Chapter 95

Those who can enter the Immortal Academy are all people with good innate qualities. Although Wu Fan seems ordinary compared to Wang Qi, he is still considered excellent among those who cannot enter the top ten Immortal Academies and can only listen to lectures at the altars set up by the Immortal Alliance. By now, several months have passed since the start of the semester, and more than half of the students have already passed the initial tests. Those who are lagging behind are mostly just one step away from success.

Due to the improvement in the cultivation of the Immortal Academy students, water is no longer as indispensable, so this written exam lasted from morning until afternoon.

Moreover, since the exam is conducted in an illusion that blocks the five senses, there is no need to worry about cheating or whispering. Because of this, the Immortal Academy does not enforce a uniform time for submitting the exam papers. Instead, the illusion automatically dissipates once the questions are completed. Those who finish quickly can leave the area covered by the white light by noon.

Wu Fan completed the exam questions and left the area covered by the bronze mirror. By then, the sun had set, and the heat had gradually dissipated. Seeing the scattered groups of onlookers around the training ground, Wu Fan gave a bitter laugh. It was already close to the final deadline for the written exam, and the Myriad Immortal Illusion was counting down in front of him. Seeing the incense line that was almost burned out, Wu Fan dared not delay and had to give up on the last question he couldn't understand, indicating that he had completed the exam.

He heard footsteps behind him. Thinking that someone had finished at the same time as him, Wu Fan felt a sense of connection. He turned around to greet the person and found that it was Yang Jun, a new disciple who lived close to him.

Wang Qi adheres to the principle of "being so cool that he has no friends," only pulling in people he deems worthy when necessary. Wu Fan, on the other hand, is very familiar with his neighbors. Seeing Yang Jun approach, he greeted him, "Brother Yang Jun."

Yang Jun had been staring at the sky and was immediately brought back to reality by Wu Fan's call, "Wu Fan."

Seeing that Yang Jun's face didn't look good, Wu Fan asked, "How did your exam go?"

Yang Jun shook his head, not wanting to answer.

Wu Fan had to say, "It's just a monthly exam, no big deal. Actually, I didn't do well either, but thanks to Wang Qi's guidance beforehand, I probably did a bit better."

Yang Jun's smile was somewhat gloomy, "Yeah..."

Wu Fan was already used to Yang Jun's expression. He had heard from other friends that Yang Jun was a pitiful person. He was originally the son of a fisherman from the West Sea coast. A few years ago, his fishing village suffered a disaster when a group of spirit-stage sea monsters attacked and destroyed his village. Apart from Yang Jun and a few others, no one in the large village survived. Fortunately, the Immortal Alliance's border guards promptly eliminated the monsters and saved Yang Jun.

The Immortal Alliance has an agreement with the aquatic rulers that aquatic monsters cannot enter within three thousand miles of the coastline. Even the Dragon King cannot control spirit-stage monsters with intelligence equivalent to human infants or even lower, so this disaster was considered an unforeseen calamity. However, the border guards of the West Sea discovered that this was not an isolated incident and suspected that there were higher-level monsters with a grudge against humans behind it. The situation in the West Sea is now tense, and a war between the Immortal Alliance and the monsters could break out at any time.

Yang Jun, who was found to have extraordinary talent, was sent to the Xihai Longde branch of the Immortal Academy. However, after learning that the disaster in his fishing village was caused by monsters, he repeatedly escaped from the academy to seek revenge on the monsters. The Longde Immortal Academy, out of helplessness, sent him to the Xinshan Immortal Academy.

Since coming to Xinshan, Yang Jun has been somewhat depressed.

Wu Fan noticed that Yang Jun kept looking up and couldn't help but follow his gaze. At that moment, he heard Yang Jun say, "This mirror is truly extraordinary."

"Of course, calculators are very powerful," Wu Fan himself didn't understand much about this, but he had heard Wang Qi mention it.

At this moment, the light from the treasure mirror dimmed. Wu Fan looked back and almost cried out in surprise.

On the vast training ground, only a few people were standing. Among them was Wang Qi, his face ashen!

How could this be?

This goes against the natural order!

How could Wang Qi, of all people, ... do so poorly?

Seeing the white light disappear, Wang Qi stepped out of the training ground. Wu Fan hurriedly approached and asked, "Wang Qi, did your exam... not go well?"

Wang Qi shook his head and said nothing.

Wu Fan followed closely, and Yang Jun also came over. Seeing that Wang Qi was silent, Wu Fan felt uneasy.

Was this written exam really that difficult? Or was this guy so perfectionistic that he even tried to solve the last few difficult questions?

Just as Wu Fan was lost in thought, a new disciple dressed in fine clothes approached, "Hey, isn't this the great talent Wang Qi? What's wrong, your face doesn't look good?"

The newcomer was Du Bin. Ever since Wang Qi cut his flying sword, he had always looked at Wang Qi with disdain.

If it were any other time, Wang Qi would have ignored Du Bin. But this time, he glared at Du Bin, "Hey, I ask you, who was the first to submit the exam?"

"Ah?" Everyone present was at a loss for how to react. Seeing that he wasn't getting an answer, Wang Qi turned and walked away without another glance at Du Bin.

Du Bin shouted in anger, "Bastard! You..."

"Ha ha, you useless piece of trash, think about what you can do to me before you open your mouth."

Wang Qi walked away without looking back, grabbing any new disciple he recognized to ask if they knew who was the first to submit the exam.

Wu Fan hurriedly followed and asked for the reason.

Wang Qi said angrily, "I wasn't the first to submit the exam! I can't accept it!"

It turns out that during the exam, Wang Qi suddenly discovered both good news and bad news.

The good news was that he could use the power of mathematics in the Myriad Immortal Illusion.

The Myriad Immortal Illusion does not block magical power, and cultivators can still freely control their magical tools while in the illusion. Calculators are even more convenient to use, being of the same lineage as the Myriad Immortal True Mirror. Normally, such an exam would block the use of calculators, but mathematics is so fundamental that it is not considered a calculator! Wang Qi could even imagine the personified treasure mirror of the Immortal Academy shouting at it, "Do you even deserve to be called a calculator?"

This was indeed cheating. But Wang Qi thought that this wasn't like copying from a book; it just reduced his workload. Exams are meant to test what one has learned, and using mathematics just reduces the amount of work. After all, a few years ago, calculators were allowed in middle and high school exams!

The bad news was that Wang Qi was not familiar with the mathematical symbols used in the神州 (神州 refers to China, but in this context, it's the name of the world in the story).

Mathematics holds a high status in the Immortal Dao, but it is not widely spread among mortals. Before coming to the Immortal Academy, Wang Qi had almost no contact with mathematics and was more familiar with Earth's Arabic numerals and mathematical symbols. This led to his answering questions at an extremely slow pace.

With the help of a calculator, the calculations were fast and error-free, yet he couldn't be the first to submit the exam?

What a great humiliation!

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