My cultivation shop refreshes daily.

This time, the exam venue for the second-year high school students was moved from the playground to the gymnasium.

It's said to be the school's arrangement, which is to place students in different environments for each exam in order to maintain a sense of novelty.

Later, Zhou Yu learned that the school had previously been asked to reform due to poor academic performance. However, the school leaders at all levels knew the school's level and knew that no matter how they changed it, it would be useless. So, they came up with a plan to "change the examination room for every exam".

I don't know who reviewed it, but it was approved anyway, and it was done in a daze.

Upon learning of this, Zhou Yu remarked, "As expected, nobody really cares what will happen to No. 2 Middle School. It's all just a formality to fool the parents."

Liu Bei winked at him and said, "Hey, don't reveal things you shouldn't."

……

Stepping into the spacious gymnasium, you'll find four standard basketball courts, two badminton courts, and a pool table arranged in a circle around the perimeter.

However, all the facilities were removed for today's monthly exam, leaving only an empty gymnasium.

Zhou Yu walked at the back of the class line, glanced up at the second-year high school students in the gymnasium, and muttered, "Is it just my imagination? Why does it seem like there are fewer people?"

"It's not just your imagination," Liang Yanbo explained as he walked ahead. "After the school exams, many students who hadn't awakened their spiritual energy dropped out of school because they knew very well that if they hadn't awakened their spiritual energy by this point, it basically meant they would never be able to cultivate immortality in this lifetime."

"Next, they will either do jobs that don't require cultivation skills, or they will just drift through life aimlessly."

I thought you were going to talk about educational requirements, that scared me to death! Turns out it's about the requirements for cultivating immortality.

Liang Yanbo added, "Don't worry, there are still some students here who haven't awakened their spiritual energy but are unwilling to give up, or whose families don't want them to give up. After the spiritual energy assessment, there will be fewer people during the physical education and mental cultivation exams."

Zhou Yu had a deep understanding of this, because he was one of the people who left the exam site after the spiritual energy assessment during the last school opening test.

But today is different.

He was finally able to participate in the subsequent exams!

The me who scored 137 points is dead; now, a me with an even higher overall score has been born!

The spiritual energy assessment in the monthly exam is not much different from the spiritual energy assessment in the opening exam. It still involves queuing up to test spiritual energy, with no threshold whatsoever.

While queuing, Zhou Yu suddenly noticed that there seemed to be a group of people standing in the stands of the stadium.

The students who stood there during the opening exam were the student council president and Sun Zhongmou, but this time it wasn't them; it seemed to be a group of teachers.

"Who are those people?"

Liang Yanbo and Gao Ying didn't know, but Mo Ci suddenly appeared from some corner and said, "Those are the teachers of the second-year high school spiritual energy class."

"The Reiki teacher?" Upon hearing this, Zhou Yu noticed a familiar face among the crowd in the audience. It was Teacher Huang, their Reiki teacher.

"What are they doing here?"

Mo Ci answered in a very soft voice, almost like a mosquito's buzz compared to the excited chatter of the students around him, "Isn't the Spiritual Energy Competition coming up soon...? They're here to check the results."

Upon hearing this, Liang Yanbo immediately realized, "They're here to see Liu Bei's results in the spiritual energy assessment?"

"Yes," Mo Ci nodded, clasping his hands in front of his chest and rubbing his fingers together. "After all, Liu Bei is definitely going to participate in the spiritual energy competition... his spiritual energy score is very important."

"Furthermore, they also need to select students other than Liu Bei to participate in the spiritual energy competition."

The Spiritual Energy Competition is a mandatory event for almost every high school in Qingcheng. You have to participate even if you don't want to; it's a hard and fast rule.

Even if you don't have any outstanding students this year, you still need to make sure you have enough students.

Last year was slightly better for No. 2 Middle School, after all, they had Sun Zhongmou to support them and even cause trouble for key high schools like No. 1 and No. 7 Middle School.

In previous years, the students from No. 2 Middle School who participated in various competitions were basically NPCs who wouldn't even have names in a novel, cannon fodder-level characters.

This year, another Liu Bei emerged, so No. 2 Middle School naturally attaches great importance to him. In addition to Liu Bei, they also want to find some students who are somewhat presentable.

Even if we can't compare to top-tier high schools, we should at least be among the top high schools in the general category, right?

"Is that so?" Zhou Yu pondered, glancing at the teachers of the second-year spiritual energy group.

Seeing this, Gao Ying bent down slightly and turned to Zhou Yu, asking, "What's wrong, Brother Yu?"

Zhou Yu wagged his index finger.

Gao Ying thought to herself.

That idiot is definitely plotting something.

The assessment team is still making steady progress, and exclamations and cheers can still be heard from time to time.

Clearly, the results of each exam cause everyone's emotions to fluctuate like a rollercoaster.

In the audience, the teachers of the second-year spiritual energy group stared at each piece of equipment for the exam and paid attention to each student's score.

"The students' average level this year... is about the same as in previous years? So far, the average spiritual energy value is only 6.91?" The head of the spiritual energy group frowned slightly. "This is not a good sign. Aren't we just going to be cannon fodder again? I can't accept this! If other teachers from regular high schools see this, they'll think our students can't handle the workload!"

The teachers in the Spiritual Energy Group thought to themselves, "Apart from Sun Zhongmou last year, which year haven't we all been cannon fodder? It's not like this is your first year working at No. 2 Middle School, what's so unacceptable about it?"

Teacher Huang adjusted his glasses frame but didn't say anything.

In fact, the average score of the second-year students last year should not have been much different from previous years, around 6.1-6.9. It was just that Sun Zhongmou's score was too high, which raised the average score and gave everyone the illusion that "Wow, our No. 2 Middle School is pretty good too".

I don't know what got into this director, he actually thinks No. 2 Middle School is so great now.

"Damn it, do we not have a single decent student in our second year of high school this year?" The principal clenched his fist and said angrily, "Last year I ridiculed all the other regular high schools. If we fall back this year, won't I be the laughingstock of everyone?"

Goodness, so that's why.

The various Reiki masters rolled their eyes.

Just then, someone exclaimed, "They're here!"

Everyone's gaze sharpened as they saw Liu Bei stepping into the testing equipment.

"Finally, he's here."

"Good job, kid! Don't let me down!"

"Let everyone see your strength!"

……

The teachers subconsciously began to encourage Liu Bei, since the entire spiritual energy group had been privately tutoring him in order to cultivate him into a second Sun Quan, a master of spiritual energy.

Whether No. 2 Middle School can maintain its momentum from last year depends on Liu Bei's performance.

If Liu Bei's performance is not as good as the result of his solo cultivation, it will be a huge blow to all the teachers in the second-year spiritual energy group!