BXBX NOVEL Chapter 66: 66: Past Years’ Real Exam
Chapter 66: 66: Past Years’ Real Exam
“I can’t give specifics, but it’ll be happening in a few days. The details of the enrollment exam will be announced after the high-school exam.”
Chan Ssu was tight-lipped, so all Chen Mobai could do was restrain his curiosity and leave her office.
Back in the school’s cultivation room, Chen Mobai wasted no time.
After practicing the “Nourishing Thought Forge God technique” for a while and sensing his mind beginning to tire, he stopped and went online to search for information about the enrollment exams of the various academies over the last few years.
Last year’s entrance exam was arranged by representatives from each Daoist academy, forming nine interconnected formations, ranging from simple to complex. The qualification for admission to the four major Daoist academies was to solve seven formation problems.
However, among all the students in Red Sandstone City, the best result was solving six formations. In the end, that student could only go to the Astral Observation Academy among the top ten academies.
Chen Mobai frowned as soon as he saw this. He wasn’t completely ignorant about formations. As he persisted in asking Chan Ssu for guidance over time, he had mastered the Azure Water Formation of the Rank-2 Water Mansion.
Due to his knowledge, he felt he ranked in the top three in his class in terms of proficiency in formations.
Thus, with confidence, he spent 10o points to download the real entrance test papers from the fairy’s test bank for the most recent ten years.
Nine interconnected formations, as intricate as pearls.
The real test paper was named quite aptly, Chen Mobai thought to himself, then took out his stationary from his bag, ready to start solving the formation problems.
Half an hour later, wiping cold sweat from his forehead, he slumped down and put down the paper and pen in his hand.
He had barely cracked the first two formations. By the third formation, nearly half of the knowledge and formation patterns contained therein exceeded his understanding, surpassing the content in the compulsory education textbooks for grades one through nine.
According to last year’s results, cracking two formations would qualify one to choose to study at any of the 120 houses of Xianmen.
In other words, this was as far as Chen Mobai could go.
But Chen Mobai didn’t admit this. He believed that the school taught too little about formations; he had no interest in formations and had not taken the time to delve into and expand upon his knowledge in this area.
So he switched to another set of real questions from the year before.
That year, the four major Daoist academies held separate exams. Jumang Daoist Academy tested a kind of spiritual medicine cultivation technique, requiring that this spiritual medicine be upgraded from Rank-1 to Rank-2 within a month.
Chen Mobai, unfamiliar with the concept of spiritual worth, skipped this entirely.
Dance Tool Dao Academy sent every eligible student a piece of iron essence weighing six liang (about 225 grams) and required them to refine it into a flying sword. The requirement was that the sword be of at least Rank-2.
He skipped this as well.
The entrance exam for the Repairing Heaven Institute was to repair a defective array plate…
Why is it formations again, skip!
Chen Mobai looked with last hope at the entrance exam question for the Kunpeng Daoist Academy: each student takes a piece of Rank-2 beryl wutong tree bark, inscribes talismans on it, collects essence of thunderfire, and if the talisman reaches Rank-2, they may enroll.
He skipped with a blank face and opened up the day’s entrance exam real questions from three years ago.
That year, the format was even more diverse: they needed to form teams of ten to cooperate in cultivating a spirit vein, evolving a Rank-1 spirit vein into Rank-2. This process was recorded in its entirety. If the cultivation was successful, the academy representative would grade each member of the team on their leadership, cooperation, and skills.
Still, everyone failed, with not a single person admitted into the four major Daoist academies.
Three years ago, four years ago…
After viewing the real exam questions from the past ten years, Chen Mobai was left in a daze.
He couldn’t solve a single year’s entrance exam questions.
However, Chen Mobai himself never had any hope of getting into the four major Daoist academies; his target has always been the top ten academies.
More accurately, the Pure Yang Academy and the Primordial Elemental Academy.
After all, the artificial spiritual root from the national library advised Chen Mobai to practice the “Pure Yang Scroll” and the “Jade Purity Scripture” based on his spiritual root talent, giving him a slim chance of reaching the realm of the primordial spirit.
Trust in the nation.
Chen Mobai, who had comforted himself in this way, then looked at the real questions from when the Pure Yang Academy and the Primordial Elemental Academy had separate entrance exams among the top ten academies.
After seeing this, he finally had a little confidence.
At least compared to the entrance exams of the four major Daoist academies which basically required at least a Rank-2 realm knowledge, the top ten academies only required knowledge of Rank-1. Occasionally, if there were too many applicants in a certain year, the threshold would be raised to Rank-2.
However, after looking through ten years of real questions, Chen Mobai had also figured out some patterns.
If the four major Daoist academies and the top ten academies jointly held the entrance exam, it would typically be in the four major subjects, Technqiue, Pill, Instrument, and Array since these were the basics that could easily distinguish the students’ levels of talent.
If they held separate exams, all sorts of strange and varied content could arise.
For example, the Pure Yang Academy emphasized mental state, the Primordial Elemental Academy valued background and powerful Divine Sense, the Five Thunder Academy would admit Thunder Spiritual Root for free, the Nature Studies Academy would admit Different Spiritual Root for free, and the Mountain Sea Academy would select potential Sword Cultivators…
Chen Mobai set his first choice as the Pure Yang Academy, his second choice was the Primordial Elemental Academy, and his third choice was the local Red Dawn Institution.
As for the four major Daoist academies, he didn’t have much confidence after seeing the real questions from the past years.
Checking the time and seeing he had a bit left, Chen Mobai started browsing various flagship stores on the Immortal Gate’s website again.
He had his eye on a lower-grade Rank-2 “Mysterious Yang Purple Fire Talisman”. The Pure Yang Academy’s official flagship store would be launching a hundred of them at 6:45 tonight.
The price was 68,000 Good Deed Points.
The timing was a bit awkward, normally at that time Chen Mobai would be in his Water Mansion, but he could understand the reason.
In order to accommodate as many cultivators as possible and give everyone a chance, and limited by the finite resources on Earth Star, each time the Immortal Gate released pills, talismans, magic artifacts, and such, the time was uncertain.
Which meant that every minute of the 1440 minutes in a day, all the flagship stores might launch good items.
Even though you were guaranteed to get something good if you kept a constant watch, pills like the Three Treasures of Foundation Establishment that Qi practitioners loved most would only be stocked three times a month. Even Foundation Establishment cultivators couldn’t stay up all month, vigilantly watching the screen and waiting for items to be listed.
This was the greatest fairness that the Immortal Gate could achieve under the circumstances of limited resources.
Chen Mobai set an alarm for himself to remind him to grab the “Mysterious Yang Purple Fire Talisman” made by the Pure Yang Academy in the evening.
After leaving school, he decided not to cultivate today.
The high school exam was in two days, and even if he did cultivate, his mind wouldn’t calm down.
He called Qing Nu and invited her for dinner in the evening.
He had promised her before to treat her to grilled fish.
After getting home, Chen Mobai made a trip to the Water Mansion and caught two descendants of the Azure Blood Carp. He didn’t kill them, but directly handed them over to the helpful owner of the grilled fish restaurant.
After eating, Qing Nu couldn’t stop praising the food.
She said she had never eaten such delicious fish in her life..