Chapter 944 - 943: The Scheming Senior Sister’s Gift of Misfortune

The other students watched with such envy.

Their eyes were almost dropping into Little Douding’s hands, wishing they could snatch that Spiritual Pearl away.

"Little Douding, hurry and come with us. We can’t beat the Red Wolf, but we could try catching a wild rabbit spirit or something. Even if we dig up a sesame-sized Spiritual Pearl, it’s better than nothing!"

Little Douding refused to move.

After encountering someone as protective and powerful as Qin Xin, he no longer wished to walk alongside those shameless people.

Qin Xin squinted his eyes, picking out the smallest "peanut" in his hand, and spoke again lightly: "Wolf blood indeed stinks, but since you dug up a Spiritual Pearl, it counts as a bit of hard work. You may have this one."

As he spoke, he tossed a Spiritual Pearl over.

The crowd was overjoyed, forgetting their envy over Little Douding’s pearl, and rushed forward to search among the books for the pearl Qin Xin had thrown.

Little Douding was a bit puzzled: "Senior sister, those people are so shameless, why would you be willing to give them a Spiritual Pearl? You’re too kind. They are really lucky to have met you..."

Qin Xin curled his lips faintly: "No, I’m not kind. On the contrary, what I’ve given them is a misfortune."

Misfortune?

Little Douding looked at the classmates scrambling for the pearl behind him, unable to fathom.

"Let’s go," Qin Xin said, "Tell me about your life-and-death hunt? What is this forest?"

Little Douding finally returned to normal, able to answer with the level of intelligence he had:

"Senior sister, the life-and-death hunt is our entrance exam."

"We only have qualification to enter the Royal Academy if we participate in the hunt and obtain Spiritual Pearl."

"If we fail the hunt, the only path is to die here..."

"That’s why everyone is desperately hunting prey. Unfortunately, besides the most primitive bows and daggers, we have nothing else..."

Qin Xin became more puzzled as she listened.

"Wait. Let me ask you a few questions first," she said, "The Royal Academy has always had written exams, which department requires this bizarre outdoor survival exam?"

"Divine Academy," answered Little Douding.

The Imperial Royal Academy indeed has a Divine Academy that’s never openly recruiting.

Qin Xin had heard whispers.

Yet...

She hadn’t heard of such an inhumane entrance exam.

Are students’ lives so cheap?

Even if they fail the test, they don’t have to be left to die in the jungle, right?

Qin Xin continued to ask: "You said Royal Academy is in the Imperial City?"

Little Douding: "Yes."

Qin Xin: "Then why not take the exam in the Imperial City, why in this forest? What are the coordinates of this forest in the empire?"

Little Douding: "Because this forest has the most low-level spirit beasts, it’s the best way to test if we’ve awakened any abilities. Unfortunately, it’s my first time in an entrance exam, I’ve never been here before, I don’t know much about the forest, and I’m not clear on its coordinates in the empire..."

Qin Xin’s breath hitched.

Spirit beasts?

Awakening abilities?

She inexplicably thought of the man in the dark red robe.

A man who could fly around the sky and control the trajectory of falling boulders, manipulate robots...

So, is this the world of supernatural beings Nalan Ye Jue spoke of?

Even the entrance has such a cruel exam method?

The shock in Qin Xin’s heart would not settle.

Little Douding: "Senior sister, do you have more questions for me?"

He belatedly realized: "But senior sister, don’t you know more about the academy than I do..."

Qin Xin said lightly: "I’m not your senior sister. I’m just like you, it’s my first time in this forest."

Little Douding was so scared he almost threw the Spiritual Pearl in his hand: "Senior sister you, you, you are also here for the first time?"

Why is there such a difference between people’s first times?