"Identification." Said the stern guard, Ryuu pulled out his ID and the guard took and inspected it. He quickly handed it back and lowered a part of the wall.

Inside is the 'Soul Cultivation Academy' its a grand structure created by Don Hanzo himself.

Its square shaped with a 4×4 mile courtyard in the middle with platforms for sparing.

Every new semester they have the placement exam, it’s to see a persons element control and understanding of it. Then depending on what year they're in They’re assigned to their teacher.

Ryuu woke up early today to skip all the waiting, so when he entered the courtyard there was mostly only teachers with a couple of students who were all just chatting amongst themselves.

When they saw Ryuu a few stopped to greet him, after all this was his 4th and final year at the academy and was one of the most promising students. With no family background or support he was always just a little behind in his cultivation, he was an extremely hard worker.

As he walked through the courtyard he heard people whispering. “Did you hear that last semester he wasn’t able to advance at all and got stuck in 5 Face Waxing Moon.” A voice whispered.

As he walked the whispering continued.

After a few casual greetings he finally reached the table where the academy’s head master Kioshi and two high level teachers, master Daiki and master Katsumi were sitting. He cupped his hands and lightly bowed as he said "Morning head master and senior masters, I was hoping you would please allow me to take my placement exam early?"

A beautiful blonde slowly looked up and said "There’s no better time then the present, since you’re so eager lets see what you can do."

Ryuu decided it would be best to not show that he had broken through to sun realm.

Ryuu walked up to the side table and grabbed the moon stone and then started to inject his qi energy, the whole corner of the courtyard grew silent as all the teachers and students watched.

The stone went from white to pitch black, all the teachers where shocked upon seeing this.

Then the stone glowed ruby red as it got darker and darker until it was a dark burgundy, then before it started to crack Ryuu placed the stone back on the table.

Everyone was speechless, as they all just starred in disbelief.

The next test was to test your control of your element(s). Ryuu first built up his qi energy mobilizing it in his soul then he concentrated it all in a ball in his chest.

Then simultaneously he ignited the cendrillion in his right hand and compressed it to a ball with his left. He then tossed the ball of black flames into the air and then took a deep breath and exhaled a surge of powerful wind.

Together they created a powerful fire breath attack that was so intense it made the temperature rise, as even the morning frost on the grass evaporated.

All the students and teachers including the head master were speechless.

Seeing everyone’s reaction Ryuu decided to conceal the rest of his strength and left it at that for now, he already showed sufficient strength to be put in a elite class.

For it was rare for someone to have such a strong control over his qi, and he was able to perfectly combine multiple elements at once, not to mention he’s still just a young man. Who knows how strong he might become in the future.

The head master and the other two huddled together in private. Then after a few minutes looked up and Kioshi said “After discussing we have decided to put you in master Yuri’s class."

All the students starred enviously at Ryuu.

Even Ryuu was speechless, master Yuri is an old sage of the Platinum Sun realm he’s renowned for his techniques and battle strategies. He only accepts the best and most promising students and only takes 10 new disciples a ssemester!

Ryuu walked up got his letter of recommendation cupped his hands as he said "Many thanks to my senior masters, I'll take my leave now."

“Don’t thank us yet, master Yuri still has final say, so make sure you leave a good first impression." Said master Daiki.

"Of course." said Ryuu as he hurried off towards Master Yuri's.

Yuri's class is not part of the main building but was behind the academy on a cliff side.

As Ryuu approached the face the cliff he felt a surge of killing intent, then six shadow strands flew out like arrows and tried to screwier him.

He jumped back a few feet then activated the qi in his soul realm, just then a black kunai materialized in his hand. He then chucked the kunai at the face of the cliff, as the kunai flew through the air the inscriptions emitted a dazzling metallic light.

Using just one finger Ryuu guided the kunai through each shadow and pinned all six strands to the cliff side.

The attacker gasped as he starred in disbelief, this new comer had fully countered his attack with out breaking a sweat and had fully suppressed his shadow spears.

Hearing the noise from the left behind some rocks, Ryuu activated his qi and pulled the kunai and all six shadows out of the wall. Using the kunai as a conductor he enhanced the power of the shadows and sent them smashing through the rocks toward the attacker.

A loud shriek came from inside the smoke cloud, then two men leaped from the smoke and landed on either side of Ryuu, one was badly injured on his right leg but managed to stay standing.

As Ryuu mobilized his qi and was about to summon the second kunai, he heard light clapping from the top of the cliff.

As a stern rasp voice said "That’s enough, go get yourself patched up. You, what’s your name?"

As the voice spoke both men immediately stood up straight with there arms at their sides, as they stood at attention.