Chapter 28 Taoism and Practical Combat
Sanshou Level 2 (0/20) → Sanshou Level 3 (0/30)
In an instant, the fifteen free-hand fighting moves became more and more proficient in his mind, and even the subsequent changes and connections between each move became extremely clear.
The circulation of the magic power in each move became more like instinct. Zhang Yu felt that if he made a move at this moment, the magic power in his body would change spontaneously and flow to his hands and feet naturally.
"The passive breathing of the Zhou Tian Qi Gathering Method also plays a role in this process."
Zhang Yu felt the circulation of magic power in his body. He could sense that because the magic power was constantly moving around in his body, it became easier for him to circulate the magic power when he performed free-hand combat.
He was somewhat impressed by how much help the Zhoutian Qi Gathering Method provided to beginners, not only in breathing and body training, but also in actual martial arts.
However, the exam is coming soon, so I don’t have time to express my feelings to Zhang Yu.
He took a few breaths to recover his strength, then rushed to the examination room.
The first session in the afternoon is the Taoism test, and the second session is the martial arts practical test.
The content of the Taoist magic examination mainly focuses on the understanding and use of talismans.
After all, people at the Qi Refining stage have not yet mastered the true Taoist arts and can only use their own knowledge and magic power to activate talismans, so the Taoist courses in the three years of high school are basically related to talismans.
Among them, "Fu" refers to the talisman, and "Lu" refers to the talisman book. The so-called "Talisman" refers to the secret method for people to communicate with gods and control divine power.
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In the computer room.
Zhang Yu arrived at the examination room and sat in front of a computer, silently recalling all the knowledge about talismans.
Zhao Tianxing, who was not far away, was flipping through the textbooks, repeatedly memorizing some knowledge points that he was afraid of forgetting.
Bai Zhenzhen took a nap on the table, and seemed not nervous at all about the upcoming exam.
At this moment, accompanied by the sound of a bell, the students put everything that was not related to the exam on the table in the front of the classroom and returned to their exam seats.
A moment later, the computer screen in front of everyone flashed slightly, and their test papers appeared on it.
Question 1: Which of the following talismans belongs to the talisman of the great god Wanxing Sitong of the Ministry of Communications.
Relevant information instantly emerged in Zhang Yu’s memory.
The Ministry of Transportation, one of the eight clerical departments of Kunxu, is in charge of all road, aviation, sea and river transportation in Kunxu, and has the power to monitor transportation in the world.
The Great God of Wanxing Sitong was a god in charge of urban roads in the Ministry of Transport. Zhang Yu remembered that one of his powers seemed to be recording the monitoring data of all urban roads and vehicles...
Through the talisman, one can borrow the power of the great god Wanxing Sitong and call upon various surveillance systems within the city's road range, which is said to be able to know the past three hundred years, no matter how big or small.
After the memory flashed through his mind, Zhang Yu continued to look at the options below.
There are four options in total, which are roughly like this: A.! *★,°*:.☆(￣▽￣)/$:*.°★*.
B. (o>ε(o>ｕ(≧∩≦)(￣ー￣)X(^▽^)C.*`)`)*▍`)*`)(((`)D.『』～ o(▽｀o)=▊=▋=▍
"All four options start with a spell. Judging from the style, they are all from the Ministry of Transportation's righteous gods... Haha, you mess with my mentality right away?"
"It should be the vehicle monitoring symbol of option D, right?"
Zhang Yu thought about it and chose D, and then the next multiple-choice question popped up.
"Which of the following spells is not a reporting spell?"
Zhang Yu was slightly stunned: "Report Talisman? I haven't learned it before. Is it an out-of-syllabus question?"
Frowning, Zhang Yu randomly selected one that looked similar and looked at the next question.
I finished all the multiple-choice questions one by one, and then there were fill-in-the-blank questions and essay questions, and the difficulty of the questions increased dramatically.
Something like "Please write a medical examination talisman and ask the God of Health from the Ministry of Health to check if there are any lumps in your stomach and intestines."
What else? "What spell can be used to quickly subdue the three mortals without magic power 30 meters to the north? Please draw the spell. The following are the specific data of the three mortals and the surrounding environment..."
"Damn it... Can't I just knock these three mortals down? What kind of spells do I need to use?"
Just as Zhang Yu was sweating profusely as he was writing a detention talisman, he heard the sound of a chair being dragged.
He looked up and saw that his classmate He Dayou had finished the test and was ready to leave.
Zhang Yu remembered that this He Dayou ranked third in the total score of last month's monthly exam and was a very rich man like Qian Shen.
But unlike Qian Shen who focuses on scores, He Dayou loves to show off his wealth and has little interaction with Zhang Yu.
Handing in the paper early at this moment is an act of showing off wealth.
This is because talismans are a course that requires a lot of money to be truly successful, and it is an exam that shows the clearest dividing line between the poor and the rich.
Many people even call spells the language of the rich.
Specifically speaking, the so-called drawing of talismans can mobilize the power of the eight major priesthood departments to accomplish all kinds of incredible things. The eight major priesthood departments are often referred to as the Eight Gods by the world.
However, the school only teaches the most basic method of drawing talismans. If you want to learn more advanced talismans, or even talismans that are not available in many schools, you must purchase a book of talismans.
In addition to the expensive cost of purchasing the talisman book, there are also huge expenses such as membership fees, recharges for offering sacrifices to gods, faith levels, etc.
It can be said that the talismans provided by the talisman book, in addition to being divided according to the level of the practitioner's realm, the most important support is money.
Only by spending enough money on the talisman book can one have a sufficient level of faith, unlock more permissions, and master more advanced talisman drawing methods, as well as various types of talismans.
Only after completing the above prerequisites, one is qualified to study and practice talismans hard, such as one-on-one talisman dialogues with the Eight Gods, talisman error reporting under the guidance of the gods, and talisman optimization under the guidance of the gods during practice... Of course, such a hard training process is also expensive.
It can be said that the entire process of learning talismans outside of school requires money.
During this whole process, if anyone violated the rules set by the Eight Orthodox Gods, such as privately passing on talismans or using talismans to violate the sect's laws, they would be punished, with the lighter punishment being a fine and the worse being the loss of their entire fortune.
Every time Zhang Yu attended the Taoism class to learn talismans, he couldn't help but sigh that this was an unfair and unjust course. It was also the best point for rich people to improve their scores in the college entrance examination. It was the subject that could widen the gap between them and the poor. It was worthy of being called the language of the rich.
But Zhang Yu had also heard Zhou Tianyi say that talismans were not the most expensive in Taoist magic.
For example, many of the Taoist arts that can only be learned after building a foundation require huge amounts of money, enough to make a college student go into huge debt.
After finally finishing the Taoist exam, Zhang Yu walked out of the classroom and saw a large group of people surrounding He Dayou to check their answers.
He Dayou just smiled slightly, took out something like a jade plate, and then drew something on it like a ghost.
As the magic power in his hand fluctuated, a golden shadow slowly emerged from the jade token.
There is no wrong version in the 1619 book forum!
He Dayou smiled and said, "This is the answer talisman of the great god Tianzhi Wanwen. If you have any questions, just ask Him."
Many students who saw this scene exclaimed again, and looked at He Dayou with envy in their eyes.
Just as Zhang Yu was staring at the jade token in He Dayou's hand, Bai Zhenzhen's voice rang out from the side: "Is that the talisman book? And the skin is all jade-colored. This guy must have been pretending to be this cool for a long time, right?"
Zhang Yu turned his head and saw Bai Zhenzhen, who was twisted with indignation and jealousy.
Zhang Yu asked, "How did you do on the exam?"
Bai Zhenzhen said dissatisfiedly: "What else can I do? At least a quarter of them are spells that I haven't learned yet."
"The year before last, the college entrance exam was 20% above the syllabus, and this year it's 25%? If this continues, when we take the exam, will half of the content on the exam be something we haven't been taught? They really have no shame at all."
"I better not meet those rich guys in the practical exam, or I'll beat them and make them fail."
He Dayou on the other side seemed to feel the gazes of Bai Zhenzhen and Zhang Yu, turned around and smiled at them.
Bai Zhenzhen also instantly put on a calm look and nodded slightly at the other party.
A moment later, the next exam was about to begin, and He Dayou and several of his companions walked towards the martial arts practical examination room together.
He Dayou is the kind of person who could write an essay in elementary school titled "My Dad, the School Director".
Because his father is really the director of Songyang High School.
But although he had lived a life of luxury since childhood, he did not feel that his life was easy, simply because he was just one of his father's more than 30 children.
It was only after he went through numerous tests, repeated competitions, and completed his family's KPIs time and time again that he became the only high school student and the only cultivator among the more than 30 people.
As for the other mortal brothers and sisters, in order to pay off the debt of raising them, they had already gone to work in their father's company.
"Although I am a child of a wealthy family, the reason I have come this far is ultimately my own hard work and talent."
"I earned my father's investment through my own hard work, so why can't I show off my wealth?"
"Those poor bastards only know how to complain all day long. Do they think I am in this situation because I have a rich father? What a bunch of childish and ridiculous people."
With this idea in mind, He Dayou has always looked down on those who are poor and have poor academic performance.
When he entered Songyang High School as the son of a school director and got a better understanding of the many unspoken rules of the high school, he gradually began to look down on the poor students with good grades.
"No matter how good their grades are, they are only temporary. These poor people don't know that... from the moment they were born, they had no chance to succeed."
"Maybe they and we are no longer the same species."
With this idea in mind, He Dayou has always maintained the third place in the grade in terms of total score, showing off his wealth from time to time, leading a peaceful campus life, waiting for the moment to be admitted to a top university.
Until a person's change broke the peace in his heart.
He felt sick when he saw Zhang Yu working harder and harder over the past half month, even attracting the attention of the entire class.
"This poor fellow... counts his debts on his fingers every month, and rushes to work after school every day to earn a few hundred or a thousand dollars at a time. He saves money and wants to cultivate immortality, hoping to become rich overnight and live forever."
"They don't even know who their competitors are in the college entrance examination."
"Still jumping up and down in school."
“It’s so poor and ugly.”
He Dayou couldn't stand Zhang Yu's crazy hard work, as if he could beat rich people like them by hard work.
Especially after hearing the rumor that Zhang Yu was accepted as a disciple by Jindan Zhenren, the son of the school director specially used his connections to confirm the news.
After confirming that Zhang Yu was not accepted as a disciple by Jindan Zhenren, his disgust for this person reached its peak.
"Are you deliberately not clarifying it, hoping to bully others?"
So he planned to take the opportunity to teach this poor guy a lesson in the practical exam and make him realize his true position.
(End of this chapter)