Handing Out Rewards

"Next," Ma Feifei called out.

Then a girl with a fragrant scent walked up and handed the exam paper to Ma Feifei. Ma Feifei was putting the exam paper into the box that was specially used to store exam papers at the back. After he finished, he turned around and saw that it was Zhou Zhuling.

"Hey! Zhuling! How did you do on the questions?" Ma Feifei took the test paper and asked curiously.

Zhou Zhuling was clearly not happy, and said softly, "I answered six questions wrong."

Ma Feifei glanced at Zhou Zhuling's reward, which was an eighth-tier spiritual weapon, and smiled, "That's already quite good."

After saying that, he shouted to the back, "One eighth-tier spiritual weapon!"

Immediately afterwards, a beam of light shot into the spatial pouch at Zhou Zhuling's waist.

"Hmm..." Zhou Zhuling was in low spirits. She looked at Ma Feifei, hesitated, and finally sighed before leaving.

Ma Feifei was completely baffled, muttering to himself, "What's going on? Why is everyone staring at me like that?"

To Ma Feifei's surprise, many people he recognized appeared in his group, including Zhou Zhuling, Zhou Guanyu, Zhao Xiaodao, Gongsun Qiong, Liu Changsheng, and many of his students...

But everyone here looks at me differently.

It's a ghost!

In contrast to Ma Feifei, Zhang Yunji, as an employee of the Mysterious Bookstore, also occupied a singing spot.

"Come on, brother, hand over your answer sheet to me," Zhang Yunji said with a friendly expression.

The cultivator standing in front of Zhang Yunji handed over the answer sheet expressionlessly, his hand trembling slightly.

"Brother, your hands are shaky, you have kidney deficiency! You should be more careful with your hands." Zhang Yunji kindly said. As a result, the cultivator's hands trembled even more, and he hurriedly handed the answer sheet to Zhang Yunji, then withdrew his trembling hands, put his hands behind his back, and clenched them tightly together.

Zhang Yunji was a little puzzled. He shook his head, glanced down at the answer sheet, and couldn't help but shake his head again. "How come you only got one fifth-tier spiritual weapon? Brother, if I don't remember, you should have attended my class, right? How come you got so many questions wrong? You're really too careless."

"Heh..." The cultivator's expressionless face twitched, and he sneered.

Zhang Yunji, looking utterly disappointed, helplessly announced, "One fifth-tier spiritual weapon."

The light shone through, and the magical artifact entered the spatial bag.

The practitioner lifted his leg to leave.

Zhang Yunji patted him on the shoulder and comforted him, "It's alright. Although you're a bit slow, next time you encounter an event like this, come to the Zhang Manor to find me, and I'll give you special tutoring. I guarantee you'll get a perfect score next time!"

"Hehe..." The cultivator broke free from Zhang Yunji's grasp. His trembling hands were already surrounded by Spiritual Power, but he managed to suppress it and hurriedly ran outside, afraid that he would lose control and start fighting Zhang Yunji on the spot.

Zhang Yunji watched the departing cultivator, shook his head and sighed, "Sigh, people these days have no manners at all, they don't even know how to say thank you... Next one."

Zhang Yunji took the second cultivator's answer sheet and glanced at it. He noticed it was another fifth-tier spiritual artifact. Looking up at the cultivator with the exact same expression as the previous one, he couldn't help but ask, "I seem to remember you. You were the first young cultivator who grabbed my sleeve and begged me to give you questions, right? How come even you only answered eleven questions correctly?"

The young cultivator's lips twitched slightly as he said, "If only I could do it all over again... but alas, there are no 'ifs'."

Zhang Yunji looked completely bewildered and asked, "What do you mean?"

The young cultivator looked up at Zhang Yunji and said in a sinister tone, "It means, Great Spirit Venerable Zhang, remember to lock your door when Rest tonight."

"..."

Zhang Yunji felt that today was really strange; a group of people were saying some incomprehensible things to him.

Fortunately, Zhang Yunji saw his master, Chang Kong.

"Master, you must Harvest a lot this time!" Zhang Yunji flattered him.

Chang Kong glanced at Zhang Yunji, his expression complex.

Zhang Yunji was a little confused. He took Chang Kong's test paper and glanced at it, only to find that Chang Kong's reward was also a fifth-tier spiritual weapon...

Even if Zhang Yunji was slow-witted, he could still see something was wrong. He subconsciously glanced at the exam paper. Although the correct answers had disappeared, the right and wrong answers were still displayed. Zhang Yunji discovered that most of his previous answers were wrong, while some of the answers circulating in the market were correct...

"This..." Zhang Yunji broke out in a cold sweat.

He finally understood why so many people had been saying strange things to him before; it turned out that his own answers were all wrong!

Zhang Yunji felt that he might really be doomed...

"I'll take Liu Ying and Chuxue out for a walk later. Good luck to you," Chang Kong sighed and said.

Zhang Yunji's face instantly fell, and he said in a slightly tearful voice, "Master, do you think it's too late for me to return the Spirit Crystal to them now?"

"Hehe..." Chang Kong sneered. He didn't even want the magical artifact anymore. He turned around and left, leaving Zhang Yunji dumbfounded.

"..."

"Hello, shopkeeper!" A clear voice rang out, and Ma Feifei turned around to find that it was Azi, one of the four he hadn't seen in a long time, the little girl who had made him cry.

"Hello, you've come to participate in the event too." Ma Feifei smiled and took the answer sheet from Azi. Although this girl hated him to the core, Ma Feifei still liked her personality. She might shout that she wanted to fight and kill, but she was actually very kind-hearted. This could be seen from when Gongsun Qiong went to Mangcang Town to educate the people.

What Ma Feifei found strange was that this girl should have had a problem with him before, so why was she being so friendly to him today?

After glancing at the reward on Azi's test paper, Ma Feifei's eyes nearly popped out of their sockets. He exclaimed, "Ninth-tier Spirit Sword!"

Subconsciously, Ma Feifei glanced at the questions on the test paper and found that she had only gotten four questions wrong!

"That's amazing!" Ma Feifei couldn't help but exclaim in amazement.

This was the person he had seen answer the most correctly so far. Ma Feifei originally thought that the ninth-tier Spirit Sword would be taken by Zhou Zhuling or Zhao Xiaodao, but it was taken by Azi, who had only been to the Bookstore for two or three days and run a dungeon once.

"How did you do that?" Ma Feifei asked while looking at Azi's answer sheet.

Azi chuckled and said, "Some of it I learned through gathering information, some I stumbled upon while reading, and some I just guessed!"

"Then how come you weren't influenced?" Ma Feifei asked curiously when she saw that Azi had answered all the popular questions on her test paper correctly, completely unaffected by Zhang Yunji.

Azi crossed her arms smugly and said, "Because I think there's a conspiracy involved. That Zhang Yunji is clearly Bookstore employee, how could he leak the questions? And with such a large commotion, and you, as the store owner, didn't intervene, there can only be one conclusion: Zhang Yunji's actions were at your behest... um..."

Before Azi could finish speaking, Ma Feifei covered her mouth.

"Don't talk nonsense, you little brat! I'll sue you for defamation!" Ma Feifei said fiercely. Then she glanced around and, seeing that no one had heard their conversation, breathed a sigh of relief.

"Hmph!" Azi shoved Ma Feifei aside, wiped her mouth, and said smugly, "I guessed right, didn't I? I really am a genius!"

Ma Feifei was speechless. He quickly had Yun Qingyang hand the ninth-tier Spirit Sword to Azi, then urged, "Hurry up and leave! Also, your idea just now was a complete fabrication. You'd better keep it to yourself, or the consequences will be severe!"

Are you kidding me? If this gets out, Ma Feifei will have to take the blame for Zhang Yunji. Then people won't be looking for Zhang Yunji, but for Ma Feifei.

"Hehehe..." Azi stuck out her tongue at Ma Feifei and said, "Living alone forever!"

"Huh?"