About five hundred Martial Arts Program students walked along the leaf-strewn path, leaving the densely forested valley ringed by mountains.
Some looked back, sighing with emotion.
Some stopped to pick leaves as keepsakes.
For most Martial Arts Program students, one can only experience the Ranking Battle once in a lifetime; it stands as the highest honor before graduation.
Simply qualifying to attend is already a remarkable achievement.
If one is fortunate enough to rank in the top hundred, it becomes a memory worth cherishing for years to come.
Sniffle, sniffle.
There was even a female Martial Arts student with delicate features, sobbing as she clutched her token tightly to her chest, her emotions surging like a tidal wave.
Uh...
"This rivals the college entrance exam," Andrew Han frowned, scanning the crowd. Everywhere his gaze passed, Martial Arts students looked back with respect.
He returned their looks with a faint smile, his thoughts quietly turning. He could feel the dense Presented Liquid Internal Power circulating within him—a form of Internal Power usually seen only in the Martial General Realm, where it can sheath the body like armor and greatly boost offense and defense.
After a while.
Andrew Han glanced over, carefully observing the genuine smiles on He Xuan and the others' faces, pressing his lips together. He could sense the Presented Liquid Internal Power within him, a dense liquid form of energy that only Martial Generals typically possess, able to shield the body and amplify strength.
"What are you looking at?" Leo Liu asked beside him.
Though both were recognized as the strongest of the Five Hua Generals—a prestigious title for the five current-generation peak Martial Arts Program prodigies whose combat strength has reached, or nearly reached, the Martial General Realm while still students—at this moment their expressions were calm as they walked shoulder to shoulder with the other Martial Arts students, not standing out from the crowd.
"It's nothing."
Andrew Han shook his head.
Leo Liu casually picked a yellowed leaf and said softly, "Do you think it's unfair to them that you have seventeen tokens?"
"Your thinking is way off."