Chapter 135 Exam
The next day was the first day of formal enrollment. All new students had to gather in the square to choose the college they wanted to enter and the master they wanted to worship.

The academy has two educational modes, corresponding to two selection modes.

Those who have never had a master can look for one in the academy. If they like the master, they can become his disciple and learn from him in the academy.

If you don't find a school that you like, you have to choose a college, study a certain number of courses, and accumulate enough credits.

Each student has a maximum of five years and must accumulate a sufficient number of 60 credits before they can take the exam. Only after passing the exam can they be ordained and officially become a Taoist practitioner. Only then can they serve as priests in Taoist temples and monasteries throughout the world.

For those who have masters like Pan Yun and Miao Zhen Miao He, the first path is blocked, and they can only choose the second one.

Of course, before they make their choice, the academy will test their abilities and also announce the abilities of each Taoist priest in the academy to help them choose each other.

There are three types of tests in the academy.

One is a magic test, which mainly tests the ability to subdue demons and monsters through magic, swordsmanship, and divination.

One is the talisman formation, which mainly tests the recognition and depiction of the talisman formation.

One is Qigong Dandao, which mainly tests internal strength, identifies medicinal materials, identifies elixirs, recites elixir recipes, and performs basic alchemy.

There are three types. Choose one to take a test, and type in four levels: A, B, C, and D. After they are announced, choose from each other.

Pan Yun glanced past the talisman formation and looked at the magic test. In fact, although she studied talismans and formations in college and graduate school, she also learned the techniques of subduing demons and monsters well, and her swordsmanship was also very powerful. After all, their school occasionally had to go on field missions.

Moreover, is there anything more shocking than intuitive magic?

So Pan Yun decisively chose the first test.

When Miaozhen saw that she chose the magic, she immediately chose the talisman formation. Miaohe followed her own wishes and chose qigong alchemy.

The three of them went to the front to get the signs.

You will receive badges of different colors for taking different exams. The magic is red, the talismans and formations are blue, and the qigong and alchemy are green.

The three people received different tags with numbers on them.

Pan Yun took out the sign and said, "I'm number five, what about you?"

Miao Zhen held out her sign and said, "Number 11."

Miaohe: “Number 23.”

Pan Yun seemed to be thinking: "It's fair. Let's go and take the exam separately. Do you see those Taoist priests sitting on the stage?"

Wonderful and nodding.

"If you encounter injustice in the examination room, don't be afraid, don't be timid, just shout to the higher-ups. They won't dare to ignore it under the watchful eyes of everyone."

The voice was neither too loud nor too soft, and everyone standing near them could hear it.

Everyone looked over, some with complicated expressions, some with contempt.

"Aren't they the biggest injustice at the scene? They haven't even reached the age limit."

"Stop talking about it. I heard that Longhu Mountain did something wrong and was caught by Sanqing Mountain, so they had to give them three extra places."

"What kind of handle can give us three extra places?"

"You don't know? Pan Yun is the apprentice of the mountain god of Sanqing Mountain. Longhu Mountain lost the letter from Sanqing Mountain asking her to be the temple priest, so she was not ordained as a priest. Longhu Mountain required her to pass the exam before she could be ordained, so Sanqing Mountain got three extra places."

"Sanqing Mountain said that she was the disciple of the mountain god. Is she the disciple of the mountain god?"

"Of course Sanqingshan can't have the final say. She has a divine seal on her wrist."

Someone enviously asked, "Why does the mountain god of Sanqing Mountain like to recruit disciples so much? If I also go to Sanqing Mountain..."

"Do you think anyone can be the disciple of the mountain god of Sanqing Mountain? I don't know how many people think the same as you, so the Taoist temples in Yushan County are particularly prosperous. If you can't go to Sanqing Temple, you can stay in a nearby Taoist temple, but so far no one has been favored by the mountain god."

"Don't even mention the people outside. Just look at the people in Sanqing Temple. They were all named as the Mountain God by Master Wang, but they were not accepted as disciples by the Mountain God. The amazing one is Pan Yun. She is so young and was once a slave, but she was suddenly accepted as a disciple by the Mountain God."

"She is a slave? Is the news true?"

"Indeed, this is the news from the Fifth Taoist Priest of Mount Longhu. How could it be false?"

"Didn't they say that Taoist Wu was her backer at Mount Longhu? How could such news spread?"

"Junior Master..." Miao Zhen looked at her worriedly.

Pan Yun didn't take it to heart at all. He raised his chin and said, "Let them talk. Miaozhen, you have to remember that in this era, except for people like Fourth Senior Sister who have a family background in Taoism, all the others have their own shortcomings."

"Either you have no father, or you have no mother, or your family is poor, there are always five disadvantages and three shortcomings, so there is no need for us, the eldest, to feel inferior when we talk about the second child. To find out who is more pitiful, we should not look at the past, but the present and the future."

The discussions around suddenly quieted down and everyone stopped talking.

Because what she said was really the truth.

After treating everyone equally, Pan Jun went to register with his token.

After a while, everyone received their badges and registered, and then a Taoist priest came up and asked them to stand in their respective examination rooms.

Candidates taking different examination tracks enter different examination rooms.

Pan Yun just nodded to Miao Zhen and Miao He, then walked towards the red shed with confidence.

There was a Taoist priest calling out numbers in the front. Pan Yun didn't know the questions, or even the format of the exam. Before coming, the fourth senior sister said that the questions and format of the exam changed every year. Sometimes it was all competition, sometimes it was just a competition, and sometimes it was a display of ability, followed by interviews by teachers.

No one knows what the method will be this year. Anyway, the fourth sister said that as long as the exam is fair, the three of them don’t have to worry about the ranking at all.

Pan Yun was not worried at first, because even if Miaozhenmiaohe ranked last in the exam, she would still protect them.

Anyway, anyone who can make it here will be admitted regardless of their ranking.

Pan Yun discovered that the Taoist priest standing in front of the red shed called out a number every ten breaths, and the four people in front of her went in one after another, but no one came out.

She looked up at the examination room which was surrounded by a shed and could not see what was going on inside. She raised her eyebrows and asked Pan Xiaohei who was squatting on her shoulder, "Can you get in?"

Pan Xiaohei: [I don't want to go in either, but I can't be too far away from you. What can I do? ]

[I see that this examination room is not very big, so it shouldn't be a problem unless there is a space-folding technique involved.]

Pan Xiaohei: [How do you know there isn't one? I like this body very much and don't want it to die because of the mirror consciousness leaving the body.]

[You'll have to act according to circumstances. If you can't get in, quickly find a safe place to hide. Even if the spirit leaves the body, its body won't be picked up by anyone. When I come out, maybe you can still get in.]

Pan Xiaohei: ...

"Number five." A man and a cat stood in front of the Taoist priest, and Pan Yun handed over his token.

After checking, the Taoist priest looked up at the cat on her shoulder and frowned slightly.

Pan Yun said: "This is my spirit cat. I have raised it since it was young and it is inseparable from me. It is my companion, my magic weapon, and my life."

Taoist Priest: "...I didn't say that you can't bring them in, but I want to remind you that you'd better keep a close eye on them after you bring them in. Otherwise, the academy will not be responsible if they die or get disabled."

Pan Yun nodded readily, "Okay!"

[Did you hear that? There is a life-threatening situation inside! ]

[If you don't die, I can't die. 】

Pan Jun raised the corners of her mouth slightly and stepped into the red shed.

There was a flash of white mist in front of her eyes, and Pan Jun almost lost her weight. She steadied herself and stood firmly. As soon as she landed, a fireball hit her head on. Pan Jun subconsciously waved her hand, and a barrier rose up. At the same time, she slapped her palm and knocked the fireball away again.

The fireball hit the wall with a bang and scattered, bursting into flames as soon as it hit the ground.

Pan Yun looked around and found himself in a yard surrounded by stone walls. There were flowers and trees in the yard, as well as a small stream and a wooden bridge.

But at this time, the small flames scattered on the ground burned quickly and connected together to form one fire after another.

The fire was about to spread to her.

Pan Jun didn't see the question, but subconsciously knew that she needed to put out the fire.

After thinking about it, Pan Yun made hand gestures to summon water. A water dragon flew up from the stream, flew into the air and turned into rain and fell down. In less than half a minute, the fire was slowly put out.

Pan Jun raised an eyebrow, [So easy? ]

Pan Xiaohei also pricked up his head and felt that it was a bit easy.

Pan Yun looked at the stone walls and the ground around him, and finally used the Plum Blossom Yishu method to calculate the steps, "Zhen four, Xun five, Zhen and Xun wood flourish in spring, spring is wood, in the east..."

Pan Yun took three steps toward the east, then stopped to continue calculating, "Qian three consecutive, Kun six segments, Qian gold flourishes in autumn..."

Pan Jun walked a few steps and counted, then walked to a stone wall in twists and turns.

She observed the stone wall in front of her, and finally reached out and moved a stone, and the stone wall in front of her opened. She waited for a while before stepping in.

As soon as she stepped in, she felt something was wrong and her feet sank. She immediately pulled back her strength and lifted her feet, but at the same time the stone wall closed in at an extremely fast speed. She had to lift both feet to go in, but she didn't dare to use any force.

Because she was most familiar with the touch and strength, isn't this a swamp?

Sure enough, when she looked up, she saw that she was standing in an open space surrounded by swamps. The stone wall behind her disappeared when she stepped in. There was only a tree about seven or eight hundred meters away.

She looked around and confirmed that there was solid ground only under that tree; the rest of the place was swamp.

Pan Yun lowered her eyes to look at her feet which were gradually sinking. After thinking for a while, she made some hand gestures and silently chanted the name of her master in her heart, hoping to use his divine power to harden the swamp under her feet.

After making sure that she had stepped on a hard lump, she quickly lifted her feet. Two stone slabs quickly condensed on the swamp, but the stone slabs were also quickly swallowed up by the swamp.

Pan Jun did not dare to delay and flew up. He tapped the stone slab with his toes and used his lightness skills to fly quickly across the swamp to the tree.

She did not land directly under the tree. Instead, she stood on a branch and looked around. She closed her eyes and then opened them again. "This is an illusion. Even if you know how to use it and can use space folding, you can't create such a large swamp. Otherwise, the yard just now would not be so small and square."

Pan Jun looked down at the tree under his feet, made up his mind, and stepped down hard, using all the strength in his hands to smash it down.

In a flash, she suddenly appeared in an antique house.

She turned around suddenly and saw a little girl of five or six years old with two buns on her head, looking at her from outside the door, her eyes full of lively curiosity.

When her eyes met, the little girl ran up and asked, "Sister, where are you from?"

Pan Yun glanced at the faint scars on her clothes, and before she ran to him, he pointed a finger at her forehead. After freezing her, he sat cross-legged on the ground and chanted the mantra for rebirth.

The innocent smile on the little girl's face gradually disappeared, the happiness and liveliness on her face also disappeared, the bright clothes on her body also disappeared, and a girl in tattered clothes and covered with scars appeared in front of her.

Pan Jun opened his eyes and looked at her. He took out a handkerchief and wiped the blood off her face, and said softly, "Don't be afraid. It won't hurt in a while."

After saying that, a ray of light appeared out of nowhere on the little girl's body, and her figure gradually faded.

In the light of inspiration, she looked at Pan Jun blankly, and suddenly laughed. She opened her mouth and said to Pan Jun, "Thank you, little sister..."

As she finished her words, she slowly disappeared.

Suddenly, a Taoist priest sitting on the high platform stood up, his face changed drastically, and he raised his foot to step down.

"Gong Ze," Zhang Ziwang called him, "let her go."

The other party looked unhappy.

Lou Tong sneered, "I've said it before, even if it's a test of magic, you shouldn't just catch little ghosts to take the test, now it's messed up, right?"

"It's not a big deal. From this, we can see that this child has excellent skills. She has only been practicing Taoism for less than a year, but she was able to pass three levels in such a short time. She is really amazing."

Pan Yun’s speed was so fast that it was beyond the expectations of all the masters on the stage.

She soon came to the last subject, which was a test on swordsmanship. Originally, they only arranged Zhang Weiyi to defend the challenge here.

Zhang Weiyi was more than capable of dealing with a group of young Taoist priests who had just entered the Taoist sect.

Anyway, Zhang Weiyi was getting bored waiting. It had been nearly quarter of an hour, and no one had come to him yet.

Just when I thought I would have to wait for a long time, Pan Yun came out from the corner.

Seeing Zhang Weiyi standing on the stage holding a sword, Pan Yun smiled, "I didn't expect it to be such a coincidence that the head of the academy is defending the stage."

Zhang Weiyi saw her, slowly stood up, holding the sword and said: "I didn't expect that the first one to come here was Junior Sister."

His eyes became more serious, and he said in a deep voice: "According to the rules, as long as you can move from Qian to Li under my hands, you will win, or if you can withstand three of my moves, you can pass this competition."

"It's not strict. I don't know if it's because the academy is too confident in the headmaster, or because they have too little confidence in us freshmen."

Pan Yun walked to the weapon rack, took a look at the sword in Zhang Weiyi's hand and said, "Since the dean is using a sword, I'll use a sword too."

Zhang Weiyi clenched his sword and stressed, "This is a test of swordsmanship, so you are not allowed to use divine power or magic."

"Do you suspect that I borrowed the master's power?" Pan Yun smiled. "Don't worry, I definitely don't borrow the power. It just so happens that I also want to try my Sanqing Mountain swordsmanship. How will it be against the Longhu Mountain swordsmanship?"

　Tail number 6
　　(End of this chapter)