The origin of the star lotus world

Chapter 2322 Main Text
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I suggested adding a riddle-guessing activity, a long-standing tradition at the Sheng Hui Shrine, a staple of the Lantern Festival and other holidays. The lantern riddle guessing activity is a supplementary activity during the lantern parade and boat races at the New Year's Banquet Flower Boat. However, some riddles are difficult to guess correctly, and the participants, in their ordinary state, didn't have a high success rate. Although several VIP teams participated in the riddle guessing activity, their results were mediocre; they didn't guess many riddles correctly, and the points awarded weren't ideal. This time, I don't plan to add a riddle guessing activity; instead, I'll add other activities. I know you, Hua Zhu, are skilled at cooking and can prepare some dishes quite well. Among these VIPs, your culinary skills are the best—not through clever designs or concepts, but through genuine ability to cook dishes and desserts. If you train the participants in your team to prepare dishes, they should perform well, but there's no additional cooking competition this time. The plan is to add a regular quiz activity, using encyclopedic knowledge from the Star Lotus World as a basis for the questions, modeled after the ancient imperial examinations. Each VIP will have a private room, specifically a dragon-patterned elegant room, to answer questions. Instead of the traditional eight-legged essay, the questions will be encyclopedic quizzes. Each scroll will contain one hundred questions, each with six options. Since Huazhu is the first VIP to arrive at the Dragon Palace for this banquet, you have the most time to answer the questions, giving you an advantage. You'll have ample time to answer all one hundred questions and review your answers. While regular exam papers have the same questions, each scroll will have different questions, ensuring no two questions are repeated. Whether you know the answers depends on luck. Living in the Star Lotus World in a mortal state, it's beneficial to consume knowledge and culture regularly. While regular multiple-choice questions have four options, this activity will have six options for each question, intentionally increasing the difficulty. VIPs who arrive early will have more time to answer questions and are more likely to answer them correctly.

After I finished speaking, a gold-patterned paper scroll appeared on the table of Huazhu's dragon-patterned private room. You can look at the questions first and wait to participate in the quiz activity.

Hua Zhu looked at the answer sheet on the table and said that she would try her best to participate in the quiz. She had the longest answering time, which gave her an advantage. She would try to answer as many questions as possible to get more rewards.

I explained that this Dragon Pattern Private Room quiz event will have one hundred questions on each paper, all multiple choice. All questions will be selected by the Holy Return Divine Palace's divine power system, drawing on a wide range of knowledge from the Star Lotus World. Each question will have only one correct answer out of six options. Some options are very similar, intentionally designed to be confusing. Pay close attention to the questions and avoid careless mistakes. Don't choose an option with similar wording that you could have answered correctly. Each question has only one correct answer. For each correct answer in the Dragon Pattern Private Room quiz event, you will receive one million in competition funds. Incorrect answers or not answering questions will not deduct from your existing competition funds. There's no pressure in participating; just participate freely. It's a simple quiz event: look at the questions on the paper, use a pen to write your answer in the designated answer area for each question—a common format with nothing special.

Hua Zhu asked if there were any cumulative rewards for this quiz activity, or top three prizes. If so, she believed that the guests would work even harder to answer questions and strive for more rewards. As for whether they could answer many questions correctly, it depended on their general knowledge reserves. If they were lucky, they might encounter more questions they could answer correctly, achieving better scores and making the rewards more appealing.

I mentioned the Dragon Pattern Private Room quiz activity. There are no cumulative rewards for correct answers, nor are there any top three prizes. The results of this quiz activity will not be published. Although it imitates the live quiz of the ancient imperial examination, there are no titles or honors like "Top Scholar," "Second Scholar," or "Third Scholar." The rules of this quiz activity are simple: answering dozens of multiple-choice questions correctly is ideal, as it will earn you tens of millions in competition funds. Answering fewer questions or not answering at all will result in less or no financial reward. Those VIPs who ranked lower in the New Year's Eve buffet activity and come to the main hall of the Dragon Palace will not have enough time to answer the questions and may not receive much financial reward. The funds for this supplementary activity are not much, but they are not small either, depending on how many questions are answered correctly. The format of the quiz is simple and straightforward, and can be adjusted according to needs. Participation in the quiz activity is free.

Hua Zhu said she would participate seriously in this quiz event. There were no top three prizes or cumulative rewards, but that didn't matter; as long as there was an event, she would participate to earn more competition funds for the Year of the Dragon competition. This would be very helpful for future large-scale events. No matter how much, more would always be beneficial. For wealthy VIPs like Mo Di, Tong Yang, and Fan Xing Kong, who already had substantial basic competition funds for the Year of the Dragon competition, tens of millions of competition funds might not seem like much. But for her, those tens of millions were something she desperately wanted. She needed to be careful with the quiz this time. It was just a simple scan of the paper; some options had very similar wording, and if she didn't look carefully, she might answer incorrectly. This encyclopedia quiz event was challenging, and earning more competition funds wouldn't be easy.

I said it's great that you're actively participating in the activity. Don't be fooled by the simple format of this quiz; to answer many questions correctly, you need knowledge of the Star Lotus World and careful attention to detail. If you're just guessing, the six-choice questions are more difficult than the four-choice ones, and you're less likely to get the correct answer; it depends on your personal qualities. Within the allotted time for the quiz in the Dragon Pattern Private Room, you can answer slowly or quickly; there's no speed limit. Fill in all the answer options on the test paper, and you might get lucky and answer more questions correctly. Write down the answer options regardless of whether you know the answer or not; there's a chance you'll choose the correct one.

Hua Zhu said that the usual way to answer questions is to try to answer the questions you know correctly, and write down the options for the questions you don't know. If you don't write down the options, you definitely won't choose the right one. If you write down the options, you have a chance to answer the question correctly. If you are lucky, that is a real manifestation of your ability.

For some activities, even if you participate, whether you receive rewards or honors depends on completing the basic tasks of the activity. The result may be better than expected.