Chapter 39: Monthly Exam New Rules

July 30th.

Li Fei, who had just finished practicing knife techniques, walked out of the practice building and saw Lu Changwu waiting in front.

Ever since the last attack, Lu Changwu had become more and more intimate with him. He learned from Li Lei that the other person's father had contributed to the attack incident, so he also had a good attitude toward Lu Changwu.

It's just that Li Fei was busy with training every day and didn't have much time to contact Lu Changwu, so the two just said hello when they occasionally met and chatted briefly.

Today Lu Changwu waited here specifically, obviously for something.

"Little Fei."

"Brother Lu."

"Tomorrow is the monthly exam, I came to discuss countermeasures with you."

Lu Changwu said.

Li Fei saluted: "Please give me some pointers, Brother Lu."

Lu Changwu waved his hand with a smile: "Little Fei, you are too polite. It's not about pointers; it's about working together to overcome difficulties."

"Including you, there are now 83 A-grade students in the Xingcheng Martial Arts Hall. Every monthly exam for A-grade students divides these dozens of people into ten groups. The top ten from the last monthly exam enter ten different groups respectively. Afterward, it's a round-robin tournament within the group. The one ranked first advances to become the new top ten of the monthly exam. Next is the competition among the top ten who advanced to decide the ranking."

Lu Changwu briefly introduced the rules of the monthly exam to Li Fei.

"Among these 83 A-grade students, most have been subdued by the Tiger Blade Gang through intimidation and bribery. So people like us who want to get a ranking in the monthly exam will hit a nail no matter which group we are divided into. These nails will go all out when they meet us, consuming us as much as possible, and will let go when they meet people from the Tiger Blade Gang, letting the other side win easily. In this way, it's too difficult for our people to advance from the group, and the top ten of the monthly exam are almost all people from the Tiger Blade Gang."

Li Fei nodded: "Then what do you want me to do, Brother Lu?"

Lu Changwu looked at him: "You are Hao Yi's student, and everyone knows your skills. So in tomorrow's monthly exam, if you are divided into the same group as the children of our Inspection Academy, they will go all out to help you advance!"

"Hmm?"

Li Fei was stunned, not expecting this result. "Everyone helping me advance, then what about themselves?"

Lu Changwu laughed: "I'll just say it straight. Among us, there are actually not many who have a chance to enter the top ten of the monthly exam, so it's better to concentrate our strength to help these few people who have the best chance to get a ranking. Of course, after the event, for those brothers who helped, we naturally have to express something; we can't let them work hard for nothing."

Li Fei understood now.

Although he didn't ask, he knew that those children of the Inspection Academy who Lu Changwu said had a chance to enter the top ten of the monthly exam must all be the children of the squadron leaders.

From the means, Lu Changwu and others are actually no different from the Tiger Blade Gang, just that the two sides have different positions.

Li Fei guessed that if he didn't have a special lecturer as a teacher and hadn't shown extraordinary strength in the graduation exam and the last attack, the priority of him, the son of an Inspection Academy squadron leader, might have been ranked behind the others, instead of like now, as long as he wasn't divided into the same group as Lu Changwu, everyone else would go all out to protect him to advance.

"Alright, thank you for the arrangement, Brother Lu."

Li Fei thanked Lu Changwu.

Although he felt that he had a chance to enter the top ten even without anyone's help, there was no need to refuse Lu Changwu's kindness, after all, he had to consider Li Lei.

That evening, when Li Fei returned home, Hao Yi walked into a large conference room.

At this time, all the high-level officials of the Xingcheng Martial Arts Hall were sitting in this conference room:

Two deputy hall masters, five special lecturers, the director of the Academic Affairs Office, the director of the Material Office, the director of the Implant Management Office, etc.

"Everyone is here, we can start."

A deputy hall master sitting in the center said after Hao Yi sat down.

He handed a document in his hand to the person beside him, signaling the other party to pass it around:

"This document was just issued to us by the Stop-Goe Academy today. Everyone, take a look."

The imperial court of the Great Blue Dynasty is mainly composed of the Cabinet and the Military Council. Among them, the Cabinet is composed of six cabinets: the Interior Cabinet, the Judicial Cabinet, the Inspection Cabinet, the Supervisory Cabinet, the Stop-Goe Cabinet, and the Legal Cabinet. The Military Council is responsible for all military affairs and military actions.

Distributed in various places, the Cabinet becomes six academies, and the Military Council only exists in the border areas. For cities like Xingcheng, the political structure is composed of six academies.

The Xingcheng Martial Arts Hall is managed by the local Stop-Goe Academy. The Martial Arts Hall must execute the orders issued by the Stop-Goe Academy.

"Everyone, look while I speak."

The deputy hall master in the center continued, "Most of the students who go out from our Martial Arts Hall finally go to the army. Some cabinet ministers believe that the Martial Arts Hall should cultivate more of the students' practical combat ability and increase the students' practical combat experience so that they can adapt more quickly after entering the army.

This proposal was finally passed by the Cabinet's resolution, and an official order was issued, requiring various Stop-Goe Academies to convey the order to various Martial Arts Halls, requiring us to change the current assessment method."

"Deputy Hall Master Wang, how exactly is this to be changed?"

A special lecturer asked.

Deputy Hall Master Wang looked at the other party: "Specifically, it is to let our students participate in the external actions of the Stop-Goe Academy and the Inspection Academy, and score the students based on their performance in the actions, completing the assessment of the students."

The Inspection Academy is responsible for the public security of a place, while the Stop-Goe Academy is specifically responsible for events related to martial artists. In some vicious cases involving martial artists, or when there are people in the martial arts world causing trouble, the Stop-Goe Academy will manage them.

Asking Martial Arts Hall students to participate in the external actions of the Stop-Goe Academy and the Inspection Academy is truly participating in practical combat.

"But tomorrow is the monthly exam. Is it too late to make temporary changes?"

Someone asked again.

Deputy Hall Master Wang glanced at the director of the Academic Affairs Office beside him. The other party nodded and passed another document in his hand:

"This is a confidential document sent by the Xingcheng Stop-Goe Academy. The lair of the Anshen Sect, which has been lurking in Xingcheng for more than a year, has been found. Tomorrow, the Stop-Goe Academy will take the lead, assisted by the Inspection Academy, to carry out a joint action to destroy the Anshen Sect in one fell swoop!

In order to respond to the order issued by the Military Council, the Stop-Goe Academy requires us to let all A-grade students participate in this siege action, and use this action to replace the monthly exam for A-grade students."

"This..."

"Such an action will definitely be dangerous. What if the students are unwilling?"

"It is certainly based on the principle of voluntariness; we will not force students to do things."

Deputy Hall Master Wang's eyes were deep, and he said calmly, "Of course, if you are unwilling to participate in the action, then there will naturally be no monthly exam results this time."

Everyone present was silent.

If future monthly exams are all based on such rules, students who are unwilling to participate in similar actions will not have monthly exam results in the future.

(End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 40 =====