needed to reserve one for Lin Xiaobao. However, due to Qi Yuxuan's covert instigation, someone immediately stepped forward to argue with him. If not for the constraint of the academy rules, they might have already come to blows.

Eventually, the dispute drew the intervention of an academy instructor. Without Nie Feiyan by his side, Wang Dasha's intelligence had reverted to its normal state, and naturally, he was left completely in the wrong under the instructor's reasoning. After giving Wang Dasha a stern reprimand, the matter was finally put to rest.

In the end, Wang Dasha had no choice but to select an unclaimed quadrangle to live in by himself while waiting for Lin Xiaobao's return.

New students would not begin formal classes until half a month later. Such an arrangement by the academy was intended to give newcomers some time to adapt to the environment, but most new students seized this period to make a push toward the Inquiring Dao Pagoda.

Fortunately, those who managed to stay behind basically all possessed sects or backgrounds and had some understanding of the rules of Dragon Soaring Academy, so almost everyone traveled in groups.

Seeing many people rushing toward the Inquiring Dao Pagoda, Wang Dasha checked the four hundred and fifty credits on his jade token and felt a restless itch in his heart. After asking for the location of Nie Feiyan's dormitory, he intended to invite her to go to the Inquiring Dao Pagoda together.

However, upon arriving at Nie Feiyan's dormitory, he could not find a trace of her, leaving him with no choice but to head toward the Inquiring Dao Pagoda alone.

The period that followed was the liveliest time Dragon Soaring Academy had seen in a decade. Fierce battles erupted almost at any moment; the plundering of new students' credits by senior students was practically the defining theme whenever a new cohort arrived.

Logically speaking, having stayed at Dragon Soaring Academy for ten years, senior students should have long since broken through the realm of the Spirit Dao. Yet among them, there were no lack of students whose cultivation levels were not high to begin with upon admission.

Naturally, there were also some calculating students who, upon raising their cultivation to the peak of the ninth stage of the Spirit Dao, were in no rush to make a breakthrough. Instead, they spent every day engaging in acts of robbery within the Spirit Dao passage. They were accumulating credits, waiting until they had stored up enough credits for their future cultivation before choosing to break through.

Otherwise, while they were the powerful ones inside the Spirit Dao passage at present, once they broke through and entered the Dao Heart realm, they would very likely become lambs waiting to be slaughtered. Conversely, by storing up enough credits, once they entered the Dao Heart realm, as long as they could enter the Inquiring Dao Pagoda, they could devote themselves entirely to cultivation, thus bypassing the ranks of the weak within a short span of time.

There were not a few senior students harboring such intentions, and perhaps this was the only rule they could rationally exploit.

Precisely because there were many such individuals among the senior students, those arrogant new students suffered a massive blow this time around. Those who managed to reach the Inquiring Dao Pagoda without having their credits plundered could be counted on one's fingers. Even Wang Dasha had half of his credits partitioned away by others.

The remaining half of his credits meant that Wang Dasha only had enough to cultivate in the Inquiring Dao Pagoda for four days, while most new students were spat out after just one day due to their credits being exhausted. Even so, after personally experiencing the miraculous nature of the Inquiring Dao Pagoda, the vast majority of people were filled with yearning in their hearts, even going so far as to display their respective skills and desperately take on tasks before classes officially began, striving to exchange for more credits.

Of course, there was one exception to this, and that was Wang Dasha. To him, the Inquiring Dao Pagoda merely seemed to possess a slightly more abundant concentration of spiritual Qi than the outside world. As for the comprehension of the Dao, with his intelligence crippled by the absence of Nie Feiyan by his side, it did not seem to play much of a role. However, the battles within the Spirit Dao passage did bring quite a few benefits that Wang Dasha could genuinely feel.

This was the wondrous aspect of his physique as the God of Strength—he only needed to stimulate the potential within his body through continuous combat, without even requiring excessive comprehension of the Dao, and his cultivation level could likewise continuously rise.