As the test papers were distributed, Zhou Bai’s eyes widened as he quickly scanned all the questions.
He let out a soft sigh, "Just as I expected."
With a cold laugh, Zhou Bai said, "I can’t solve any of them."
Looking at the test paper full of incomprehensible symbols, Zhou Bai felt a headache coming on.
Before the exam, he had crammed for two weeks, and he had felt a shred of confidence, believing that he had almost learned enough to scrape by with a passing grade.
But in the moment he looked at the exam paper, he realized he didn’t know how to do this question or that one. Even though a question might look familiar, he couldn’t come up with the answer. For the multiple-choice questions below, every option seemed plausible.
In fact, although he had spent two weeks studying with all his might, it was like having just learned elementary arithmetic and then sitting for a college-level calculus exam.
The gap couldn’t be bridged by mere effort.
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Even though Zhou Bai’s comprehension and memory had greatly improved along with the rise of his Primordial Spirit’s power, surpassing that of ordinary people, it was impossible for him to catch up with Jing Xiu and the others in just two short weeks.
Zhou Bai looked up blankly and glanced around. He saw everyone writing furiously - Jing Xiu, Du Bing, Xia Li, Liu Xian, and even Qian Wangsun, who was sitting in a wheelchair, using the power of his Primordial Spirit to write his answers.
Lv Chongyang’s voice came through, "Zhou Bai, stop looking around, concentrate on your paper."
Zhou Bai quickly lowered his head.
"It’s no use; with my actual skills, I can’t possibly pass. At this point… I have to cheat, just like I planned before."
Just then, Lv Chongyang’s voice came from behind Zhou Bai, "Zhou Bai, hurry up, 1200 points aren’t easy to come by."
Zhou Bai nearly jumped in fright, feeling Lv Chongyang’s gaze on his back, he thought to himself, "Hmph, does old Lv really think I would cheat after not attending class for two months?"
"Don’t underestimate a poor student’s counterattack."
"As long as it’s not discovered, it’s not cheating."
Zhou Bai focused his attention on the sea of knowledge within him, where Christina was curled up in a ball, spinning continuously. He said to her, "Tina, it’s time for you to work. See if you can do these questions."
As Christina’s power had increased step by step, a vast amount of her cultivation memories had awakened.
It seemed just as the cat from before had said, before becoming a cat, she was indeed a powerful cultivator.
It was only unknown why she had ended up turning into a cat.
With Christina’s awakening knowledge about cultivation, her theoretical level in cultivation naturally rose dramatically. Anyway, she had been tutoring Zhou Bai during this time.
Christina exclaimed, "What? Didn’t you say you had learned almost everything and didn’t need my help?"
As she spoke, she stopped spinning and focused intently on the exam paper in front of Zhou Bai.
"You can’t even solve such simple questions! Have I been teaching you in vain all this time?"
"Hmph, as I thought, you still need my help! Without me, you would have been expelled long ago."
"You should speak less with Jing Xiu, Xia Li, and those others in the future; they’re all useless women."
Under Tina’s nagging and guidance, Zhou Bai quickly began to write rapidly on his exam paper.
In the blink of an eye, two hours had passed, and Zhou Bai finally managed to fill up the entire exam paper.
Then, he saw Lv Chongyang gesture with his hand, and all the students’ papers flew towards him. With a chant, the exam papers flipped rapidly, and he began grading them.
As the Primordial Spirit’s power continues to increase, a cultivator’s thought speed, memory capacity, and other brain functions also improve.
Lv Chongyang now, leveraging his fifth realm cultivation level, was grading papers with his formidable thought and memory capacities.
After two hours of intense exam writing, the students finally relaxed and started to gather in small groups, discussing the recent exam questions.
Jing Xiu came up to Zhou Bai, who was sitting confidently with his arms crossed, and asked, "Big Brother Zhou, how did you do on the exam?"
Zhou Bai smiled slightly, "The questions were very simple, basically about things I have already studied."
Jing Xiu said, "Very simple? I found it very difficult. There are several questions I didn’t even know how to answer, I don’t think my score will be very high."
Xia Li popped her head up from behind the desk, looking disdainfully at Zhou Bai, "The questions were ridiculously hard! Several of them about the principles of Yin and Yang, the subtleties of spiritual mechanisms—we haven’t even learned them yet, they must be beyond the syllabus."
Zhou Bai smiled lightly, as if Xia Li’s words didn’t concern him, and casually said, "That’s why I said, I don’t come to class because the content is too far behind my own studies."
"Attending classes would be a waste of time for me."
Xia Li, irked by Zhou Bai’s boastful demeanor, gritted her teeth and said, "Hmph, I can’t wait to see your score."
Jing Xiu, looking at Zhou Bai’s confident face, pondered: "Could it be true what Big Brother Zhou is saying?"
Just then the flipping of the exam papers stopped, and Lv Chongyang’s gaze converged. The 24 exam papers shook slightly and flew toward the 24 waiting students.
Jing Xiu quickly grabbed her own exam paper and saw, "965?" She patted her chest, relieved: "Not bad, not bad, not too low."
She turned her head, curious about Zhou Bai’s score, only to see him sitting there, stunned like a wooden chicken, while Xia Li was already laughing loudly beside him.
"The questions were very simple?! Hahaha!"
Xia Li patted Zhou Bai on the shoulder, chuckling, "Class is a waste of time?! Hahaha."
The girl couldn’t stop laughing while patting Zhou Bai’s shoulder, "Oh my, oh my, I’m going to die laughing!"
Jing Xiu looked at Zhou Bai’s exam paper: "720 points?"
Meanwhile, the dumbstruck Zhou Bai was already quarreling furiously with Christina in his mind, "Damn cat! Didn’t you say the questions were easy?! How could there be so many mistakes!"
Christina frowned and said, "It makes no sense… It’s impossible… How could so many be wrong? I thought I got them all right."
"720 points? That’s like a 60 percent in the grading system, right?" Zhou Bai fumed, "That’s just barely passing! What about the image I just put on?"
At the same time, Zhou Bai could feel the odd glances from all around him, which made his face turn red.
All 24 students present were geniuses who had reached a Primordial Spirit value of 99 before the entrance test. After two months of cultivation, their abilities had advanced by leaps and bounds. Each was sharp-of-hearing, clear-of-sight, and robust.
They had all heard Zhou Bai’s earlier conversation with Xia Li.
Now discovering that Zhou Bai had only scored 720, everyone had different thoughts.
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