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Chapter 37 News about the Joint Examination
"You still have to have your own private copy so you can harvest endlessly."

Chu Cheng sighed and picked up the second item in the red treasure chest, a piece of paper.

"what?"

"It's actually this?"

Enchanting recipe: Vampiric Touch.

Effect: Enchants a weapon with a lifesucking effect, converting 10% of each physical attack into health.

Learning requirements: Intermediate enchantment.

An extremely rare enchantment recipe, an even rarer lifesucking enchantment, one of the top enchantments for physical professions.

"Damn, I'm reluctant to sell this thing."

Chu Cheng pinched his chin and thought for a while, and finally decided to keep it for now and talk about it later.

Because he is too poor, he has not yet studied any major.

First aid, fishing and cooking are life professions and there is no cost to learn them.

It’s different with professions. If you want to master them, you need to invest a lot of time and cost.

Common professions include tailoring, leatherworking, forging, alchemy, engineering, etc. In addition, there are advanced professions such as enchanting, jewelry, and runes.

The threshold for regular majors is low and anyone can learn them, but it is hard to say whether one can practice them.

Advanced professions have high barriers to entry and large investment costs, but once you have mastered them and have some rare formulas in hand, it will be very profitable.

This Vampire Touch enchantment is one of the rare recipes. If you can master it, you can make a lot of money in the future.

But at this stage he doesn't have enough money to practice enchantment, so he can only save it for later.

After packing up the spoils, Chu Cheng had no desires or requests in this copy.

The only major plot that follows is the attack on Black Sail Island. Since Class 1 is not there, they fail to take advantage of the Pirate King's absence to break through Black Sail Island like they did last time. Naturally, the pirate fleet will not retaliate by attacking Linhai Town.

He will not participate in the plot of attacking Black Sail Island, as he no longer values ​​the benefits.

After staying in Brad Town for a few days and waiting for the townspeople to return one by one, Chu Cheng also said goodbye and left, returning to Linhai Town.

In the following days, he stayed at the dock to fish and practice his fishing skills.

There was one thing that surprised him. His weapon skills improved so quickly as if he was using cheats, but his fishing skills improved so slowly and it hadn't been upgraded for such a long time.

One tight, one loose, one fast, one slow.

He took off all his equipment, put on casual clothes, and sat on the dock with a straw hat, chatting with the fishermen nearby.

There were many adventers around him, including his classmates and many students from other classes.

Many students spent fifteen days at the dock fishing during the entire class, and many of them had already upgraded their fishing skills to the intermediate level. The remaining fifteen days were spent not on hunting monsters, but on practicing other occupations or professions.

In Linhai Town, there are many professional chefs, tailors, leather workers, blacksmiths, alchemists and engineers.

They are not indigenous NPCs, but teachers in schools who specialize in teaching these majors.

These students did not major in how to fight, but in various specialties.

Not all Adventers are suitable for combat. If they fail to awaken their talents, have an average family background, and do not have much combat talent, they will choose to take the auxiliary career route and major in one profession.

In the future, you can take the college entrance examination and apply for a specialized advanced vocational school. If you have extremely high talent in certain majors, you can also use this to get into a first-class university.

Even if you fail to get into a vocational school, you can still make a living with this skill by entering the society directly after graduating from high school.

Chu Cheng has always had expectations for fighting, so he has not chosen a major before.

If you awaken the golden finger now, you will have a bright future in the future. You will not choose these conventional majors. At least choose an advanced major, choose one from enchantment, runes, and jewelry.

But not now. I have neither the money nor the time. I have to wait until after the college entrance examination.

Once you are admitted to a higher education institution, you will have more free time and can try to major in one.

Half a month passed unknowingly, and when the last day came, Chu Cheng put away his rod and stretched his body, glancing at his fishing proficiency of 86/100, and sighed helplessly. He opened the regional channel, and there were many people talking inside, but it was very calm.

All the teachers went to Black Sail Island, and quite a few students followed them. Zhang Chunlei and others also went there. Duan Yuqin had called him before, but he refused.

So many teachers and elites from four classes gathered together, but they couldn't get anything good in the last plot, and the biggest benefit was just a wave of experience.

And he is not lacking in experience at all now, and his level of 15 is definitely in the top tier in the whole grade.

After one or two more big classes, I'm afraid I'll be able to get promoted to level 18 or even level 19, the top of the grade. I don't lack this experience at all.

After coming out of the copy, Chu Cheng was called directly to the office by the head teacher.

"The next class is the joint exam. All seven classes in the grade will go to the Golden Wasteland dungeon. You should prepare in advance."

Chu Cheng was slightly surprised and immediately asked:
"Is it the medium-sized copy?"

"Yes."

Duan Yuqin sat down in front of him and said in a deep voice:

"This joint exam is a preparation by the school to conduct a thorough investigation of the strength of all students in the seven classes of the whole grade, and select a group of elite students who have the potential to be admitted to top universities to make the final sprint in the second half of the year."

"This group of selected students will have an unlimited supply of resources, and can purchase rare quality equipment, items, advanced skills, etc."

"In addition, the upper limit of free attribute points that can be purchased has been increased from 10 to 20 points. The same applies to skill points."

"Well, is there a discount on the price?"

This is the issue Chu Cheng is most concerned about.

However, Duan Yuqin's answer disappointed him:

“The price remains the same.”

"Ok."

正常技能点1金币1点，自由属性点是2金一点，20点技能点与20点自由属性点，总共需要60金才能全买下来。

“That’s a bit exaggerated.”

He now has just over 5 gold in total, and still needs 55 gold.

The enchantment recipe can be sold for around ten gold, but there is still a gap of more than forty-five gold.

It is quite difficult to earn 50 gold in the remaining six months.

Or rather, it's impossible.

Unless I can get two super-excellent items in the upcoming joint examination and a few large classes.

For example, rare equipment with super powerful attributes, some props with extremely special functions, etc.

But the possibility is too low, how can we count on it?

"Unless you can get a loan or seek support from your family."

"I can indeed get some student loans. With my talent, I believe many banks are willing to lend money to me. But at this stage, I probably can't get much from personal loans. I estimate it's around 10 or 20 yuan."

"Family talk."

"It seems that you can also borrow money, and the family loan limit will be higher."

"If I borrow both, I should be able to get 40 to 50 gold. Adding my own funds, the difference won't be much. Besides, I can still earn some money from the remaining classes."

“It really works!”

Chu Cheng pinched his chin and made up his mind.

He must buy the resources provided by the school, 20 skill points and 20 free attribute points. If he doesn't find a way to get them, he will be at a great disadvantage compared to the elites of other schools.

(End of this chapter)