The test for this first stage was to use the Profound Armor Spirit Root's testing mode to determine which of Zhang Yu and Ye Lingxiao had the stronger physical body and greater potential.
Originally, the intention was to differentiate them based on the final power achieved by the Profound Armor Spirit Root, but unexpectedly, both Zhang Yu and Ye Lingxiao, during the testing mode, raised the power of the Divine Spirit Root to 100%.
The internal communication network of the five True God examiners suddenly became lively.
A minor god said, "I thought the limit of the Heaven Spirit Root was too low to measure their abilities, so we brought in the Divine Spirit Root. But now, who would have thought that these two could raise the power of the Profound Armor Spirit Root to 100%?"
Another minor god said, "Both of their Profound Armor Spirit Roots are at 100% power. How should we determine the winner of this round?"
"To think that after three months, he could still make further progress, developing his physical body to such an extent."
Huang Zichou nodded slightly, analyzing, "For a Qi Refining stage cultivator to develop their physical body to Ye Lingxiao's level, logically speaking... it would be as difficult as ascending to heaven to improve even a little bit further."
At that moment, the chief examiner, Deng Bingding, said calmly, "If it were just developing muscles, fascia, bones, and internal organs, it would indeed become increasingly difficult to improve as one approaches the limits of the Qi Refining stage."
"However, this kid, Ye Lingxiao... this time, he improved his brain."
Huang Zichou was stunned and asked, "His brain?"
His mind flashed back to Ye Lingxiao's incoherent speech from before, and he thought, "This is considered brain improvement?"
Deng Bingding looked in Ye Lingxiao's direction and continued in the internal network, "Ye Lingxiao has perfect bloodline, so he learns any cultivation technique very quickly."
"But no matter how many cultivation techniques there are, the number a person can utilize at any given time is limited."
"However, just now, the number of cultivation techniques he utilized at the same time was indeed far greater than before, about double."
"This shows that his brainpower and thinking have been further developed, which is why the number of cultivation techniques he can activate simultaneously has increased."
"It is precisely because most of his brainpower is used to activate cultivation techniques that his state in other aspects has declined, such as his language organization ability..."
Upon hearing this, the other True Gods' eyes flickered. The so-called physical body naturally includes the brain.
However, it was too rare to find someone in the Kunxu Layer 1 who could develop their brain and improve their thinking during the Qi Refining stage, and they never thought it would happen to Ye Lingxiao.
A minor god said, "Although both are at 100% power, Ye Lingxiao has actually improved his brainpower and thinking during the Qi Refining stage. His development of the physical body is clearly more impressive, and he has a more promising future for Foundation Establishment."
Another minor god echoed, "I think this round should be considered his victory."
Huang Zichou had a different opinion on this: "Didn't you see that Ye Lingxiao only achieved this with the help of drugs?"
"And Zhang Yu's several consecutive bursts just now, can't you see the gold content in them?"
Recalling Zhang Yu's process of increasing from meters to meters, Huang Zichou exclaimed, "He was clearly using the Whale Tendon Nine Transformations technique just now."
"With his size and physical strength, his first surge in size should have been his limit."
"But he later broke through this limit. What does that mean?"
"And looking at the several other cultivation techniques he used, it was all the same."
"Obviously, the same cultivation technique has a higher limit in his hands."
As True Gods who had lived for countless years, the examiners present had either heard of or seen similar situations.
Some cultivation techniques, in the hands of certain people, can break conventions and be used with greater power and stronger effects than others.
And Zhang Yu clearly possesses this extremely rare physical talent.
Huang Zichou continued, "In addition, from Zhang Yu's first registration to the final round of exams, you can all see how much he has improved."
"With such talent and potential, I think that if he successfully establishes his foundation, his future prospects will be far greater than Ye Lingxiao's."
Immediately, someone retorted, "It's just innate physical talent. Are there few talented students who can establish their foundation? On the contrary, it is Ye Lingxiao, who can explore methods to improve his brainpower in Layer 1, who has more potential."
Another True God said, "Zhang Yu can still take the exam next year, but Ye Lingxiao is in his last year."
While the True Gods were arguing about the outcome of this round, the many university representatives in the audience were also watching Zhang Yu and Ye Lingxiao, offering their comments.
A junior college teacher said, "Write down these two students. Once the Foundation Establishment exam is over, find a way to contact them. As long as we can recruit either of them, our college will have one more Foundation Establishment graduate!"
His colleague said without hope, "How could such students take a junior college exam?"
The junior college teacher said, "What's wrong with junior college? Junior colleges can transfer to bachelor's degrees! It doesn't affect them from taking exams for good universities!"
His colleague thought to himself, "If they enter our college, their academic qualifications will be tarnished, which will affect their future studies and job search, right?"
The junior college teacher continued, "Especially this Zhang Yu, have you seen his information? He's a poor man, so he should be easier to win over than that Ye Lingxiao."
"Our college does have some differences compared to other universities, but we can offer him better conditions. We'll give him a scholarship of 10 spirit coins a year during his time at the school, and he can choose any major."
"We'll bet all of our enrollment budget to sign him. Recruiting him is more cost-effective than recruiting a hundred underachievers, right?"
At the same time, Erha-tou of Wanfa University said, "Not bad, not bad. If you don't want these two people, our Civil Engineering Department plans to take them. It would be a pity if such potential physical bodies didn't come to dredge the earth veins."
Cat-tou said faintly, "Although they are not qualified to enter the Finance Department, they are indeed qualified to enter our university."
Although Zhang Yu and Ye Lingxiao showed extraordinary qualifications, in Cat-tou's view, Ye Lingxiao was still a bit poor, and Zhang Yu was simply super poor. Poverty represents insufficient immortal potential and foundation.
He thought to himself, "How can poor people be worthy of entering the Finance Department of Wanfa University?"
Cat-tou continued, "However, I see that other universities are also very interested in them. What conditions do you plan to offer?"
Erha-tou said, "A scholarship of spirit coins a year should be enough for them to not have to borrow mana to mine spirit coins for a while after they enter school, so they can concentrate on their studies for a while."
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Cat-tou nodded slightly, " spirit coins is indeed enough for daily life at the university."
On the other side of the audience.
"Laughing crying emoji" looked at the examination hall and said, "Mom, this Zhang Yu is quite qualified. After I go down, I want to take him in too and let him and Ye Lingxiao assist me."
"Smiling emoji" frowned slightly and warned in a coming-of-age tone, "Son, Mom was young too, and I once appreciated and promoted some poor people."
"You can take in and use this Zhang Yu, but you must remember one thing: these people below are ultimately different from us. If you treat them too much like people, you will only end up hurting them."
"Spoiling a dog is like killing a dog. If you really want to use this kind of poor person well, you have to grind him well. You can't be too good to him from the start..."
"Laughing crying emoji" disagreed. He had his own set of personnel rules, which was to throw money. He didn't believe that there were no good subordinates in this world that could be bought with money. If they couldn't be bought, it meant that not enough money was thrown.
While the representatives in the audience were evaluating the two people on the field, on the other side of the internal network, the four minor gods were arguing endlessly, and finally they all looked at Deng Bingding, the chief examiner.
Deng Bingding said faintly, "Let's temporarily count it as a tie."
"After all, these two kids haven't used their full strength yet."
Hearing what Deng Bingding said, the four minor gods were slightly stunned, and their eyes showed surprise as they looked at Zhang Yu and Ye Lingxiao.
Huang Zichou thought to himself, "This isn't even their full strength yet?"
The five True Gods' thoughts were rapidly exchanged in the internal network. Although a lot of information was exchanged, it only seemed like a moment to the outside world.
Soon, Huang Zichou announced the result of the first stage: the two were tied, and their scores were temporarily the same.
As for who would ultimately get the Foundation Establishment qualification certificate, it would still depend on the scores of the second and third stages, calculated according to the total score.
At the same time, Zhang Yu and Ye Lingxiao, standing in the center of the examination hall, looked at each other and could feel the increasingly strong fighting spirit on the other.
Zhang Yu licked his lips, and the swollen muscles slowly began to shrink, returning to their normal size.
The extremely hot body temperature just now gradually decreased, and under the action of the Kan Ice Li Fire Body Tempering Great Art, it gradually entered a low-temperature state, dissolving the inflammation and swelling on his body and helping the body recover.
Zhang Yu thought to himself, "At the last moment just now, I still had the poison outbreak of the Spring Autumn Endless Chan that I didn't use, so it wasn't a truly full-strength state."
"I wonder how much strength the opponent hasn't shown?"
A moment later, after feeling that the damage caused by the burst of power within his body had mostly healed, Zhang Yu focused his mind on the chain diagrams within the Feather Book. He began to replace the various cultivation methods on it with high school basic cultivation methods, and switched the effect of the Martial Dao Holy Embryo to High School Holy Body.
This process of replacing cultivation methods and switching Holy Bodies took Zhang Yu about two or three seconds.
After the switch, the original blessing of the Martial Dao Holy Embryo was entirely replaced by the digestion ability at the Qi Refining limit and the drug absorption and metabolism abilities brought by the High School Holy Body.
This also made Zhang Yu, who had just swallowed a large amount of medicine, feel a burst of comfort.
Feeling the medicinal toxins gathering towards the word 'Zen' on his chest, Zhang Yu felt a sense of satisfaction.
The reason he had just taken so many medicines was, of course, not just to freeload off the medicine, but also to increase his chances of winning in this Foundation Establishment exam.
