Chapter 161: Initial Exam
Ti flew by quickly, and in the blink of an eye, more than half a month had passed.
Morning.
Chen Beiwu opened his eyes, finishing a night of ditation.
After going downstairs and eating the breakfast prepared by his mother, he set off for school.
Today was the first day of the Immortal Alliance Entrance Exam’s initial test, and the entrance of Shouhe No. 2 High School was packed with nurous beast-drawn carriages.
"Such a coincidence, good morning!" Xu Ziqing had just gotten out of her carriage and gracefully walked up beside Chen Beiwu.
Chen Beiwu also greeted her.
"Lingling’s luck was a bit worse, she was assigned to take the exam at Fallen Dragon No. 1 High School." Xu Ziqing gave a gentle smile, extending her right hand toward Chen Beiwu. "Do your best today. We agreed to both pass into the Thirteen Immortal Sects together."
"Of course. After all, I’m the top student at Shouhe No. 2 High School. Passing the initial test is nothing difficult." Chen Beiwu’s tone was relaxed.
"It’s exactly because you’re the top student that I worry you might be careless." Xu Ziqing paused in her steps. "Anyway, I wish you success in today’s exam."
After speaking, she turned and walked toward the adjacent teaching building.
Watching Xu Ziqing’s figure disappear, Chen Beiwu stepped onto the wind, taking three steps to reach the seventh floor.
That graceful bearing drew the gazes of passing candidates, and even the two proctors standing at the classroom door couldn’t help but look over.
"Di-di!"
After passing layer upon layer of instrunt checks, Chen Beiwu smoothly entered the classroom, found his seat, and quietly waited for the exam papers to be distributed.
To leave behind a record for backup and prevent cultivators from taking the exam in place of others, the Immortal Alliance Entrance Exam’s initial test had always been conducted in written form. Candidates had to leave behind their unique mana traces and spiritual sense aura while answering.
"Ring-ring-ring!" The starting bell sounded.
The subject for the first day was Beast Taming Studies.
Chen Beiwu swept through the paper with his spiritual sense and found that most of the questions were very simple. The only one he wasn’t entirely sure about was the last essay question.
【For a Heavy Earth Rhinoceros with forty-nine years of cultivation, if equipped with a Star-Do Beast Armor (defensive type), would it be able to defeat an Immortal Alliance Foundation Establishnt peak cultivator? If yes, please explain your reasoning in detail.】
‘This essay question is a bit obscure.’ Chen Beiwu thought to himself.
He had once read the Comprehensive Manual of Spiritual Armors, which contained a few scattered records.
The Star-Do Beast Armor was a third-tier military treasure once produced by the Immortal Alliance’s Artifacts Pavilion. It ca in offensive and defensive types, specifically designed for Companion Beasts.
The defensive type could distort space to form an absolute defensive layer, capable of withstanding three spell attacks from a Golden Core True Person.
The offensive type was slightly inferior, only able to compress mid-grade Spirit Stones to unleash bombardnts comparable to a peak Foundation Establishnt cultivator’s self-detonation.
If Chen Beiwu rembered correctly, these two military artifacts were special models developed after the Immortal Alliance conquered a technological planet.
However, because the Star-Do Beast Armor was expensive to manufacture and its power not fully satisfactory, failing to et the military’s requirents, it had been phased out thousands of years ago. Almost no cultivators rembered it.
If not for Chen Beiwu’s habit of reading miscellaneous books, he truly wouldn’t have known what the Star-Do Beast Armor was.
‘For the initial exam to test on such a topic, could it be that the Immortal Alliance has discovered another technological planet?’
Thinking so, Chen Beiwu casually wrote down an answer.
Since the examiners dared to set such an obscure essay question, he hadn’t expected to get it right by luck anyway.
It was just one essay question—if necessary, he could simply give up those points.
……
The next afternoon, the Immortal Alliance initial test ended.
After handing in his Formation exam paper, Chen Beiwu left the hall, calculating his cultural test scores in his mind as he walked.
For Exotic Beasts, Beast Nurturing, and Beast Taming, he should be able to score above 135 points.
For Alchemy and Artifact Refining, around 95 points each, while for Formation and Talismans, he could get full marks.
‘Not bad. This ti, I should be able to score around 790, more than enough to surpass the Thirteen Immortal Sects’ admission cutoff.’ Chen Beiwu thought.
Just then, Xu Ziqing also walked out from the adjacent teaching building.
"When do you plan to set off for the sect re-exams?" she asked as she ca up beside Chen Beiwu.
"I’ll probably leave a few days early." Chen Beiwu replied. "The exact ti depends on when the initial results co out."
"Actually, you’re already almost guaranteed. For cultivators beyond the limits of Qi Refining, even if their initial results aren’t enough, they can still go through the sects’ special recruitnt routes."
At this point, Xu Ziqing’s tone shifted. "That is, if you’re willing to pay the exorbitant special recruitnt fees."
Hearing this, Chen Beiwu’s expression showed curiosity. "Then do you know how much the special recruitnt fee for the Five Great Grotto-Heavens is?"
Xu Ziqing gave him a strange look. "I think you really need to take a good look at yourself right now."
"What, you don’t have any confidence in ?" Chen Beiwu countered.
"That’s not what I an." Xu Ziqing shook her head. "To step into the Qi Refining Overlimit at nineteen, I admit you’re indeed very strong—perhaps the strongest peer cultivator I’ve seen."
"But heroes across the land are as nurous as carps crossing the river!" Xu Ziqing said seriously. "True prodigies don’t even need to take the Immortal Alliance Entrance Exam. They’re directly guaranteed admission into the Five Great Grotto-Heavens."
"If your aptitude were truly enough, you wouldn’t even need to apply. The Five Great Grotto-Heavens would proactively send a Nascent Soul True Monarch to invite you in person."
"I don’t an to discourage you, but you’re not the first cultivator to want to pay special recruitnt fees to make the Five Great Grotto-Heavens open their entrance exams. But that is simply impossible."
At this, Chen Beiwu looked intrigued. "Not even the son of a Nascent Soul True Monarch could manage it?"
Xu Ziqing was briefly at a loss for words, glaring at him. "That’s not sothing I could possibly know."
"True enough." Chen Beiwu nodded, no longer dwelling on it.
Dreams were dreams, reality was reality.
If he truly couldn’t get into the Five Great Grotto-Heavens, being admitted to the Thirteen Immortal Sects would still be fine.
"The horoom teacher said we should gather for a farewell dinner later. Will you co?" Xu Ziqing suddenly asked.
"No." Chen Beiwu flatly refused.
Over the past three years, he had mostly studied on his own and didn’t know many classmates well. There was no need to attend a farewell al.
After bidding farewell to Xu Ziqing, Chen Beiwu hurried back to the Southern Wastes.
He wanted to seek out Senior Sister Yun to ask about his cultivation doubts.
……
Southern Wastes, Mirror Moon Sect.
Formation Hall.
Yun Yishu looked up in surprise, so shocked she couldn’t even focus on the formation in her hands.
"You’ve advanced to the twelfth level of Qi Refining?" Her tone carried undisguised astonishnt.
If Yun Yishu rembered correctly, three years ago, Chen Zi’ang had only been at the tenth level of Qi Refining, and the sect contribution points he earned were almost all spent on that seemingly weak fish-type Spirit Beast.
"Senior Sister misunderstood. I’m only at the peak of the eleventh level of Qi Refining now, I haven’t stepped into the twelfth level yet." Chen Beiwu explained truthfully.
Hearing this, Yun Yishu gazed at her junior brother with a complex, indescribable expression.
Both of them possessed Heavenly Roots.
But when she had advanced from the tenth to the eleventh level of Qi Refining, it had taken her a full ten years.
And to seek the opportunity of mana liquefaction, stepping into the twelfth level of Qi Refining, she had remained at the eleventh level for five whole years.
"So you’ve co to
now wanting to know how to absorb the corresponding yin and yang spiritual energy at noon and midnight, complete the mana cycle of the great circulation, and step into the twelfth level of Qi Refining?" Yun Yishu took a deep breath.
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