117 Preperation (1/2)

By the time he had returned to his room, Ye Qin had already memorized and sorted out all the knowledge he needed for the exam. Tomorrow is the day of the exam, and after that; the yearly friendly competition between the academies would begin.

In this exam, up to five candidates from each year form a team to battle against the representatives of the other academies in the same year. This applies from the first up to the fourth-year students.

As gold star students, Ye Qin and his group are almost guaranteed the spots in their year. As he thought of this, he remembered a certain student he had seen on the Battle peak just a few months ago.

Even though he wasn't a gold star, his monster was more than enough to be a gold star student even in the third year as a first-year student. Of course, this also applied to Ye Qin and Wang Tao before they went to the Abandoned Lands.

Now that they are both much stronger than before, it's guaranteed that they will take two of the five spots this year.

Waking up the next morning, the group all went to their classroom to take the exam. The exam is a single written exam that consists of multiple subjects related to monsters as well as the peak they had chosen to join. It is almost exactly the same as the exam they had taken at the end of high school just last year, except this one would be more complex and longer.

When Wang Tao entered the room, their homeroom teacher didn't seem surprised at his change. It seemed like she had already known before he entered the classroom. When he thought about it, he realized that the teachers would've known about it else he wouldn't have been able to enter the academy with his ID.

After taking the exam which went on for four hours, Ye Qin and Wang Tao decided to visit the Medicinal peak.

Arriving on the peak, they went straight for the peak master's house. There, they discovered his granddaughter doing some work.

”It's been a while.” they greeted her.

”Ah, you two are back. I see that you've changed a bit Wang Tao.” she replied.

”Eh? Only a bit?” he asked.

”Well, you were quite handsome already when you were chubby, of course, you would be handsome now that it's all gone correct?”

”Er... I guess you're right.” he replied.

”Well, we won't disturb you any longer, we'll go see the peak master.” Ye Qin told her.

”Yes, grandfather is waiting for you two over there.” she said as she stood up to go inside the wooden hut.

Ye Qin and Wang Tao then jumped down the well and headed for the peak master. A short while later, they arrived to see the peak master picking some of the rare plants.

”Peak master.” they both said in unison.

”Ah, you're back. Come, watch me carefully.” he replied.

The two brothers watched the peak master carefully plucked one of the plants and put it into a small basket.

Knowing what the old man meant, Ye Qin and Wang Tao pulled their sleeves up and had a go at plucking the same plant.