When Earth Awakened, I Became a Sword Saintess

Chapter 3 : Aspirations

3: Aspirations

"Am I really going to school here from now on?"

She felt a bit uneasy. No matter how she looked at it, what they were learning and practicing was completely different from her. Her rebirth, apart from being able to see those strange demonic spirits, offered no advantage at all... And there was the risk of being taken away by those ferocious vicious ghosts! And the college entrance exam was just the college entrance exam, why add "Source Martial" in front of it?

"By the way, what grade am I in now?"

Based on her life before rebirth, she should be a first-year this year, but looking at herself, amidst a youthful and ethereal air, she possessed the aura of a mature, captivating woman. Her bare height was visually estimated to be over 175 centimeters, her shoulder-length hair reaching her waist. With the air of a campus belle senior, she looked nothing like a new first-year student.

"President?"

Just as Yuyin was lost in thought in front of the school building, a girl's voice came from behind her.

She saw a quiet girl with blue-violet short hair and glasses walking towards her. The girl looked a bit serious, but was also refreshingly beautiful and charming.

This girl... Yuyin recognized her. In her original world, she was the Student Council Vice President, Senior Sister Lu Yingluo, a third-year.

She just called her "President"? In the original world, the President was an unimpressive guy.

"President, your outfit is really, really... beautiful." Vice President Yingluo inexplicably turned her face away, adjusting her glasses and speaking somewhat unnaturally.

"Not at all..."

Yuyin didn't know for a moment how to respond to this kind of girl-to-girl chat.

But Yingluo quickly regained her composure. "President, are you here for the evening self-study too?"

"Well, I guess..." Yuyin said noncommittally.

"Let's go, I'm heading to the classroom too."

So the two walked into the school building together. It seemed she was in the same class as Yingluo.

"President, have you decided on your aspirations?" Yingluo asked in the dimly lit but very familiar corridor.

"Aspirations?" Yuyin froze for a moment. The text message from this world's mother earlier had also told her to get into a good university. It seemed she was a third-year now. She had really changed a lot.

"For someone like you, you should at least aim for 289, right? Your physical education and academic subjects are definitely not a problem. What's your Primordial Energy value now?" Yingluo asked in rapid succession on the stairs.

"Uh, this..." Yuyin didn't quite understand. What was 289? What was Primordial Energy? If it were about the 211 universities, she might have been able to communicate with her.

The two arrived at the classroom, Class 3-1. This seemed to be the honors class, right? There were many people in the class; some were studying on their own, while quite a few were enthusiastically discussing topics like aspirations, so much so that it could be heard from the corridor.

"President!"

"Senior Sister Yuyin..."

"Madam President!"

When Yuyin entered, almost all the classmates gave her an "attentive gaze," except the gazes of some male students landed in inappropriate places.

Yuyin had studied art in the past. It was said that the chest is the visual center of a character. It seemed this saying had some truth to it.

Quite a few classmates gathered around.

"President, have you decided on your aspirations?"

Once again, they surrounded Yuyin, asking this question all at once.

Yuyin was mentally prepared for this.

"What about you? Have you all decided?" Yuyin asked in return. Of these classmates, Yuyin could recognize the names of about a small portion. They were all the high-and-mighty third-year top students, elites, or troublemakers from her past perspective...

"Me? Of course, I plan to get into the Lingdu Source Martial Academy," a tall, sunny-looking boy with frosted red hair said.

"Tch~~~!"

But this drew a chorus of boos from everyone.

"You? Get into the Lingdu Source Martial Academy?"

"Xiao Huohuo, do you know what kind of place that is? The Lingdu Source Martial Academy! The pinnacle of 289! With the Tiandu Source Martial Academy in the north and the Lingdu Source Martial Academy in the south, they are the two top-tier Source Martial Academies of our Huaxia Nation!"

This Xiao Huohuo was on the school's volleyball team and a top student, quite famous in school.

"Although our school is located in the center of Lingdu, in the entire history of No. 21 High, only two people have gotten into the Lingdu Source Martial Academy." Yingluo took out her phone, seemingly having already looked up the relevant information.

"Seriously, all the boys in our class are going to apply to Source Martial Academies, right? We can't be like those sissies in other classes who apply to ordinary universities, can we?" a dark-skinned boy said.

"My mom says the economy is bad now. If you apply to an ordinary university, it's hard to find a job after graduation, and there's no future at all." a boy with a bowl cut and glasses said, hugging a large book. The title of the book was "99-Day Sprint for the Source Martial Physical Fitness Test, or Your Money Back!"

"Um... I'm a girl, so I think I'll apply to a medical school. When you future Source Martial Practitioners get injured, I can help treat you," a delicate-looking girl with two braids said, looking down.

"Give me a shot~~ Nurse!" Xiao Huohuo shouted deliberately, prompting a few boys to chase and hit him.

"What's wrong with being a girl?" a short-haired girl with bronze skin, a somewhat tomboyish air, and wearing a track suit said, "There are plenty of girls who become Source Martial Practitioners, and their achievements are no lower than you men! You should know that among the six top Grandmasters of the world, two are women, and one of them is from our Huaxia Nation."

Six top Grandmasters of the world, and one is a woman from Huaxia Nation? Yuyin couldn't help but feel a shock in her heart. She wondered how a top Grandmaster compared to the Ghost King...

"Besides, every academy has male-female quotas. Although girls are at a disadvantage in physical cultivation, their Primordial Energy cultivation is no worse than boys'. Coupled with the smaller number of female cultivators, the acceptance rate for girls applying to the 298 Source Martial University last year was 36 to 1, making it easier for them to get into a good university than for boys." Yingluo said seriously while scrolling through data.

"Only one out of every 36 people gets in?" Yuyin couldn't help but be surprised. And they call this 'easier'?

"It's much easier compared to boys. For them, it's over 100 to 1."

Yingluo's words made the atmosphere heavy.

"If you don't get into a 289 Source Martial Academy, you can also apply to a second-tier Source Martial one, or a military academy. You can also enlist directly. The benefits after you come out are very good too," someone said.

"I'm going downstairs to do some push-ups first. The physical fitness requirements for the Lingdu Source Martial Academy are hellish!" Xiao Huohuo clapped a classmate on the shoulder, then said to Yuyin, "Madam President, want to do push-ups with me?"

"Whack!"

Yingluo's move was incredibly fast. With an icy expression, before Yuyin could speak, a data booklet flew and hit Xiao Huohuo in the face. That fellow ran off, laughing and cursing.

Everyone dispersed, and Yuyin asked Yingluo, "Are Source Martial Academies really that good?"

Yingluo led Yuyin to her seat. The two sat down knee-to-knee. She took out her tablet and showed Yuyin all kinds of data and information.

Yuyin didn't know what the focused Yingluo was feeling, but her own long, slender legs felt a slight warmth as they touched another girl's knee while studying together for the first time.

Vice President Yingluo was undoubtedly an expert in data and statistics. She explained to Yuyin for over an hour. In her impression, Yuyin was usually aloof and didn't care about these things, so she explained with great focus and detail.

After she finished, Yuyin had an epiphany.

Source Martial Academies truly had enormous advantages.

Even for someone like Yuyin, who had just been introduced to this world, she couldn't help but feel her chest surge with passion after listening.