Chapter 91: The April Exams

Chapter 91: Chapter 91: The April Exams

Guanshan District No. 1 High School.

The April mock exam was the last large-scale unified exam for the entire city before the college entrance examination. However, Li Yuan continued his usual routine, arriving at school for training at three in the morning and taking a shower before heading downstairs at seven. Li Yuan was very disciplined with his training routine.

"Not coming back for the April mock exams?" Li Yuan muttered to himself as he passed the 4001 martial arts room. His gaze lingered, and his steps slowed involuntarily. The electronic lock was new and dust-free, indicating that it was regularly cleaned. Although Gu Qianghan had mentioned half a month ago that Lin Lan Yue wouldn't be back, as the mock exams approached, Li Yuan found himself hoping otherwise.

"Just my wishful thinking," Li Yuan laughed to himself, shaking off the thought. Traveling from Blue Star to Soaring Star required passing through a star bridge, making the journey difficult. Given Lin Lanyue's family background and her participation in a mysterious 'special training,' it was unlikely she would return just for the April mock exams, which, while important, were not the actual college entrance exams.

"Li Yuan." A voice called out suddenly. A burly teenager greeted him from a distance.

"Dong Haifeng?" Li Yuan smiled back. It was the student he had saved during the last practical test.

Dong Haifeng, who had just walked out of the martial arts room, was beaming. After returning from Jiangbei Martial University, Dong Haifeng's attitude towards Li Yuan had undergone a complete transformation. He greeted Li Yuan warmly and even with a hint of respect each time they met.

"Gu Qiang isn't here?" Li Yuan asked as he approached.

The door to the 4003 martial arts room was also closed, and the trash outside was the same as the previous night.

"He doesn't come to the martial arts room in the morning," Dong Haifeng laughed. "He often arrives late for morning self-study too."

Li Yuan was momentarily stunned, realizing he had never seen Gu Qianghan at six in the morning over the past six months. He usually saw him in the afternoon.

"No wonder his progress is slow. He hasn't even seen the four o'clock night of Jiangcheng. How can he train fast?" Li Yuan joked. "Let's go to the cafeteria together."

Dong Haifeng was puzzled. The four o'clock night of Jiangcheng? He hadn't seen it either!

"Gu Qiang is progressing slowly? That's a big shot for you," Dong Haifeng muttered to himself.

In the cafeteria:

"Brother Yuan, you don't seem anxious at all," Yan Zhou said, eating a steamed bun as he watched Li Yuan and Dong Haifeng walk in leisurely.

"What's there to be anxious about?" Li Yuan smiled, sitting down with his classmates and starting to eat.

Zhou Qi had already bought breakfast for Li Yuan: fried sauce noodles, beef noodles, a nutritious breakfast, along with two soda buns and two portions of shaomai.

In fact, except for the nutritious breakfast, consuming too many carbohydrate-rich foods was not very helpful for martial arts training and could even be harmful. But Li Yuan didn't mind. With his current physical fitness, he could digest these foods quickly.

"Slurp!" Li Yuan took a big bite of the fried sauce noodles, feeling quite satisfied. The school's fried sauce noodles and hot dry noodles weren't particularly remarkable, but after eating them for so long, Li Yuan would feel uncomfortable if he missed a meal. These were the foods he had grown up eating.

"Yan Zhou, you're the one who's anxious, right?" Zhou Qi laughed while eating. "Last time you were in the 21st exam room, and now you're in the 22nd. You're about to fall to the same level as Brother Yuan."

"Old Zhou, do you think you're so great? The eternal second exam room," Yan Zhou retorted immediately.

In the last January mock exam, Yan Zhou didn't perform well in his cultural subjects, so his exam room was further back this time. This kind of ranking fluctuation was normal, which is why Zhou Qi teased him.

"What's wrong with the second exam room?" Zhou Qi raised his head proudly. "It's the second out of forty exam rooms!"

"I'm proud!"

Everyone laughed. Zhou Qi was telling the truth. In their class of over a hundred students, very few could make it into the top two exam rooms.

"Brother Yuan, you won't improve by another hundred points this time, will you?" Zhou Qi suddenly asked Li Yuan, looking somewhat worried. "If you improve by another hundred points, your cultural score will be catching up to mine."

In the January mock exam, Li Yuan's cultural score had increased by about a hundred points, moving him from the 29th exam room to the 24th, close to the middle of the year's rankings.

"Don't worry," Li Yuan laughed. "I'll try to improve by 120 points, just enough to surpass you."

"Damn, you're ruthless!" Zhou Qi laughed and cursed. "Leave some points for us."

However, no one took Li Yuan's words seriously. Another 120-point improvement? Impossible!

"Finished eating."

"Let's go. Let's get to the exam room early and familiarize ourselves with the front and back rows. We need to form a united front."

"Hope I can reach the key score this time." The classmates chatted as they walked to the exam room, mostly relaxed.

Li Tianyou was more silent, walking alone at the back.

As they neared the exam building, the others went upstairs one by one.

"Tianyou, wait a moment." A low voice suddenly called out beside him.

Li Tianyou was startled, realizing that Li Yuan had somehow appeared next to him. "Li Yuan, what's up?"

He stopped walking.

"Tianyou." Li Yuan looked at Li Tianyou's face and smiled. "Have you been losing weight recently?"

Li Tianyou was stunned, subconsciously touching his face.

He did seem thinner.

"Maybe." Li Tianyou forced a smile, not explaining.

Suddenly.

The April mock exam officially began.

...

After a day and a half of cultural exams, Li Yuan could only say he did his best.

"The scores shouldn't be worse than last time," Li Yuan thought. "Usually, the April mock exam is less difficult."

The January mock exam is harder to humble students and prevent overconfidence.

The April mock exam is usually easier to encourage students.

...

The next afternoon was the martial arts spiritual aptitude test.

Li Yuan's test sheet still showed 'not awakened,' as expected.

According to Dean Li, given Li Yuan's evident physical and mental talent, any match with a high-level cultivation method would have shown by now.

"No one else in the class seems to have a match either," Li Yuan glanced around.

In the entire senior year, only Wan Xiao and Zhou Qi had met the requirements for high-level cultivation methods.

"Everyone has a spirit."

"Just without a method."

"The current seven high-level cultivation methods were created by generations of martial artists." Li Yuan silently thought, "In the future, if I become a sky-flying martial artist, maybe I can participate in this great civilization process."

...

The third day was the martial arts physical test.

A month had passed since the Jiangbei Martial University invitation event.

Li Yuan finally stopped hiding his physical fitness, fully revealing his strength.

40-meter sprint test.

"21.8 meters per second."

"Damn!"

"Li Yuan's sprint speed, this!" All the students present were shocked, staring in disbelief.

"Brother Yuan?"

"So awesome!"

"Is Brother Yuan about to become a real martial artist?" Zhou Qi, Yan Zhou, and Li Tianyou were all stunned. That was a martial artist's level.

Even the three invigilators were surprised.

This sprint speed was almost at the 10.0 level standard.

Remember, they were testing an ordinary class.

"What's strange about it?"

"Isn't this the score Li Yuan should have?" Dong Haifeng, Gu Qianghan, and other top ten students weren't surprised.

In their view, someone who had decisively won first place in the elite martial arts students' practical test in Jiangbei Province.

After a month, was it strange for Li Yuan's physical fitness to approach level 10?

In the following physical tests, Li Yuan's results were consistently impressive to students and examiners alike.

...

In large exams like this, scoring and grading were very fast.

That night, in the principal's office of Guanshan District No. 1 High School, Tan Zhenlong was waiting.

"Beep——" The smart assistant sounded, "Master, Director Wang from the Education Bureau is video calling you."

"Director Wang?" Tan Zhenlong was surprised, "Answer, in reception mode."

The lights in the office adjusted, subtly changing the atmosphere. A holographic projection formed, showing a man in his thirties in a shirt.

"Principal Tan, congratulations." The young man smiled.

"Director Wang, congratulations on what?" Tan Zhenlong was puzzled.

"The April mock exam."

"Your school produced two single-subject top scorers in the city." The young man smiled. "Isn't that worth celebrating?"