In an era where everyone is cultivating immortality, the system wants me to become a demon?

Chapter 74: The monthly exam is over, the diagnostic test begins!
Given that Xiao Kong's surname is Xiao and he's from the hometown of the guy sitting in the back by the window, Su Yuan felt that Xiao Kong was getting some protagonist treatment.

However, given how arrogant this guy is and how he even sent his underlings to bully his classmates, he's probably not playing the righteous role.

But none of that matters anymore. As long as this guy doesn't cause him any trouble, he won't pay any attention to him.

As Su Yuan had predicted, Xiao Kong behaved himself well for the next few days, and the transfer students who obeyed his orders were also quite well-behaved.

For the past few days, Jin Hao and the transfer student who was beaten up by Chen Nuoyi and hospitalized have not come to school. They only showed up to take the exam after the monthly exam started.

The monthly exams are conducted in a simple way: Spiritual Literature, General Knowledge, and Daoist Mind rely on written tests, while Cultivation, Physical Education, and Martial Arts rely on testing equipment and teacher evaluation to determine the results.

On September 30th, all six exams were completed.

The results were sent to the class group that evening.

When the electronic transcripts arrived, Su Yuan and the others were working at a bubble tea shop.

Su Yuan opened the group file, where the grades of all the senior students were arranged in descending order.

Chen Nuoyi, Yin Qiyue, and Chu Lanxi all crowded around Su Yuan to watch.

"Don't push, don't push. Didn't you all receive the documents on your own phones? Why are you all crowding over here to see the results with me?"

"Watching something alone is never as exciting as watching it together."

Chu Lanxi chuckled.

After all the commotion, Su Yuan finally looked at the report card.

Xiao Kong ranked first in the entire school with a total score of 732.

As expected, Xiao Kong was already acting so arrogant as soon as he entered school. If he doesn't get the top score in the whole school, he'll probably be secretly crying under the covers.

Second place: Wu Ziying, with a total score of 720.

This girl was also one of the transfer students. She seemed to be the one who was tricked by Wu Xingqi into buying all the bread from her family's bakery. She wasn't very bright.

Third place: Zhang Jun, total score 710.

This guy is a native of this school, consistently ranked first in the entire school, with a cultivation level of the ninth level of Qi Refining, and comes from a very prominent family. His strength should not be underestimated.

Fourth place: Chen Nuoyi, total score 709.

Wow, although the ranking dropped, the score has obviously increased by a lot.

It seems that although the class monitor spent a lot of time working during this period, his grades did not fall behind because he ate and drank well every day and had adequate nutrition.

10th place: Chu Lanxi, total score 679.

As expected of the perennial runner-up in Class 2, his performance was consistently solid, nothing more to say.

Su Yuan looked down and saw Wu Xingqi's name in the thirty-second place.

Su Yuan's name was exactly one place after Wu Xingqi's, ranking thirty-third with a total score of 650.

It's a full 100 points higher than my score in the last monthly exam!

Su Yuan was very satisfied with this result.

According to Yue Lin, this special advanced class will recruit 30 students from the school, plus the eight transfer students from other schools, for a total of 38 people.

Su Yuan's ranking means that even without the exemption from entrance exams for first place in the martial arts competition, he could still get in based on his own abilities.

"Speaking of which, this guy named Xiao Kong is really strong! His monthly exam score is almost as high as Li Zhengxing's."

Su Yuan looked at Xiao Kong, who was far ahead of everyone else, and sighed.

But Yin Qiyue, who was standing to the side, shook her head after hearing this:
"You're overestimating this transfer student. He's still a long way from being as good as Li Zhengxing."

"Let's not even talk about how difficult it is to improve by even one point after a score of 700 is reached."

"Just in terms of the difficulty of Taihua High School's monthly exam papers, it can't compare to Xinghe High School's."

Su Yuan nodded in realization.

Indeed, if Xiao Kong were truly at Li Zhengxing's level, he probably wouldn't have transferred schools just to receive guidance from Bai Tianji.

Judging from Li Zhengxing's attitude towards the Taihua High School Special Advancement Class, it's clear he doesn't care about it at all.

"Tomorrow, Teacher Taibai will conduct a diagnostic test for us through the Illusionary Realm of Taixu."

"If nothing unexpected happens, those transfer students will definitely cause trouble, so everyone should be careful."

After reviewing the results, Su Yuan offered a reminder.

Chen Nuoyi and Chu Lanxi nodded, and then the latter waved her hand:
"Since we need to prepare for the mock exam, we won't work overtime today. Everyone should go home and get some rest."

the next morning.

As Su Yuan expected, Tai Baiji came to Taihua High School again and gathered the top 38 students in the monthly exam in an empty classroom.

Su Yuan sat in his seat like a lowly henchman, carefully looking at the podium. Only after he didn't see Taibai Yuxi, that little brat, did he breathe a slight sigh of relief. Then, he heard Taibai Baiji calmly announce:
"I imagine you've all heard the news. Before you enter the special class, I'll conduct a preliminary exam to determine your true rankings."

"After all, monthly exam results cannot reflect your full strength; only real-world testing can reveal your comprehensive abilities."

"Next, I will explain the rules for this diagnostic test."

Su Yuan listened attentively from below the podium.

The exam rules are not complicated.

First, the exam setting, as previously planned, is within the Realm of Illusion.

Thirty-eight advanced students will team up and enter a primeval forest that is one-third the size of Taihua City, with their spawn points randomly selected.

Each student in the advanced class will receive real-time information about their own location and that of their competitors, but they will not know who these coordinates represent.

It has a feeling of a dark forest.

In addition to the students in the advanced class, the enemies in the primeval forest also include various poisonous insects and ferocious beasts.

These venomous insects and ferocious beasts have a maximum strength of up to the peak of Qi Refining, and one wrong move could lead to being killed by these NPCs.

Then there are the specific scoring rules: you can get points for killing poisonous insects and ferocious beasts, and you can get points for killing other students in the advanced class, as well as all the points that student has accumulated.

If a candidate dies in the Land of Illusion, they will be eliminated, and their score will be frozen at the moment they died.

The exam ended when only one person remained in the Land of Illusion.

"Now that I've explained the rules, let me tell you about the reward for the first place winner in this preliminary test."

Tai Baiji spoke calmly, and the content of his words immediately invigorated Su Yuan.

With a wave of his hand, Taibai Baiji conjured a virtual light screen in front of the students in the advanced class.

The top section is like a system shop, filled with a dense array of redeemable items.

Su Yuan glanced at the items and saw many impressive props.

[External Celestial Root * 12h: 10000 points]

[Wisdom Sword Technique: 10000 points]

[Tai Bai Tian Ji After-Class Guidance * 24h: 10000 points]

……

[Dragon Scale Goose: 600 points]

Upon seeing the price of the Dragon Scale Goose at the end of the redemption list, Su Yuan's breathing quickened.

One point is worth ten yuan!

Moreover, rewards such as the Wisdom Sword Heart Sutra and the right to use the external Heavenly Spiritual Root for twelve hours are absolutely impossible to buy outside for 100,000 yuan!

Holy crap, does that mean that once you enter the Illusionary Realm, as long as you accumulate points like crazy, it's like picking up free money?

Isn't this much better than working a regular job?

Just as Su Yuan was stunned by the points reward, Tai Baiji said again:
"These are the rules. Do you have any questions?"

Most of the students in the advanced class shook their heads, but soon, a voice rang out!
"I have a question!"

Tai Baiji looked in the direction of the speaker, and it was none other than Su Yuan.

He pursed his lips and patiently said:
"Su Yuan, what's the problem?"

Su Yuan chuckled dryly and asked cautiously:

"Teacher Taibai, you know me. I have some family secret techniques. I wonder if they can be used in this diagnostic test?"

"A family heirloom...secret technique?"

Tai Baiji immediately thought of the blood beast breeding method, the corpse refining method, and other strange methods, and suddenly everything went black before his eyes!
"You brat, don't you think using those secret techniques is going too far?"

Tai Baiji said with a dark face.

Su Yuan immediately lowered his head in embarrassment.

Just when he thought his idea was about to fail, another voice rang out.

The speaker was none other than Xiao Kong.

Then the top senior student from Taihua High School said arrogantly:
“Teacher Taibai, since he has secret techniques that can be used in actual combat, it’s fine to let him use them.”

"Does a mere Qi Refining Level 6 cultivator really think he can turn the tide by using some secret technique?"

(End of this chapter)