Chapter 446: Chapter 446: Ye Xuan’s Plan
Seeing Master Lu Li’s shocked expression, Ye Xuan smiled faintly.
The power of the Voidstrider Wings left him quite satisfied.
With a thought.
The wings, flashing with lightning, suddenly retracted into his back and vanished.
"Master Lu Li, thank you for your help this time."
Ye Xuan was sincerely grateful. Without Lu Li, he never would have been able to finish the Voidstrider Wings.
"Haha, Master Xuan Ye, you’re too kind. About that Hundred-Turn Tempering Skill..."
An expectant look appeared on Lu Li’s face.
SWOOSH!
Ye Xuan tossed a jade slip into Master Lu Li’s hands. The latter scanned it with his Profound Sense, and a look of joy immediately spread across his face.
"Haha, it really is the Hundred-Turn Tempering Skill!"
Master Lu Li was overcome with excitement.
How could he not be excited?
The Hundred-Turn Tempering Skill was a core technique from the ancient age of Artifact Refining, its methods applicable to every stage of the process. Now that he possessed this skill, Lu Li was confident. Combining it with the insights he’d gained while refining with Ye Xuan over the past few days, his own Artifact Refining abilities were sure to make another leap forward.
At that rate, he might not just become the top Artifact Refiner in the Sky Empire, but perhaps even the best in the entire Dream Realm Plain.
After chatting a bit more with Lu Li, Ye Xuan returned to the Luo family’s estate.
"Young Master Ye, you’ve returned." Luo Min immediately came forward to greet him.
"I heard you were looking for me at the Artifact Refining Workshop? Has anything happened at the shop recently?" Ye Xuan asked.
"Nothing much at the shop. It was just that Cheng’Er was about to leave for Gale Light Academy with Yuan An, so I went to find you. If it weren’t for you, Young Master Ye, my Cheng’Er never would have been able to get into Gale Light Academy," Luo Min explained, his face full of gratitude.
"So that’s why. I didn’t realize Gale Light Academy was starting so soon. Is it really that important?" Ye Xuan asked curiously.
Luo Min seemed to place great importance on Gale Light Academy.
Before Ye Xuan had even arrived in the Sky Empire, he had already planned on going to Gale Light Academy. The reason he had stayed in the Imperial Capital until now was precisely because he was preparing to go there next, so naturally, he needed to learn more about it.
Luo Min nodded. "Gale Light Academy is the most powerful institution on the Dream Realm Plain. Everyone who gets in is one of the chosen few, the absolute top geniuses of our land. Someone once did the math: for any genius who attends Gale Light Academy, the chance of reaching the Tier Six Third Layer of a Martial Venerable in their lifetime is over eighty percent. The chance of becoming a Tier Seven Martial King is over three percent..."
"What? Three percent? That high?"
This statistic shocked Ye Xuan. He had been hearing about the fame of Gale Light Academy ever since he arrived in the Dream Realm Plain, but this was the first time he had heard this kind of statistical analysis.
Three percent—what did that even mean?
It meant that out of every one hundred people, three had a chance of one day stepping into the Martial King Realm. This was an absolutely heaven-defying statistic.
"Then how many students does Gale Light Academy recruit each year?"
Luo Min shook his head. "I’m not too clear on the details. However, I know that Gale Light Academy doesn’t have large classes. Every student who makes it in is one of the most elite geniuses on the Dream Realm Plain. I’ve even heard that some major powers will secretly send their own geniuses into the Dream Realm Plain for training and study."
"That happens?"
Ye Xuan’s brows furrowed.
In that case, Gale Light Academy was truly incredible.
For any genius to develop, they need many things, the most important being guidance, experience, and resources.
Powers that could be considered top-tier would certainly not lack resources. Therefore, what attracted them to Gale Light Academy must be the other two aspects: guidance and experience.
If that was truly the case, then Gale Light Academy either possessed an incredibly strong faculty or some heaven-defying legacy and training grounds. There were few other possibilities.
This sparked a deep interest in Ye Xuan for the academy he would soon be attending. He asked in a serious tone, "Patriarch Luo, is this rumor you speak of true?"
Luo Min thought for a moment and said, "It should be true. I’ve at least heard that a Prince of our Sky Empire once went incognito to secretly enroll and cultivate at Gale Light Academy."
"And Gale Light Academy doesn’t mind?" Ye Xuan asked, confused.
"They are all major powers on the Dream Realm Plain. Wouldn’t Gale Light Academy stop other powers from sending their disciples to train there?"
Luo Min shook his head. "Gale Light Academy is a place purely for learning. Geniuses from any power can enter, even from the Nine Yang Sect and the Profound Mystery Sect. Moreover, Gale Light Academy never asks about a student’s identity or origin; they only look at talent. After graduation, they don’t control their students’ future actions either. The only thing forbidden is to act against Gale Light Academy or betray it."
"It is said that the purpose of establishing Gale Light Academy was to cultivate a large number of geniuses to make our Dream Realm Plain even stronger."
Ye Xuan was astonished.
’A power this selfless actually exists in the world?’
"So, you’re saying that Gale Light Academy doesn’t restrict a genius’s identity at all?"
A thought suddenly occurred to Ye Xuan. If that were the case, if geniuses from the Thirteen Nations Alliance could also enter Gale Light Academy, then he believed the Thirteen Nations Alliance would surely flourish sooner or later.
Furthermore, if a significant number of geniuses from the Thirteen Nations Alliance entered Gale Light Academy, then even if the Profound Mystery Sect found out where Gale truly fell, they wouldn’t dare do much to the Thirteen Nations Alliance.
Luo Min nodded. "As far as I know, Gale Light Academy has never restricted a genius’s identity or origin. As long as you’re a genius and can pass their tests, you can join."
A hint of excitement rose in Ye Xuan’s heart.
"A Tier Four Celestial Martial Artist under the age of twenty-five? That difficulty isn’t too high," Ye Xuan murmured.
This was the enrollment standard for Gale Light Academy that the Mo family of Black Stone City had told him. If this were the case, with the talent of the geniuses from the Thirteen Nations Alliance, it wouldn’t be impossible to achieve with systematic training.
"Young Master Ye, you don’t actually think that reaching Tier Four Celestial Martial Artist before the age of twenty-five is all it takes to get into Gale Light Academy, do you?"
Luo Min, standing to the side, blurted out in astonishment.
"Isn’t it?"
"Of course not." Luo Min shook his head. "That’s just the minimum standard that’s been passed around—the requirement to even be eligible for their entrance exam. If you truly aim for that standard, you’ll never get into Gale Light Academy. Forget everything else, just look at my Cheng’Er. Before he met you, Young Master Ye, he was already at Tier Four Peak and only twenty-five. By your logic, shouldn’t he have been able to get into the academy long ago?"
Luo Min continued, "And it’s not just my Cheng’Er. Look at Qin Yu from the Qin family, or Murong Yunyi from the Murong family. Their talent is even greater than my son’s, but didn’t they also fail to get into Gale Light Academy in the end?"
"By that most basic standard, almost all the major families of the Sky Empire have geniuses who meet the criteria. But the reality is that in the last few decades, not a single scion from any of the Imperial Capital’s noble families has managed to get into Gale Light Academy."
Luo Min’s words gave Ye Xuan pause.
"So, you’re saying Gale Light Academy has other standards?"
The standards for Gale Light Academy he knew were what he had heard from the Mo family in Black Stone City.
Thinking about it now, given the Mo family’s strength and status, they might not have known the true standards. The Luo family, on the other hand, had once been a noble family of the Sky Empire and subordinates to the powerful Murong family. The information they possessed should be more accurate.
After all, Ye Xuan knew that the Murong family had a genius named Murong Yunyu who was currently a student at Gale Light Academy.
"So what are the specific standards? Patriarch Luo, do you know?" Ye Xuan asked again.
"I can’t say for sure what the specific standards are, but I have heard a few things. To join Gale Light Academy as a Tier Four Celestial Martial Artist, you have to be exceptionally young—the younger, the better. Generally, if someone breaks through to the Tier Four Third Layer by eighteen, or reaches the Tier Five First Layer by twenty, their chances of getting in are quite high. Otherwise, there are no guarantees. But one thing is for certain: for a twenty-five-year-old like my Cheng’Er, it would be absolutely impossible to enter Gale Light Academy without the power of a Tier Five Martial Sect."
"And these are just the standards on paper. To get into Gale Light Academy, you have to pass a series of tests. So, whether you can actually get in isn’t guaranteed just by reaching a certain cultivation level at a certain age. These are just rough guidelines."
Hearing this, Ye Xuan was a little speechless.
This was completely different from the standard he knew. If this was the case, then with the strength of the geniuses from the Thirteen Nations Alliance, not a single one would even be qualified to enter Gale Light Academy.
However, Ye Xuan’s resolve was now firm. He would definitely go and take part in the entrance examination for Gale Light Academy’s new term.
Only by experiencing it firsthand could he learn how Gale Light Academy truly determined its admission qualifications.
Once he understood the academy’s assessment standards, he would also be able to understand just what made it so special.
An academy with such strict requirements and such a colossal reputation definitely had something special about it.
Unfortunately, Gale Light Academy was about to start its term, and both Dongfang Zisi and Yuan An had already left the Imperial Capital to return there. Otherwise, he could have learned a lot from them.
"Young Master Ye, could it be that you’re not from our Dream Realm Plain?"
Hearing how little Ye Xuan knew about Gale Light Academy, Luo Min was also incredibly surprised.
In Luo Min’s eyes, for someone as young as Ye Xuan to possess such strength, he had to be a disciple from some top power on the Dream Realm Plain. Gale Light Academy seemed the most likely candidate.
Most major powers had their own legacies and strengths, making them somewhat specialized. Only Gale Light Academy accepted geniuses from all over and had astonishing achievements in every field.
But now, hearing Ye Xuan’s questions, it seemed he didn’t even know much about Gale Light Academy, the most prominent institution on the Dream Realm Plain. This made Luo Min suddenly suspicious.
After all, there was almost no one on the Dream Realm Plain who didn’t know about Gale Light Academy, let alone a young genius like Ye Xuan.
"You’ll find out about that later," Ye Xuan said with a mysterious smile.
Seeing that Ye Xuan wasn’t elaborating, Luo Min didn’t press the issue.
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