Chapter 275: I am the demon ancestor!

Under the relevant department's notice, although everyone might still have dissatisfaction, they could only suppress it, after all the matter was already settled and they couldn't change anything, so it was better to properly face the upcoming exam.

With this thought, all examinees adjusted their mindset, but they didn't expect that this was only the beginning.

After the language exam, the next was the afternoon mathematics exam; this time there were no extra questions on the test, but several question stems contained individual odd questions.

【When an earthquake suddenly occurs and buildings collapse, you have three triangular corners nearby where you can take shelter, each different, with diagonals of 30°, 45°, and 60° respectively, and length, width, height as shown in the figure; please find the values for each of the three different corners.】

【When a local anomaly suddenly erupts, causing a series of geological disasters, a scientific expedition team conducts an investigation, randomly selecting 200 groups for statistics, obtaining the following data.】

【Question One: What do you think is the proportional relationship rate between the sudden disaster in that area and the anomaly changes?】

【Question Two: Choose one area A to represent the event 'anomaly change status', B to represent 'geological disaster', and calculate the final conclusion according to the formula and proportion.】

These questions are essentially normal triangle figure calculations and statistics problems, but the question materials also include some illustrative examples, which are truly bewildering.

It feels like there's an indescribable strangeness?

Time was pressing, and the examinees didn't think too much, suppressing their doubts and starting to calculate.

After the math exam, these two questions undoubtedly sparked discussion again, but compared to the language exam, the number of people feeling confused and dumbfounded was much smaller.

After all, only the description of the questions differed; the essential problems and formulas remained unchanged. The only issue was that these question stems left a deep impression on the already nervous examinees, even making them dream about this content at night.

Having learned from the language and math exams, everyone had prepared mentally for the liberal arts and science comprehensive exams starting the next day, guessing whether the later exams would be similar to the previous two.

As expected! When the morning liberal arts and science comprehensive exams arrived, they also entirely featured similar odd questions.

For the liberal arts comprehensive, the first half was fine, but when reaching the latter half of the test paper, the style began to feel off.

【Please fill in the blanks of the classical Chinese text from memory; this passage is selected from 'Jingwei Filling the Sea', 'Gonggong Touching Mount Buzhou', and 'Nüwa Creating Humans', and based on the article write out the core modernist idea contained therein.】

【Besides the sphinx, Nüwa is human-headed and snake-bodied; in our country's or global history, what other records exist of animals with human faces and beast bodies, or beast faces and human bodies? Please give examples (no less than three).】

【What are the Honghuang Eight Beasts?】

Seeing these questions, the liberal arts examinees couldn't help but widen their eyes; although the content appears in textbooks, it's not required reading, so logically the exam shouldn't test these.

Moreover, it's clearly a thought question, so why add a modernist core idea here? It feels completely mismatched, like a bull's head on a horse's body.

And there's the final question: what are the Honghuang Eight Beasts?

High school life is already extremely tense; most students have no leisure to read novels, and even if they do, it's only a small portion; unless they especially like the Honghuang genre, who would bother to memorize the Honghuang Eight Beasts?

Not only liberal arts examinees, but science examinees on the other side also encountered many problems.

【Assume a volcano suddenly erupts, with countless volcanic stones spewing out; the largest and smallest stones each follow a parabolic trajectory, with the X‑Y axis distances as shown in the figure.】

【The mass of the largest volcanic stone is 1 ton, the smallest is 1 kg; according to the physics formula, calculate the impact force it brings.】

【When global catastrophe strikes and temperatures plummet, you have a physics lab at hand, with magnesium, aluminum, iron, zinc and other substances fully prepared; food is available at an intersection 100 meters away; which formula should you use, and which crop should you extract, to guarantee perfect acquisition of food?】

Seeing these odd exam questions, many examinees showed looks of confusion on their faces.

???

Who on earth came up with these questions?!

Use the kinetic energy formula to calculate the impact force of a volcanic eruption?

Global catastrophe, temperature plunge, use the materials in the physics lab to obtain food from the supply box?

Looking at the questions before them, countless examinees' mouths twitched incessantly, revealing expressions of doubting life; how exactly did these questions end up on the college entrance exam paper?

Completely unlike what's in the textbook.

Faced with these bizarre exam questions, many examinees showed strange expressions, their mindsets were on the verge of collapse, and many more didn't know where to start, because they had never encountered such a situation before.

Fortunately, having experienced the earlier unexpected situations in the language and math exams, the examinees calmed down and carefully read the questions; they found that although the question stems were awkward and looked extremely bizarre, the difficulty was not high.

Same soup, different medicine—essentially nothing changed; the core knowledge points were still what they had learned in class.

The examinees quickly picked up their pens and began answering.

Actually, the purpose of these questions is not to embarrass students; part of it is to test the cultivation technique given by Longyuan Mountain Range, and another part is to give the public a preliminary inoculation, laying groundwork for possible future disasters.

After all, if suddenly told the public that monsters exist in the world and that Earth is about to face catastrophe, it would likely cause utter panic.

Therefore, these college entrance exam questions are the officials' many preparations for later fully disclosing the existence of Longyuan Mountain; they can be said to be painstakingly crafted.

Although the questions are odd, their difficulty is not much different from previous years; each question's core is actually what the college entrance exam originally intended to test, only the description has changed.

The truly difficult ones, involving cultivator questions, such as the previous language exam's final twenty‑point major question, come from the cultivation technique records of Longyuan Mountain Range.

Only those with genuine wisdom and talent can understand and answer them, for example, like Wu Zhenghao before.

The college entrance exam continues, while the overall heads of those regions have been constantly monitoring.

In the huge conference room, the multimedia screen occupied a large area; the figures appearing on the screen at this moment were Hua Tiancheng, Qi Hai, and Zhao En.

Because this college entrance exam was unprecedentedly important, everyone had to return to their respective jurisdictions to handle related matters, so they couldn't rush to the scene in time and thus held this video conference.

"The college entrance exam is already more than half over; how is the situation in your respective areas?"

"We currently have no special occurrences; everything is normal."

"We also have nothing happening, but online there have been many comments about this college entrance exam; the private messages and phone calls of the Education Department are almost being blown up by the public."

Hua Tiancheng nodded, saying, "These situations are also normal; after all, this college entrance exam's changes are indeed significant, and the public seeing them for the first time cannot possibly accept them all at once."

"In short, let's take it slow; rushing these things is useless, we can only plan gradually, first let the public adapt to the time, though I estimate the time left for us is not much either."

According to the monsters of Longyuan Mountain, in a few months the world will begin to change; thinking of this, everyone's mood suddenly became somewhat heavy.

Zhao En pinched his brow, couldn't help but sigh, "If it's all true, then that's truly a thorny issue."

Qi Hai beside him spoke up to comfort: "Don't be too pessimistic; after all, it's a new power system, and if it's truly confirmed usable, it will bring an earth‑shaking change to the whole world."

"By the way, Old Hua, do any of your people have any cultivation progress?"

Hua Tiancheng shook his head, saying, "I drafted many people to cultivate, but none showed any effect; it seems we can only focus on the college entrance exam for now."

"The future of Daxia depends on this exam."

The heads of the several regions had varied expressions, while in the numerous examination halls of Daxia, the exam continued.

Faced with various complex cultivator questions, countless examinees furrowed their brows; among them, most racked their brains but had no clue.

Only that small minority of lucky ones, almost one in ten thousand, looking at these odd exam questions, couldn't help but recall the final major question from the previous language exam.

They suddenly realized there was a vague connection between the two!

Unfortunately, although they could discover it, only a few could recall the cultivation mnemonics recorded on the exam paper, and thus another large group was eliminated.

In the end, fewer than a hundred people remained; they recalled the cultivation mnemonics, integrated them into the questions, and as if some unseen presence linked them together.

Looking at the numerous cultivation questions on the paper, the examinees suddenly heard the sound of the Great Dao in their minds; mysterious ancient symbols appeared before their eyes, and an ancient-looking gate manifested in the void.

With a creak, the historically heavy bronze gate suddenly split open a crack, and pressure and aura emanated from within.

The examinees' eyes gradually glazed over, their expressions grew dazed; in an instant, their heartbeats sped up faster and faster, as if something in their blood was boiling.

A huge amount of information suddenly flooded their minds, like an enlightening infusion; they picked up their pens and slowly wrote out the originally obscure questions.

Countless answers and insights flowed out like drifting clouds and running water from their pen tips; invisible spiritual energy surrounded the examinees, pouring in from all directions into their bodies.

"Boom—"

The next second, the bronze ancient gate that originally had only a crack was flung wide open!

The sound of the Great Dao murmured; the river of time appeared above their heads, like the Milky Way flowing, splendid and brilliant, shining through the ages!

Most importantly, everyone in this magnificent scene actually saw a towering back view!

He turned his back to all beings, his face unclear, but the aura emanating from his gestures was shocking, causing all myriad paths in heaven and earth to tremble; countless star rivers poured down from the firmament.

The scene before them was truly shocking to the heart, impossible to describe in words.

Even if it was just a silhouette, its demeanor was ancient yet modern, unmatched by anyone!

Thus the examinees stared dumbfounded, just blankly looking; in their minds, the ethereal, illusory sound of the Dao resonated again, yet it was deafening.

"I am the Demonic Ancestor!"

A massive pressure spread out; almost instinctively, everyone bent their bodies and bowed deeply toward that back view, their gazes extremely respectful, saying:

"Pay respects to the Demonic Ancestor—"

In another examination hall, Wu Zhenghao looked somewhat uneasy; he occasionally rubbed his eyes or shook his head, appearing pained; these obvious actions had already drawn the invigilator's attention.

But he had no mood to attend to these at the moment.

Wu Zhenghao widened his eyes, trying to focus, but no matter what he did, he couldn't calm his mind, completely unaware of what was happening.

This college entrance exam was his only chance to change his fate!

Before the exam began, he roughly skimmed through the questions; for him, most were not difficult; not to mention scoring full marks in the science section, at least 270 points should be no problem.

But for some reason, a huge amount of information frenziedly flooded his mind, preventing him from settling down, his head throbbed as if about to explode; let alone normal performance, even picking up a pen to write was a problem.

Actually, after finishing the Chinese exam yesterday, Wu Zhenghao's mind had already been flooded with this countless tangled information, like a knotted mess of yarn, impossible to sort out in a short time.

Wu Zhenghao took a deep breath, wanting to analyze and research and write down answers, but at this moment his mind had become a paste, utterly impossible.

At this moment his brain felt as if countless fine silver needles as thin as cow hairs had been jabbed into it; the dense, piercing pain was almost unbearable.

Wu Zhenghao stared at the blank exam paper; an hour had passed, yet he hadn't written a single character.

His eyes were bloodshot; countless despair surged into his heart, almost making him unable to breathe.

Wu Zhenghao knew his college entrance exam was over; all his three years of day-and-night effort had come to nothing.

Even if he performed extraordinarily well in language, math, and foreign languages, if his science score were zero, he still couldn't get into a good university; he had already seen himself sinking into a mire for the rest of his life, with no hope.

Wu Zhenghao had confidence in his abilities, and in the pre-exam mock tests, whether the first or second, he achieved good results.

He had imagined countless times the scene after the exam results came out, him rushing home to share the good news; he also imagined getting into a top university, his mother proudly introducing him to relatives; and he imagined himself and his mother carrying luggage into a big city.

He wanted to enter a broader world, learn more knowledge, so his mother wouldn't have to toil hard, for himself to be proud; he had too many things he wanted to do, yet hadn't had the chance to realize them all.

But Wu Zhenghao never expected that he would fail in the science section because of this sudden situation.

Where exactly did this massive, tangled information come from?

Why could he never immerse himself to do the questions?

Wu Zhenghao's mind filled with many doubts; he didn't know why he encountered these, just as he didn't know that several strands of invisible spiritual energy were slowly seeping into his body, continually remolding it.

The ancients said: misfortune leans on fortune.

For Wu Zhenghao now, being unable to complete the questions was a catastrophe; but later he realized how fortunate he was, for this exam changed his entire life!

He even thereby entered the gate to a new world!

However, at this moment Wu Zhenghao knew nothing about it.

"Ding-ling-ling—"

"There are thirty minutes left until the exam ends; please all candidates answer quickly."

The piercing bell did not awaken Wu Zhenghao's clarity; the dense pain made his gaze somewhat scattered, his thoughts in utter chaos.

Inexpressible panic and despair surged into his heart; the string of reason in Wu Zhenghao's mind snapped completely.

He abruptly stood up; because the motion was too large, his chair violently tipped backward, scraping the floor and emitting a piercing "hiss-la" sound, especially noticeable in the quiet exam hall.

Instantly it drew the attention of the other examinees and the invigilator.

"Hey student, what are you doing?"

The invigilator had long noticed Wu Zhenghao; from the start he'd found something off—constantly shaking his head, not to mention his mouth opening and closing as if muttering something.

From the start of the exam until now he hadn't answered a single question; his answer sheet was completely blank!

There are plenty of such underperformers in the college entrance exam, completely self-destructive; the invigilator seethed with anger—ordinary exams are fine, but on such an important day as the college entrance exam, even if you don't know, guessing could get you a few points.

But this student before him wouldn't even guess; such a bad attitude, the invigilator didn't want to bother, so he just let him be.

Unexpectedly, this actually encouraged his arrogance, created such a commotion, affecting the other examinees.

The invigilator quickly came to Wu Zhenghao's side and loudly scolded: "Hey student, the exam hasn't ended yet; please observe exam hall discipline! If you keep making noise, I have the right to ask you to leave!"

Wu Zhenghao felt a severe pain in his mind, complicated information everywhere; his originally anxious mood, under the invigilator's words, became even more swollen, as if something uncontrollable was about to burst out.

He struggled to endure, his eyes bloodshot, he clenched his fists and said, "Move, move aside."

Seeing Wu Zhenghao's somewhat ferocious features and expression, the invigilator instinctively stepped back, obviously frightened, and his face then turned somewhat unsightly.

That this examinee didn't heed advice was bad enough, but he even told him to move aside; he simply had no regard for the college entrance exam or this invigilator!

Noticing that Wu Zhenhao's condition was off, the invigilator's gaze grew somewhat wary; he directly picked up the walkie-talkie, "This is Exam Hall 256, security personnel come over for a moment, someone here has violated exam hall regulations!"

In fact, his behavior was not wrong; as an invigilator, he had a duty to maintain order in the exam hall.

But he did not know what this exam meant for Wu Zhenhao, nor did he know Wu Zhenhao's current state, which was not coming from his own heart.

The invigilator did not notice; at the instant he finished speaking, Wu Zhenhao's expression changed abruptly, and even his gaze turned somewhat fierce.

(End of chapter)