Chapter 1352: Wumeng Academy

"Ye Yuan, if you want to become stronger, why not formally join the Ten Thousand Treasures Tower? You know, the Ten Thousand Treasures Tower is the enterprise of the Ten Thousand Treasures Heavenly Emperor, the richest among all Heavenly Emperors. As long as you join, you won't have any problems with cultivation resources!" Yang Rui said.

"Thank you for your kindness, Brother Yang, but... I have my own plans." Ye Yuan smiled.

Hearing Ye Yuan's words, Yang Rui couldn't help feeling disappointed.

With Ye Yuan's talent in alchemy, he would surely be valued in the Ten Thousand Treasures Tower.

However, Ye Yuan had his own plans.

He could currently use the Ten Thousand Treasures Tower's spiritual medicines, firstly because Yang Rui was open-minded, and secondly because he only used first-grade spiritual medicines.

Even in the Immortal Forest Domain of the Divine Dao Era, first-grade divine spiritual medicines, though not everywhere, were at least not scarce.

But the spiritual medicines Ye Yuan would need for alchemy in the future were beyond what the Guishan City Ten Thousand Treasures Tower could afford, and the higher-ups of the Tower probably wouldn't indulge him endlessly.

Ye Yuan didn't believe the Ten Thousand Treasures Tower was a monolith.

Where there are people, there are conflicts. If someone later tried to trip him up, his identity in the Ten Thousand Treasures Tower would become a burden.

Wasn't there Feng Ping right here in Guishan City?

Yang Rui's eyes suddenly lit up and said, "Since you're unwilling to join the Ten Thousand Treasures Tower, why not go to Wumeng Academy?"

"Wumeng Academy?" Ye Yuan said in surprise.

"That's right! Wumeng Academy is the official academy of Wumeng Royal City. Chen Yongnian and Wang Song, Wang Su's elder brother, both came from Wumeng Academy! It gathers most of the young talents within the scope of Wumeng Royal City, and it has techniques and martial skills that can be cultivated to the Guixu Great Perfection!" Yang Rui said.

Hearing Yang Rui's words, Ye Yuan quickly understood.

Wumeng Academy was essentially a talent pool for Wumeng Royal City. The city lords of various commandery cities were probably all graduates of Wumeng Academy.

In this way, Wumeng Royal City's control over the subordinate commandery cities was very solid.

As for techniques and martial skills, Ye Yuan wasn't very concerned.

He had already decided to walk his own path, so he naturally looked down on ordinary techniques and martial skills.

But the gathering of most young talents there greatly appealed to Ye Yuan.

The rise of a strong practitioner inevitably requires sparring with other strong practitioners.

Working behind closed doors rarely leads to great accomplishments.

"Oh? Then how does one join Wumeng Academy?" Ye Yuan asked.

Yang Rui said, "Wumeng Academy recruits students once every hundred years. Any martial artist who has reached the Dongxuan Divine Realm and is under two hundred years of age can participate in the entrance examination. Those who pass can become outer disciples of Wumeng Academy. Three years from now is exactly the recruitment period for Wumeng Academy."

Ye Yuan said in surprise, "There are no fewer than a thousand commandery cities under Wumeng Royal City. How many people will participate in the entrance examination?"

Martial artists at the Dongxuan Divine Realm were everywhere in the Tongtian Realm.

Even if each commandery city produced only a hundred people, that would be a hundred thousand!

In fact, even in a small city like Guishan City, there were far more than a hundred Dongxuan martial artists under two hundred years old.

Needless to say, the large commandery cities had even more.

Yang Rui smiled and said, "Indeed, each time Wumeng Academy recruits, no fewer than five hundred thousand participate. However... fewer than ten percent pass the first round! Only about a hundred pass all three rounds. Among them, the vast majority are late Dongxuan martial artists, and a few are at the Dongxuan Great Perfection."

Ye Yuan said in surprise, "That difficult?"

Yang Rui nodded and said, "So, those who pass are all geniuses among geniuses! In the smallest intake, only a little over thirty people passed!"

Hearing Yang Rui's words, Ye Yuan felt deep pressure.

Of course, even more anticipation!

If it was really as Yang Rui said, he had to go to Wumeng Academy.

Without comparison with other geniuses, one would never know one's own shortcomings.

Those who could cultivate to the late Dongxuan or even Great Perfection before two hundred years old were all exceptionally talented.

Ye Yuan had crushed all rivals in the Immortal Forest World, but in the Tongtian Realm, he wasn't so confident.

Ye Yuan's bone age was just over a hundred years, but he had cultivated for several hundred years in the Realm Suppression Stele space.

In this regard alone, he had already lost to many young talents of Wumeng Royal City.

And this was just a corner of Wumeng Royal City!

In the Tongtian Realm, there were who knows how many royal cities like Wumeng Royal City.

Among them, there were probably no lack of extremely逆天 genius martial artists!

"Hearing Brother Yang say this, I really look forward to Wumeng Academy!"

Ye Yuan's eyes revealed intense fighting spirit, clearly very interested.

Yang Rui, however, smiled and said, "Brother, I have an impertinent request, I hope you'll agree!"

"What is it? Brother Yang, just say it!" Ye Yuan said.

"If... I mean if, if you can't pass the examination, how about joining our Ten Thousand Treasures Tower?" Yang Rui asked with deep meaning.

Ye Yuan laughed upon hearing this and said, "Heh, so Brother Yang was waiting for me here! Alright, no problem!"

The two looked at each other and laughed heartily.

It wasn't that Yang Rui didn't think highly of Ye Yuan, but passing Wumeng Academy's entrance examination was indeed very difficult.

As the two were chatting enthusiastically, suddenly chaos erupted outside the Ten Thousand Treasures Tower.

Going out to look, they found that the fat-headed Wang Pianran had come to curse again!

But this time, she and all the Wang family members were wearing mourning clothes to curse.

Wang Yuxiang's corpse was placed right in front of the Ten Thousand Treasures Tower's main gate.

Only, they all looked grief-stricken, with expressions like they had lost their parents, which was indeed moving.

Nearby, many people were whispering.

"The Ten Thousand Treasures Tower is too unscrupulous. They've already crushed the Wang family like this, and they still kick them when they're down by killing Wang Yuxiang and his son!"

"Yeah, I didn't expect the Ten Thousand Treasures Tower to be so blatant!"

"Why doesn't the city lord's mansion step in? Who would have thought the once-glorious Wang family would end up like this!"

...

Wang Pianran was a venomous shrew, and her words were extremely harsh, basically slandering the Ten Thousand Treasures Tower.

Seeing this scene, Yang Rui's face turned pale with anger.

The Ten Thousand Treasures Tower had always been fair in business, but how could it withstand such slander from Wang Pianran?

"The Wang family really has no good people! Their skill at distorting the truth is top-notch! I'll go drive them away!" Yang Rui said angrily.

He was about to move, but Ye Yuan stopped him.

"Brother Yang, calm down. Wang Pianran is just a puppet! The more you drive them away, the harder it will be to explain this matter. Let them curse to their heart's content!" Ye Yuan smiled.

Yang Rui's expression changed and said, "But if this continues, how can the Ten Thousand Treasures Tower do business?"

Ye Yuan smiled and said, "Brother Yang, rest assured. If I'm not mistaken, the time should be about right."