January Adjustment Exam (Third Update—Asking for Monthly Votes)

January Adjustment Exam (Third Update—Asking for Monthly Votes)

The January Adjustment Exam lasted three days.

From the first day through the morning of the second, there were Cultural Course exams. The "Spirituality Test" was held on the afternoon of the second day.

The Martial Arts Assessment was not until the third day.

...The January Adjustment Exam did not disrupt Li Yuan's training schedule. As usual, he arrived at school shortly after four to practice the Basic Cultivation Method.

At seven, he showered in the Martial Arts Room before heading to the cafeteria for breakfast.

Then he hurried to the examination halls with Zhou Qi, Yan Zhou, and the others.

The January Adjustment Exam was one of the two most important large-scale unified exams before the National College Entrance Examination. Both the Education Bureau and the school attached enormous importance to it.

Every standard was strictly modeled after the National College Entrance Examination. Equipment such as Smart Ring Watches could not be brought into the examination halls, and there were all sorts of inspections... The twenty classes had been divided into forty examination halls.

Seats in the Cultural Course examination halls were assigned according to the rankings from the previous major exam.

"Brother Yuan, we're heading upstairs." Zhou Qi waved and said with a grin.

"Brother Yuan, do well. We'll be waiting for you up there."

A group of classmates teased Li Yuan as they headed upstairs. The higher the floor, the better the rankings of the examination halls.

"These guys." Li Yuan shook his head with a laugh.

Suddenly, Li Yuan glanced at the admission ticket in Li Tianyou's hand and smiled. "Tianyou, I'm in Examination Hall 29, while you're only in Examination Hall 33. Do well—I'll be waiting for you upstairs."

With that, Li Yuan headed upstairs as well.

Leaving behind a thoroughly bewildered Li Tianyou.

...The students in Examination Hall 29 already belonged to the lower-middle tier in Cultural Course grades at Guanshan District No.1 High School.

Still, as a key high school, even students in Examination Hall 35 had a chance of getting into a first-tier Culture University.

After Li Yuan took his seat, he swept his gaze around and spotted quite a few familiar faces.

Aside from students from his own class, many seemed to be from the Elite Class.

Students in the Martial Arts Elite Class generally did not have high Cultural Course grades.

A person's energy was limited. Without putting in the effort, it was hard to reap rewards.

"Gu Qianghan, you're here too?" Li Yuan smiled at the person beside him.

"Call me Gu Qiang." The delicate-looking youth was stubborn.

"Sure, Xiao Qiang." Li Yuan smiled. "I remember your sister calling you that a few days ago."

Li Yuan and Gu Qianghan both had private Martial Arts Rooms on the fourth floor of the Elite Building, so they often ran into each other.

The delicate-looking youth glared and rose to his feet, seemingly intending to argue with Li Yuan.

"The invigilator's here—your homeroom teacher." Li Yuan pointed into the distance and sat upright with a solemn expression.

The delicate-looking youth immediately sat back down and turned his head, only to find no one there. He turned back to Li Yuan in annoyance. "You tricked me."

"This time, she's really here." Li Yuan suddenly said sternly. "Your homeroom teacher."

"I don't believe you." Gu Qianghan raised his middle finger at Li Yuan, his face full of disdain.

"Gu Qianghan!"

"Sit properly! The papers are about to be handed out!" A cold shout suddenly exploded from the classroom entrance. Gu Qianghan's body jolted, and he immediately lowered his head and sat properly.

The Cultural Course homeroom teacher of the Grade 12 Martial Arts Elite Class was a female martial artist.

At Guanshan District No.1 High School, she and Xu Bo were known together as the "Wenwu Shura."

The day and a half of Cultural Course exams passed without a ripple for Li Yuan.

Over the past year or so, Li Yuan's Spiritual Power had continuously improved, making it easy for him to memorize many things that required rote learning.

But an increase in Spiritual Power did not directly increase intelligence, and he had spent very little time on Cultural Courses... Li Yuan was clear-headed about this.

"People like Zhou Qi already have good grades, and they spend much more time studying."

"My Cultural Course ranking should improve slightly from the last exam... but there probably won't be any qualitative change." Li Yuan thought to himself. "Doing my best is enough."

After the Cultural Course exams ended, all the students returned to their classrooms. Then, many of them began comparing answers.

"What was the answer to the last multiple-choice question in math? Was it B?" the attention-seeker asked excitedly.

"It should be C, right?" answered the top student whose math scores were usually close to perfect.

"But I calculated it blindly. Maybe I'm the one who got it wrong," the math genius added.

"Damn it, I got C at first, then changed it to B... Looks like I won't even score 150 in math this time." The attention-seeker looked deeply vexed.

Math was worth two hundred points, making it the most heavily weighted subject.

Amid the noise.

Li Yuan sat in his seat, his mind wandering beyond the clouds.

He never compared answers.

It was not because he was confident, but because he did not care.

The total Cultural Course score was one thousand points, but for those applying to Martial Arts University, the Cultural Course score would be converted into one hundred points, accounting for only ten percent.

For Li Yuan, scoring seven hundred or eight hundred in Cultural Courses only made a ten-point difference in the overall score.

Yet the effort required was as different as heaven and earth.

"By convention, the January Adjustment Exam is harder than the National College Entrance Examination." Li Yuan silently calculated. "This time, I should have gotten all the basic points. A Cultural Course score above 650 counts as success."

Suddenly.

Teacher Chen, the Cultural Course homeroom teacher, entered the classroom with a stern expression. "Everyone, sit properly. The schedule for the Spirituality Test is out. Our class is first, at two in the afternoon."

Grade 12 Class 1 was an Elite Class. Everyone had awakened Martial Arts Spirituality, so there was no need for repeated testing.

Class 2, Grade 3 was the first to be tested.

"After the test, it'll be self-study."

"But don't train too hard in martial arts today. There's a ten-thousand-meter test tomorrow," Teacher Chen reminded them before leaving the classroom.

"The Spirituality Test! It's here again."

"I wonder if I can change my fate."

"Stop dreaming."

"You're already in Grade 12. Wake up. My pee isn't yellow enough, so I won't spray you with it." The students began discussing it again.

Meanwhile, many top Cultural Course students had already silently taken out their books and begun self-study.

If they chose the cultural path, then even awakening Martial Arts Spirituality would not earn them extra points.

"Brother Yuan, your physical fitness seems to have surpassed Level 7.0 already. You should have awakened it," Zhou Qi said excitedly.

"Perhaps." Li Yuan paused before replying.

He was not sure whether a Spiritual Awakening Level of 0.6% would bring any changes.

More than an hour later.

"I awakened Martial Arts Spirituality?" Zhou Qi walked out of the testing room, shocked and bewildered. Looking at the test result in his hand, he could scarcely believe it.

The surrounding students all turned to look.

"Zhou Qi actually awakened?"

"What?" Discussions broke out, and nearly every student found it unbelievable.

Zhou Qi's Martial Arts Score was publicly recognized as one of the worst in the class.

"Zhou Qi awakened?" Li Yuan smiled faintly and looked at the test form in his own hand, which was marked "Not Awakened."

Li Yuan had long expected that he himself would not awaken. The Divine Palace Panel had essentially made that clear.

But Zhou Qi's compatibility with an Advanced Cultivation Method had actually exceeded 85% in Grade 12?

"Some search bitterly for it and cannot obtain it; others never expect it, yet gain it at their fingertips." Li Yuan glanced toward the entrance of a testing room in the distance.

Li Tianyou was looking enviously at Zhou Qi, who had become the center of the crowd.

"Perhaps sometimes, it really comes down to fate." Li Yuan felt rather emotional.

...All the students of Class 2, Grade 3 finished their tests.

In the end, only Zhou Qi successfully awakened.

The older one became, the more fixed the body's bones became, and the slimmer the hope of becoming compatible with an Advanced Cultivation Method.

For Class 2, Grade 3 to produce two students who awakened Martial Arts Spirituality in one semester was already fairly rare.

During the Martial Arts Assessment, the Qi-Blood Test, Punch Force Test, and Martial Arts Technique were all closed tests. Other students would not immediately know the specific results.

However, the forty-meter, one-hundred-meter, one-kilometer, and ten-kilometer tests in the physical fitness assessment were public.

When the January Adjustment Exam reached its third day.

The students of Class 2, Grade 3 followed behind the Elite Class students to the school's largest athletic field.

The ten-thousand-meter long-distance running test could be conducted here.

However, the first physical fitness assessment was the forty-meter sprint.

"The Elite Class students are so fast."

"14.5 meters per second!"

"That one reached 15.7 meters per second. Their physical fitness has definitely surpassed Level 7."

"Holy shit! Holy shit! 17.2 meters per second? That's nearly Level 8, isn't it?"

"They really are worthy of being the Elite Class." Beside Li Yuan, students from his class watched the Elite Class students cross the finish line, and waves of startled cries erupted from time to time.

It was no wonder the students of Class 2, Grade 3 reacted like this. Their physical fitness was generally only around Level 5.

Meanwhile, after half a year of training in Grade 12, even the weakest Elite Class student had surpassed Level 6, and nearly half had exceeded Level 7.0.

Even if they could only absorb the tiniest thread of Universe Source Power each time they trained in an Advanced Cultivation Method, they still held a massive advantage over ordinary people.

Of course, among the Elite Class students, those whose physical fitness could reach Level 8.0 were still few enough to count on one's fingers.

"Look, Lin Lanyue."

"The top Martial Arts Score in the grade."

"It's her."

On the track, the bright-eyed, white-toothed girl in a Chixia Training Suit immediately drew everyone's attention.

There was no helping it. In Grade 12, Lin Lanyue's reputation was simply too great.

"Lin Lanyue?" Li Yuan looked over curiously as well. Her physical fitness was indeed exceptionally strong.

Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh!

The six figures on the track burst into a sprint in an instant. The scarlet silhouette unleashed the most terrifying speed of all.

In just over two seconds, Lin Lanyue had crossed the finish line, leaving the other students far behind.

On the electronic display in the distance, Lin Lanyue's final result appeared—"19.7 meters per second."

"Holy shit."

"Is she really a high school student?"

"She's practically a martial artist already, isn't she?"

"Damn, she's twice as fast as me. She could definitely punch me to death with one blow." Waves of astonished exclamations rang out, filled with shock.

Li Yuan's gaze fell on Lin Lanyue. With a thought, the Detection result appeared before his eyes: [Target's life level: Level 9.0]

"Level 9.0 already?" Li Yuan was secretly astonished.

After a brief comparison, Li Yuan reached a conclusion. "Her physical improvement speed doesn't seem any slower than mine."

Logically, the further one progressed, the slower physical fitness should improve.

Yet there was not the slightest sign that Lin Lanyue's physical fitness gains were slowing down. If anything, they seemed to be accelerating.

The forty-meter test proceeded very quickly.

Soon, it was Class 2, Grade 3's turn.

"Random student numbers, first group: No. 36, No. 1, No. 8..." the invigilator rapidly called out the examination numbers.

Li Yuan, as the top-ranked student in martial arts in the class, had student number one.

He stepped onto the starting line.

"Li Yuan's about to be tested?"

"What level is his physical fitness at?"

"No idea."

"It should be above Level 7. He seemed to be at Level 6.5 when the term started." Li Yuan's appearance also drew the attention of many students.

Even many Elite Class students looked over.

Li Yuan had risen into the top thirty of the grade from an ordinary class and was publicly recognized as number one in Martial Arts Technique.

Especially after defeating Lin Lanyue in the previous Virtual War, he had become quite famous throughout the school.

"Lanyue, look, Li Yuan is... You're already watching him." The slightly plump girl beside her had been about to call Lin Lanyue.

Only then did she realize that Lin Lanyue had already stopped walking.

"Li Yuan?" Lin Lanyue watched intently, quite curious inside.

Why was Li Yuan able to sign a B-level Contract with the Starfire Martial Hall?

Perhaps this adjustment exam would reveal some of the reason.

"Lanyue, what level do you think Li Yuan's physical fitness is at?" her slightly plump best friend asked curiously.

"Him?" Lin Lanyue hesitated. "Maybe Level 7.4."

"That high?" Her slightly plump best friend was somewhat surprised. At that physical fitness level, he would nearly break into the top ten even in the Elite Class.

At that moment.

Whoosh! Whoosh!

Whoosh! The six people on the track shot off from the starting line in an instant. Like an arrow leaving the bow, Li Yuan immediately threw all five classmates far behind.

He opened up nearly twice the distance and crossed the finish line directly.

Beep—

Li Yuan's result instantly appeared on the electronic display—"17.8 meters per second."

(End of Chapter)