Preparations Before the Test
The following day, Dubian Town was bombarded with a message that spread throughout the entire Dubian Town with lightning speed.
The message's title is. "Mysterious Bookstore's Event to Thank Book Lovers."
The message reads: Since its opening, the Mysterious Bookstore received tremendous support from its readers, leading to its rapid expansion and growing reputation. To express gratitude, the Mysterious Bookstore is launching a quiz-style reward event. Readers can register at the Wantong Trading Market to participate. Registered participants will receive a quiz paper from the Mysterious Bookstore and will answer questions. The more questions answered correctly, the greater the rewards. (Note: Rewards include: a large amount of Spirit Crystal, martial arts techniques, spirit weapons, sprites, Literary Examination Qualification Certificate, and all other rewards from Mysterious Bookstore's books.)
Then the Wantong Trading Market was overwhelmed...
However, upon arriving at the Wantong Trading Market, everyone discovered that due to the overwhelming number of applicants, the registration location had been moved to the venue where the Pokémon Championship had previously been held, located twenty miles Zhenbei.
Then everyone started running frantically towards the Zhenbei again...
"Hey, Master, look! There are so many people running this way from the town!" At the Little Elf Competition venue twenty miles Zhenbei, Liu Ying and Chang Kong had just finished registering and walked out when they saw countless small black dots running towards them in the distance.
Some highly accomplished cultivators went even further, directly using their magical artifacts to fly, arriving at the elf competition arena in just a few breaths. Without even glancing at Liu Ying and Chang Kong, they ran straight inside.
As more and more people gathered, Liu Ying and Chang Kong had no choice but to move to the side, otherwise they might have been caught in the crossfire.
"It seems a lot of people are participating in this event!" Chang Kong said, frowning.
Looking at the swarming army of cultivators, Liu Ying couldn't help but stick out her tongue and say, "Luckily we arrived early."
Liu Ying and Chang Kong were able to arrive at the registration site immediately today because of Zhang Yunji's reminder. They had previously thought Zhang Yunji was making a fuss over nothing, but now they realized that if Zhang Yunji hadn't reminded them in advance, the opportunity might have been lost by the time they arrived to register.
Chang Kong breathed a sigh of relief and nodded in agreement.
The rewards for this event are so generous, and you can win them simply by answering questions. This is great news for everyone.
Furthermore, according to the hints given by Wantong Trading Market, all the quiz papers issued by Mysterious Bookstore are related to Mysterious Bookstore. If book lovers carefully recall what has happened at Mysterious Bookstore in the past six months, they will have a high chance of answering the questions on the quiz paper correctly and winning rewards.
In other words, cultivation level is not important in this event, nor is the sprite; what matters most is your understanding of the Mysterious Bookstore.
Who wouldn't want to participate in such a simple event? Especially those cultivators who can't afford the exclusive front-row numbers and have to wait in long lines are going crazy for this kind of event.
Although they hadn't gone inside to look at the books, their understanding of the Mysterious Bookstore was no less than that of the practitioners who had gone Bookstore.
Before, I didn't have enough money to get in. I didn't have enough cultivation level to beat the dungeons.
Now, all you need to do is know enough about the Mysterious Bookstore and pay a registration fee of 100 Spirit Crystal! You'll have the chance to obtain various cultivation techniques, martial arts skills, spiritual weapons, and little sprites offered by the Mysterious Bookstore...
This is practically an alternate-world version of "Take a gamble, and you'll go from bicycle to motorcycle; try your luck, and you'll go from Jeep to Land Rover."
"Go back. When your brother comes back tonight, we'll have to carefully examine what's happened in the past six months," Chang Kong sighed and said.
It was already quite late when he and Liu Ying learned about the Mysterious Bookstore, and they weren't really confident about the quiz activity. Right now, they could only pin their hopes on Zhang Yunji, hoping he could help Chang Kong and Liu Ying catch up on the stories they didn't know.
Liu Ying nodded and followed Chang Kong toward the town.
In fact, it wasn't just Chang Kong Liu Ying who needed to catch up on everything that had happened at the Mysterious Bookstore over the past six months. As night fell, the entire Dubian Town was discussing and Analytic everything that had happened at the Mysterious Bookstore in the past six months.
For example, in a tavern in the town center.
"Does anyone know the exact date the Mysterious Bookstore opened?" a cultivator shouted.
Some practitioners nearby were quietly eavesdropping; these were all practitioners who had successfully registered for the event.
Another group of cultivators remained silent. These people had not successfully registered, but that did not mean they were willing to tell the other party the answer.
Seeing that no one answered, the cultivator clapped his hands, and a spatial bag appeared on the table. He shouted, "Whoever can tell me the correct answer will receive a thousand Spirit Crystal!"
"I think it was around November last year?" a cultivator in the corner said.
"It can't be November, it must be December. The Mysterious Bookstore only opened after the Dragon Ranking Competition," another cultivator retorted.
"How could that be? I remember Yang Chengzhi saying he spent a month reading at the Mysterious Bookstore, which means the Mysterious Bookstore had already opened by then. That means it must have opened at least a month ago, maybe even earlier. So I'm guessing it opened in October." Another cultivator stepped forward to refute this.
"No, I think it should be..."
Then this one question caused quite a stir in the tavern, with all sorts of answers. People were bringing it up every month of last year, and it just got more and more confusing.
However, everyone felt that there was an 80% chance that this question would appear on the Mysterious Bookstore's test paper, so it was the question that was mentioned most often in the entire Dubian Town.
In a corner, Zhao Xiaodao and Gongsun Qiong hid in the crowd, quietly listening to the topics being discussed.
"Xiaodao, do you know when the Mysterious Bookstore opened?" Gongsun Qiong asked softly.
The two of them abused their power and secretly signed up for the quiz. In preparation for the upcoming event, they came to this lively place at night to write down some questions they thought might appear.
Zhao Xiaodao confidently said, "President, I might not be able to answer other questions, but I do know the answer to this one because I met Ma Feifei on the very first day the Mysterious Bookstore opened."
Upon hearing this, Gongsun Qiong's face lit up with joy, and he asked, "Which day is it?"
Zhao Xiaodao was taken aback upon hearing this, and said somewhat awkwardly, "I really forgot the exact date, but it was in September."
Gongsun Qiong frowned and said, "September..."
Zhao Xiaodao nodded affirmatively and said, "That's right, it must have been in September, because a few days after I finished reading that book of Andersen's Fairy Tales and skipped six paragraphs in a row, Steward Liu discovered it and introduced me to you."
When Gongsun Qiong heard Zhao Xiaodao mention the phrase "six consecutive jumps," his eyes lit up, and he wrote it down on a piece of paper.
"This six-stage jump might be on the exam, so highlight the key points."
"Besides the opening date, the first book will likely also be on the test, so you can highlight the key points here."
Gongsun Qiong came up with two possible areas for the exam.
Hearing Gongsun Qiong say that, Zhao Xiaodao seemed to remember something and whispered, "Then, President, do you think it's possible that there will be a topic like 'The first customer of the Mysterious Bookstore'?"
Upon hearing this, Gongsun Qiong nodded in approval. "That's very possible, I'll make a note of it too."
Zhao Xiaodao excitedly took out paper and pen, and the two of them listened to the surrounding cultivators discussing the exam questions, guessed the possible questions, took notes, and highlighted the key points.