A new year, new courses.
After school began, the academy first held a comprehensive placement examination, mainly because too many students had gone out for training last year and had not even taken the year-end examinations.
Although the students who had trained outside had all returned with excellent records, the academy still believed, out of responsibility toward its students, that a placement examination was necessary, lest some among them muddied the waters and passed themselves off as capable when they were not.
"To prevent you from graduating without understanding Daoist arts or mastering spells, only to borrow Mount Longhu Academy's name to swagger about and deceive others!" Zhang Ziming said with a dark expression. "The academy examination will begin in three days. You have three days left to pray to the gods and study yourselves to death."
Wails rose throughout the academy.
Even Pan Yun dug out her textbooks from the previous school year and directly shut herself away in Doumu Hall.
Miao Zhen went to Xuan Li to borrow notes.
After not seeing each other for a school year, Xuan Li had grown quite a bit, and her cultivation had improved as well. She kept only one notebook and handed the rest to Miao Zhen. "Take turns reading them. Return one to me every two hours."
Miao Zhen agreed and invited her, "We're shutting ourselves away in Doumu Hall to review. Do you want to come along? If there's anything you don't understand about Daoist arts, you can ask my Junior Martial Uncle."
Xuan Li hesitated briefly before saying, "I still have two close friends..."
Miao Zhen warmly invited them. "Bring them along too. Although we nephew-disciples weren't at the academy last school year, we never fell behind in our studies. You know what my Junior Martial Uncle can