Chapter 16

With Zhang Dahai's clowning around, Lin Mo's choice of the Immortal Examination was really glossed over.

As the head teacher, Li Xiang naturally didn't want to manage it, but he knew that blocking is not as good as dredging.

Among the graduating candidates in previous years, it wasn't as if there weren't people like Lin Mo and Zhang Dahai.

After all, having studied hard for more than ten years, how could it be so easy to let people completely give up the Great Dao of Longevity.

Ever since "After the Great Desolation" descended on the Diyuan Star, the whole population possessed an immortal cultivation system, and cultivating the Dao for longevity had become the mainstream outlook on life in the mortal world.

Even if you grabbed a child who just understood things on the street and asked, they would tell you their dream is to ascend and become an immortal, not to become a scientist who benefits humanity.

But it's not like having an extra immortal cultivation panel means you can attain longevity.

In fact, cultivation aptitude is still a natural chasm in front of most people.

Even for a key institution like Nanshan No. 4 Middle School, which ranks in the top five in a large province like Xichuan Province, very few end up getting into an academy of Dao.

The final mock exam for seniors is, in a sense, to wake up students like Lin Mo who still have fantasies.

The format of the mock exam will follow the real Immortal Examination; the cultural examination will be arranged uniformly in the morning.

Once the cultural test is completely over, a small number of students will take the Immortal Examination in the afternoon.

It was eight o'clock in the morning, and Lin Mo had already moved to the computer room of the second teaching building with his classmates.

That's right, the cultural test is a computer-based exam, and all subjects were arranged together.

Of course, it wasn't the school's intention, but it is like this every year for the cultural examination.

No matter how many cultural test subjects there are, they are all collected into one exam and taken together.

This isn't just done in Qinzhou; the entire Diyuan Nine Provinces basically does it this way.

The ideology of "valuing cultivation, slighting culture" runs through the Diyuan Nine Provinces.

Of course, having said that, the questions in the cultural test are mostly multiple-choice, and the time is still very ample.

At least for Lin Mo, who is a top student, it is so.

The subjects Lin Mo chose were physics and literature; the former is not difficult for those who know it, and difficult for those who don't.

To put it plainly, it means there is less to memorize, which is more suitable for quickly scoring points.

Literature naturally goes without saying; it's just basic skills.

"Ding-a-ling~!"

The exam bell rang right on time, and the interface where the candidate's name and exam number were originally filled in also began to jump to the interface.

Multiple-choice questions appeared in front of Lin Mo.

There were 40 questions each for astronomy and geography, 20 questions for physics, only 10 multiple-choice questions for literature, and finally an essay.

There weren't many questions, but the difficulty was hard to say.

Lin Mo clicked the mouse, scrolled the page, and looked at the first astronomy question—

1. In order to observe the movement of the sun, moon, and five stars, the ancient Diyuan Star divided the celestial region near the ecliptic and equator very early into:

A. Twelve Zodiac Signs; B. Twenty-eight Mansions; C. 350 Degrees; D. Three Enclosures

"Heh, a cultural exam question from ten years ago."

Seeing this, Lin Mo basically had a basic grasp of the difficulty of this exam.

"Is it this simple to build the confidence of cultural candidates?"

He thought secretly in his heart and looked around.

He saw that the moment the classmates in the class saw the questions, many of them showed bitter expressions.

Obviously, this school's trick didn't have any effect.

For students who spent most of their time on cultivation, no matter how simple the questions were, if they hadn't reviewed them, they would still seem as difficult as ascending to heaven; looking at the questions, they could only scratch their heads and look confused.

The cultural level of this world is worrying... Lin Mo muttered to himself, then didn't waste time and switched the mouse to his left hand.

His right hand continued to press 1, his left hand stayed on the mouse, his gaze quickly swept over the questions, his fingers clicked quickly, and the questions were brushed through rapidly.

The crisp clicking sound of the mouse attracted the attention of many students around him.

After they turned their heads and saw it was Lin Mo, they all showed expressions of envy.

If Ye Chen is the seedling for the Immortal Examination of Nanshan No. 4 Middle School, then Lin Mo is the seedling for the Cultural Examination of Nanshan.

Just as the students said before, this scoundrel Lin Mo started taking a portion of his spare time to study cultural lessons a year ago, leading them by who knows how many steps.

In the previous two mock exams, his cultural test scores were amazing.

According to Old Li, Lin Mo's second mock exam score could even rank in the top 100 of the entire Xichuan Province.

So when he chose the Immortal Examination today, everyone felt so surprised.

However, the classmates' attention was quickly attracted by another crisp and powerful clicking sound in the classroom, and after turning their heads to look—

Oh, Dahai!

He saw that Zhang Dahai's expression wasn't as painful as the candidates next to him; instead, he had the same ease and comfort as Lin Mo, as if the questions on the computer couldn't stump him at all.

It's just that the classmates who knew him all knew that if you had to use one sentence to describe Zhang Dahai, it would be:

Dahai, you're all water!

Just as everyone was complaining, the invigilator above coughed and said:

"What are you looking at? Your eyes cannot leave your own computer!"

As the teacher's voice fell, the candidates withdrew their scattered attention one after another, looked at the test questions in front of them again, and soon confusion and pain appeared on their faces again...

Time passed quickly, and the six-hour exam time was almost fleeting for Lin Mo, who was seriously doing the questions.

But for other candidates, it was like having thorns on their backs and sitting on pins and needles, even harder to endure than meditating.

"Phew~!"

Lin Mo stretched, put down the mouse in his left hand, and his right hand continued to press 1—

【Merit +1】

His gaze didn't look at the scores already calculated by the system on the interface, but at the merit points on his personal panel.

"Very good, pressing 1 is becoming more and more proficient. Even if I press 1 while doing questions, the CD of merit points hasn't wasted a single second, 360 merit points get!"

He thought secretly in his heart.

Just at this moment, an exclamation suddenly sounded in the classroom:

"Mozi, awesome! First place again!"

Except for the essay, all the questions in the cultural test were multiple-choice, and since it was a computer-based exam, the scores were not only available immediately after the exam, but the rankings were also calculated immediately.

Lin Mo's name was prominently hung in the first place of Senior Year, Class 10—

【Lin Mo: 886 points, Class Ranking: 1】

"Lin Mo is awesome! Even if you wrote this essay with your feet, you'd still get over 900 points!"

"Worthy of being the study god in our class!"

"With your grades, why choose the Immortal Examination? Isn't it good to take the cultural student route?"

"..."

The classmates flattered him very graciously.

Before Lin Mo could speak, he saw Zhang Dahai jump up very exaggeratedly and shout in the computer room:

"Mozi, you are my god! 886 points is awesome!"

Several black question marks appeared above Lin Mo's head.

Then he saw Zhang Dahai not even look at him, but instead turn his head to look at Ye Chen in the corner, deliberately and sarcastically saying:

"Haha, although some people have very good luck, their brains aren't very good."

After hearing this, Ye Chen's face looked significantly uglier.

Many classmates subconsciously started flipping through the grade sheet, and then found Ye Chen's ranking at the bottom:

【Ye Chen: 390 points, Class Ranking: 32】

This score isn't actually very low, but compared to the name Ye Chen, it really has a sense of "not matching."

And 390 points isn't even half of Lin Mo's score; everyone couldn't help but recall Ye Chen's mockery of Lin Mo in the classroom just now...

"What's the use of good cultural grades? You still can't get into the Immortal Examination!"

Ye Chen snorted coldly.

He also knew that his advantage wasn't here, but after saying this, he threw the mouse on the table and stood up to leave the computer room gracefully.

Zhang Dahai showed the expression of a winner and hummed at his departing back:

"Let you act cool just now!"

Many classmates silently gave him a thumbs up. After Ye Chen obtained the title of 【Son of Luck】, let alone classmates, even the teachers in the class were polite to him and rarely said harsh words.

Someone like Zhang Dahai who provoked the other party to their face was the first in the class.

"Awesome! Brother Dahai!"

Someone even flattered him in a low voice.

Zhang Dahai waved his hand domineeringly, indicating it was all a small matter, and then ran toward Lin Mo excitedly, showing off to him:

"How about it, Mozi! Dad vented your anger for you; that idiot is typical of having well-developed limbs but a simple mind. He's still acting cool in front of us with these few cultural points..."

Lin Mo was silent for a moment, then picked up the mouse to scroll through the score sheet on the computer, and found Zhang Dahai's name at the very bottom—

【Zhang Dahai: 249 points, Class Ranking: 49】

Very good, one point away from 250, second to last in the class.

Killing eight hundred enemies and losing ten thousand of your own, right?

You're only slightly better than that blockhead Chu Wange!