Deng Bingding looked at the remaining twenty students in front of him and encouraged them, "I have already distributed the rights to use the cultivation methods you just learned to all of you."
"This is a promotion reward prepared by the Heavenly Court for the candidates on the first level, to encourage you."
"I hope that you will not be arrogant or impetuous in the future, but continue to be brave and diligent, strive hard on the path of immortality, and be able to reach higher levels in the future, and serve the Heavenly Court and the sect…"
After encouraging the students present, Deng Bingding went on to talk about the next round of exams.
"The time for the next round of exams is October 15th, and the location is still here."
"But unlike this comprehensive exam, the second round is a specialized exam. Each of you must choose one of the four tracks: Dao Heart, Mana, Physical Education, and Martial Arts to participate in."
"The reason for keeping you here is to arrange your registration…"
Under the guidance of the righteous god, the students present took out their mobile phones and logged into the registration website.
According to Deng Bingding, after this reform of the Foundation Establishment Examination, there have also been slight changes in the registration for the four tracks.
Each student can register for two tracks. This is to facilitate adjustments based on the student's total score in the first round when there are too few people in some tracks or too many people in others.
In short, it is to better discover talents on the first level, make the distribution of people on the four tracks more balanced, and also to avoid too many strong players being eliminated in one track.
Zhang Yu frowned slightly when he heard this: "Register for two tracks?"
"But A-Zhen and I only discussed one track!"
"Won't this end up adjusting us into the same track after all the adjustments?"
Zhang Yu also wanted to discuss it with Bai Zhenzhen, but the righteous god had just prohibited communication between candidates.
This was clearly a requirement for them to independently complete the registration at this moment after being informed of the rule changes.
"Then I can only rely on my tacit understanding with A-Zhen."
According to the original agreement with Bai Zhenzhen, Zhang Yu would apply for Physical Education, and Bai Zhenzhen would apply for Martial Arts.
Now that there was a second registration option, Zhang Yu had to choose between Dao Heart and Mana.
"Dao Heart or Mana?"
Thinking of his performance in the first Mana exam, Zhang Yu sighed inwardly: "Unconsciously, because I neglected to continue training my control over Mana, A-Zhen is already better than me in this aspect, right?"
Thinking of this, Zhang Yu chose Dao Heart as his second option.
After a while, as the candidates on the scene completed their registration one by one, all the data appeared in front of the righteous gods.
Deng Bingding nodded: "Sure enough, Yun Jing and Ye Lingxiao have avoided each other? It seems they have some tacit understanding."
Huang Zichou said: "It would be a pity to eliminate either of these two if they were to meet on the same track."
Deng Bingding's gaze swept over the registration choices of the third, fourth, and fifth place finishers in total score, and he said, "Let's start adjusting."
In Deng Bingding's view, the first thing to determine was naturally the tracks of Ye Lingxiao and Yun Jing, who were in first and second place.
Simply because the strength of these two people had a qualitative difference from the remaining 18 students present.
Deng Bingding thought to himself: "Which two tracks Ye Lingxiao and Yun Jing are placed in, those will be the tracks where they are the winners."
So after some discussion among the righteous gods, they placed Ye Lingxiao in the Physical Education track he had applied for, and Yun Jing in the Martial Arts track he had applied for.
Then, they continued to group the remaining students according to their scores from high to low, especially trying to separate the top ten players from Ye Lingxiao and Yun Jing as much as possible.
With the righteous gods' high-speed thinking and operation in the network, the candidates for each track in the second round of exams were quickly adjusted.
Huang Zichou glanced at the positions of Zhang Yu and Bai Zhenzhen, and thought to himself, "These two guys are a bit unlucky."
Zhang Yu was arranged into the Physical Education track, while Bai Zhenzhen was arranged into the Martial Arts track.
In the eyes of the righteous gods, Physical Education and Martial Arts were simply death groups because of the existence of Ye Lingxiao and Yun Jing. All the contestants other than Ye Lingxiao and Yun Jing were destined to be eliminated.
Huang Zichou thought: "But even if Zhang Yu and Bai Zhenzhen are eliminated this year, they can still take the exam again next year."
"Although these two poor people have amazing potential and seem to have a mysterious backer, they are still missing a year of cultivation after all. Let them go back and settle down for a year before coming back."
He knew that the main purpose of this Foundation Establishment Examination reform was to discover more talents and send them upwards.
Then, the most reasonable choice would be to divide the lower-scoring players into the groups of Ye Lingxiao and Yun Jing as much as possible, and divide the remaining high-scoring players into the other two groups as much as possible.
In the eyes of the examiners, it was not a pity to eliminate players like Zhang Yu and Bai Zhenzhen, who could participate in the Foundation Establishment Examination again next year, in the next round.
As the righteous gods finished their deliberations, a light curtain immediately appeared in front of the 20 students present, showing the groupings for the next round of exams.
Looking at the grouping results, some breathed a sigh of relief, some looked nervous, and some looked helpless. There were all kinds of different reactions.
The first thing Zhang Yu and Bai Zhenzhen checked… of course, was whether the two of them had ended up in the same group.
When they found that they were each in the Physical Education track and the Martial Arts track, they both breathed a slight sigh of relief.
But then, when they discovered the opponents in their respective tracks, their expressions immediately became serious.
"Number 23?" Zhang Yu looked at Ye Lingxiao and thought to himself, "Am I going to compete with this guy?"
Recalling Ye Lingxiao's performance in the three exams today, Zhang Yu thought, "Damn it… this guy definitely has a cheat, right? The cheat he's using is even bigger than mine, right?"
"Rich and cheating, Number 23, you deserve to die."
At this moment, Zhang Yu really hoped that Ye Lingxiao would be killed in a car accident when he went out.
But he thought about it and knew it was impossible. Not to mention whether a car could kill him, the protection around him must be extraordinary.
"Yu Book, Yu Book, in the end, it's still because you're not strong enough."
"If you were a little stronger, would I need to worry about this here?"
"In the end, I still have to rely on myself to upgrade you."
At first, Zhang Yu thought that Yu Book was his cheat.
Later, after improving his strength through his own efforts time and time again, Zhang Yu felt that Yu Book was just his potential.
Now, thinking that he still had to find a way to hunt evil gods to upgrade Yu Book, he felt like he was Yu Book's cheat.
On the other side, Bai Zhenzhen looked in the direction of Yun Jing: "This person is Number 11, right? Damn it, they actually put me in the same group as him? Is this a fix?"
"Can his family suddenly go bankrupt?"
Bai Zhenzhen scratched her head in annoyance, thinking to herself: "Martial Arts exam, there will eventually be actual combat, right? To defeat this guy…"
She began to constantly recall Yun Jing's performance in the three exams today, and carefully recorded every detail, unwilling to let go of any of them.
Yu Xinghan looked at the Physical Education group he had been assigned to. Although he frowned slightly, he was not too frustrated.
After all, according to his own psychological preparation, he didn't think he could grab the Foundation Establishment Qualification Certificate this year. It was already good enough to get this far.
"Alright," Deng Bingding said, "Everyone has seen the list. That's all for today."
"Everyone, go back and prepare well for the next round of exams."
After speaking, Deng Bingding pointed to the passage where everyone had come from, signaling that everyone could leave.
Just as Zhang Yu and Bai Zhenzhen were walking towards the passage, they found that Ye Lingxiao was walking beside them at some point.
After discovering Zhang Yu and Bai Zhenzhen beside him, Ye Lingxiao made eye contact with the two of them and nodded to each other, as if to say hello.
Not far away, Dai Xingzhi looked at this scene and thought to himself: "Ye Lingxiao actually took the initiative to say hello to them? Sure enough, they are regarded by Ye Lingxiao as figures of the same level."
Thinking that when he and Zhang Yu came in together, he secretly looked down on the other party's identity as a foreigner, Dai Xingzhi couldn't help but smile bitterly in helplessness: "Alas, it's good to be rich. Even if you're not in Xiandu, you're still awesome."
After Ye Lingxiao made eye contact with Zhang Yu, he said, "Today's exam, is it not worth you using your full strength?"
Zhang Yu's spirit suddenly shook when he heard this, and he thought to himself, "What does he mean? Is this the bullying language of Xiandu? Is he mocking my poor performance today?"
Ye Lingxiao continued, "But in the next round of competition, you won't be able to get by without using your full strength."
"I will look forward to competing with you then."
"Then… see you at the summit."
The summit that Ye Lingxiao was talking about referred to the second level of Kunxu.
After all, from his point of view, with the level of performance shown by Zhang Yu and Bai Zhenzhen, even if they didn't pass the Foundation Establishment Qualification Certificate, there was absolutely no problem in passing the second level in the future.
Watching Ye Lingxiao fall into the black hole under his feet and disappear without a trace, Zhang Yu's mind was filled with the fighting spirit expressed in the other party's eyes.
The next moment, he and Bai Zhenzhen also fell into the hole and were teleported back to the toilet in the train station.
"That guy…" Zhang Yu thought to himself, "Was he not being sarcastic?"
Zhang Yu clenched his fists slightly: "Don't worry, I will definitely give you a surprise in the next exam."
……
Back at the train station, looking at the gray night sky, Zhang Yu and Bai Zhenzhen didn't dare to stay in Xiandu for too long, and left the high-consumption city not long after buying train tickets.
As the train started, Zhang Yu had just felt a little relaxed when the ritual rang again.
"Alas." With a sigh, Zhang Yu could only come to the corridor next to him and practice the Boundless Spring and Autumn Meditation.
Seeing Zhang Yu like this, Bai Zhenzhen cursed inwardly, "Still grinding?"
After experiencing three exams in a row, Bai Zhenzhen only felt extremely tired in her heart at this moment, and couldn't muster the interest to continue cultivating at all.
But thinking of the opponents she and Zhang Yu had to face in the next round of exams, Bai Zhenzhen could also understand Zhang Yu's mood.
"Yu Zi must be very anxious now."
"Alas, being anxious won't help."
"At least rest on the train first after just finishing the exam…"
Just as Bai Zhenzhen was thinking this, her phone vibrated.
"Hello?"
Only to hear a gentle but polite female voice from the other end of the phone: "May I ask if this is Miss Bai Zhenzhen?"
