163: Chapter 163 Beast Taming College Entrance Examination
Let me ask.
How much impact does a boy who makes a good first impression, is handsome and gentle, and stands up in times of danger have on a teenage girl whose feelings are just beginning to bud?
It's obvious.
Su Lixia had a good impression of Yue Yun.
From entering her sight through an ordinary little thing, to gradually getting to know him over a long period of time, feelings had quietly developed.
But now, Su Lixia's maiden heart was broken!
Seeing Su Lixia's expression become complicated before returning to her usual quiet and indifferent self, Yue Yun scratched his head in confusion.
"Su Su, what's wrong?"
"It's nothing, I'm just looking forward to university life."
Su Lixia shook her head calmly.
Yue Yun thought it was some big deal, but hearing this, he couldn't help but laugh and console her, "Su Su, you're so beautiful, talented, and strong. You'll definitely have many suitors in university!"
Su Lixia smiled but said nothing.
...
The next day.
The first day the college entrance exam officially began.
The entrance of Jianghai Second Middle School was a sea of people, yet it wasn't noisy; instead, it was exceptionally quiet. Even the cars dropping off students passed by silently with lowered engine sounds.
Under the maintenance of several Administration Bureau police officers and the guidance of school teachers, the empty campus was soon crowded with examinees.
Even the Three Heavenly Kings seemed a bit more hurried.
"Meet at the cafeteria after the exam!"
Because Liberal Arts Students and Beast Taming Students took the cultural subject exams together, the Three Heavenly Kings' exam rooms were far apart, so they had to agree on a meeting point before heading to their respective rooms.
Yue Yun was very familiar with his exam room.
It happened to be the same classroom his Liberal Arts Class used for exams before he transferred to the Beast Taming Class; he remembered exactly what slogans were posted on every wall.
The cultural courses mainly consisted of the history of the Strange Beast War, the geographical environment of Secret Realms, the characteristics of various Pet Beasts, as well as Chinese and Mathematics.
The first subject in the morning was the history of the Strange Beast War.
A thousand years ago.
A persistent thick fog suddenly emerged from the oceans of Blue Star. Marine life enveloped by the fog died in large numbers, and the remaining ones all mutated, becoming the first Pet Beasts.
Cruel and bloodthirsty Strange Beasts poured out of the thick fog, wreaking havoc all over the world, and the human living environment was compressed.
From then on, the ocean became a Forbidden Ground, renamed the Mist Sea!
The mutation was not limited to the ocean.
Land creatures did not experience mass deaths, but individuals with strange powers were born.
Blue Star's space collapsed, and many Secret Realms appeared.
The Secret Realms were full of these creatures with strange powers. Unlike the Strange Beasts, these creatures had peaceful temperaments and showed a relatively friendly attitude toward humans.
These creatures with strange powers were Pet Beasts!
Humans soon discovered their own special abilities: awakening Beast Taming Talent to Cultivate Contract Power, opening a Soul space to contract Pet Beasts, and becoming Beast Tamers to fight alongside them.
From that point on, the Strange Beast War began.
Humans and Pet Beasts worked together. With Beast Tamers as the main force of the Strange Beast War, they fought desperately to withstand the invasion of the Strange Beasts.
The Beast Tamer Association also gained a firm foothold during the war.
They took the lead in forming a multi-national Alliance to jointly resist the Strange Beast invasion, while developing a systematic Beast Tamer System to prevent the fog of the Mist Sea from advancing toward the land as much as possible.
The history of the Strange Beast War was relatively simple.
Yue Yun had at least crammed high school knowledge. After browsing the questions, he focused entirely on answering them, his pen tip rustling across the answer sheet.
The second subject in the afternoon was slightly difficult.
The main content was the geographical environment of Secret Realms and the characteristics of various Pet Beasts, involving multiple countries.
Yue Yun was slightly stunned when he saw the questions.
Memories drifted in his mind, but none corresponded to the questions, as if he had deliberately skipped them while reading.
"Holy crap, isn't this going to be the death of me?"
Yue Yun cried out in his heart.
Unlike the bitterness in his heart, the rustling of answering questions in the exam room was continuous. Some people had already moved from fill-in-the-blank questions to essay questions, writing with confidence and flair.
Yue Yun sighed deeply and didn't hesitate for long before starting to write, striving to fill up the answer sheet.
The second day's exams were Chinese and Mathematics.
The difficulty of these two subjects was average. Yue Yun didn't feel he had pulled ahead of or fallen behind others. After successfully filling out the answer sheets, he packed his things and left the exam room.
The college entrance exam for Liberal Arts Students ended there.
The college entrance exam for Beast Taming Students was also half over.
Senior year students left the campus one after another, walking with various expressions toward the school gate, which was packed with parents.
Some were full of sadness, some were pale, and others were excited, calm, regretful, or reluctant to leave...
Yue Yun, however, looked as usual.
After all, the college entrance exam wasn't that important to him.
No matter how well he scored, he wouldn't go to a Beast Taming University; the Mist Sea front line was his destination, and Strange Beasts were his opponents.
The college entrance exam results were merely to prove his strength.
"How did the exam go?"
Xu Qingfang and Mo Yu were waiting at the school gate early.
Needless to say for Mo Yu, Xu Qingfang's cultural course grades were also good, so he had no psychological burden after the exam.
Yue Yun shrugged. "Fortunately, I wasn't counting on going to a Beast Taming University and instead went straight to the Mist Sea front line. Otherwise, you'd only see me tightening screws on an assembly line in our next lives!"
Xu Qingfang and Mo Yu patted his shoulder.
"It's okay, just perform well in the practical combat!"
As long as Beast Taming Students performed at their normal level, their cultural scores wouldn't fall too far behind, making it hard to create a gap in rankings.
The upcoming Practical Combat Exam was the key.
With Yue Yun's strength, forming a team with Xu Qingfang and Mo Yu could completely compensate for any deficiency in cultural scores.
This would not only improve Yue Yun's college entrance exam results but also raise Xu Qingfang and Mo Yu's rankings, allowing them to get better exam scores and get into better Beast Taming Universities.
With the end of the cultural exams, the high school careers of Liberal Arts Students officially came to a close, while Beast Taming Students had to move to a Secret Realm.
This time, the college entrance exam Secret Realm was in Nanyuan City.
Because Pan Xuan had warned them in advance, and the college entrance exam was a major event for the entire East District, the Three Heavenly Kings didn't leave Jianghai City on their own but took the school's Exam Shuttle instead.
"Now you guys are behaving, aren't you!"
Su Lixia and Xue Qin laughed.
No matter how stubborn the Three Heavenly Kings were, they wouldn't dare cause trouble against the common sense of the East District; otherwise, they would really suffer from 'acute iron poisoning.'
All members of Beast Taming Class 1 sat neatly on the Exam Shuttle.
With Administration Bureau vehicles escorting them front and back, and Elite Beast Tamers riding flying Pet Beasts for protection in the air, such a grand appearance naturally attracted attention.
Seeing this, parents and students outside the school focused their heated gazes on the Exam Shuttle, waving and shouting.
"Go seniors! Good luck!"
Seeing today's protagonists, vehicles on the road also pulled aside in advance to make way for a clear and bright path.
Under the escort of the Administration Bureau and the school, and the courtesy of the East District society, the Exam Shuttle sped along, arriving at the designated Tianluo Secret Realm in half a day.
After many days, seeing the soldiers with live ammunition patrolling Tianluo Town again, everyone no longer felt afraid.
An indescribable excitement and tension surged in their hearts.
"Tianluo Secret Realm, here we come!"