Gods Vanish on a Cloudy Day
Chapter 91 The Committee Has Decided: You're the Professor (5400, Requesting Recommendations and Monthly Tickets on Monday)
The Holy Examination was ten days later, June 20, 2015, the Dragon Boat Festival.
According to tradition, the results of the Holy Examination would be released at noon on the tenth day after the examination.
On this day of waiting for the results, the Su and Shao families gathered for a meal.
After nearly a year of recovery, Wen Yuefeng's legs could now walk a little. As the elders, the four were in the living room, watching the midday news and eating edamame, boasting to each other about their recent experiences.
Aunt He had taken a vacation to go home for the festival. This gathering was arranged by Shao Nantian, who hired a chef to cook at home.
It must be said that, apart from Wen Yuefeng, the lives of the others present were truly full of ups and downs, each with their own boasting points. You talk about dissecting demon beasts, I talk about tracking supernatural criminals; you talk about the rise and fall of the business world, I talk about the essence of *xiangsheng* (a traditional Chinese comedic performance)... although something got mixed in at the end, no one cared.
After two bottles of wine, the atmosphere seemed to return to the campus of twenty years ago, lively and fiery.
Su Zhou's astonishing performance at the end of the Holy Examination initially shocked everyone who knew him well. After all, 'strong and sturdy' and 'calling wind and summoning thunder' are two different concepts. Even if lifting and throwing a twenty-ton iron block causes more damage, and is more practical than the thunder that can only be summoned on rainy days, there is still a gap in expressiveness.
However, no matter how surprised they were, it was still their own son. There is no reason for parents to keep asking their children why they are so smart and handsome. Even Su Beiluo and Shao Nantian, these two old men, had been staring at Su Zhou thoughtfully during that time, as if they had seen something, but they didn't make things clear.
Even if it was Su Zhou who had been cleaning up the abnormal phenomena in Hong City recently, who had dealt with the wooden centipede and the mysterious murderer, even if it was Su Zhou who had healed Wen Yuefeng's legs... weren't these all good things? Since Su Zhou himself didn't want to admit it, then so be it.
It's rare to be confused when dealing with people, and Su Zhou himself is undoubtedly the kind of person who doesn't need his elders to worry about him.
As for Su Zhou himself, after the spiritual test of the Holy Examination, he reversed his previous high profile, turned down all interviews, and began to live in seclusion.
The power he had shown before was already exaggerated enough. Whether it was fame or ability, it had already taken root in people's hearts. At this time, there was no need to continue to appear. Instead, he should hide and avoid this peak of attention... both fame and showing off are too much, that's the reason.
At this moment, Su Zhou was playing games with Shao Shuangyue, trying to rank up, while Shao Qiming was lying on a lazy chair, basking in the sun by the French windows, as if he were a plant, lazily reading a book, following the cultivation suggestions given in his physical examination.
"Big brother, save me, save me, save me!"
A panicked cute girl's voice rang out in the steampunk-style room. It could be seen that Shao Shuangyue was controlling an extremely sturdy bull-type hero, with a scarlet seal burning on its body, desperately rushing towards her own middle tower.
Behind her, three enemy heroes were chasing after her aggressively, looking like they wanted to devour her.
"Zhou-ge! Save me!"
At this moment, Su Zhou was controlling a long-range sniper hero, farming in the middle lane. Seeing this, Shao Shuangyue burst into tears of joy: "Quick, push me!"
But e-sports doesn't need tears.
"You're affected by a five-star magic array, there's no saving you. Let me deny you."
Su Zhou coldly calculated Shao Shuangyue's health. After confirming that there was no hope, he fired a shot and denied Shao Shuangyue's hero, leaving a big question mark in place.
[Sniper denied teammate Spirit Breaker]
"Ah, I'm dead." Shao Shuangyue looked exaggeratedly devastated. It could be seen that her stats were 0/6/7, triple-red extra spicy: "What's going on? Recently, I feel like the operations and reaction speeds of these game players are like they're hacking. I fly over with my skills activated, and they can directly interrupt me with a five-star magic array!"
"Probably cultivators, it's fine, I'll carry you to victory." Su Zhou didn't care, switching screens three times a second while still farming proficiently. His perfect actions and gold-farming rhythm never stopped: "This round, you're allowed to die ten more times."
With the popularization of cultivation, the improvement of cultivators' physical fitness and thinking also shows a huge bonus in games—after all, one player can be used for several seconds in a second, blood volume is calculated accurately to the single digits, another player relies on feeling for last-hitting, it is really from the laning stage to be completely blown up.
Therefore, even young people addicted to the internet who don't like to study have to work hard to cultivate, otherwise, they will always be abused by others except for playing single-player games or playing against the computer, and they will not be able to enjoy the fun of the game at all.
A dozen minutes later, under Su Zhou's command, the sniper led the team to push down the opponent's base. The ladder points increased by 25, without any challenge.
The process of a transcendent player ranking up is so simple, ordinary, and a bit boring.
Now Su Zhou can really play this kind of game with his eyes closed, because eyelids can't block his vision, and the opponent's action mode almost instinctively appears in his mind, clearly not hacking, but the performance is like opening a map.
"The results are out, we should go downstairs."
After finishing a game, it was almost twelve o'clock. Su Zhou smiled, then patted Shao Shuangyue's shoulder, signaling her to go downstairs together to see the score and then eat.
Shao Shuangyue was muttering in front of the screen, 'Is cultivation a cheat?' 'Why can he dodge my shadow dive with a blink dagger?' This kind of resentful words, feeling that she was about to turn into a *juyuan* (a vengeful spirit).
"No, I want to cultivate too! Zhou-ge, you teach me!" After thinking about it, Shao Shuangyue felt that there was no problem with the lineup and ideas. The only difference between her and the top players was cultivation. She immediately made a vow, cursing: "When I successfully awaken my spirit, if I don't beat this bunch of noobs until they call me mom, I'll delete this stupid game!"
"...I haven't seen you this angry when your academic performance was surpassed by someone."
If being abused can increase Shao Shuangyue's determination to cultivate, then Su Zhou feels that it's better to let her be abused a few more times.
This kind of spontaneous desire to cultivate is far more useful than all persuasion and urging.
Bringing the notebook, and Shao Qiming came to the living room, Su Zhou opened the official website of the Holy Examination in front of everyone, and the two families waited until twelve o'clock, and then entered the admission ticket number.
It could be seen, under Su Zhou's name, the bright numbers of the score.
Chinese: 143 points.
Mathematics: 150 points.
Physics: 290 points.
Other: 138 points.
Total score: 721 points.
"Hahahaha, as expected of my son!"
"Hahahaha, as expected of my mother's son!"
"Hahahaha, as expected of me!"
Although they had expected it, when this score, which could basically be the provincial champion in the past, appeared, the three members of the Su family laughed out loud, making a wild smile with extremely consistent synchronization—just from this point of view, it can be said that a family doesn't enter a family. The Shao family also congratulated, even Shao Shuangyue, who was a little confused by the game, reacted, exclaimed, and then repeatedly congratulated.
After eating the Wisdom Fruit, Su Zhou's memory and various thinking abilities have been greatly improved. The deduction of points mainly lies in the composition in Chinese, some flaws in biology in physics, and probably a little flaw in history. In general, it is nothing at all.
The score of 721 points, compared to Su Zhou's 559 points in the mock exam, is really a leap forward.
However, this score is not really a monster this year.
Shao Qiming's admission ticket number was entered, and what appeared in front of everyone was a row of almost unbelievable numbers.
Chinese: 148 points.
Mathematics: 150 points.
Physics: 300 points.
Other: 145 points.
Total score: 742 points.
Almost a perfect score.
Not to mention the provincial champion, this is the national champion level.
For a time, Shao Nantian and Wen Yuefeng forgot to be happy, just blinked, they looked at each other, looked at Shao Qiming, and then looked at Shao Shuangyue, then fell into silence with a daze, the whole hall was silent, only the sound of the television news was left.
But Su Zhou broke the dull situation without much respect.
"What's the matter, Qiming, it's okay to deduct two points from Chinese, your composition has always been quite satisfactory, why is this 'other' deducted five points?"
His meaning is actually not very satisfied, and he feels that Shao Qiming should get a perfect score.
"I guess there was a little problem with the comparison between transcendent history and normal history."
Shao Qiming also looked ashamed: "Alas, I was originally very confident, thinking that I had remembered everything, but now I think about it, it should be a mistake made by being too young. I am very ashamed that I did not get a perfect score. I am sorry to my parents, sorry to everyone, sorry to the motherland, sorry to the cultivation of teachers and others."
And Su Zhou stretched out his voice: "Considering that you are so sincere, I will forgive you this time, pay attention next time."
Shao Qiming nodded repeatedly: "No problem—but when is there a next time?"
"That's of course in the next life!"
"You two brats, are you doing *xiangsheng* (a traditional Chinese comedic performance)?" The first one to react was Shao Nantian, who immediately scolded with a smile, and then hugged his son hard without saying much.
"What about me, what about me?"
Sitting in a wheelchair, Wen Yuefeng opened his arms to Shao Qiming, and Shao Qiming also cooperated very well, bending down and hugging the other party.
However, the difference in this Holy Examination lies in the fact that it is not only the scores of normal subjects. If there are students who are expected to cultivate, there will also be an evaluation of the spiritual test.
The results of the spiritual test are released relatively slowly, and will appear after more than ten minutes.
"This year's key score has soared to 631 points... Oh my God."
During this time, Ning Shiyu looked at the enrollment standards of the national academies, and suddenly had a terrified expression: "Dad, it seems that our key score was only 565 points in our year?"
"In those years, there were times when it was more than 530 points."
Su Beiluo had already started drinking with Shao Nantian. He drank half a glass of white wine, and a trace of red was revealed on his tanned face: "It seems that it's related to the recovery of spiritual energy again."
This is indeed true.
Even if they have not awakened their spirit, just being immersed in spiritual energy will improve their memory. The one-year spiritual energy class, with the exam papers unchanged, it can almost be said that the scores of the national Holy Examination students have risen by two levels.
However, more important than this is the score of the spiritual test.
Name: Su Zhou
Rank: Early stage of Transcendence.
Spiritual Power Index: Above, full score.
"It seems that the upper limit is 30,000." Seeing this, Su Zhou nodded.
Generally speaking, even with extraordinary talent, a spiritual power index of about 30,000 at the Awakening stage can be said to be a full score.
As for Su Zhou, it was because 30,000 was the upper limit, otherwise he would have exploded this counter at least twenty or thirty times.
What he didn't know was that, for his sake, the General Office of the Holy Examination in Zheng Nation even considered opening an extra transcendent-level rating, but because of this score, it is estimated that not many people will reach it in the future, and designing it is likely to be a waste of time, so it was suppressed and not discussed.
Su Zhou's physical fitness is also full marks in all aspects, a series of top-level A, B, C, D evaluations.
The data that physical strength exceeds twenty tons is exaggerated even if you look at the numbers. Even if everyone present has watched the live broadcast at the time, and then watched the follow-up videos countless times, they still exclaimed again at this time.
The final item, the essence of Su Zhou's spiritual power is 'Wind and Thunder', and the rating is A+ Super Grade.
You need to know that many prehistoric behemoths that have reappeared due to the recovery of spiritual energy do not have an A rating, and Su Zhou is classified as A+ Super Grade, which means that his existence is comparable to those super behemoths that need to be surrounded and suppressed by modern armies, even exceeding them—it cannot be said that it is not taken seriously.
The meaning of this result is obvious.
In terms of spiritual power, Su Zhou is the number one in the country.
Shao Qiming's score is also quite good, with an evaluation of Awakening Early Stage, with a spiritual power index of about 5500, which is already quite high—Su Zhou's monster cannot be compared at all, what he should be compared with is the leaders of major transcendent organizations in various countries, the Zheng Nation's Holy Seats, and it has to be the kind of Holy Seat with a high transcendent inheritance. Only such existence can be compared with Su Zhou.
And Shao Qiming's spiritual power essence is light and wood, and the rating also has a surprising A—after all, he is an A-grade genius with an affinity of 85%, and he has a rare healing talent, so it is not surprising to have this rating.
As of now, the enrollment standards of the three Zheng Nation's A-grade transcendent academies have also been released, requiring a score of more than 655 points in the normal subjects of the Holy Examination, or a B+, A-grade spiritual talent.
The three major academies all enroll 3,500 students, which sounds like a lot, but in fact, there are only more than 10,000 places in the country... Compared with the total number of nearly 10 million people in the Holy Examination, this is already a one-thousandth standard.
Although this standard is exaggeratedly high, with the scores of Su Zhou and Shao Qiming, they basically don't need to think about which school to go to. It should be which school is coming to them.
"Come, come, let's not go home until we're drunk today!"
"You two boys also drink a little, just to accompany us!"
After knowing the results, what else can be said? The two families rarely get together, so naturally they opened the cup to celebrate—Su Zhou and Shao Qiming originally didn't drink, but today is a bit special, happiness is the most important thing, so they accompanied the elders to drink a few glasses.
During this time, whether it was the younger generation of Su Zhou and Shao Qiming, or the elders of the two families, friends who had called, sent WeChat messages to inquire about their scores. After receiving amazing answers, they were all congratulated and blessed.
"Hahaha. You ask me how many points? 721!"
"Hey, Little Xu, don't scold your mother yet, let me tell you another good news—Qiming's score is 742!"
"Hahahaha, you thought you could show off after passing 710 points? Unexpectedly, I surpassed you!"
"I'm sorry, it's okay to do whatever you want if you cultivate well!"
After hanging up the phone of Xu Ming, who also scored more than 700 points, Su Zhou's originally excited and happy expression eased slightly.
Xu Ming's intention to show off, but was actually showed off, and the fabricated screams made him think of Ma Jing, and those students who may have been working hard to study all the time, but because they didn't have the talent for cultivation, they were surpassed by others in the last year.
"The key score of more than 630 points... The former top students, if they are not careful, if they are not careful, I am afraid that they will not be able to go to A-grade academies. In this regard, what is the difference between sports competition and learning? Even in future work, the level of cultivation will inevitably be a very important standard."
He found an excuse to go out for a breeze, looking at the green backyard of the Shao family, feeling a little complicated: "The tide of the times is so ruthless, it has nothing to do with effort, it has nothing to do with persistence, as long as it appears, it is overturned, and someone will inevitably be eliminated."
"If this is the age of miracles, then I have undoubtedly ushered in my own miracle—but where are the miracles of these people?"
"Miracles are everywhere." At this time, Ya La's voice faintly appeared. It crawled out of Su Zhou's temples and said with a smile: "Cultivation is a road. Since it is a road, there are always opportunities to overtake on curves. The most orthodox of these is the spiritual organ transformation in the Transcendent stage. At this stage, most of the innate talents will be greatly leveled out. The worse the original talent, the more benefits you will get."
"Of course, becoming a Transcendent is still relatively difficult for you in this era, but in addition to this, there are many ways to break through the bottleneck of talent—taking magic medicine pills, transplanting bloodlines, transforming surgery... They can all do it, because the road is like this, every road leads to truth, but some people are initially rugged, and some people are initially smooth, but as long as they persist and are good at finding, it will always appear."
"Yes, I understand these." Quietly listening to Ya La's words, Su Zhou did not sigh, he also knew very well: "There will always be unfairness in life, but absolute fairness does not exist either."
So, he smiled and raised his head, looking at the light above his head, and said softly: "Since I am a genius, I am the pioneer of this era—if evil spreads, I will cut it off."
"This may be the true meaning of the Evil Devouring Demon Lord's divine power."
Just as Su Zhou raised his head and looked directly at the dazzling sun above his head, his phone rang, and a rapid piano piece rang. Su Zhou couldn't help but look at the number on the screen.
Then, he couldn't help but be stunned.
【0-0-0】
The legendary exclusive communication number of the Central Thirty-Six Holy Committee.
"I originally thought they would send a car to pick me up, and then go to some mysterious office and communicate with a group of holographic projections. I didn't expect it to be the most ordinary phone call..."
Su Zhou was not particularly surprised by this. After all, his destination can really be regarded as a decision-making direction that can affect a country. No matter which college he wants to go to, that college will naturally prepare a series of training courses exclusively for him—the Transcendent stage and the Awakening stage are two different worlds, and everyone knows that he is basically impossible to study with his peers.
"Hello, this is Su Zhou."
At the same time, in Shao's residence.
The elders had already become muddled from drinking. At this time, they were taking advantage of their interest to recall the bravery of the past. After eating, Shao Qiming really lay down on a blanket spread in a place with sunlight, like a plant, and actually planned to take a nap in the sun.
Only Shao Shuangyue was bored, not knowing whether to go back upstairs to continue playing games, or wait a while to find Su Zhou and ask about cultivation matters.
And just then, she vaguely heard, behind the door of her backyard. Su Zhou's slightly surprised voice came.
"Huh, what did you say?!"
"Let me be a professor?!"
Today, let's see if we can write the end of the volume and finish this volume.
Today, I am trying to change the update to 6 am. In the future, there will be one chapter at 6 am every day, and one chapter at 12 noon, or two chapters at 6 am?
If it really doesn't work, I might as well restore the midnight update...