These young people will see blood during the exam, gain more experience, and also gain a reward for their participation in the exam. While the cost of participating in the exam is free, all of these benefits will come at the cost of the death of many of the participants.
The duration of the exam is not fixed. It could be as short as a year or as long as three years. It is because the content of the examination changes each year.
But some things about the examination are fixed. For example, four months before the start of the examination, the venue will open to registrations.
So anyone who wants to participate in the examination has four months to make their way to the venue. If they don't come during these four months and register, they won't be able to participate in the examination.
The Dyson family left for the examination after three months of registration. There were only three weeks remaining till the start of the examination when they got there.
Many people had arrived at the venue before them. They formed a sea of people, animals, and tents around the venue.
There were also ships of various sizes and shapes in the air. There were few shops as grand as that of the Dyson family. There were more than 20 other ships that could match theirs. The rest of the thousands of ships were smaller.
Arthur and the rest were standing on the deck overlooking the venue. Beneath them was a sea of people, and around them in the air were myriad airships.
Lady Vena said to Arthur, "The largest ships should belong to the other four cultivation families, like the Dyson family."
Arthur nodded in understanding. He knew that in the Turin kingdom, there were four cultivation families. These were the families who managed the territory on behalf of the sect above them.
Some kingdoms were bigger than the Turin kingdom, so they had more than four cultivation families.
But he didn't dwell on the matter of the cultivation families for too long. His mind was on the examination.
He wanted to register as soon as possible, but he couldn't do so until the airship found a place to land. All he could do now was look at the venue of the examination.
The venue was unremarkable. It was just a large plain with many large and circular platforms built on it.
According to what he was told, these platforms were teleportation platforms. They would bring the examinees to the test location.
In his past life, teleportation was said to be impossible. Yet, here he is about to experience it. It made him interested in the platforms and stare at them for a long time even though they looked unremarkable.
Only the examination supervisors from the five major sects know the content of the examination and its locations. The examinees and everyone else won't know until the exam starts. This would prevent anyone from interfering in the exam and cheating.
The more he thought about the examination, the more impressed he was. And the more he saw of it, the more he understood how important it was for everyone in this part of the world.
After the shop landed, the participants got off. They walked to the open path among the sea of people. This path led directly to the plains.
The plain itself had been surrounded by people. But there was a large space left open between people and the plains. There were also four large roads that led straight to the open space.
The road was marked out and paved with smooth yellow rocks. No one was allowed to settle on it. The road was for participants only.
Anyone who wasn't less than 24 years old and those who were at the second mortal coil were not allowed to take the road. If they do, they would be electrocuted.
The electric shock would be mild at first. But it would become more dangerous if those people persisted in breaking the rules.
Those who meet these qualifications will take the road down to the registration stations at the end of it. There they would register for the examination by stating their names and inputting their background and contact information and have their age and talent tested.
The registration was easy. It was just tedious. And because there were a lot of people who came to register, Arthur had to stand in line for a long time.
Apart from the need to register to participate in the examination, this registration process is also important to Arthur because he would finally be able to know what his talent is.
According to common knowledge, talent can be divided into two major groups. They are intangible and tangible talents.
For the process of registration, only tangible talents will be measured. It is because only tangible talent is quantifiable and can be measured reliably.
It is known that every person has the same total value of tangible talent. It is just that the talent of each individual is divided into three sections. These three sections are body, energy, and spirit.
Everyone has a total of 100 tangible talents. But this 100 is split between the three sections.
This distribution is random in each individual. The section that has the largest percentage is the talented area of an individual.
The three sections are tested with three balls containing three types of free energy. There is the red ball containing the life energy, the white ball containing mana, and the blue ball containing spiritual energy.
The individuals absorption rate, resistance, control, and reaction to these three types of energies will be quantified and used to determine their value in the three sections.
As simple as the balls are, they are very precious. Only rich sects and cultivation families have access to them. So the true children of the Dyson family have had their talents tested, but not him.
So he was eager to see what his talent would be. It is important to know because it will determine which path he will take after he reaches the second mortal coil.