Year-End Assessment (Thanks to Alliance Leader Feng's Chocolate~)

Before the sect's annual cultivation period ended each year, there was a Year-End Assessment.

It assessed the disciples' performance in every subject.

It served as both an examination and a general evaluation, while also affecting a disciple's reputation within the sect and the degree of importance the sect attached to them.

When disciples returned home for the New Year, it also gave them something to account for before the elders of their clans.

Whether they celebrated the New Year laughing or crying depended on the year-end assessment.

The Year-End Assessment followed a process similar to ordinary examinations, except it was more formal, more cumbersome, and far more significant.

At the same time, the punishment for cheating was more severe.

Three days after the assessment ended, Mo Hua received his own "report card."

It was utterly ordinary: one A and six Cs.

There was no question that Array Technique was an "A."

After all, A was the highest possible grade.

With Sixteen-Pattern Divine Consciousness and an exceptionally profound foundation in Array Technique, Mo Hua found it effortless to answer papers on Second-Grade arrays, and even arrays below Second-Grade.

The arrays he drew, every stroke and line, were practically flawless.

Elder Xun sighed inwardly.

He had even wanted to create another grade above "A" for Mo Hua, but after thinking it over, he restrained the impulse.

He could not be too conspicuous.

It was better to keep a low profile where he could.

Other than the A in Array Technique, every other subject was, without exception, a C.

Which meant he had barely passed.

The six Cs included cultivation, Artifact Refining, Alchemy, talisman crafting, Dao arts, and the Hundred Arts of Cultivation.

Mo Hua was extremely diligent in cultivation, but his cultivation speed was below average.

His Spirit Root was simply poor,