Every classroom and dorm was filled with discussions on this topic. After all, the Imperial Academy had over ten thousand students, and not everyone qualified to enter the cultivation world.0

"We have prepared a hundred spots this time and will select the best of the best. Review the outstanding students from the past two years and bring them to me," Fan Zhen instructed the Imperial Academy’s teachers and current headmaster, who were gathered around him. It had been a year since they had last met him, and their gazes had shifted from respect to reverence.0

This was the stark difference between martial artists and cultivators. Upon stepping into the cultivation world, one could be deemed a cultivator. In contrast, martial artists, despite maximizing their potential in the mundane world, remained mere mortals.0

Cultivators, on the other hand, could draw energy from their surroundings and achieve the impossible, like moving mountains or controlling seas. Those were unimaginable feats for the teachers and students of the Imperial Academy, but there was an opportunity for them to enter the cultivation world today, filling them with disbelief.0

The selection was handed over to Zhao...0