Three Hundred Years of Examinations, Five Hundred Years of Mock Tests (Please Recommend, Please Follow)

Dan Lei wanted to trade a Light Cone for a flying sword, and Jing Yuan agreed almost without thinking. However, the old rule still applied: Dan Lei had to pass an examination and obtain the qualifications to use the flying sword.

After all, Cloud Knights members had to undergo training and testing before they could wield flying swords. That was the rule.

Dan Lei had no objections. If even his mental power could not get him through the examination quickly, then wielding a flying sword would be far too difficult for it to serve as standard weaponry in Luofu.

After discussing the Light Cone and flying sword, Dan Lei and Jing Yuan's communication came to a satisfactory end. Jing Yuan summoned Hanya, completed the formal registration, and let Dan Lei leave.

Of course, under Hanya's gaze—which clearly said, "Are you the brat who doesn't want this old lady to retire?"—Dan Lei practically fled, afraid that if he stayed one moment longer, Hanya would find another excuse to detain him in the Imprisonment Court.

After leaving the Imprisonment Court, Dan Lei returned to Golden People Alley and headed straight for Chenji Workshop. Facing the shopkeeper, Lian Yan, he called out,

"Boss Lian, I'm here to see the chairman!"

As a resident of Golden People Alley, and with his shop now responsible for attracting almost all the new customers to the alley, Dan Lei naturally received VIP treatment there. If he wanted to see the chairman, he could see him.

After all, the chairman of Golden People Alley was merely a golden mechanical head suspected to date back to the First Emperor War. Aside from seeing and speaking, it could do nothing else.

Thus, before Lian Yan could answer, a burst of mechanical noise came from Chenji Workshop.

"Boss Dan, just come in if you want to see me."

Dan Lei did not stand on ceremony. He walked straight into Chenji Workshop and addressed the golden mechanical head displayed in the window like a product.

"Chairman, I'd like to ask you to look up some information."

The golden chairman was not surprised in the slightest. Someone as reclusive as Dan Lei would not suddenly seek him out without a reason, so it replied,

"Do you need me to look something up? Is the information very ancient?"

Dan Lei was fiddling with an old Jade Abacus from the shop as he answered,

"It isn't exactly ancient, but it's quite obscure. I need past examination questions for the Trial Entry Permit, so I can use them for reference and practice."

When the golden chairman heard that it concerned the Trial Entry Permit, even its mechanical voice seemed to relax a little.

"That is rather obscure. There isn't much related data stored in my Jade Abacus.

"But Boss Dan, if you only want to leave Luofu and visit other planets, applying for a business travel permit or a study-abroad permit would be much easier."

Dan Lei answered directly,

"Neither of those suits my needs. I need a permit with a high degree of freedom, one that allows me to adventure and operate in relatively dangerous places.

"Besides, with either of those permits, I'd have to report to Luofu and apply for approval whenever I deviated from the planned route and went somewhere else. It's too troublesome."

Hearing Dan Lei say this, the golden chairman understood. It immediately told him the answer he wanted.

"There should be an old Jade Abacus book titled Three Hundred Years of Examinations, Five Hundred Years of Mock Tests in the old book collection at Sanyu Bookshop in Exalting Sanctum. It should contain the information you want."

Dan Lei thanked it, bought two old-model Jade Abacuses on the spot, and headed straight for Sanyu Bookshop in Exalting Sanctum.

Then, after Yinshu spent an hour rummaging around, she finally took out an old Jade Abacus book and complained to Dan Lei,

"Where did you hear that my family had this thing? I'm just a shop assistant, and searching through the old book collection is a huge hassle. And what kind of bizarre book is this, Three Hundred Years of Examinations, Five Hundred Years of Mock Tests? A Foxian only lives a little over three hundred years. Besides, why can't the data inside be downloaded? You can only read it on this super-old model of Jade Abacus."

Regarding that question, Dan Lei could only answer,

"I heard this book compiled publicly released examination questions from all types of tests once held in Luofu, along with corresponding mock tests.

"But professional qualification examinations have been simplified nowadays. They mainly test practical skills, while the written portion has continuously been reduced, so this thing was eventually phased out."

After hearing Dan Lei's explanation, Yinshu sighed at how difficult life must have been for the Xianzhou natives of the past, then returned to the shop to read.

As for Dan Lei, he naturally had to return and prepare with the determination of someone sitting the gaokao.

As far as he knew, the most troublesome part of the Trial Entry Permit was the theoretical examination. After all, Pathstriders who dared apply for this thing generally had a few tricks up their sleeves. They would not be hopeless weaklings.

However, the Xianzhou was very worried that these people who trained their muscles into their brains would be deceived after going out. Thus, it provided a huge number of questions, requiring applicants to know the names and characteristics of most of the factions outside. It would even ask questions like what they should do if they encountered a certain faction carrying out a certain activity.

In short, the difficulty was comparable to Dan Lei's civil service examination in Flower Country in his previous previous life.

Thus, after obtaining the questions, Dan Lei immediately returned home and secluded himself to study hard. He also downloaded a large amount of information on the various factions in the universe into his Jade Abacus.

After all, the information from his previous previous life in his head was not enough to deal with this examination. He knew about the Yepera Brotherhood, for example, but he did not know the names of several of its wanted leaders.

Of course, while studying the various factions in the universe, Dan Lei did not forget to have his flying sword custom-made.

With Jing Yuan's written approval, he easily met Gongshu Liang—the true name of Master Gongshu—and directly handed him the Nichirin Greatsword for modification.

Dan Lei had thought this through clearly. Once removed from Demon Slayer, the Nichirin Greatsword was merely a very ordinary heavy sword. Unless the next world contained vampire-like creatures afraid of stellar radiation, it was basically useless.

However, it could become a Conceptual Artifact. If it could still be transformed into a Conceptual Artifact after modification and placed in Holy Grail Space, then Dan Lei would have made a huge profit. In the future, he could travel to other worlds and directly cosplay as a sword immortal.

If it could not, he would not lose anything anyway. Items created in the Star Rail Universe could not be brought along when he traveled between worlds in the first place.

Jing Yuan was still very reliable. Neither the flying sword nor the Trial Entry Permit kept Dan Lei waiting long.

Master Gongshu completed the flying sword in only a week.

According to Master Gongshu, the special minerals inside the Nichirin Greatsword Dan Lei had originally given him were quite interesting.

Thus, he added a large amount of metal capable of absorbing stellar radiation. Combined with nanotechnology, he created a flying sword that could directly absorb nearby imaginary energy or Stellar Energy and unleash intense heat.

After receiving the sword, Dan Lei went straight to the sword-testing grounds of the Crafting Department. With only a slight activation, its high-temperature blade cleaved through a target Aurumaton in a single stroke.

Dan Lei was extremely satisfied with its power. He showered Master Gongshu with praise for his craftsmanship, then bought a large pile of metal for repairs.

Then the time came for the Trial Entry Permit examination. Dan Lei passed the written test with ease. After all, in his previous previous life, he had studied all the way to university. It had only been an ordinary second-tier university, but when it came to solving test questions, he still had some experience.

However, during the practical examination, Dan Lei began cursing Jing Yuan in his heart when he saw who had come to face him.

"Damn you, Jing Yuan! I was wondering why everything had gone so smoothly before. So you were waiting to ambush me here.

"It's just a Trial Entry Permit examination. Did you really have to arrange for Yan Qing to be my opponent?"