Chapter 765: WPS Crashed, File Lost, Will Be Later

WPS crashed, file lost, will be later

Rongcheng,

First High School, in the classroom.

Name: Jiang Ding

Chinese (full score 150): 109

Mathematics (full score 150): 70

Ideology and Morality (full score 150): 137

Comprehensive Science (full score 300, Biology, Chemistry, Physics): 151,

Comprehensive Humanities (full score 100, History, Geography): 61

Bonus Electives—

Cultivation (full score 300): Bone Refining Realm Peak 50,

Main Weapon Elective (full score 60): Heavy Machine Gun: 17

Cold Weapon Sub-Weapon Elective (full score 40): Low-Grade Sword Art—Gale Three Cuts, 25

Practical Combat (full score 150): 23

Total Score: 643

Last row,

A boy with delicate features stared at the mock exam results just handed out, looking for a long time.

"Cultural subject total score 850, I can only score 534,"

"Cultivation bonus total score 400, I can only score 97, and the practical combat score is even worse, I can't beat anyone." Jiang Ding sighed heavily.

"Sigh... If this continues, forget about getting into Qianling University's Cultivation Department, I won't even get into an ordinary third-tier college; perhaps entering a vocational school to learn a trade sooner is the right path..."

Immortal Sects rely on spiritual veins across the globe to build thirty-nine universities respectively.

Most students in these universities are ordinary people; only the Cultivation Department with a twenty-year curriculum imparts Xiu Xiangong Fa knowledge, mastering supernatural power, with hope for immortality.

To get into the Cultivation Department of universities across the land, one does not look at spiritual roots, cultivation level, or family background; even if you are the legitimate son of a Jin Dan True Person, it is useless,

the only standard is the Gaokao score!

Indeed, you can ignore cultivation and electives entirely; even if you are a waste at Xiu Xiangong Fa and martial arts, as long as your Gaokao score reaches the cutoff line for the Cultivation Department of universities across the land, you will definitely be admitted.

The Immortal Sect Gaokao is the greatest fairness for students worldwide!

Of course, there are very few people in the entire history of the Immortal Sect who could abandon 550 points of cultivation bonus and still get into a university's Cultivation Department.

And, aside from getting into the Cultivation Department, cultivation bonus electives have no other function.

Ordinary university departments only look at cultural subject scores.

"Bone Refining Realm Peak!"

The desk mate said with a sour tone: "That's quite good; with strength to lift eight hundred jin, in ancient times wearing heavy armor, you'd at least be a match for ten thousand men."

Li Li Junhao's build was short and very thin, making his head look disproportionately large, giving him a somewhat comical appearance.

"In the present, it's just a matter of one magazine from a submachine gun." Jiang Ding shook his head and sighed, changing the subject, "Your cultural subject score, is it 690 or 698?"

Rongcheng No. 1 High School, hailed as the cradle of Cultivation Department students, aside from those like him admitted through special Ideology and Morality recruitment, everyone else is truly capable.

"701 points"

Li Li Junhao's sourness vanished, and he said proudly.

"Over 700 points?!!"

Jiang Ding was startled.

This was no small matter; although cultural scores and cultivation scores are separate, they are not opposed but interrelated and inseparable.

Chinese includes a vast amount of basic knowledge and principles regarding talismans and Gong Fa; students who can write good essays, when they eventually embark on the cultivation path, will certainly have high understanding of talismans and Gong Fa;

Mathematics explicitly includes calculations and knowledge foundations related to arrays;

Physics, Chemistry, and Biology in Comprehensive Science, and History and Geography in Comprehensive Humanities, are all closely related to spiritual beasts, spiritual materials, artifact forging, spiritual veins, and so on in Xiu Xiangong Fa.

However,

Xiu Xiangong Fa is a discipline where theory and practice are tightly combined.

Without becoming a cultivator, without magic power and divine sense, one cannot truly observe and practice the things in books.

It is like a eunuch drawing erotic paintings; everything relies on imagination, one can only deduce answers by calculating principles from the book, array structures, magic power circulation diagrams, and so on.

Separated by a thick layer of cloth.

No matter how smart a person is, there is a limit; even with talent and willingness to work hard, under such conditions, for an ordinary person to score four or five hundred points is already excellent.

"You can consider which of the top two universities to attend." Jiang Ding said with no small amount of envy.

The very top ordinary academic achievers only score around six hundred points; these are already prospects for Qingfeng University and Qingfeng Qingfeng Beidou University, with a significant possibility of entering these two top-ranked Immortal Sect institutions.

Of course, this is only for the ordinary departments; the very top cultivation geniuses will not compete with them.

Seven hundred points is a threshold.

This means that in Xiu Xiangong Fa subjects, in one or several aspects, he can stand shoulder-to-shoulder with the very top cultivation geniuses.

Unfortunately, the three body-refining realms—skin refining, flesh refining, bone refining—generating internal qi, and returning to the innate state; Li Li Junhao only barely reached the late stage of skin refining, gaining 10 realm bonus points; his hot weapon and cold weapon practical combat electives were equally terrible, all scoring single digits of 5 points; his total cultivation elective score was a pitiful 25 points.

"Sigh~"

The two exchanged glances, both showing bitterness.

In the last ten years, even the cutoff line for the Cultivation Department of Qianling University in their own province, which has the lowest score requirement, has been 842; the two of them have absolutely no hope.

"It's really unfair."

Li Li Junhao secretly glanced at the dozen or so people in the front row,

"Their cultural scores are not even 400, yet because they possess innate spiritual roots, they don't need to practice martial arts or refine the body, generate internal qi, or return from the acquired to the innate state; they are born able to cultivate Xiu Xiangong Fa, becoming aloof Qi Refining cultivators, and without studying, they gain over 200 cultivation bonus points, leaving us far behind, who stay up late studying until two o'clock every night."

Li Li Junhao showed a hint of unwillingness.

Jiang Ding knew that, in fact, he was extremely proud; without magic power or divine sense, he had nonetheless studied the cultural subjects better than most Qi Condensation cultivators.

But this pride was shattered before the reality of the gap.

Whether it was scores at school, status in society later on, or even lifespan, he was far inferior.

"... Fourteenth place, Zou Zou Xiyuan, cultural score 411, cultivation score 377, total score 788."

The homeroom teacher, Guo Kui, whose face had always been stern, finally showed a trace of a smile and raised his head slightly.

"Qi Condensation Second Layer, an improvement from before. Keep up this momentum. There is still a year until the college entrance exam. If you can break through to the mid-stage of Qi Condensation by then, or improve your scores in Geography, Biology, History, and Chemistry a bit more, there is hope for the Cultivation Department at Qianling University!"

The reason for these specific subjects is that the purpose of education on Blue Fluorescent Star is to select cultivation talents. Chinese, Mathematics, and Physics involve the principles of Gong Fa and meridian circulation for cultivation, as well as talismans, arrays, and the three major related fields; they are extremely difficult, extremely difficult, and impossible to improve without talent and effort.

However, the high school curriculum has already been completed in the first and second years of high school. Unless a miracle occurs in the remaining year, it is basically impossible to significantly raise scores in these three foundational subjects; one can only work hard on the other subjects.

As for Ideology and Morality, this subject examines one's understanding and support of the Immortal Sect system. As long as a normal person studies normally, does not have too many heretical thoughts, and does not write them down, they can basically pass.

But high scores are equally difficult and very subjective, with no specific answers. The papers are graded by the Central Array Spirit Computer, the legacy of the Immortal Sect sages, which, according to its program logic, assigns scores based on the exam papers, the student's past experiences, online and real-world statements, and even family political background.

Over the years, high-scoring papers in Ideology and Morality have appeared, but basically every paper is different. Countless tutoring teachers have studied for countless days and nights without finding any common points; improvement is very difficult.

This is also the reason Jiang Ding could enter No. 1 High School despite his cultural and cultivation subjects being unremarkable.

The teachers and principal of No. 1 High School all support the Immortal Sect; their political awareness is extremely high. How could they allow talented people to be left behind outside the school?

The gazes of more than twenty people in the classroom all turned toward a girl with some freckles, filled with complex emotions such as envy, burning passion, and inferiority.

Hope for the Cultivation Department!

Jiang Ding's mood was also very complex.

The advantages of cultivators,

are too many!

In the Qi Condensation stage, cultivation adds 200 points; Qi Condensation Second Layer adds 20 points. For the three subjects of heavy machine gun usage with modern weapons, precision shooting, beyond-boundary shooting, and area-of-effect shooting, with the assistance of divine sense, they can easily achieve the full thirty points, which is the martial artist's limit.

—The remaining thirty points are named Tank Driving and Combat. Martial artists without divine sense, even innate martial artists who are said to be comparable to Qi Condensation, do not even have the qualification to participate.

"Tenth place..."

"Ninth place..."

"Second place, Wu Wu Tianli, Qi Condensation Fifth Layer, cultural score 730, cultivation bonus 467, total score 1197."

Whoosh!

Instantly, almost all gazes were drawn to him, including those who were also in the Qi Condensation stage.

He was a handsome, confident, and sunny young man who nodded slightly and politely responded to the classmates around him.

"Qi Condensation Fifth Layer!"

A murmur erupted all around.

"Wu Wu Tianli seems to have the Metal, Wood, Water, and Fire four spiritual roots. How could his cultivation speed be so fast?"

"His spiritual root attributes are quite good; it is possible they are extremely close to a three-spirit root."

"Three-spirit root! Excluding those outside the Realm, this is almost a top-tier talent..."

Jiang Ding silently listened to the discussions of the classmates around him, like a transparent person.

More than ten thousand years ago, Blue Fluorescent Star was a spirit-less planet. Even though it has intersected with the Cultivation World for over ten thousand years, native spirit veins and spiritual roots remain incredibly scarce. Four-spirit roots are extremely rare, appearing in almost one out of eighty or ninety thousand people; let alone three-spirit roots, two-spirit roots, and the legendary Heavenly Spiritual Root.

Four-spirit root cultivators, called pseudo-spirit roots outside the Realm, are already geniuses on Blue Fluorescent Star.

"With this, you are guaranteed a spot in the Cultivation Department of one of the fifteen major universities; there is hope for one of the twelve mid-tier universities, and there is even a slight possibility of entering one of the twelve top-tier universities," Guo Kui said with a beaming smile.

It must be known that among the thirty-nine universities that have Cultivation Departments, the twelve mid-tier universities are generally only something three-spirit root cultivators can aspire to.

"I will work hard, Teacher," Wu Wu Tianli said seriously.

Everyone knew what he was referring to.

The twelve top-tier universities, including Qingfeng University and Qingfeng Qingfeng Beidou University, have a nickname: Land of Jin Dan!

According to statistics from past students, the probability of cultivators from the twelve top-tier universities becoming Jin Dan cultivators is ten times, or even more than ten times, greater than all other schools combined plus scattered cultivators!

"This..." Guo Kui encouraged him: "Keep going! The teacher believes in you!"

The Cultivation Departments of the twelve top-tier universities are also known as the Twelve Dao Palaces. Every Dao Palace has a Nascent Soul Master Dinghai Zhenjun meditating there. Even native three-spirit root cultivators find it extremely difficult to enter; only geniuses who have reached the absolute peak in both their Dao and cultivation can enter.

Cultivators outside the Realm have a nickname for the students of the twelve top-tier universities.

Named Disciples of Nascent Soul Master Dinghai Zhenjun!

At least in the eyes of cultivators outside the Realm, the status of students from the twelve top-tier universities is equivalent to that of named disciples of Nascent Soul Ancestors; if there is interaction, they are treated equally.

Thus, one can imagine the difficulty involved.

Basically, among hundreds of millions of people in a province, only about a hundred students per year qualify to enter the twelve top-tier universities.

"First place, Hua Bing! Qi Condensation Sixth Layer, cultural score 723, cultivation bonus 479, total score 1202."

Many admiring and respectful gazes turned toward the woman in the center of the first row. She had wheat-colored skin, was heroic and handsome, and possessed the aura of a big sister.

"High probability of entering one of the twelve mid-tier universities; a slight possibility of entering one of the twelve top-tier universities."

Guo Kui made this judgment based on his professional experience.

She seemed to be only five points behind Wu Wu Tianli, but people are different. With three-spirit roots and the dedicated cultivation support of her Foundation Establishment father, she is already at the peak of Qi Condensation Sixth Layer and could enter Qi Condensation Seventh Layer at any moment, becoming a late-stage Qi Condensation cultivator.

For late-stage Qi Condensation cultivators, magic power and divine sense will undergo a slight qualitative change; this is the foundation that allows them to crush mid- and early-stage Qi Condensation cultivators.

An extra ten bonus points is nothing. The growth and slight qualitative change in magic power and divine sense, especially divine sense, can slightly improve a cultivator's calculation ability, memory, and divine sense scanning precision—these crucial abilities.

This will cause a slight increase in learning ability.

Scores in subjects like Chinese, Mathematics, Physics, and Biology are likely to see a comprehensive slight increase. If the increase is sufficient, entering one of the twelve top-tier universities is not beyond hope.

"These are the students with spiritual roots. As for the other students, you must not lose heart either." Guo Kui withdrew his gaze from Hua Bing and looked at Jiang Ding, Li Li Junhao, and other mortal students, saying sternly:

"Unlike cultivators, this long-lived profession where cultivation is extremely difficult and slow, requiring even those with supreme talent to accumulate step by step over several years, according to the teachers' experience, after the third year of high school, the cultivation of young martial artists with supreme talent and deep foundations will undergo explosive growth."

"Every citizen of the Immortal Gate, within twenty-four hours of birth, has a martial artist of innate rank wash and temper their flesh, muscles, and bones with at least thirty-year-old great medicines; within three days, a Qi Training stage cultivator washes and tempers their meridians with Essence-Nurturing Spirit Liquid."

"In terms of talent, any random citizen of the Immortal Gate would be considered a genius in some low-grade small worlds that only have martial path inheritances."

"The Immortal Gate setting up martial artists to participate in the college entrance examination is not meant to be a foil for those with spiritual roots!"

Guo Kui's tone was very serious.

"On the contrary, the vast number of educated ordinary people are the most important cornerstone of the Immortal Gate, and the topmost students among them will have futures no worse than those with spiritual roots by even a fraction."

"Many great powers of the Immortal Gate likewise have no spiritual roots, but this does not prevent them from roaming freely between heaven and earth!"

Many students without spiritual roots were invigorated, regaining hope.

Jiang Ding pressed his lips together.

He noticed the words 'topmost natural talent' in Teacher Guo's words.

Thinking about it, that was true,

To cultivate immortality as a mortal, if not a dragon or phoenix among men, how could one dare to hope?

"Alright, since the results of the last mock test are out, students who improved must not grow complacent, and students who regressed must work even harder, so as not to betray your youth."

Guo Kui set the class grade sheet aside, rubbed his shiny scalp, and opened the Ideological and Moral Cultivation textbook.

Since the emergence of the supernatural, the Ideological and Moral Cultivation course had leapt to become a main subject on par with Chinese and Mathematics, with a total of 150 points, extremely important; a low score was acceptable, but if one couldn't even pass, that was an extremely serious problem.

Although it wouldn't mean no university admission, many future opportunities would be directly closed off.

"Recite 【The First Law of the Immortal Gate】, tone must be solemn and reverent, begin." Guo Kui said.

The sound of clear, loud reading voices rose in response.

"The First Law of the Immortal Gate!"

"All knowledge within Blue Phosphor Star, including that of public institutions and private institutions, personally owned; patented and unpatented; cultivation knowledge and non-cultivation; past, present, and all knowledge yet to be created or discovered in the future, belongs to all citizens!"

"Any citizen whose political rights have not been revoked, so long as they apply and prove they possess the ability to comprehend that knowledge, may read any knowledge, any inheritance, on Blue Phosphor Star!"

"If that knowledge is within its patent period, then a patent fee recognized by the Central Array Spirit Computer must be paid!"

Jiang Ding and the others recited loudly in solemn tones, every punctuation mark, every pause, without the slightest deviation.

As for thoughts, there were none.

Because they had started learning this on their first day of preschool; literacy too — the vast majority of Immortal Gate citizens' very first characters learned were these.

"If any institution or individual violates the First Law of the Immortal Gate, refusing the lawful reading request of a lawful citizen, the citizen should report to the local Immortal Gate institution and the Array Spirit Computer of their registered residence at the first opportunity."

"Institutions or individuals who, after multiple warnings, still refuse to fulfill the First Law of the Immortal Gate, the military of their registered residence has the obligation, under the supervision of the Central Array Spirit Computer, to carry out strict material and soul annihilation procedures against them."

The clear, loud reading voices fell silent.

"I won't say much about the importance of the First Law of the Immortal Gate; I, your middle school and elementary school teachers, have already said it many times. It's a mandatory test on the college entrance examination, even the position, question type, and score are fixed."

"This is free points, fifteen points given away for free, but!"

Guo Kui's face hardened, saying: "This time we actually had two students write one character wrong! This is copying, no transformation questions at all, just copying!"

The anger of a late-stage Qi Training cultivator caused wild winds to rise within the classroom.

Books were blown about with a rustling sound; only the breathing of everyone gradually became clear.

"I won't say who it was."

Guo Kui calmed his mood, saying sternly: "Right now I'm the one grading, so everyone still has a chance to correct it. When it comes to the college entrance examination, the Central Array Spirit Computer does the grading, and then everything becomes set in stone — so many years of hard work would be wasted."

"Understood?"

"Understood!"

Before an enraged late-stage Qi Training cultivator, all the students answered obediently.

"Good, now we continue with the example questions from last time, the First Confidentiality Detail triggered by the words 'lawful citizen of Blue Phosphor Star' in the First Law of the Immortal Gate."

"The first major question: if the Immortal Gate's ally beyond the boundary, the Wuxingtian Sect, has cultivator exchange students composed of true transmission disciples who obtained temporary citizen status at customs, then, if you have the chance to converse with them, which knowledge can be exchanged, and which is forbidden to leak even a fraction, so as not to trigger 【Da Zhou】."

"On this point, you may refer to the Customs Regulations, Temporary Citizen Permission Details…"

On the podium, Guo Kui spoke with ease and fluency, extending from the example question to reality, then returning to theory; the students below took notes rapidly.

The difference was that Jiang Ding and the other mortal students wielded their pens like wind, sweat flying; the cultivators in the front row like Wu Wu Tianli held a jade slip, recording with divine sense and magic power, relaxed and at ease, yet their efficiency far surpassed the former.

Ding-ling…

"The knowledge points covered in this class, you must memorize them firmly; when you go back, do more example questions…"

Two hours later, Guo Kui closed the textbook with lingering interest and left the classroom.

The instant he left, whooshing sounds rose everywhere, and one figure after another vanished rapidly.

The fastest, naturally, were the cultivators who had buffed themselves with the Wind-Walking Art, vanishing in the blink of an eye like a wisp of blue smoke; students at lower Martial Path Realm couldn't even see when they had left.

Next, naturally, were the three Internal Qi realm martial artists in the class; although internal qi was far inferior to a cultivator's magic power, it was more than enough to crush a bunch of Body Tempering martial artists.

Last was Jiang Ding, a peak Bone Tempering realm martial artist; with a single hand push, he sprinted toward the cultivation room under Li Li Junhao's envious gaze.

From 4 PM to 6 PM was the cultivation class.

In the cultivation area, as expected, the top 10 cultivation rooms had already been occupied by various fierce people. Jiang Ding swiped his student card at the door of cultivation room number 41, and the steel metal door slowly opened.

The students behind showed regretful expressions and pounced on the adjacent cultivation room number 42.

Blue Phosphor Star had intersected with the Cultivation World for only a little over ten thousand years; spiritual energy was thin and resources scarce. Currently, all spiritual energy had been collected as the property of the Immortal Gate, leaving only enough outside for cultivators to barely maintain breathing and inhalation-exhalation.

Of course, Jiang Ding was only a martial artist; he could not sense spiritual energy, nor could he use it.

What they were actually fighting over was the 'Essence Condensing Bone-Strengthening Soup' uniformly provided by the Immortal Gate Education Department for senior-year Bone Tempering realm students inside the cultivation rooms, developed by the Immortal Gate Academy of Sciences, boiled from hundreds to thousands of medicinal ingredients, refined and perfected; although mass-produced, the effect was in no way inferior.

In some low-grade small worlds, it could well be called a heavenly material and earthly treasure; to obtain it would require both strength and opportunity.

The higher the cultivation room's ranking, the better the effect of the Essence Condensing Bone-Strengthening Soup.

If one were a cultivator or a martial artist of an even lower realm, what they obtained would also be different — perhaps the spiritual energy concentration of that number, or perhaps a great nourishing soup for muscles and bones.

The door opened, revealing an interior of over a hundred square meters; beside it was a weapon rack with all manner of blades, spears, swords, and halberds; at the center was a banyan tree root twisted and coiled into the shape of a palm, and resting in the center of that palm was a bowl of milky-white thick soup, emitting an overwhelming fragrance.

Stepping into the cultivation room, the metal door behind slowly closed.

A blue light screen, like a postcard, slowly unfolded.

【Name: Jiang Ding】

【Student ID:】

【Realm: Peak Bone Refinement】

【Last Training Subject: "The Sixty-Eighth Set Young Eagle Takes Flight Sword Art" (Proficiency 32%)】

Below the light screen was a virtual little figure composed of meridian threads, with every muscle, every bone, and every patch of skin clearly labeled, and it could be freely zoomed in and out.

Skin and muscles were mostly at 100%, while a few hard-to-train spots—such as the underarm skin, scalp, cheek muscles, stomach muscles, and so on—were at varying levels like 12%, 46%, 0%.

No matter how much you trained, these areas were extremely hard to reach; you could only wait until internal Qi was born and use it to assist in training them perfectly.

Overall, most of the skin and muscles had reached their current limits. The training room computer was connected to the Rongcheng Array Spirit computer, equivalent to a Soul Transformation great power's clone's clone assisting with observation and confirmation—absolutely no errors or omissions.

The real difficulty lay in the spine.

Limbs, ribs, sternum, outer skull, and so on were all at 100%; only the spine showed very few areas at 60%, with most at 1% or 2%—the tempering degree was extremely low.

Jiang Ding knew the reason.

"The Sixty-Eighth Set Young Eagle Takes Flight Art (Proficiency 32%)."

He sighed.

The Sixty-Eighth Set Young Eagle Takes Flight Art!

This Gong Fa had a very ordinary name and was only the lowest level among 'Classics, Scriptures, Skills, Techniques, and Arts'—a Gong Fa for young children among mortals. It looked very trashy.

In reality, it had a reputation across dozens of worlds, including the Cultivation World.

The Number One Dian Ji Shen Gong Across All Realms!

No one disagreed!

Because this Gong Fa had an extremely terrifying effect: if a mortal could use it to successfully break through to Innate, they would forge a 'Dao Body Embryonic Form,' and their cultivation aptitude would approach that of the top-tier Four Spiritual Roots aptitude.

It could be called defying the heavens to change one's fate!