Freshmen Disciple Competition. This was something that placed a suffocating pressure on the Celestial Academy’s new disciples as well as a few senior disciples. Ever since these new disciples entered the Academy, cultivating was the only thing on their minds until now. The “now” in question was the day of the said competition. Both the new Outer Disciples and Inner Disciples would compete separately at different intervals over the upcoming days. On one of the larger mountains within the Celestial Academy was where the Freshmen Disciple Competition would be held. A large stage with several smaller ones was already constructed in a massive open area on the mountain, as well as numerous pavilions that would accommodate the various wealthy aristocratic families. There was one noticeable Pavilion within the area, that was much larger and more luxurious than all the other Pavilions. Within this grandiose Pavilion, Xi Shen was casually slumped within a chair that overlooked all of the di

“Next!!”   The voice of the elder responsible for overseeing the participants’ testing thundered out in everyone’s ears.   The disciple who was next walked up the stage, but one could faintly see that he was shaking as if he was extremely nervous.   The elder’s cold eyes bored into this disciple as he approached a rather large circular disk that was in the middle of the stage floating upright.   Upon reaching the large circular disk, the disciple lifted his shaking hand and placed it onto the disk's surface. After several seconds with the disk flashing, it suddenly released a stagnant soft glow before several characters appeared on its surface, showing the disciple’s age and current cultivation.   -Age: 16 years, 2 months, 3 days, 7 hours, 11 minutes-   -Cultivation: Meridian Opening Realm, 27 meridians opened-   After the disk displayed