So everyone was busy cultivating for one reason or another. While they were doing this, information about them was collected from supervisors and lecturers in the lecture hall and collated by the personnel hall.
This information was mostly for the sect to keep track of the progress of their disciples and to spot talented people that the sect might have missed during the regional sect examination. But the information was also used to create things like the ranking list.
Six months went by like this, but there weren't many changes to the newbie ranking list. The only change to it was that the number of people on the list had increased greatly.
The people on the newbie ranking list had all reached the second mortal coil. How quickly they reached the second mortal coil determined their position on the list.
Of course, if anyone managed to reach the second transformation in one year of entering the sect, they will be moved to the first position on the ranking list regardless of their previous position.
But it is nearly impossible for anyone to make two breakthroughs in less than a year. So for now, the more people were on the list, the more new disciples had reached the second mortal coil and the order they were on the list is the order they broke through to the first transformation of the second mortal coil.
This newbie ranking list will remain relevant for five years. After five years, the new batch of disciples will be accepted and will become the newbies.
The previous batch will join the outer sect ranking list. The outer sect ranking list is a much bigger list. It is also a list where there are always a lot of changes happening compared to the newbie ranking list.
Usually, changes don't begin to happen until after a year after admission, when the performance tests begin. This is exactly what happened this time around too.
As soon as the performance test began, many people rushed to them in order to earn performance points and increase their ranking on the newbie list.
There is also the monthly reward given to those who perform well in the test. This reward is the permission to use the accommodations for one month.
Arthur wanted this permission, so he too decided to participate in the performance test and set a record.
Currently, he has not acquired a complete system of fighting yet. He only has one spell and some fighting skills for his body. These fighting skills are not compatible with his cultivation technique, so he decided to get more.
He guessed that it would take him 250 days to finish mastering the Everlasting Wood Art. But it actually took 223 days.
The extra speed bump was due to an epiphany on his side. He gained sudden enlightenment, which increased his comprehension of the cultivation faster than normal. This was something that the phantoms couldn't do.
This phenomenon understands that his phantoms were reliable helpers who did everything by brute force. They use the brute force method to solve every problem, while he can gain sudden enlightenment about the solution to a problem.
Of course, no one metho is better than the other outright. But if he is being honest with himself, he prefers the brute force approach of the phantoms because their progress is reliable, and even though their progress might be slow, they will eventually get the answer.
Thanks to the sudden enlightenment, he has had more time to enjoy the 100% boost to his cultivation speed, so he will be able to reach the second mortal coil quickly. He also gained more time to begin comprehending the Wood Control spell.
Now that a year has passed since he entered the sect, and he took 104 days to master the Wood Intent and transcend the first mortal coil, it has been 38 days since he began comprehending the Wood Control spell.
The Wood Control Art, despite being a powerful level 10, is easier to comprehend than the Everlasting Wood spell. It is actually ten times easier to comprehend. He came to this conclusion based on the speed of his phantom in mastering it.
Each of his phantoms gained 1.5% progress in the mastery of the Wood Control spell every day, while he gained 1% progress every day. Together they gained 4% progress every day, and it should have taken them 25 days to comprehend it.
But it took just 18 days to complete it because he gained an epiphany while practicing it. This gave him 20 days to comprehend his other fighting techniques.
These fighting techniques only required him to mobilize his life force and his body. Since he had complete control of his body, they were even easier to learn than the Wood Control spell.
He was making swift progress in them, so he decided to focus on them. The feeling of fast progress was so great that he lost himself in practice for many days. He didn't leave his house until he had finished comprehending all of them.
He finished mastering all of his current techniques two days after the performance tests began. By this time, the ranking list had undergone several changes.
He too wanted to participate in the performance test, but he decided to get more spells and techniques that matched his cultivation technique first.
He wasn't in a hurry yet because he still had a month before everyone's total performance would be totaled and the permission to use the better accommodation would be used as a reward.
Currently, he only has one spell, and his other fighting techniques are not compatible with the Everlasting Wood Art, so he decided to go to the library to shore up his weaknesses.
He also wanted to try out his flying board, and he had 10,000 performance points that he wanted to spend. The 10,000 points were given to him as a reward for being number 1 on the newbie ranking list for last year.
He gave Roar some food. Then he went outside while carrying a small shuttle in his hand.