Chapter 221 Why is it the best
Chapter 221 Why is it the best
As the monthly exams approached, the tension in the academy gradually increased.
But this is mainly concentrated on the few people who "passed" Class D and Class Gui from Class C. Since the number of places for Class C in this monthly exam is limited, these three people are naturally destined to have a struggle.
What made Brother Changxue sad was that the three people from Class C were extremely respectful and polite to him.
It seemed that he didn't feel that his senior fellow student was a threat at all.
What made Tian Lin happy was that from beginning to end, the three people from Class C, including his senior brother Changxue, never treated him as a competitor.
So whenever Tian Lin didn't understand something, these people were willing to answer his questions.
In the blink of an eye, the end of the month has quietly arrived.
At dawn the next day, the sound of the bell of the Wendao Sect could be heard among the mountains.
This time, Senior Brother Changxue was determined to get into Class C, so he did not preside over the monthly exam.
The person who presided over the meeting personally was the teaching elder of the Dinggui class.
What disappointed the teaching elder was that Elder Xue did not attend the ceremony in person.
"I have personally taught you for a month. If your studies still haven't improved at all, don't blame me for punishing you severely."
As soon as he said this, the faces of the Dinggui class disciples below instantly fell.
Because of this, the "crying" part of funeral studies actually saw several "extreme" moments in succession, because many people were infected by the bad mood of the teaching elder, so they cried with all their heart.
"Tian Lin has made great progress. His funeral science has reached a very high level. If Elder Xue knew about this, he would be very pleased."
The teaching elder looked at Tian Lin's results and felt much better. He then admonished Tian Lin, "But you must not take the next formation learning lightly."
Tian Lin immediately said, "Please rest assured, Elder. I will never dare to take it lightly."
During this month, everyone could sense that the teaching elder had a strange preference for Tian Lin.
Fortunately, Tian Lin was a newcomer, so the disciples from Class C did not think that the teaching elders dared to favor Tian Lin to the point of blatantly giving him extra points.
As for the "excellent" evaluation of funeral studies, everyone felt that the teaching elders were giving Tian Lin some slack, but it was not a big deal.
"Next, we will learn the formation. All disciples should start drawing lots."
The teaching elder put the stick holder on the table. Zhao Tong took a bamboo stick and asked, "Who is number one? Who is number one?"
Among the people in Class Dinggui, a fat man turned pale and said speechlessly, "Why am I so unlucky that I have to run into him?"
When he met Zhao Tong's eyes, he wanted to admit defeat but then he remembered what the teaching elder said during the monthly exam last month.
He was afraid that if he admitted defeat he would be scolded by the teaching elder, so he had no choice but to walk out.
Zhao Tong glanced at the fat man, smiled disdainfully, and then looked at Zhou Jin: "It's a pity that I can't compete with Senior Brother Zhou this time. It really makes Zhao regretful."
Zhou Jin smiled and said, "Don't worry, Junior Brother Zhao. If you can get an 'excellent' rating in all five left-handed skills, we will naturally have an extra match."
Zhao Tong snorted coldly, turned around and entered the restriction set up by the teaching elder and began to set up the formation.
Zhao Tong was a person who fell from Class C to Class D. Naturally, his ability to set up formations was better than that of ordinary Class D and Gui disciples.
In just a moment, he had set up the formation.
On the other hand, the fat guy was still carving the formation stones with sweat all over his face.
A quarter of an hour later, the fat man and Zhao Tong exchanged positions. Zhao Tong took out the compass and easily broke the fat man's formation.
The fat man was inside the restriction where Zhao Tong was. As soon as he took out the formation compass, the formation compass exploded in an instant.
Before he could react, dozens of sword energies fell towards him from the sky and the ground.
Senior brother Changxue, who had expected this, rushed into the formation and used his magical powers.
His whole body was covered with thick yellow soil in an instant, and he raised his hand to block more than a dozen sword energies.
But just when he wanted to pull the fat man out of the sword formation, he found that no matter how he changed direction, the sword energy around him would chop towards him.
Fortunately, he saw it clearly from outside and knew how Zhao Tong set up the formation, so he released his true energy and directly pulled out the iron sword hidden in the soil.
Once the center of the formation was broken, the power of the formation collapsed in an instant.
Outside the ban, Zhao Tong was furious and pointed at his senior brother Chang Xue and said, "This is the monthly exam, and you dare to cheat openly?"
Senior Brother Changxue was even angrier than Zhao Tong. He pointed at Zhao Tong and said, "You also know that this is a monthly exam. Why did you set up such a life-and-death formation? Aren't you afraid of killing your fellow junior brothers?"
Zhao Tong was so angry at his senior brother that he laughed. At this time, the teaching elder above said:
"The monthly exam is like a battlefield. If you are not as skilled as others, then it is not a pity to die. Fu Tianguang, you will be evaluated as a failure this time. I will punish you to clean toilets in the menial service yard for a month.
As for Zhao Tong, he has to take the middle school entrance examination."
After hearing what the teaching elder said, Zhao Tong was obviously dissatisfied: "In the Dinggui class, I am afraid there is no one else besides me who can use forty-seven swords to form an array.
The elder only gave me a high score, which is too difficult for me."
The teaching elder flew into a rage, pointing at Zhao Tongdao and saying, "Who told you that the more 'flags' you use in setting up the formation, the better? The more flags you have, the more loopholes there will be, right?
It seems that the evaluation of the upper middle school is too flattering for you. Your evaluation can only be "up and down."
Zhao Tong was dumbfounded, but Zhou Jin and Wang Yanyu started laughing.
As soon as Zhao Tong entered the Dinggui class, he didn't know how to behave. Not only did he not take his classmates seriously, he even dared to contradict the teaching elder. After this incident, I believe that Zhao Tong will not get high scores in the next three exams.
In this way, Zhao Tong is no longer a concern. Then who can compete with Zhou Jin and Wang Yanyu for the place in Class C?
As they thought this, they quickly went up to set up their formations.
After a while, both of them received their evaluations, and each of them received an upper-middle evaluation.
Although the evaluation was not satisfactory, the two would not be stupid enough to follow Zhao Tong's example and criticize the teaching elders.
After all, Zhao Tong's alchemy evaluation has come out, and he only got an "upper or lower" evaluation.
Zhou Jin and Wang Yanyu continued their alchemy exam comfortably, while Tian Lin had just started his array formation exam.
The teaching elder stroked his beard. He lowered the evaluation scores of others in order to shorten the evaluation gap between Tian Lin and others.
If everyone got high scores and passed, and only Tian Lin failed, how could he have the face to report Tian Lin's results to Elder Xue?
But soon, the teaching elder was stunned.
"Is this the Five Elements Bagua Formation?"
The Five Elements and Eight Trigrams Formation is not considered to be very powerful, but this formation does not require engraved formation stones or spiritual weapons.
To put it simply, this is a formation constructed using ordinary flowers, trees, grass and stones.
Ordinary flowers, trees, grass and stones themselves represent the five elements.
Now, we only need to use eight directions to replace the Eight Trigrams to construct the Five Elements Eight Trigrams Formation.
Therefore, the Five Elements Bagua Formation is not very powerful, but it is extremely difficult to set up the formation. One must have a deep understanding of the basics of the formation in order to succeed.
At this time, the teaching elder realized that Tian Lin wanted to set up the Five Elements Bagua Formation, and the other students also understood Tian Lin's meaning.
But just like the teaching elders, these people were not optimistic about Tian Lin.
If the Five Elements and Bagua Formation is so easy to set up, why don't other people choose to set up the Five Elements and Bagua Formation?
“This Junior Brother Tian is really something. I once told him that if he is short of money and cannot afford the formation stones, he can always borrow spirit stones from me.
Now that I think about it, he was too embarrassed to ask me to borrow spirit stones, and he was reluctant to spend money to buy formation stones, so he could only use ordinary plants to set up the formation. "
Zhou Jin's words made others look at him with admiration. They felt that Zhou Jin was not only very capable, but more importantly, he was very loyal to others.
However, Wang Yanyu, who was really generous to Tian Lin and gave him Lengxiang leaves for free, said:
"If I remember correctly, Junior Brother Tian sold a few ferries half a month ago, right? Logically, he shouldn't be able to afford the stone for engraving the formation—"
Zhou Jin also frowned, and the two of them looked even more solemn.
They saw Tian Lin carving array patterns on flowers and plants, and arranging flowers, plants and rocks in the soil.
The life of flowers and plants is fragile, but the array pattern itself can condense spiritual energy.
Carving array patterns on these flowers and plants is like wrapping fire with paper or carving words on water.
But it was obvious that not only did Tian Lin carve array patterns on the tiny flowers and plants, but the array patterns also worked.
"Did he really set up the Five Elements Bagua Formation?"
Zhou Jin couldn't quite believe it. For a moment, an alarm bell rang in his heart. When he looked at Tian Lin again, he no longer felt that Tian Lin was a humble little brother. Instead, he felt that Tian Lin was a big hungry wolf who had deceived his feelings.
"Okay, now that you two have set up your formation, you can break each other's formation."
Over there, at the instruction of the elder instructor, Tian Lin went to the opponent's restricted area and started to break the formation without holding back.
He broke through the formation incredibly quickly, which was undoubtedly a huge plus for his evaluation.
By the time he had broken the formation, his opponent had already broken most of the Five Elements and Eight Trigrams Formation.
Tian Lin can use ordinary plants and trees to form a formation, but his ability is limited. After all, the Five Elements and Eight Trigrams Formation is not a powerful killing formation.
Therefore, even though the formation was broken, Tian Lin had nothing to be discouraged about.
Seeing this, the teaching elder smiled. He stroked his beard and said, "Tian Lin has made the most progress this month. He must have listened carefully to my teachings, which is why he has achieved what he has today."
Tian Lin, who was standing below, immediately bowed and saluted: "This disciple relies entirely on the teachings of the teaching elder, because the teaching elder said that among the many unorthodox ways in the world, the way of formation is the most important."
The teaching elder nodded in agreement, only the senior brother Zhangxue frowned slightly.
Because these words were clearly said by his senior brother.
Could it be that the teaching elder also said something similar?
"The Five Elements Bagua Formation is not very powerful, but it is extremely difficult to set up. Although Tian Lin's Five Elements Bagua Formation was broken, based on his performance, it is not an exaggeration to give him an upper-middle rating, right?"
After the teaching elder finished asking the question, the disciples below all nodded in conviction.
The teaching elder added: "Tian Lin didn't use a compass when he broke the formation, which shows that he has a very solid foundation in formation attainments. Is it not too much to give him an upper middle grade?"
All the disciples nodded, and Zhou Jin and Wang Yanyu also felt that the teaching elder had never favored Tian Lin.
Then the teaching elder said: "So I think Tian Lin's performance deserves an 'excellent' evaluation."
After these words were spoken, the students below were dumbfounded.
Setting up the formation and breaking the formation are both just above average options, but how come the evaluation turned out to be top-notch?
(End of this chapter)