"Ding" as his alarm rang off, Cylius also got up from his meditation. Meditating was good for his mentality and there wasn't much rune around here that he could absorb and comprehend anyways.
Cultivating spiritual energy would also not be worth it due to the amount here being too low and not being able to reach his need. Although cultivating the core needed spiritual energy for molding, he can go to a place with abundant spiritual energy later.
At this time of the day, it should be 6 am by the city's clock. Many people on the planet now should be awake due to the spiritual energy not being much polluted by the sun.
Spiritual energy was a type of energy created from a planet's unique environment and the special energy produced from space. These two would combine to create spiritual energy as we know that is very helpful in gene cultivation.
The energy radiated from the sun or the star would be considered as another type of energy from the spiritual energy so they would be considered as pollution to the spiritual energy.
Polluted spiritual energy would make cultivation harder and also slower as they don't fit well with genes.
Going out of the door, he entered the space capsule specifically used for a one-person travel between the planet and the open space apartment. Through the capsule, he felt no discomfort or anything, technology had made everything easy and comfortable.
The capsule was black in color, with a bright white light in the middle. It had an egg like shape with a door that was automatic. The inside was comfortable with a screen for the user to watch and have fun.
Ten minutes later, he arrived at the surface.
Landing at the place specifically designed for a capsule to land, he moved towards the direction of the academy entrance examination. This place was away from the city and was a place specifically used for the children to choose their academy.
He had landed just a bit away from this place and he could sense the circular barrier covering the entire place. Not only did this barrier block beasts and monsters away, but they also gathered spiritual energy from the area making cultivation a lot faster.
From here, he could see that the barrier had an opening that was shaped like a door.
Just like him, a lot of people were coming and the place was a bit crowded even though the area it encompassed was vast. But considering that about a million people were entering it, it wasn't surprising at all.
The place was divided into three parts. The low-grade academies, the medium grade academies, and the high and the top grade academies. The high-grade academies and top-grade academies were in one place.
The grades meant the academy's power and it's resources. For example, for a group of people to be eligible to become an academy, they have to have at least one third-tier and ten second-tiers within it.
That's the low-grade academies.
For an academy to become a middle grade, it has to have at least 10 third-tiers and a hundred second-tiers.
And for one to become a high-grade one, it must have at least one fourth-tier and a hundred third-tiers with a guarantee for 70% or higher for the student to become a second-tier once they graduated. It must also own a second or third rate planet and have the consent from one top-grade school and 3 high-grade academies.
The reason there were so many medium-grade schools but few high-grade schools were because of this.
As for an academy to become a top-grade, it had an even harsher requirement
First, they need to complete 4 requirements and all of them were harsh.
1. Have at least 10 fourth-tiers and 1000 third-tiers.
2. Have a guarantee of 100% for any student to become a second-tier and have a 50% chance for third-tier.
3. Must have independently researched and completed a cultivation technique.
4. Get consent from three top-grade academies or one from either one of the universes.
5. Must own an independent first-rate planet.
Each requirement harder than the last one, it was very difficult to become a top-grade academy.
...
Passing through the many buildings that had strange designs, he went into the high and top grade academy section. He didn't need to spare a look at the low-grade ones at all.
Even being here, he directly skipped the high-grade academies to enter the Quintamore academy's building.
The building looked like an ancient palace with a sense of desolation and majesty contained within it.
Simple buildings and materials were most suitable for a high-tier existence to live in. Due to their simplicity, the radiation gave off by the powerful creature will strengthen the material over time, making it more durable and also more resistant.
As for technology, because of their intricacy, they would easily break apart if faced with a powerful enough radiation. As for creating them with an extraordinary material, there were only a few materials that could resist the radiation of a fourth-tier and it was such a treasure that only fifth-tiers would be able to obtain them.
While there might be ones that could resist the radiation of a third-tier, they were very scarce in resource.
Maybe in some secret dimension where traces of the ancient world still remained, one might be able to find such material that could resist powerful being's radiation in large amounts, such things were very hard to find.
This palace's entrance was a large gate where people would have to show their letters before they are accepted. It seemed that no one without any letter would be able to enter, even if they wanted to take a test.
Showing his black letter to the mechanical puppets that seemed to be of the third-tier, he entered through the gate.
Of course, many people would want to enter such prestigious academies so the people would usually gather in the high-top-grade academy area to test their luck. If they can't enter any of them, they would decide to go to the medium-grade ones.
Although it was a high profile move, he can't waste his time caring about how the weak felt. Besides, he already covered his whole body in mist so that they can't see his face.
Upon entering the palace, Cylius knew that he was teleported into a different space. Better to call it a secret dimension that had many parts and that he was teleported into a random one.
Currently, he was in a room. The room had nothing special, except that there was a man behind the table looking at him.
From his aura, Cylius could see that he was a puppet of a fourth-tier. Although it was merely a puppet, he didn't dare look straight into its eyes. It would be treated as disrespectful so he chose to bow his head slightly.
When he entered, the black letter that was within his hands seemed to disappear as they now appeared in front of the man, floating.
After staring at it for some moment, the man nodded before saying "You're eligible to join the academy, Quintamore. Now you will be transported to a place where you will have to wait until the examination is done.".
Indeed as the man said, Cylius could feel his vision blurring out for a second before returning back to normal. Now he was in an open air platform with a large portal like thing. From it, he could sense a great amount of dimensional fluctuations and knowledge that he was thirsting for.
There were also two puppets with a human body and lifeless eyes guarding the portal. They were of the third-tier.
After some time of waiting, he saw a flash of light which later became a human. Gray hair, gray eyes, pale skin, and a chinese black robe. The unique thing about him was that he had a leech hung on his chin. Cylius could identify his cultivation as a peak first-tier.
He didn't seem to mind the fact and just sat down to meditate.
Like this, quite an amount of people came which was about a hundred in number. Although everyone was different compared to the others, they all had a similarity. They were either second-tier or were very close to reaching second-tier.
From the people, he knew 3 of them. Fanton, Garen and Hei Jin.
Once they have all gathered, a real fourth-tier appeared right beside the portal. He couldn't see any exact detail due to the person being shrouded in mist, but he could see that this person was a man.
"I am the person in charge of this year's Quintamore academy's examination. Right now, we will be performing a long-range teleportation into the academy. Although we will be protected during the teleportation, any ignorant move will cost your life. Right now, gather and from a group orderly"
The people followed the orders and gathered into a group. After they did that, the fourth-tier raised his hand as an invisible barrier that covered all the people appeared. After that, he started chanting before pointing to the portal with his hand resulting in a black space opening up in the portal.
Raising his finger, the barrier was raised into the air, slowly entering the black space opened up in the portal.
...
When he knew it, he had already appeared in an entirely different place.
Although he wanted to comprehend the dimensional rules, due to the barrier covering them, he wasn't able to.
But that wasn't important right now. He had already entered the famous Quintamore planet and was starting his cultivation journey. Everything will begin from this place.