Chapter 25 - Freshmen Evaluation

The examination area was extremely large and open. It spanned 20km and was divided into 50 areas, each about four hundred square meters. Each area was allocated to a teacher who will supervise the students' fights.

Mo Xie was assigned to the 36th arena. He patiently waited for all the students to arrive at the testing site and the academy to start fighting. A few minutes passed before the ad finally came.

The teacher in charge of his arena began talking to him and the other teams that were assigned to the same arena as him.

"I will now call the first teams that will fight first in the arena. Remember, safety comes first. Try not to hurt your opponents beyond the limit. For the first match we will have Class 3: Han Yue, Lou Chen and Fan Ling. From Class 1: Mo Xie." He recalled that the academy warned him that Mo Xie is a special case and that he shouldn't mind him being in a 'team' alone, so he didn't show any emotion on his face. However, the students around started a commotion.

"Silence! The academy approved Mo Xie doing the assessment by himself." With his voice, the students calmed down and Mo Xie and the Class 3 students climbed into the arena.

Seeing that both parties were prepared, the teacher announced: "Start the battle!" As soon as his voice sounded, the Class 3 team released their martial souls and 1 yellow ring appeared on each of them.

Mo Xie sighed and calmly waited for his opponents to attack him. Fan Ling was a spiritual master of the auxiliary system. His martial soul was a scepter. His spirit ring lit up and a yellow light fell on Long Chen and Han Yue increasing their speed. Long Chen was of the attack system and his martial soul was an earth lion, while Han Yue was of the speed system and had a wind leopard as his martial soul.

With their speed increased, they ran towards Mo Xie and activated their spirit rings respectively. Long Chen's body expanded a little more and his attack power increased, while Han Yue's claws became sharper and his speed increased even more.

'Not bad… Too bad your ranks are still too low!' Mo Xie thought. Facing the pincer attack, Mo Xie first grabbed Han Yue's arm who got close to him first and threw her towards Long Chen, interrupting his attack.

When Han Yue collided with Long Chen, Mo Xie came in front of him and delivered a simple kick to Han Yue's abdomen, causing her to be thrown along with Long Chen out of the arena.

Mo Xie then turned his gaze to Fan Ling and asked, "Do you want me to finish?" Fan Ling shook his head frantically and took the initiative to give up.

"The winner is Mo Xie of Class 1!" The teacher announced a little surprised. Not even 10 seconds had passed and the battle was already over, causing the students below the arena to be shocked and fearful at Mo Xie's strength.

Mo Xie nodded to the teacher and descended from the arena. As there was only 1 game today for the students to get used to, he went back to the Spirit Tools Department. Tomorrow there would be two matches in the morning and in the afternoon, totaling four matches and the third day would have 5 matches in total.

The next day, Mo Xie returned to the arena and won every battle. He even found a team made only of Soul Grandmasters, but still won easily and became the seeded team in the arena.

On the third day, all his opponents were Soul Grandmasters. Mo Xie didn't even need to use any powerful abilities. Relying only on his close combat skills, he knocked out all of his opponents, creating even more dread in the students.

They saw Mo Xie win every combat without using his martial soul or sword techniques that have become known throughout the academy. Unless it's an older student, no freshman had the strength to defeat him.

The first three days of evaluation had passed and Zhou Yi had just arrived in class. Mo Xie saw firsthand Yuhao and Wang Dong being late for class. Knowing the reason was because of their martial souls fusion, he didn't care much, but he remembered to pay attention when possible to understand the process.

Some commotion later, Zhou Yi congratulated everyone in the class who managed to pass the assessment. Yuhao and Wang Dong were also forced to run for not paying attention during class.

When class ended, Zhou Yi called Mo Xie.

"During the round robin, you did a good job, but now that we're getting into knockouts there will be other Soul Elders in the competition. Show no mercy and crush them completely!" Mo Xie cringed a little as Zhou Yi's words grew more and more threatening. He couldn't help but apologize to his opponents.

'It's not that I don't want to let them go, but the circumstances aren't in my favor…'

Mo Xie said goodbye to her and thought how terrifying she could be. He threw those thoughts to the back of his mind and waited for the competition to start again.

The next day, Mo Xie once again arrived at the assessment area and easily defeated his opponents.

When afternoon came, Mo Xie finally found a Soul Elder in the arena.

"Both teams enter the arena!" The responsible teacher spoke.

Mo Xie went upstairs and saw three pretty girls.

The girl in front was quite tall, but a little shorter than Mo Xie. She had short golden hair and looked extremely agile. Her big blue eyes had long lashes above them, and there were some pretty freckles on her cheeks.

The girl behind and to his left had short fiery red hair, while her eyes were a shade of red rarely seen. Her skin was white as jade, but the look in her eyes was extremely cold; she was even comparable to old lady Zhou.

On the other hand, the girl on the right contrasted sharply with the girl on the left. A long head of light green hair was draped over her shoulders, while her dark green eyes were filled with heat. The delicate feeling she emanated made the person unconsciously feel the need to be tender to her.

[Author's Note: I took their description from the original as it would be a headache to think of another way to describe them.]

"Both teams introduce themselves!" the teacher commanded.

"Class 1, Mo Xie. Soul Elder Rank 37 of the Control System."

"Class 9, Wu Feng. I am a Soul Grandmaster of the Rank 25 Assault System."

"Class 9, Nanmen Yun'er. I am a Soul Grandmaster of the Rank 24 Agility System."

"Class 9, Ning Tian. I am a Rank 31 Auxiliary System Tool Soul Elder."

"Let the match begin!" At the same moment, Wu Feng released his martial soul. A fiery aura enveloped her and a dragon cry could be heard from her body. Dragon talons grew out of her right hand and two yellow rings rose.

Nanmen Yun'er also unleashed her martial soul and two dark green wings appeared on her back, giving her immense speed. Two yellow rings also appeared and her hands turned jade green.

As for Ning Tian, ​​a seven-colored light appeared on her body, causing a seven-colored pagoda to appear in her palm. Three ring rose from her feet, 2 yellow and one purple.

"I summon the first of the seven treasures: speed!" Ning Tian's first ring glowed and two lights fell on Wu Feng and Nanmen Yun'er, increasing their speed even further.

Wu Feng and Nanmen Yun'er ran towards Mo Xie who just watched Ning Tian martial soul with interest.

'It's a shame she doesn't have the means to evolve her pagoda and will be stuck at the level of a Soul Sage…' Mo Xie sighed with pity.

Wu Feng activated her first spiritual ring and a dense layer of flames shot up from her body, covering everything within a foot of her. This made all his attacks possess high temperatures like a Fire Dragon. However, that fire is nothing in front of Mo Xie.

Nanmen Yun'er's first ring also glowed and the jade green color from her hands spread to her arms. Its wings took the form of a guillotine, attacking Mo Xie.

Mo Xie just smiled in amusement and didn't flinch. Instead he raised his hands and grabbed both attacks. He then pushed them both back and kicked Wu Feng who couldn't defend himself in time. The kick made her fly towards Ning Tian who had a solemn expression.

Wasting no time, Mo Xie appeared in front of Nanmen Yun'er and grabbed her by the neck before crushing her to the ground, causing her to pass out. Ning Tian had just used her second ability and healed Wu Feng when Nanmen Yun'er was defeated. She didn't even have a chance to help her.

"Wu Feng, don't hold back and go all out." Ning Tian spoke in a solemn tone and used all of her abilities.

"I summon the first of the Seven Treasures: Speed. I summon the second of the Seven Treasures: Healing. I summon the third of the Seven Treasures: Power." Three beams of light of different colors hit Wu Feng, increasing her strength and speed by 40%.

Wu Feng also activated her first and second abilities. Her flames got even more intense and her second ability made her attack and defense as well as her other abilities strengthen.

Mo Xie didn't wait any longer and ran towards them.

He stomped the ground and threw a single punch at Wu Feng. She swerved to the left and attacked Mo Xie with her dragon hand. Mo Xie took a step to the side, shifting his center of gravity, he spun around and kicked at Wu Feng's claws, making her recoil on impact.

Mo Xie planted his feet on the ground and ran towards her once more before punching her in the stomach. However, a ray of light fell on Wu Feng once more, healing her. Mo Xie didn't care and crushed her to the ground like he had Nanmen Yun'er.

The impact was enough to make her lose consciousness. Mo Xie then disappeared from the place and reappeared in front of Ning Tian. Before she could say anything, Mo Xie also grabbed her by the neck and was close to crushing her to the ground too when the referee's voice sounded: "The match is over! The winner is Mo Xie from Class 1."

Mo Xie couldn't help but look at the teacher and pout. If Zhou Yi wants to get in trouble with him because of not finishing the job, Mo Xie would sell this teacher without thinking twice. He then released Ning Tian and apologized.

"Don't look at me like that, I'm also out of options here..." He spoke with a pitiful tone.

Ning Tian glared at him fiercely before leaving the arena. The teachers had already removed Wu Feng and Nanmen Yun'er from the arena and taken them for treatment.

People watching the fight felt a chill down their spines seeing the result of the match. Many male students also cursed Mo Xie in their hearts. How could he hurt pretty girls without an ounce of hesitation? If it weren't for the fact that they couldn't defeat him, they would have attacked Mo Xie several times already.

Mo Xie's lips twitched at these stares. However he ignored them. He was someone who advocated gender equality, so he wouldn't hesitate to hit his opponent even if they are a woman.

And so Mo Xie managed to enter the Top 16 of the freshman evaluation.