I will eventually become a god through sheer hard work.

Cao Sini nodded: "...I will not let my teacher down."

Xue Jing turned to look at the students, who had mostly changed their clothes, put on their wristbands, and picked up their small backpacks: "Is everyone ready?"

"Ready!"

The crowd responded.

Xue Jing nodded, waved his hand, and signaled everyone to follow him to the entrance of the Sea of ​​Steel.

There are nearly twenty test centers participating in this large-scale joint examination. Each center will have a different entrance to disperse the participants and avoid a sudden, intense battle at the very beginning.

Officials with equipment were conducting checks at the entrance, and no personal belongings other than the distributed supplies were allowed inside.

One by one, the students were checked and entered the boundary area through the distorted light door.

Xue Jing walked at the very end... He took a white bracelet from an official, put it on his wrist, changed into official clothing under supervision, and underwent a thorough full-body check before being allowed to leave and slowly walk into the border area.

This wasn't his first time entering the border region... In a flash, the world changed drastically.

What appeared in his eyes was—the land of steel.

The metallic hue permeated the entire world, and heavy black clouds floated above the leaden sky... those were metallic clouds formed from iron mist.

The smell of rust, like blood, filled the air; the land was made of steel, the trees and flowers of steel, and even—the creatures made of steel.

"hold head high--!!"

A hoarse, strange cry, carrying the metallic clang of metal, rang out as a large bird, its entire body composed of steel feathers, swept across the sky. The sharp, tough feathers crackled and rustled, leaving one wondering how such a seemingly heavy bird could fly.

"Wow, this place is awesome."

He Han looked around in amazement, took a step forward, and stepped onto the metal ground with a soft thud.

"...My feet are so heavy!"

He exclaimed in surprise, and with some difficulty, began to walk on this steel-covered land.

"The gravity here is really completely different from the real world... How amazing!"

"My feet start to hurt after walking for a while... the ground is too hard!"

"I'm having trouble breathing... It feels like there's a big rock pressing down on my insides."

"Ouch!!! I think... Ouch!!! I think I might have a metal allergy!"

"I'm asking you guys, are you even capable? You look like you're going to be useless the moment you walked in..."

The students were amazed by the world they had never seen before, laughing and joking with each other.

Ye Jingqiu had been guarding the entrance. Upon seeing Xue Jing appear, she immediately pretended to be unable to adapt to the gravity, staggering and falling towards Xue Jing with a startled cry:

"Ah, Teacher Xue!"

Xue Jing glanced at her and reached out to support her shoulder.

Unexpectedly, she seemed to have come prepared this time... She turned around in a panic, avoiding Xue Jing's hand, and her beautiful body in tight tactical clothing pressed tightly against Xue Jing's body. Her hands, as if a person in a panic, instinctively grabbed something and hugged his waist.

In an instant, Ye Jingqiu buried her face in Xue Jing's arms and took a deep breath!

An epic experience.

"what……"

As if she had swallowed something heavy, Ye Jingqiu felt dizzy and her head was spinning. Several angels resembling Xue Jing appeared above her head, with wings on their backs, circling around her as if to lead her into heaven.

……

Chapter 336 Joint Examination Rules, Xue Jing's Unbridled Cheating (4K)

Xue Jing was slightly taken aback when he saw Ye Jingqiu, who looked blissfully happy as if she had successfully ascended to heaven.

He wasn't wary of these students... not that he had a particularly good relationship with them or trusted them a lot, but rather that humans don't really care what the ants around them want to do to them.

Therefore, when he saw Ye Jingqiu fall over, he simply wanted to reach out and help her up, but he didn't expect that she would suddenly change her tactics in order to get closer to him.

This is getting a bit bad.

Xue Jing supported Ye Jingqiu's shoulders, who was sucking too hard, to prevent her from collapsing to the ground, his expression somewhat helpless.

Since his charm technique reached level 10, his physique has become somewhat special, and his body smells slightly 'poisonous'.

In addition, his martial arts training had been going on for a long time, his life level had been constantly rising, and he had also cultivated the special Nirvana Technique. With these multiple superpositions, the aura on his body had reached a divine level.

That kind of body fragrance can give people a certain sense of pleasure and happiness... People who are used to it are fine, but people who have never smelled it before may find it a bit unbearable the first time they smell it.

Normally, Xue Jing would use his aura to block his aura from escaping.

Ye Jingqiu's sudden, close-range, deep inhalation... the effect is probably similar to actually taking a hit.

"Jingqiu? What's wrong? Are you allergic to metal?"

Because of her outstanding looks and figure, Ye Jingqiu has always attracted a lot of attention. Now that her unusual behavior has been noticed, her classmates are very concerned.

Xue Jing helped her to sit under a large, light brown, metallic tree that reflected light, and looked at a female student beside him, saying:

"Carrie, could you please look after her?"

Upon hearing this, Fu Jiali nodded and replied, her eyes sparkling with curiosity.

She was one of the few students who witnessed the process... She saw with her own eyes that Ye Jingqiu became like this after taking a breath in Teacher Xue's arms.

Looking at Ye Jingqiu, who was drooling and looked like someone who had just taken a hit in an anti-drug movie, Fu Jiali felt a mix of excitement, fear, and eagerness...

What exactly did she smell on Teacher Xue?

Cao Sini walked to Xue Jing's side and whispered, "Teacher, it's about to begin."

She showed Xue Jing the information on her bracelet.

[Candidate Name: Cao Sini]

[Teammates: Undetermined]

[Current Task: Undetermined]

Current score: 0

[Ranking Information: None available]

【Countdown: 0:28:19】

Xue Jing nodded: "Proceed according to plan."

He shouted to the students, "Everyone, start registering your team information!"

The students immediately responded, "Yes, teacher!"

After saying that, they all opened their wristbands and began to enter information into them.

Seeing this, Xue Jing nodded.

Despite the large number of participants, the rules for this joint martial arts exam were relatively simple.

Students will combine the scores from both aspects of the exam to arrive at their final martial arts exam results.

The two scores are 'individual score' and 'team score'.

All candidates must assign themselves to a team within half an hour of entering the Sea of ​​Steel. If a candidate has not joined a team by the time limit, it will be considered that they have formed a team by themselves, with only themselves as the member.

There is no limit to the number of members in a team. If you want, you can even have the entire class in the same team. However, this has its advantages and disadvantages, which will be discussed later.

When a student knocks down any non-team member (including classmates), they will receive 100 points individually, and 100 points as team points, which will be equally distributed among all members of the team.

For example, if it is a five-person squad, and one of them knocks down a non-squad member, he will get 100 personal points and 20 team points, and the remaining 80 points will be divided equally among the other four people.

The conditions for being considered knocked down are: the person being knocked down loses all ability to move, dies, the examiner intervenes to protect them, or the examiner determines that they have been knocked down.

Besides scoring by knocking someone down, there are several other ways to score points.

First, forced movement of tasks.

钢之树海共分为三十六个区域，A1区到A9区，B1区到B9区，C1到C9，D1到D9。

Every eight hours, all squads will receive a random forced relocation mission. For example, if a squad is currently in area A1, after receiving the mission, all squad members must successfully move to area B9 within eight hours, otherwise a large number of individual and team points will be deducted.

If successful, both individual and team scores will increase.

The points deducted and added vary depending on the distance and difficulty of each task.

Therefore, all students must move constantly throughout the exam and cannot stay in a fixed area.

Secondly, randomly selectable raid missions.

The official website will release monster hunting missions in the Steel Tree Sea from time to time. Student teams can accept the missions, and depending on the difficulty, they will receive a certain number of individual and team points upon successful hunting.

Thirdly, the ranking list.

There is only one leaderboard, and it is a team average score leaderboard.

Only the top ten teams are listed. After the exam, the top ten teams will receive a large number of points based on the final ranking.

Fourth, defeat the king.

The student who knocks down the most students will become the 'Knockout King' and will receive a large number of points during the final score at the end of the exam.

Based on the above rules, after the exam, all students will receive a final score consisting of their individual score and their team score.

If one of them is a negative score, then the corresponding final score is subtracted.

After all students have their final scores, they will be ranked, and the final martial arts exam score will be determined based on the ranking.

"Teacher Xue, it's finished!"

Before long, the students began to speak.

Upon hearing this, Xue Jing pressed the white bracelet on his wrist twice, and information was displayed on it.

[Current number of teams in the class: 1 (Click to view)]

Once you click on it, the names of all the team members will be displayed.

[Cao Sini, Chen Xingyan, Yuan Baijing, Zhao Longtu...]

The entire class of thirty-one students—every single one of their names was on it!

"All the students are in the same team, sharing the same fate... It's a huge gamble, Teacher Xue! I'm fired up!"