Exam Reform: The Foundation Establishment Test

A moment later, Zhang Yu and Bai Zhenzhen had each entered a separate stall in the men's and women's restrooms, then opened their phones and clicked the confirmation button on the webpage.

Then the webpage flashed and a registration form for the Foundation Establishment Exam for high school students on the Kunxu First Layer appeared.

Zhang Yu silently filled in his information and then clicked "Login".

The login fee is 1000 yuan. Please confirm.

Zhang Yu cursed under his breath, but still clicked "confirm".

As 1,000 yuan was directly deducted from the bank account, a surge of divine Divine Power appeared in the air.

The next moment, Zhang Yu felt his feet sink into the ground; a large hole had appeared in the toilet floor, causing him to fall through.

Holy crap!

After Zhang Yu's figure completely disappeared, the ground returned to normal, with no trace of Zhang Yu remaining.

Zhang Yu felt as if his body had passed through many indescribable and inexplicable things.

When he came to his senses again, he found himself standing in an office, with a middle-aged woman looking at him calmly and saying, "Here to register for the Foundation Establishment Exam?"

Zhang Yu sensed a faint trace of divine Divine Power emanating from the other party and wondered, "Human? Or god?"

After seeing Zhang Yu nod, the woman handed him a contract and said, "The registration fee is 30,000, and these are the rules to be followed for the Foundation Establishment Exam."

"Once you pay the registration fee and sign this covenant under the witness of the Heavenly Covenant and Contract Great God, you cannot violate the examination rules contained herein; otherwise, you will never be able to take the Foundation Establishment Certificate exam again in this lifetime."

The middle-aged woman added, "And once the contract is signed, no outsider can find out that you participated in this exam."

"Also, the registration fee will not be refunded if you withdraw from the competition halfway through."

The thought of the registration fee being 30,000 yuan made Zhang Yu feel as if his heart was bleeding.

After accounting for the train ticket and the login fee, he only had a little over ten thousand yuan left in his account.

"I wonder if A-Zhen has enough money. If not, she'll have to borrow money before registering, right?" Zhang Yu sighed inwardly and looked down at the contract carefully.

The contract contains many stipulations, such as prohibiting the disclosure of any information regarding the specific content of the exam, the disclosure of any information about the examinees, and the recording or photographing of the exam venue...

In addition, there was a warning in the contract that the middle-aged woman in front of her mentioned again.

"The Foundation Establishment Exam is highly valued by the Heavenly Court and is held by the Ten Great Sects to select outstanding talents capable of Foundation Establishment."

"Don't even think about doing anything underhanded or dishonest."

"Once discovered by the Eight Divine Departments, both the examinee and those involved will be severely punished. At best, they will be ruined; at worst, their Immortal Path will be severed, and all their Immortal Dao Potential will be stripped away..."

Zhang Yu nodded slightly, knowing that this was a warning to the candidates not to think about cheating or engaging in any off-site elimination of competitors.

After carefully reviewing all the rules and asking a few questions, Zhang Yu signed the contract under the witness of the Heavenly Covenant and Contract Great God, and then reluctantly paid the registration fee of 30,000 yuan.

After confirming that there were no problems with the contract, the middle-aged woman continued, "Alright, registration is complete. Next, it's time to sign up for the test."

"We need to test your basic skills a bit to filter out some weak candidates and avoid wasting exam resources."

After saying that, he pasted a candidate number, 55, onto Zhang Yu's body.

Hearing what the other person said, Zhang Yu's heart sank. He had never heard Zhang Pianpian mention anything about registration or testing before.

Zhang Yu asked, "Weren't you just here to register?"

The middle-aged woman casually said, "This year's Foundation Establishment Exam has been reformed; this is the new content."

Zhang Yu complained, "Wasn't the first round of exams supposed to start in August?"

"There are still two months left. I have a lot of room to grow. You can't really measure my true strength right now."

The middle-aged woman said impatiently, "Are you going or not? If not, I'll send you away right now, but the registration fee is non-refundable."

Zhang Yu sighed helplessly, "Where should we test it?"

The middle-aged woman pointed to the door behind Zhang Yu and said, "The testing area is just outside the door."

Zhang Yu opened the door and walked out. When he turned around, he found that the door he had just opened was gone, leaving only a pure white wall.

He walked along the corridor and soon arrived at a large hall.

At the far end of the hall, a large metal door stood, and a group of people were standing in front of it, seemingly looking at something.

As Zhang Yu approached, he quickly spotted a familiar face playing on his phone.

Yu Xinghan was replying to Li Xuelian's message on her phone: Transfer 100,000 to me.

Li Xuelian: Are you sure you want 100,000?

Yu Xinghan: I can't disclose the specific costs, you know what I mean, but it will cost 100,000 to continue.

Li Xuelian: I understand, there's a confidentiality agreement, right?

Looking at the 100,000 yuan that Li Xuelian had transferred, Yu Xinghan couldn't help but laugh, "The Foundation Establishment Exam is really great!"

He thought to himself, "Besides saving money, the most important thing if you want to go further on the path of Immortal Dao is to know how to make money. Without that, you won't go far."

Yu Xinghan suddenly thought of Zhang Yu: "What a pity, Zhang Yu. Although I taught you how to save money, I couldn't teach you how to make money."

"After all, you don't have Alchemist like me."

"If anyone's to blame, it's our master. He was too poor to raise both of us, so he had to train the stronger one..."

Just then, Yu Xinghan looked at the familiar face that had suddenly appeared before him and was slightly taken aback.

He rubbed his eyes again and looked again, then asked in surprise, "Zhang Yu? What are you doing here?"

Zhang Yu glanced at the candidate number on the other person's body and smiled slightly, saying, "Here to take the Foundation Establishment Exam, huh? Aren't you one?" Having thoroughly read the rules and consulted them on the spot, Zhang Yu knew that the exam rules restricted disclosure to outsiders and prevented external forces from interfering with the exam order. However, like other competitions, they did not prohibit contestants from getting to know each other. In fact, judging from this situation, Zhang Yu strongly suspected that the exam would encourage contestants to get to know each other, increasing the intensity of the competition.

"You!" Yu Xinghan stared at Zhang Yu in astonishment. At first, she was startled, worried that someone she knew had discovered her participation in the Foundation Establishment Exam. But she quickly realized that Zhang Yu was also a candidate, and her mood relaxed. However, she couldn't understand how the other person could be here. How could he possibly be here?

This is a gathering of the top high school students on this floor, a competition among the Strongest High School Student, a channel that only Golden Core Disciple like him could access. And yet, this penniless wretch has come?

Although he was very talented and had excellent grades... he was still a poor man after all! A poor man whose backer, Zhang Pianpian, had left him.

Just then, Bai Zhenzhen walked up to Zhang Yu's side. She patted Zhang Yu's shoulder, then looked at Yu Xinghan in surprise and said, "Oh? You're here too?"

"Why is Bai Zhenzhen here too?" Yu Xinghan even wondered if he had come to the wrong place.

Just then, a red envelope floated down and appeared at the feet of the three of them.

Yu Xinghan hesitated for only 0.1 seconds before Zhang Yu stomped on the red envelope, squatted down, and reached in to pull it out...

But the red envelope vanished like a phantom as Zhang Yu moved.

Yu Xinghan chuckled, "This red envelope is obviously fake..."

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Zhang Yu took out his vibrating phone and exclaimed in surprise, "A thousand yuan has suddenly appeared in my account! Was this red envelope transferred directly?"

Yu Xinghan's expression froze, and he immediately regretted his hesitation.

Bai Zhenzhen gestured with her chin towards the front and said, "That's the person handing out red envelopes."

A shirtless man was seen practicing Talisman Arts.

As he practiced, red envelopes would occasionally pop out of the Talisman Book and land around him.

The man's name was Ye Lingxiao. For the past half month, he had neither cultivated his physical body nor Breathing Technique, nor tempered his Dao Heart. Instead, he had been quietly studying Talisman Arts.

The reason he devoted most of his energy to Talisman Arts was partly because he developed a great interest in Talisman Arts after seeing a woman's Talisman Arts.

On the other hand, it's because his physical body, magical power, and Dao Heart have reached their limits, so he doesn't need to spend time cultivating in these areas, and he is absolutely confident that he can pass the Foundation Establishment Certificate.

Ye Lingxiao is considered to possess the most perfect physique and the most perfect bloodline among all high school students in the entire Kunxu First Layer.

This is both his self-perception and the assessment of him by the Oasis Group.

The Talisman Arts he's practicing now is Red Envelope Talisman, which a woman taught him. Only by mastering this Red Envelope Talisman can he learn the more advanced Goodwill Talisman.

Just as he was focused on practicing, a figure suddenly appeared beside him and said, "I've finished collecting your red envelopes."

Ye Lingxiao raised his head, looked at Zhang Yu in front of him, and asked in confusion, "Hmm?"

Zhang Yu said, "Are you throwing money around? Or just transfer it to my bank account?"

Upon hearing this, Ye Lingxiao shook his head and said, "I'm practicing with the Red Envelope Talisman, but unfortunately I haven't been able to break through yet. The maximum amount of money I can put in a red envelope is only 1,000 yuan."

Zhang Yu stared at Ye Lingxiao with shining eyes, thinking, "Is this the rich second-generation from the top tier of Kunxu? Is this how they spend money to practice Talisman Arts?"

Forget Yu Xinghan and Song Hailong, my real friends are... this good brother whose name I don't even know yet.

Zhang Yu quickly patted his chest and said, "It's alright, you can use me as a practice subject, practice however you like!"

Watching this scene, Yu Xinghan felt a surge of admiration.

"It seems I was wrong. Zhang Yu's methods of extorting money are already masterful, no less than mine."

As she spoke, Yu Xinghan walked up with a smile, "A-Yu, who is this good friend? Aren't you going to introduce him?"

"I heard you want to practice Talisman Arts? I'll practice with you."

Ye Lingxiao looked at the two people in front of him with some curiosity and asked, "Are you sure?"

Zhang Yu: "OK! OK!"

Yu Xinghan pushed Zhang Yu away and whispered to him, "You just picked up several thousand yuan, now it's my turn!"

Ye Lingxiao said calmly, "You two are really strange. No one is ever willing to accept my Red Envelope Talisman, yet you two are scrambling to do so. Don't you think the interest rate is too high?"

Upon hearing the significant term "interest rate," Yu Xinghan gradually slowed down.

Zhang Yu asked in confusion, "Interest rate?"

Ye Lingxiao said, "The Red Envelope Talisman is a Talisman Arts for the Goodwill Talisman."

"Those who receive this talisman will have their Emergency Fund taken from the Wealth Department Bank."

"You son of a bitch..." Zhang Yu roared, "Why are you throwing this piece of junk around like that? Don't you have any sense of public decency? Practicing something so vicious in public! What if it hits a poor person?"

"Huh? You can still see poor people here?" Ye Lingxiao asked in surprise. "I thought no one would pick up money from the ground."

Zhang Yu was furious; he felt insulted once again.

Bai Zhenzhen reminded him from the side, "Yu Zi, hurry up and pay back the money! Otherwise, interest will start to accrue!"

Zhang Yu quickly walked to the side, opened his phone, logged in, and immediately went to the Wealth Department Bank's website to repay the money.

Following Ye Lingxiao's words, the candidates who hadn't paid much attention before quietly moved away from Ye Lingxiao, instantly clearing a large area around Ye Lingxiao.

Ye Lingxiao, however, continued drawing talismans without paying any attention, and soon another red envelope popped out and landed on the ground around him.

But at that moment, another hand gently pinched the red envelope, but no matter how hard the hand squeezed or rubbed it, the red envelope did not disappear.

This time, Ye Lingxiao's eyes showed surprise. "The Red Envelope Talisman didn't work on you?"

(End of this chapter)