The Ming Dynasty took an unconventional approach

Chapter 514 How did you do in the exam?
Xuan Li also immediately squeezed over, and the first thing he said was: "Pan Yun, how did you do in the exam?"

Pan Jun said confidently, "I think I did well in the exam."

When Xuan Li heard this, his heart tightened: "I drew the prayer for rain in the ritual just now. I, I made a mistake in reciting the spell. What ritual did you draw?"

"Exorcise the souls and break the hell," Pan Yun said confidently, "We have completed it perfectly."

Xuan Li's eyes turned red: "It's over. Guangxin Prefecture will only select five people this year. I will definitely not pass the exam."

Pan Yun comforted her, "Just keep calm. Although I think I answered well, I am young. There must be people who answered better than me among so many people. Look at their ages. If you can't pass the exam this year, you can try again next year."

Xuan Li sniffed and asked, "When are you going to the academy?"

Pan Yun: "In a few days."

A fellow disciple came to find Xuanli: "Junior Sister Xuanli, let's go back, it's getting dark."

Xuan Li made an appointment with them: "Let's come together to see the results tomorrow."

Pan Yun nodded: "See you here tomorrow."

Xuanli's fellow sisters also bowed to Pan Yun and left.

Pan Yun asked: "Yanbai hasn't come out yet?"

Miao Zhen nodded: "No."

The three of them leaned against the wall and waited. After a while, Tao Yanbai came out with his head hung.

Seeing him like this, Pan Jun knew without even asking that he had no hope.

Pan Jun patted his shoulder and waved, "Let's go, let's go back too."

An Chen and the Jinyiwei squatted on the street at the entrance of the alley. A group of Jinyiwei occupied the seats of someone's stall, causing the stall owner to lose business.

Pan Jun came out and saw it, glanced at An Chen, then found a table and sat down, and said to the stall owner with lifeless eyes: "Give everyone a bowl of wontons."

The stall owner immediately perked up and glanced at Miao Zhen and the other two: "Four bowls?"

Pan Yun took out a small silver ingot, placed it on the table, and casually said, "And them."

The stall owner's eyes lit up with joy, and he immediately stepped forward to grab the silver, bowing and nodding repeatedly: "Okay, okay, a total of twelve bowls, I will make it right away."

Pan Yun asked An Chen: "Is one bowl of wontons enough?"

An Chen was thinking about how to answer when Pan Jun looked away: "I see, Boss, another hundred dumplings!"

The stall owner responded loudly, calling his son who was playing with stones nearby: "Come over quickly, wash your hands and help, and go back and call your mother too!"

An Chen looked at Pan Yun and said, "We can go back to the post station to eat."

The station provides free meals.

Pan Yun: "Forget it. Although I am poor, I don't lack this little money. Besides, it's not bad to eat some delicious food nearby. I can just consider it as exploring the way for next year."

Miao He looked up when he heard this: "Uncle Junior, didn't you say you did very well in the exam?"

Pan Yun glanced at her and said, "I think I did well in the exam, but doing well doesn't mean I will be admitted."

Tao Yanbai immediately asked, "Little Master, what do you think is the probability of you being selected?"

Pan Jun said seriously: "Zero."

Miao Zhen's eyes widened: "Uncle Junior, you haven't finished answering the questions?"

Pan Yun sighed, "I've finished answering the questions. Why would I leave the paper blank? I just wrote a few random questions. It's nothing. I thought I could make up for it in the following exams, but I didn't expect..."

Miao Zhen thought for a moment and understood: "We have never learned the rituals of breaking the hell."

Miao He immediately comforted him: "It's not Junior Master's fault. The questions they set this time were too difficult."

Pan Yun asked Miao Zhen: "You can't do it either?"

Miaozhen: “I will.”

Miao He and Tao Yanbai immediately turned their heads to look at her. Miao Zhen said, "Although the master uncle and the others have not taught me, I have read books and practiced sword-holding and stepping before, but I have never used Yuanli as a guide, so I don't know if it can really open the gates of hell and lead the dead souls out."

Pan Yun knows the spell to open the gates of hell, but what she knows is different from the rituals to break through hell. The latter needs to be assisted by guiding formations, and focuses on suppressing, guiding, and doing good.

Pan Jun knows the spell to open the gate of hell, which is accompanied by a killing move. Once it is opened, there will be a burst of killing. Not to mention guiding the souls of the dead, it would be the least that the souls of the dead would be scattered to pieces.

That's why Pan Yun didn't dare to act recklessly.

When Pan Yun heard that Miaozhen had studied outside of class, he immediately said, "Go find the book and let me study it. I think the questions in the first test are simple, but we can't take it lightly."

Miao He and Tao Yanbai immediately said, "And me, I want to learn too!"

Pan Jun understood: "It seems that Miao Zhen is the only one who has hope in our Sanqing Mountain this year."

Miao Zhen hesitated and said, "I may not be able to do it either."

Pan Jun patted her shoulder and said, "Be more confident. Even if we can't succeed, we must have confidence and make others believe that we can succeed."

Miao Zhen was puzzled: "Why is it so?"

Pan Yun: "We are doing a good deed."

Miaozhen and the other two were completely confused.

Pan Yun raised his chin and said, "The more confident we are, the fewer people will stay tonight. They will spend less on accommodation and save money. Isn't this a good deed?"

Miao Zhen and the other two: ...

Jinyiwei: ...

Pan Jun didn't wait for them to finish their speech and turned to ask An Chen: "General An, why are there two fewer Jinyiwei? You are not sending them to chase my master nephew, are you?"

An Chen's eyebrows jumped, and he said expressionlessly: "They are returning to Beijing to deliver the letter. Taoist Pan is overthinking. What is there about Wang Cong that is worth us chasing after?"

Pan Jun nodded: "That's right, and you can't catch up even if you chase."

The Jinyiwei really couldn't catch up, because as they kept chasing, they realized they had lost him.

Pan Yun, Miao He and Tao Yanbai were certain that they had no chance, but Miao Zhen still had hope, so they decided to wait until the next day to see the results before leaving.

Zhang Ziming couldn't help but laugh when he heard them checking answers in the inn: "You can't even answer such a simple question?"

Pan Yun directly asked Zhang Weiyi and Xue Hua: "Why did you fail the retest? You have been studying Taoism since childhood and your family has a long history of learning. The retest should not be difficult. How come you failed the retest?"

Zhang Weiyi said expressionlessly, "I failed because I stepped on a stone when I was crossing the threshold on the day of the re-examination."

Pan Yun stared: "What?"

She turned her head and looked at Xue Hua.

Xue Hua also had a blank expression on his face: "I failed because there was an extra ink spot on my test paper, which made it look unsightly."

Pan Yun looked at Zhang Ziming expressionlessly: "Listen, is this a legitimate reason?"

"Yeah," Zhang Ziming asked back, "What's wrong with this?"

He smiled and said, "That stone is not an ordinary stone. It is a stone designated by the Discipline Department before the exam. Whoever steps on it will fail. If he stepped on it, it means he has bad luck.

For a cultivator, luck is also a major factor. Since he has bad luck, he should fail the exam and take the exam again next year."

To Pan Yun's surprise, Li Wenying also nodded: "Don't be surprised, maybe the hidden question next year will be that the one who crosses the threshold with his left foot first will be eliminated."

Pan Jun glared: "Also, there is this kind of invisible test question?"

The four people from Longhu Mountain nodded as if it was normal: "Yes!"

Now, not to mention Pan Yun and the others, even the Jinyiwei were dumbfounded and couldn't help but say, "This is too dark."

Zhang Ziming smiled and said, "This is not black, this is balance."

Pan Yun murmured: "Balance?"

(End of this chapter)