"Fellow Daoist Du, what a coincidence! I never expected to meet you here."
Shushu, who was in front of Lu Li in line, paused immediately upon hearing that familiar voice.
Turning around, she met Lu Li's equally surprised gaze and knew it wasn't her imagination. She pretended to talk to Lu Li, but secretly looked behind her following the sound.
Sure enough, about ten people behind them, they saw Du Lekang and Hang Hanyin.
The two of them were probably with their family members, and they happened to walk towards the back of the line where Shushu and the others were standing, one on the left and one on the right.
Hang Hanyin, who was leading the group, looked at Du Lekang, who was also leading the group, with a surprised tone. However, a tacit understanding and joy flashed quickly in the eyes of the two of them.
Perhaps to make the performance more convincing, Du Lekang also feigned great surprise and responded politely: "Fellow Daoist Hang, what a coincidence! You're also here to take the Lingxin Academy's assessment, right? Perfect timing, let's go together."
As he spoke, he took a slight step back and gracefully raised his hand to indicate that Hang Hanyin should go first.
Upon seeing this, Hang Hanyin feigned a few words of refusal, then thanked them apologetically and let the others in her group go first, while she quietly joined the queue behind them.
Following a suggestive glance, Du Lekang quickly took half a step and stood directly behind Hang Hanyin, completely unaware that many people behind him were rolling their eyes at him speechlessly.
Shushu originally thought that the two days of queuing would be very boring, but with these two oddballs around, the time didn't seem so hard to pass.
While queuing up to watch the show and enjoy the gossip, Shushu barely noticed the passage of time before the day for distributing Lingxin Academy tokens arrived.
As the gates of Lingxin Academy opened, a sharp-eyed, meticulously dressed late-stage Nascent Soul cultivator appeared on the high platform. This person was none other than Rao Xiuqi, the dean of Lingxin Academy.
Dean Rao wasn't one to waste words, so seeing that the people below had quieted down, he got straight to the point.
"Welcome everyone to participate in the admission examination of my Lingxin Academy. As always: those below the Nascent Soul stage will not be accepted, and those over five hundred years old will not be accepted. If you do not meet the requirements, please leave. That's all, let's begin."
After saying that, he didn't care about the reactions of the people below, and turned around and left very decisively.
On the high platform, several rows of people dressed in the same academy monk robes were also present. These people had varying levels of cultivation, ranging from the late stage of the Nascent Soul stage to the early stage of the Body Integration stage.
In front of each person was a table, on which sat a round sphere of indeterminate material, radiating spiritual light. This sphere was presumably used to test everyone's aptitude and bone age.
Behind these masters was a super-large teleportation array.
According to the information I heard from Jiang Wu, if I'm not mistaken, it should be the teleportation array inside the academy where you take the entrance exam after obtaining the registration jade token.
As it turned out, the potato was right.
In the short time she spent looking at the platform, people ahead of her had already gone up to have their aptitude and bone age tested, received their jade tokens, walked into the teleportation array, and were teleported away in a flash.
The whole process was smooth and quick, and it took less than ten breaths to test dozens of people.
The teleportation array kept shining, seemingly without needing to wait for anyone or be identified; one could simply step inside and be teleported away.
Shushu had never seen such an advanced teleportation array before, nor was it mentioned in his inherited memories. He couldn't help but feel a little curious and kept looking at it.
At the same time, he gained a deeper understanding of the power of Lingxin Academy. As expected, it was the number one academy in the Middle Thousand Worlds. Shushu clicked his tongue in amazement.
Just as Shushu was expressing his feelings, there was a commotion at the testing station in front of him.
Shushu listened intently and realized that the person was carrying a magical artifact that concealed their bone age, but it had been discovered, and the person refused to step down, which led to the conflict.
Although Jiang Wu had mentioned this before, after seeing it with his own eyes, Shushu couldn't help but feel a little anxious, worried that his identity as a treasure-hunting rat would be discovered.
It was Lu Li, who was behind her, who noticed her emotional fluctuations and quickly spoke up to comfort and reassure her. Only then was Shushu relieved to nine-tenths of her worries, but she still had to get through this safely before she could relax completely.
And so, Shushu continued to wait, filled with anticipation and a touch of nervousness, until it was her turn.
Fortunately, few people present were not nervous, so her emotions were not particularly prominent. The teacher opposite her only glanced at Yanshushu lightly before gesturing for her to put her hand on it.
Having already observed how others had done it, Shushu quickly placed his hand on the object while simultaneously mobilizing the spiritual energy within his body, which belonged to the Out-of-Body stage.
I don't know how the sphere was verified, but after a short while, the words "passed" appeared on the sphere.
Seeing this, the teacher behind the table handed Shushu a jade token with the serial number '6666', then flicked his sleeve and threw Shushu in front of the teleportation array behind him.
Before she could even take a step, someone had already fallen beside her; it was Lu Li, who was standing behind her.
The senior and junior disciples exchanged a glance, said nothing, and tacitly stepped into the teleportation array together.
A flash of white light appeared before their eyes, and the two had already arrived at the Spirit Heart Academy.
The first feeling was one of comfort; the spiritual energy was incredibly rich. Shushu couldn't help but take several deep breaths of the spiritual energy before looking around.
They found themselves in a super spacious jade-white stone plaza, surrounded by mountains on three sides. The only side not surrounded by mountains was a towering ladder that seemed to reach the clouds and never end.
Knowing that was the gravity ladder Jiang Wu had mentioned, a place that tested students' character and aptitude, Shushu didn't curiously go over.
Pulling Lu Li to a corner of the square, they chose a relatively quiet spot and took out two comfortable chairs from their spatial storage. They kept one for themselves and pushed the other towards Lu Li.
Lu Li did not refuse and calmly accepted it. Later, when the sun came out, he even added a parasol for him.
In short, the senior and junior disciples who successfully obtained the jade pendant were completely relieved and did whatever they wanted.
Seeing this, the others around followed suit, each taking out all sorts of things from their storage rings.
There was even a conspicuous vendor making food on the spot in the square, the aroma filling the air and whetting everyone's appetite.
He had a flash of inspiration and started making and selling on the spot, turning the waiting area for the assessment into his business arena, and quite a few people bought from him.
Seeing this, the others started brainstorming: "If you sell spiritual food, I'll sell elixirs; if you sell elixirs, I'll sell talismans."
Some people were bartering, while others were directly accepting spirit stones, which really stirred up the entire square and turned it into a small market.
When the academy teachers outside, who were responsible for verifying and issuing jade tokens, finished examining the last person and returned to prepare to open the ladder to heaven, what they saw was a bustling square.
The bustling noise almost made them question their existence, thinking that the teleportation array had malfunctioned and they had been accidentally teleported to some market town.
Finally, seeing that each person had a jade pendant hanging on their body confirmed that they hadn't gone to the wrong place.
Then, the leading teacher unleashed a lion's roar, emphasizing each word: "Take! The! Things! Back! For! Me!"
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