Urban Cultivation with a Demonic System-Chapter 339 - 282: Translate, Translate—What Does 80 Points of Fate Mean!
The effects of the Demon Technique·Finger Beast are strong; however, since the joint monthly exam is a human competition, it won’t be useful for now. 𝒇𝙧𝙚𝓮𝔀𝓮𝒃𝙣𝓸𝒗𝒆𝒍.𝙘𝒐𝒎
Su Yuan simply took a food ingredient from the Primordial Sect Headquarters canteen, tested all three effects of this demon technique, and then temporarily set it aside to return to school and focus on preparing for the exam.
October 25th, 9 AM.
The location for the written test portion of the joint monthly exam is in the classroom of the Second-Year Seed Class of the Evil Extermination Department.
Su Yuan, Chi Le’an, and Qi Hanyan stood at the entrance to the Second-Year Seed Class, carrying their exam supplies like three heroes venturing into the Demon King City.
Just standing at the doorway, a strong sense of oppression hit them in the face.
This was the immense power formed by the gathering of thirty-three Foundation Establishment prodigies.
Su Yuan took a deep breath, grabbed the nervous Qi Hanyan, and strode into the Second-Year Seed Class classroom.
Inside the classroom, the thirty-three second-year seniors were already seated, with only the three seats at the back of the classroom, obviously newly added, remaining empty.
Seeing the three enter, the second-year seniors all turned their heads to look over, but all had expressionless faces.
Su Yuan was not intimidated by this scene; he just glanced at the figure in the first seat of the first row in the classroom.
It was a thin, sunken-cheeked young man who appeared somewhat sinister.
Seeing Su Yuan look at him, the other party merely pulled out a stiff and cold smile.
Celestial Moisture Saint Son, Qiu Tianze.
From this saint son, who clearly had a villainous aura, Su Yuan felt a strong sense of crisis.
This instinctive sense of crisis from the body was enough to prove that the power of the first phase of the Divinity Transformation Inheritance was enough to pose a serious threat to him now.
However, Su Yuan did not back down because of this; on the contrary, he was eager to try.
After accumulating for so long, it was finally time to showcase himself in front of an audience.
He slightly nodded towards the Celestial Moisture Saint Son, maintaining an imposing stance, and calmly walked to the seat at the back of the classroom to sit down.
After the three sat down, the Second-Year Seed Class tutor immediately distributed the test papers.
Spiritual Runes and General Education were tested simultaneously, with a time limit of... thirty minutes!
This was the difficulty of the written test; the timing was very tight.
Even if you master all the Spiritual Runes and General Education knowledge of the freshman and sophomore years, if your memory isn’t solid, it’s impossible to finish a test that requires writing tens of thousands of words within a limited time.
Fortunately, Su Yuan had always been an excellent small-town test taker since childhood, and he would never mess up in this regard, and immediately began writing urgently.
After thirty minutes, the exam time ended.
The tutor collected the papers and graded them on the spot.
An hour later, the rankings for the joint monthly exam’s written test emerged.
Among the thirty-six candidates, the top ten students all had full marks, tied for first place.
The students ranked eleventh to twenty-fifth were one point below full marks, tied for second place.
The students ranked twenty-sixth to thirty-fifth were two points below full marks, tied for third place.
And the thirty-sixth student, the only fourth place in the entire room, was a full ten points below full marks.
Su Yuan and Chi Le’an were naturally among the first-place ranks, while the most behind, dead last, was undoubtedly Qi Hanyan.
"I told you to practice swordsmanship, but you only practiced swordsmanship and didn’t review Spiritual Runes and General Education at all, right? Watch how I deal with you when we get back!"
Su Yuan glared fiercely at the pink-haired girl.
Qi Hanyan scratched her head and stubbornly said:
"I’m still fourth from the top, right? The score isn’t that bad..."
Su Yuan: "Others are third from the top because their scores are at least third, but you’re fourth because no one in the class is more useless than you!"
Qi Hanyan, after a scolding, immediately had tears in her eyes.
Su Yuan was long used to Qi Hanyan selling misery at the slightest provocation and had no pity for weaklings at all.
And soon, the highlight of this monthly exam arrived.
On the platform, the Golden Core Tutor lightly coughed and said:
"The written test is ultimately a minor path; what truly determines the students’ final grades is the second stage of the monthly exam, the combat test portion."
"Next, I will explain the rules of the combat test portion; listen carefully."
With this statement, everyone’s spirits in the classroom were uplifted.
"Simply put, the combat test is a contest among students, evaluated on four main subjects: cultivation, physical education, Dao Heart, and martial arts."
"The students’ performance in the contest will decide the formal rankings, which will then be combined with the written test scores to determine the final rankings of the joint monthly exam."
"The specific dueling process is quite simple—it’s just set duels of eight advancing to four, four advancing to two, and two advancing to one."
"However, since there is a significant disparity in strength between the thirty-six students present, students’ ’levels’ need to be determined before the official start of the set duels."
"Levels are divided into three stages: heavyweight, middleweight, and lightweight, with twelve people in each level, ranked from high to low."
"Those assessed as heavyweight will be ranked at least twelfth even if they lose all duels in their level, and so on for middleweight and lightweight."
"The winner of each level will have the right to challenge any student of the next higher level and replace their ranking upon victory."
Hearing these rules, Su Yuan nodded to himself.
These rules are indeed quite fair, avoiding the awkward situation where high-scoring students encounter Qiu Tianze in the first round and stop at the top thirty-six.
Moreover, as long as a student is assessed as heavyweight, unless they have exceptionally bad luck, they’re more likely than not to securely enter the top ten and earn hidden points.
Next, the Golden Core Tutor led them into the Taixu Illusion Realm login cabin to start the assessment.
After entering the Taixu Illusion Realm, Su Yuan found himself on a vast, boundless grassland.
Directly in front of him, a giant prairie wolf with a shoulder height of three meters slowly formed, each with the cultivation of the Foundation Establishment Third Layer.
Of course, they were wild ones, completely untrained Foundation Establishment Third Layer.
For every candidate in this test, defeating these prairie wolves was like a father beating his son, with no pressure at all.
For each prairie wolf killed, one point would be added, with a time limit of one hour.
After the limited time ends, maintaining a rank within the top twelve allows one to become a heavyweight candidate and start the official examination.
Facing this vast group of prairie wolves, Su Yuan was really tempted to enjoy using the Demon Technique·Finger Beast.
After all, not using a cheat is equivalent to not having it at all.
But after careful consideration, he ultimately decided to hold back a bit.
Anyway, it was enough to be ranked in the top twelve in the final results; being ranked higher had no real meaning and would only arouse unnecessary vigilance.
He wanted to quietly grow, mix into the final rounds, then unleash his cheat and take down Qiu Tianze in one go!
Kieh Kieh Kieh!
With this thought, Su Yuan charged head-on into the prairie wolf pack, not even using the Celestial Slayer Swordsmanship, but just slashing wildly with the Chi Yuan Sword and his powerful Divine Spirit Root’s spiritual power.
Yet even with Su Yuan not revealing any of his trump cards, his ranking steadily climbed to tenth after a bit of initial fluctuation.
After one hour, Su Yuan successfully advanced to become a heavyweight candidate by killing 271 prairie wolves.
Chi Le’an and Qi Hanyan did not disappoint either, ranking fifth and eleventh respectively, advancing to heavyweight.
Among the twelve heavyweight candidates, a full three were from the Second-Year Seed Class, which was clearly a provocation to the second-year senior students.
However, to Su Yuan’s surprise, the expected brainless villainous doubts and face-slapping moments of the protagonist did not occur.
It seemed the second-year candidates had already anticipated the results of Su Yuan and his companions, and everything proceeded without any waves.
The candidates exited the Taixu Illusion Realm and the candidates of the three levels went to different examination venues.
In a Martial Arts Dojo of the Evil Extermination Department, Su Yuan and the twelve heavyweight candidates stood outside the ring, with the spectator seats already filled with many spectators.
There were students from the first, second, and third years who were not taking the exam today, as well as referees and tutors acting as judges.
But the most attention-grabbing figures in the venue weren’t the judges or the candidates, but rather True Monarch Yang Hao and True Monarch Zanyuan, who restrained their presence on the spectator seats yet exuded an overwhelming aura.
Sitting next to Taibai Yuxi was Phecda, the white-haired Lolita, whose face visibly lit up with excitement when Su Yuan appeared, causing demonic qi to overflow in the venue.
But Taibai Phecda couldn’t help but feel a bit worried internally.
Afraid that Su Yuan might cause more trouble again.
At this moment, the examination venue reached the phase of drawing lots to decide the first opponent.
Looking at the box of lots that could not be discerned, a glimmer flashed in Su Yuan’s eyes!
This is it! The stage for exploiting the cheat’s speedrun finally arrived!
Fate panel, pump it up fiercely for me!
Fifty points of the Primordial Sect’s fate was deducted from the sect’s account and added to Su Yuan’s fate.
His current fate was 30 points, and after the addition, it abruptly jumped to 80 points, nearly doubling his fate!
It is foreseeable that in the upcoming lot-drawing test of fate, he will draw exactly what he wants!
In the top twelve, first encounter the weakest opponent, then the second weakest in the top six, and passing directly without a fight in the top three to easily face Qiu Tianze in the final battle.
Even if he lost, getting second place wouldn’t be difficult.
This was Su Yuan’s strategy to victory!
The invisible hand of fate must now exert its strength!
And he not only added points for himself but also added fifty points to Chen Nuoyi’s fate panel so that she could also reap the benefits in the upcoming lot-drawing phase.
As to why Su Yuan didn’t add points immediately after midnight today?
This actually involved a very important factor—that fate could be consumed.
Aside from basic fate, fate obtained from adding points would be consumed.
Adding points too early would only cause the extra fate to be wasted before the official start of the monthly exam due to unexpected lucky events like picking up money on the road or an old man suddenly falling from the sky.
Thus, only when there is a need to use fate is it most prudent to add points.
Looking at his fate panel with a whopping 80 points, Su Yuan felt invincible now.
He walked briskly over to the draw box and casually picked out a small ball from it.
Taking a closer look, the ball had the number 1 on it.
This meant he would be the first to go on stage.
"Then, who might my unlucky opponent be?"
As Su Yuan watched the candidates draw small balls from the box one by one, he quickly locked onto the position of another ball with the number one on it.
And the one who drew this ball was a righteous-looking second-year senior sister.
But when he took a closer look at the candidate name tag on this senior sister’s chest, Su Yuan’s confident face froze.
Zhuo Lixin, ranked third in the Second-Year Seed Class in the last monthly exam, third in the second year of the Evil Extermination Department.
A top-level prodigy who had accumulated a hundred hidden points during the first-year period and had already touched the first stage of the Divinity Transformation Inheritance, only yet to accomplish it!
No way buddy!
Don’t I have 80 points in fate?
How did I end up being matched with such a super powerhouse in the first round?!
