(4200) A Curious Coincidence

As the line ahead grew shorter, Luo Jun racked his brains but couldn't think of a way to evade the test. He checked his watch; none of his magical artifacts could help in this situation...

Or... should we just go for it? The limit is only ten times, and there's precedent for it. Even if we get caught, it should be...

No, Luo Jun rejected this idea as soon as it came to mind. The fact that the instrument had reached its measurement limit only meant that his Innate Potential was more than ten times greater. The officials and the academy would definitely try other methods to measure the specific value.

If it really is only ten times, it can be barely explained by the claim of having obtained the Nine Revolutions Great Restoration Pill, but if it was measured to be more than thirty times... it's impossible to explain.

Not to mention the dean, Master would suspect that he was hiding some secret. If he were really investigated, his current Root Bone, cultivation level, and incredible breakthrough probability would all be questioned. Even the secret of the dice might be discovered!

If it really comes to that, he'll have no choice but to live in anonymity as a Rogue Cultivator. The worst-case scenario is that without his Master's continued Foundation Establishment Technique, he might be stuck at the Body Refinement Realm for the rest of his life...

The Dice of Heavenly Secrets —that's all we can do with dice. Let's try our luck at an extremely low-probability event...

But if you can't roll the dice, you can only Regret and then use methods like feigning illness to escape the test... But that's too easy to arouse suspicion, and you can't hide forever. It's not a long-term solution. It's best to solve it once and for all with dice.

Luo Jun opened the panel and looked at his two thousand-plus chips.

I was hoping to save up 3,000 coins to try and get a Super Big Lucky Bag, but it looks like that's not going to happen...

However, compared to skills and attributes, most of the items exchanged with chips are one-time use items, which are meant for emergencies. You can earn more if you run out, so Luo Jun doesn't really care.

Luo Jun focused his attention on the items in front of him.

With a pleasant sound, the Thousand-Yuan Lucky Bag opened, and a phantom blue light shone.

Nice prop!

Luo Jun did some mental calculations. If he used this, combined with Intermediate Point Correction, he could increase the success rate to over 40% even for events with a difficulty level of 100. If he included Level Seven Luck, the success rate might even be over 50%!

Luo Jun looked at the students who were taking the test in front of him.

This time it lit up with Green Light...

Rank: Rare

No, it's not even guaranteed. The result of this dice roll will directly affect his future life, and its severity is not much less than death...

Available uses: 1/1

Note: I refuse to believe that all three will fail!

On the other hand, even a 50% chance of failure isn't low. With a thousand coins left, it's best to go all out!

Let's try spending another five hundred!

Name: Life-Death Coin

This item can only be used to replace a full set of Dice of Heavenly Secrets (maximum 100 points).

If you use Triad Dice and a skill or item at the same time, each pair of dice will receive the same bonus, and no additional skill or item usage will be consumed.

Let's start with a thousand to test the waters!

Effect: Consumable. After use, this coin will replace the Dice of Heavenly Secrets in this dice roll.

Rare quality, huh? My luck wasn't great...

Event Success using the Triad Dice will increase the Final Experience Value gained by 50%.

Let's try our luck with a 1000-yuan note first. If that doesn't work, we can try two 500-yuan notes!

A drop of 1000 will yield at least a rare item, while a drop of 500 will yield at least a fine item. You might even get a Lead-Weighted Dice or Misprinted Dice, which would greatly increase your success rate!

Effect: Consumable. When used, it allows you to roll three sets of results simultaneously in this dice roll, and choose the result you want most.

Name: Triad Dice

Grade: Excellent

Although Luo Jun had never drawn a regular item before, he dared not gamble on his luck at this point.

Available uses: 1/1

Note: One thought can Paradise, another to Hell...

Using coins instead of dice? Luo Jun, somewhat curious, summoned the coin into his hand. He looked at it; the front was printed with 100. He flipped it over; the back was printed with 1...

Luo Jun broke out in a sweat.

Good grief, it's either 1 point or 100 points, right? No wonder it's called the Life-Death Coin."

The advantages of this thing are obvious. No matter how difficult the task, it guarantees a 50% success rate. Theoretically, the higher the difficulty, the more suitable it is.

Conversely, while events with a difficulty level exceeding 50 points may have a higher success rate, they can only achieve moderate success; failure would be Great Failure!

At the same time, for events with a difficulty level below 50, this method has a 50% chance of Great Success, but it also increases the probability of a normal failure...

Another point is that this thing is a serious diode; after using it, Point Correction and difficulty correction are basically useless, everything becomes 50% probability, and it's incompatible with other enhancement effects...

Wait, there's one exception!

Luo Jun had a sudden inspiration: what if he combined this with Triad Dice?

Toss three Life-Death Coin simultaneously; as long as one succeeds, you're good—the success rate is a whopping 87.5%! If Luck Level also affects the coin tossing, the success rate could even reach 90%.

So that's how it is. Luo Jun had been thinking that, as a rare consumable item, the Triad Dice, apart from providing more experience, didn't seem to be much better than a high-quality item like the Lead-Weighted Dice. So that's where the advantage lies!

A typical Noble Phantasm replaces one type of die; once one die is replaced, it cannot be replaced with another, and only one effect can be enjoyed at a time.

However, the Triad Dice is different; it is perfectly compatible with other dice, and when combined, the effect is outstanding, making it arguably the strongest support item!

From this perspective, there are only 500 points left, so there's no need to draw any more. No matter what dice you draw, it will just be paired with the Triad Dice combination, and the final result will be the same.

If he encounters even the one-in-eightth chance of failure, he'll admit Regret and then publicly perform a scene of foaming at the mouth.

As the line ahead grew shorter, Luo Jun arrived at the spirituality testing device, sat down as instructed, took over the device, put on the helmet, and activated his vital energy...

The helmet displayed the final value: 10.

The mediocre performance made even the teacher in charge of taking notes yawn.

Then it's time for the Root Bone test.

Luo Jun activated the Dice of Heavenly Secrets.

Measure out unnoticed values!

Use Triad Dice, along with Life-Death Coin!

From Luo Jun's illusory perspective, the three coins began to spin simultaneously...

The results are in...

Three coins, two 1-point coins and one 100-point coin.

It's done!

Luo Jun was thrilled and chose the one with 100 points!

"Ding! Event Difficulty 100 points, Final Points 100 points, Event Success!"

As the notification sound rang out, Luo Jun breathed a sigh of relief and calmly walked towards the Root Bone testing device.

The clock door opened, and the person who had been tested came out. The teacher recording the results glanced at the screen and recorded his score on the tablet. With his exceptional eyesight, Luo Jun was able to see the score sheet on the tablet even from an extremely oblique angle.

1.3, the student in front of me is quite talented, right? As for the ones before me, most of them are 1, and even those who are higher are all below 1.5. It seems that Senior Sister Miao is right, the difference in Root Bone is not as great as the difference in spiritual talent.

Luo Jun turned to look at Class A, where people were having their height and weight measured. Class A were either geniuses or from prestigious Aristocratic Clan; there were probably many more with exceptional talent... Ling Xin had mentioned before that her Innate Potential were more than three times that of an average person? He wondered if there were anyone taller than her...

Seeing that it was his turn, Luo Jun collected his thoughts. Although he didn't know how the Dice of Heavenly Secrets would interfere with the results, since he had rolled it successfully, there shouldn't be any problems.

Luo Jun entered the Great Bell, and as the door closed, the inside of the bell was pitch black. However, with his perception exceeding 100, Luo Jun was able to see the internal structure after a short period of adjustment.

The bronze-colored inner wall had many small holes. Luo Jun was wondering what they were for when black viscous liquid suddenly flowed out of the holes. This viscous liquid instantly filled the inside of the bell and enveloped Luo Jun.

What is this thing? If you couldn't see it, you'd probably only feel a soft, warm touch all over your body, but Luo Jun could see it clearly, and his instinctive feeling was nauseous...

This nausea didn't last long; after just a dozen seconds, the mucus quickly disappeared, leaving no residue on him.

It seems to be a substance materialized from some kind of primordial energy; can this be used to measure Root Bone?

At the same time, a sudden gust of wind blew outside the stadium, stirring up fallen leaves and dust, some of which blew in through the ventilation window above the side door of the stadium.

The teacher in charge of recording was suddenly blinded; the moment she closed her eyes, the numbers behind the Great Bell appeared.

10.0!

As luck would have it, a fallen leaf flew by and covered the last digit on the Display Screen.

The teacher rubbed his eyes, his vision blurry, and could only see a prominent "1" and "0" on the Display Screen. By the time he had finished rubbing his eyes, the Great Bell had been opened, Luo Jun had come out, the display had Reset, and fallen leaves were drifting to the ground.

The teacher hesitated for a moment, but since the memory was still clear, she didn't think much of it and recorded a score of 1.0 on the tablet.

Luo Jun, who had just left the Great Bell, caught a glimpse of this number and breathed a sigh of relief.

Although I don't know how the Dice of Heavenly Secrets works, at least I passed the level safely...

"Ding! Event Difficulty 100 points, Severity Coefficient eleven times, 1650 Experience Points gained!"

An eleven-fold Severity Coefficient? Luo Jun was secretly astonished. If this failed, who knew what would happen... It seemed that the success gained at the cost of 1,500 chips was still worthwhile...

Moreover, the high difficulty combined with the high Severity Coefficient didn't waste the experience boost from the Triad Dice, breaking his record for experience gained in a single roll. However, since there weren't many ways to gain experience during this period, even with over 1,600 experience points, he was still several hundred points short of leveling up.

Just as Luo Jun Careful Calculation, a gasp came from behind him.

Chen Ran was sitting in the "electric chair" undergoing testing, and the number displayed on his helmet was forty-one!

This score is impressive enough. According to Senior Sister Miao, anyone above fifteen is considered talented, and those over thirty in Class A are probably considered good, let alone someone from Class C.

Chen Ran seemed to have anticipated this, a smile appearing on his lips even while he was wearing a helmet, before calmly undergoing the Root Bone test.

Luo Jun glanced at the tablet in the teacher's hand from afar, and saw that he had entered 2.5 on it.

With 2.5 times the Root Bone an ordinary person, plus over 40 times the spirituality, Chen Ran's magnanimity is roughly ten times that of an ordinary Cultivators at the same level. If his amplification is even higher, this number will be even greater!

As the direct descendant of the Great Family, even if he neglects his cultivation and doesn't strive for advancement, his talent is undeniable. Moreover, his comprehension is very high; he can basically cultivate one level per month. Considering the time lost due to failures, it shouldn't be a problem for him to Foundation Establishment his essence to reach the fifth level in four years of university. If he breaks through to the Mind Condensation and inherits his father's Flame-type Ability, he will definitely be a dazzling rising star!

Thinking of this, Luo Jun felt a pang of emotion. For geniuses like them, with both excellent family background and natural talent, even a ten or eight-year delay wouldn't be too late. But for someone like him, a nobody, without the Dice of Heavenly Secrets, what could he possibly compare to them?

Forget it... why think so much? Without the Dice of Heavenly Secrets, that kick from the Windbreaker Man would have killed him when he was just eighteen...

Now that the dice have given him a new life, he must seize this opportunity, surpass everyone, and become the most dazzling star!

"Hey, what are you daydreaming about!" Chen Ran, brimming with confidence after finishing the test, came over to urge Luo Jun: "There are still some normal physical examination items to do."

Luo Jun then remembered there were other projects, and quickly followed the group to continue.

The rest was much easier. Although a routine physical exam might reveal something unusual about his body, it was still easier to avoid than a Root Bone test. To avoid getting any "abnormal" data, Luo Jun rolled the dice a few more times as a precaution, and thankfully, the difficulty was very low, and he succeeded all the way.

The most dangerous step was drawing blood. Regardless of whether his blood sample would show any abnormalities, just getting the needle into his skin was not an easy task.

Fortunately, in the extraordinary world, human blood can also be used as a medium for spellcasting, and may even be detrimental to the user. Therefore, many people are reluctant to have their blood drawn, and the academy does not require it; it is entirely voluntary.

After all, even someone at the Body Refinement Realm, after several rounds of body tempering, possesses a level of resistance far exceeding that of ordinary people. As people age, their bodies weaken and they may fall ill, but such young students are basically immune to common diseases.

In any case, I've passed the physical exam.

The moment Luo Jun stepped out of the stadium, he breathed a sigh of relief and stretched in the sun. But before he could fully relax, a message suddenly popped into his head...

"The Chaos Mission will begin in thirty minutes. Please prepare..."

Chaos Mission? Why now?

Luo Jun was taken aback, then realized that it was already September. The last time he participated in a mission was in August, so it should be time for him to come.

The vast majority of students in the academy are at the Foundation Establishment Realm, and many receive conscription requests every day. The school also has methods to shield conscription requests, but keeping them open year-round consumes a lot of resources, so the entire school is only shielded during major events. Therefore, students participating in missions is basically the norm.

To minimize student casualties during missions, the school has a dedicated Chaos Mission Zone where recruited students can apply to enter. This zone provides drinking water and plenty of high-energy food for replenishing before missions. Students can even rent some low- to mid-quality magical artifacts, primarily for survival and escape. While not crucial for achieving high ratings, these can be life-saving in emergencies.

However, Luo Jun obviously couldn't enjoy these things. The reason he was able to participate in the Chaos Mission was unclear and not suitable to be made public, so he could only do it secretly.

Clutching my stomach, I asked Teacher Hu in charge of my class, for leave, and then ran back to my dormitory as fast as I could. I didn't expect that even though I dodged the Root Bone test, I couldn't escape the ordeal of faking illness...

Back in his room, Luo Jun locked the door, drew the curtains, and sat on the bed, assessing his condition.

I'm not hungry, Energy Replenishment, and all the treasures in my Hundred Treasure Box are intact. I'm wearing the Midnight Mask... The only downside is that I've used up a lot of Dice of Heavenly Secrets attempts; I only have one left, but I'm still more than 400 experience points short of leveling up...

Of all times, a quest comes up... But luckily, there's still one chance for Intermediate Modification. After entering the quest, you need to find an event with high rewards. As long as you can level up, the chance will refresh!

Thirty minutes of preparation time passed quickly, and as the feeling of being summoned arrived, the scenery before Luo Jun's eyes changed.

(End of this chapter)