Chapter 123 Foundation Building Qualification Certificate

Facing the nervous and puzzled gazes of Zhang Yu and Bai Zhenzhen, Zhang Pianpian started talking about another thing first.

"About a few decades ago, the number of students admitted to the university's foundation-building qualification program began to decline."

“Do you know why we need to reduce the number of people?”

Zhang Pianpian did not expect the two to answer, and continued to speak on her own: "Because the total number of foundation building people each year is limited."

"The purpose of reducing the number of foundation-building students in universities is to allocate some of the foundation-building qualification certificates to high school students."

Ah? Zhang Yu and Bai Zhenzhen were shocked. A college student gave the foundation-building qualification certificate to high school students?

Are we worthy?

As if guessing what the two were thinking, Zhang Pianpian continued, "Not high school students like us."

Zhang Pianpian pointed upwards and said, "It's those high school students up there."

As the two looked at him in surprise, Zhang Pianpian further explained, "What do you think of those people on the second floor and above in Kunxu, such as those on the fifth, tenth, or even twentieth floors of Kunxu..."

“Those Jindan Zhenren, Yuanying Great Powers, and even the super-rich like Huashen and Lianxu, have astronomical wealth… Will their descendants, offspring, and disciples take the college entrance examination like us and get into the top ten?”

Zhang Yu and Bai Zhenzhen were slightly stunned. From their feeling, they almost instinctively thought that the high school students above did not seem to have to take the college entrance examination like them.

But how did the high school students above enter the immortal path? In addition to the Tianjiao class, how did they go to high school and college... The two of them couldn't imagine it.

Zhang Pianpian went on to explain: “The descendants or disciples trained by those super-rich people in the upper class still have to abide by the rules of Kunxu and enter the immortal path in high school.”

"The foundation-building qualification certificate I just mentioned is given to high school students. That's why there is a special exam, an exam for the foundation-building qualification certificate that high school students can sign up for."

Bai Zhenzhen asked: "We can also participate in this kind of exam? Doesn't that mean... we have to compete with the upper-class high school students?"

Zhang Pianpian shook her head and thought for a moment. She looked at the slums on the other side of the river and said, "In Songyang City, the rich people in the city center will join hands to suppress the geniuses emerging from the poor. They will find ways to restrict the poor in schools to ensure the advantages of the rich themselves."

"But similarly, it is these rich people who pay to give food and daily necessities to the poor in the suburbs, provide some jobs that cultivators are unwilling to do, help the poor in the suburbs reproduce, and even give them the opportunity to go to school in the city center."

“Although they are all poor, the attitudes of the rich people in the city center towards different poor people are completely different.”

"It's the same in Kunxu. For the immortals standing at the top of the ten major sects, the super-rich people inside and outside the sect who want to become immortals, as well as the descendants and disciples of the rich, are the targets of restriction and suppression."

"And the lower class people in Kunxu, like the slums in the far suburbs, are the kind of people who need to be supported and continue to produce poor geniuses."

Listening to what Zhang Pianpian said, the evil god who had been disguised as a rosary smiled coldly and said in Zhang Yu's mind: "Hehe, immortals... you want to make it so that there are more and more people like this, so that the competition will become more and more fierce."

"Only by making the competition among the people below more and more intense, and draining themselves and their families to compete, and giving up everything, can the profits of the ten major sects become higher and higher, and only then can they be enough for those high and mighty gods and immortals who overlook Kunxu to continue to sit comfortably on the clouds."

The tone of the evil god revealed an extreme envy, as if he wished he could also lie on the top of Kunxu and enjoy the endless contributions from billions of creatures.

But suddenly, she realized something: "Wait, so... could it be that some evil god king did this to me? Is he afraid that I will continue to improve and become the new evil god king?"

Zhang Yu naturally had no idea what was in the evil god's mind. He just listened to what the other party said in his mind, and a thoughtful look flashed in his eyes.

Originally in his mind, all the rich people who were richer than him, whether they were rich people in Songyang City, rich people on the second floor of Kunxu, or rich people on the third floor of Kunxu, were all rich people, all like a symbol, and he was too lazy to distinguish the difference between them.

But at this moment, Zhang Yu truly realized the huge gap between rich people.

Especially in the different levels of Kunxu, the rich people who are one, two, or three levels higher than you will have different attitudes towards you.

And each level of rich people will have completely different attitudes towards people at different levels below or above themselves.

As a result, all kinds of suppression, competition, solicitation, support, exploitation... extremely complex relationships run through Kunxu, like a tangled mess.

At the same time, Zhang Pianpian continued speaking.

She only said: "In short, the high school student foundation building qualification examination was finally decided by the Heavenly Court."

"In addition to the quotas given to the high school students above, in order to be able to make an exception and promote the geniuses of each level, a certain number of foundation-building qualification certificate quotas are also given to the high school students of each level below, and they are also competed for by the high school students of each level."

"It's just that the lower the level, the fewer places there are."

Listening to Zhang Pianpian's words, Zhang Yu seemed to see countless bloody storms about this 'High School Students' Foundation Building Qualification Examination'.

I don’t know how many games and struggles there were in Kunxu before they decided on this foundation-building qualification exam for high school students on every level.

Zhang Pianpian continued: “However… although this exam was arranged on the first floor of Kunxu at the insistence of the Heavenly Court.”

"But just like the wealthy people in the city center will support the common people in the suburbs and give them the opportunity to interview in high schools, but the wealthy people in high schools will suppress the poor students who come in."

“Although the Heavenly Court has arranged a foundation-building qualification exam for high school students on Kunxu Level 1, over the years, it has been gradually monopolized by the top forces on Kunxu Level 1.”

"On the one hand, people used various methods to hide the news. Year after year, this exam was gradually forgotten on Kunxu 1st Floor, and fewer and fewer people knew about it."

"You could say... this is a road that is hidden from most high school students on the first floor of Kunxu."

Zhang Yu nodded slightly. If Zhang Pianpian hadn’t told him today, he might never have known about this exam in his entire life.

He immediately understood that this was another kind of information asymmetry, which was the important means that Zhang Pianpian had always emphasized when competing in Kunxu.

Just like the time he took the outsourcing exam for the clergy, ordinary high school students knew nothing about it.

The same goes for the Foundation Building Certificate exam. Ordinary high school students may not even know that there is such an exam or even the existence of the Foundation Building Certificate, let alone taking it.

He even suspected that many teachers might not know that there was such a foundation-building qualification exam for high school students.

For example, Lei Jun, who had once introduced to him the foundation-building qualification certificate examination for college students, probably didn't know about the foundation-building qualification certificate examination for high school students.

Zhang Pianpian continued, "On the other hand, the remaining high school students who can participate in this exam are also the strongest, most talented, and richest in the entire Kunxu layer... They are the high school students who even dream of obtaining the foundation-building qualification certificate before college."

"There are only four places available for the first level of Kunxu each year. Apart from the fact that Taoism is not used as a selection criterion, these four places are for the most outstanding high school students in four different areas: Taoism, magic power, sports, and martial arts."

"If you want to get this certificate, it basically means that you have to become one of the four strongest high school students on the first floor of Kunxu. This difficulty itself is actually a kind of monopoly of the top forces on the first floor of Kunxu."

Seeing the solemn expressions of Zhang Yu and Bai Zhenzhen, Zhang Pianpian said calmly: "Just like I told you just now, if you want to climb up in Kunxu, you can't do without exams and certificates."

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"For example, when it comes to getting into the top ten universities, even if you can find a variety of different paths to success within the rules... every path ultimately requires an exam."

"If you don't choose the Tianjiao class and choose to take the foundation-building qualification exam, it will only be another more difficult exam."

Just by listening to Zhang Pianpian's brief description, Bai Zhenzhen could feel the difficulty of this exam, but since there was no hope of entering the Tianjiao class, as long as she could get into the top ten, she was willing to give it a try no matter how difficult or fierce the competition was.

In comparison, she was more worried about the monopoly of this exam by the top forces on the first floor of Kunxu.

Then Bai Zhenzhen asked, "If I take this exam, will it be dangerous? Just like the rich people in Songyang City teamed up to block the poor from taking the top ten exams?"

Zhang Pianpian said: "According to the information I got from the Inspection Department, the high school foundation building qualification examination is, after all, an examination set by the Heavenly Court. Its standards are not low and the rules are very strict. It is designed to select geniuses at all levels."

"There are various means to prevent cheating and prevent senior students from demoting themselves to compete for places."

"And in order to prevent cheating, all students need to hide their identities from the outside world, and the Eight Gods will personally enforce this."

"The top forces on Kunxu 1st floor may be able to deceive the public and conceal the exam information from the sidelines."

“Maybe we can raise the standard of our own high school students and make this exam more difficult.”

“But there is absolutely no way I can cheat in this exam set by the Heavenly Court, and I dare not penetrate the protection of the Eight Divisions of Gods and reveal the identity of the contestants in this exam.

"That is to say, as long as you can successfully register, you don't have to worry about revealing your identity."

Bai Zhenzhen asked the second question she was concerned about: "If I pass the foundation-building qualification exam, can I enter the top ten?"

Zhang Pianpian said truthfully: "As long as you get the foundation-building qualification certificate, you only need to score more than 600 points in the college entrance examination to enter any of the top ten universities without an interview."

"That is to say, as long as you get the foundation-building qualification certificate, you don't need to expose your true strength and purpose in the rest of your high school life. You can enter the top ten universities by quietly taking the college entrance examination without causing the rich to join forces to strangle you."

"That way, there won't be a situation where the rich people in Songyang City join forces to strangle you."

Zhang Pianpian said: "But you have to understand that this process is by no means simple."

She thought for a moment, then continued, "It's mid-April now, and the latest Kunxu Level 1 Foundation Establishment Qualification Examination...will start registering in mid-June, which is shortly after I left."

"Then there will be the first round of exams in August, the second round in early October, and the final round in early January next year, which will be about the middle of your second year of high school."

"This means... you have to go to school and complete the exams at the same time after I leave."

"In this process, you will also face various threats on your own without my protection."

"Of course, as long as you don't reveal that you want to take the foundation-building qualification exam and your goal of being among the top ten, there won't be any joint efforts from the wealthy families in Songyang City to strangle you."

"But people like Zhou Chechen and Lan Ling will definitely deal with you after I leave."

Zhang Yu and Bai Zhenzhen nodded secretly when they heard this, but compared to the joint efforts of the powerful families to strangle them, the threat from Zhou Chechen and Lan Ling alone was not insurmountable as long as the two of them supported and cared for each other.

In contrast, the difficulty of the Foundation Establishment Qualification Examination itself may be the most difficult part of the whole thing.

Zhang Pianpian looked at Zhang Yu and said, "Are you sure you want to give up the Tianjiao class and take the more difficult foundation-building qualification exam?"

Before Zhang Yu could answer, the evil god had already said in his mind: "Promise her."

"You can take this foundation-building qualification certificate!"

(End of this chapter)