Early December, Ancient Cultivation Building, Room 101.
Today's exam was on A Deeper Look at Spell Principles.
Students filled the classroom, seated in alternating rows and columns.
With cultivators around, cheating was easier, so invigilation had to be much stricter.
Both invigilators were cultivators. They closely watched for students using spells or Spirit Power and kept just as sharp an eye out for anyone exploiting their extraordinary eyesight or keen hearing to cheat. Anyone caught—or even suspected—would be severely punished.
Students could not even mutter to themselves while answering questions.
Then again, if someone wanted to cheat, was there any situation where they couldn't?
In the end, it came down to self-discipline.
As one of the world's top universities, Yujing University attracted students with a certain amount of pride. The exams were hard; brilliant students from all corners of the world often arrived only to struggle to pass. Even so, many would rather score a few points, or a dozen, than cheat.
And that was no exaggeration—
At Yujing University, professional-course exams were graded out of a hundred, and scores in the single digits or teens were hardly rare.
Yet take those same students elsewhere, and most would count as minor geniuses.
For now, the only sound in the exam room was the scratch of pens.
Chen Shu scratched his head. His fountain pen had run out of ink, so he dipped it in the ink bottle and kept writing.
Question four: complete the following rune array—
[Rune Array]
The difficulty was practically zero.
One glance was all Chen Shu needed to know the answer.
Question five: below was a Core Rune Array from a Force-Release Spell. Calculate its Spirit Power efficiency. To raise that efficiency above eighty percent without changing more than one-third of the Runes, what changes would