According to the True God's explanation and standards, a ten-star difficulty cultivation method is one that an average high school student would need three years to master.
A nine-star method would take two years, an eight-star method would take one year, and a seven-star method would take about half a year…
Hearing this introduction, Dai Xingzhi thought to himself, "Based on this difficulty, I'm confident I can master a five-star difficulty method within two hours. A six-star method has a chance of failure, and as for seven-star and above… I'm afraid few people besides Yun Jing and Ye Lingxiao would dare to choose one."
In Dai Xingzhi's view, it wouldn't be worth risking a zero score on this round by attempting a cultivation method that's too difficult, just for a few extra points.
Meanwhile.
Zhang Yu didn't pay attention to the difficulty explanations. He was looking at the rows of cultivation methods displayed on the light screen, and the corners of his mouth couldn't help but curl up.
"Heavenly Demon Parasitic Method, Buzhou Mountain Moving Scripture, Heart Yuan Great Handprint…"
Although the cultivation methods provided by the True Gods in this exam are definitely not all the Qi Refining stage methods in Kunxu, they are dazzling enough for Zhang Yu.
"So many cultivation methods? Can I choose any of them?"
At this moment, Zhang Yu's eyes revealed immense excitement, after all, with his super potential, it would be easy for him to master any cultivation method with the help of the Feather Book.
On the other side, the True Gods continued to explain the rules. Deng Bingding said, "…Cultivation methods of different difficulty levels naturally have different difficulty coefficients."
"The final score for this round will be calculated based on the difficulty coefficient and the time you spend mastering the cultivation method."
"Alright, you now have 10 minutes to choose a cultivation method."
"Once a cultivation method is chosen, it cannot be changed."
"If you fail to choose a cultivation method after ten minutes, it will be considered a forfeit, and this round will be scored as 0."
"As for the weapons, materials, medicines, and other resources needed to practice each cultivation method, they will all be provided on-site and distributed to you after you have selected your cultivation method."
"Finally, remember not to choose a cultivation method that you have already learned, otherwise it will be treated as cheating."
As the rules of this final martial arts exam were gradually explained, the 10-minute timer started, and the students could operate the light screens in front of them to select their cultivation methods.
The students on-site reached out and swiped across the light screens in front of them, their fingers constantly clicking, their eyes scanning back and forth between the cultivation methods, and hesitant expressions frequently appearing on their faces.
Zhang Yu watched the list of cultivation methods and thought, "If I want to get a high score, I should choose the most difficult cultivation method."
In the cultivation method list, each cultivation method was rated by the True Gods according to its difficulty level.
Zhang Yu filtered out the highest ten-star difficulty cultivation methods, and the following appeared: Senluo Vientiane Palm, Scattered Blood Demon Slaughtering Great Art, Heavenly Demon Disintegration Great Art, Myriad Swords Without End Art, Hundred Transformations Thousand Illusions Heart Art…
"Ten-star difficulty only means that these cultivation methods are the most difficult to master, but they are not necessarily the most powerful, let alone the ones I need most, or the ones that suit me best."
Thinking of this, Zhang Yu's mind recalled the process of the Foundation Establishment Qualification Certificate exam, and the purpose of today's exam.
"The Foundation Establishment Qualification Certificate exam is divided into three rounds, and the round I am participating in today… is the first round of exams in August."
"There will be a second round of exams in October, and a third round of exams in January next year."
"In today's first round of exams, I only need to be in the top twenty in the total score of mana, physique, and martial arts to avoid being eliminated and gain the qualification to enter the second round of exams."
Zhang Yu calculated his ranking in the mana and physique rounds and knew that as long as he also ranked in the top 20 in the third round, he was unlikely to be eliminated.
"So… compared to choosing a cultivation method with the highest difficulty and getting a very high score…"
Zhang Yu thought to himself, "Perhaps I should take this opportunity to practice a powerful cultivation method that suits me best for free."
"Firstly, it won't affect my passing today's exam."
"Secondly, it will be more helpful to my future development."
Zhang Yu's gaze swept over the cultivation methods, each priced at hundreds of thousands or even millions, and he felt like he was drooling.
Although they are both expert-level cultivation methods, there are differences between expert-level methods, which can be seen from the price of each expert-level cultivation method.
Those expert-level cultivation methods priced at seven, eight hundred thousand, or even millions, are something Zhang Yu wouldn't even dare to think about normally.
After all, with so much money, he would definitely buy pills, get injections, rent spiritual veins, and ascend to the spiritual realm first…
But now, he has the opportunity to practice such an expensive cultivation method for free.
Thinking of this, Zhang Yu had already made up his mind: "I want to choose the most suitable and strongest cultivation method for me."
The most suitable one is not difficult to find.
"It just so happens that after my physical strength broke through to level 8, the Crimson Marrow Primordial Qi gradually became less efficient."
Thinking of this, Zhang Yu directly selected body refining martial arts in the cultivation method type, and then selected the late Qi Refining stage.
As for which of these body refining martial arts is the strongest?
Zhang Yu directly clicked to sort by price.
"There are many traps in Kunxu, and the methods of deception and harvesting leeks are endless."
"But one thing is for sure, and that is that the companies here will never put a low price on a body refining martial art that they consider very powerful…"
"There is no such thing as good quality and low price."
"On the contrary, the most expensive cultivation methods must have powerful aspects."
As the sorting was completed, the body refining martial arts that appeared in front of Zhang Yu from highest to lowest were the million Spring and Autumn Endless Zen, the million Titanium Body Refining Essentials, and the million Great Heavenly Dragon Divine Power.
Although these three cultivation methods are all eight-star difficulty, not the highest ten-star difficulty, they are the cultivation methods that Zhang Yu really needs.
Especially after scanning the introductions of these three most expensive cultivation methods, Zhang Yu felt a pang of heartache.
"Do I really have to give up two of these three cultivation methods?"
Then he became extremely hesitant.
"The Spring and Autumn Endless Zen can strengthen the body while transforming the tendons and washing the marrow, strengthen the internal organs, truly change the physique, enhance the body's vitality, eliminate various impurities such as pill toxins and drug toxins, and improve the effect of injections…"
"Practicing this cultivation method will allow you to frantically take medicine and get acupuncture, it is a true body refining sacred art, enhancing the cultivator's immortal potential."
But looking at the Titanium Body Refining Essentials next to it, Zhang Yu also yearned for it: "A cultivation method created by a steel factory worker who desperately struggled to survive after falling into a steel furnace."
"It can melt various alloys into the body, combining with flesh, bones, and even internal organs, greatly enhancing the body's resistance to strikes and the body's load-bearing capacity."
"Especially the higher the quality of the alloy used, the higher the body's strength will be. It is said that the company guarantees that it will update the training materials every year, and even after upgrading to level 10, it will still be stronger year by year."
Zhang Yu scoffed at the statement about the worker falling into the steel furnace. This was obviously a gimmick fabricated by the company to promote this cultivation method.
Rather than a small story about a worker accidentally falling into a steel furnace, Zhang Yu preferred to believe that this cultivation method was created after an unknown number of experimenters were burned and crushed to death in the laboratory.
But the strength of this cultivation method is beyond doubt.
But Zhang Yu couldn't help but look at the Great Heavenly Dragon Divine Power next to it.
"Refining dragon blood, turning the body into a half-dragon, half-human body, can greatly improve muscle strength, body strength, and also improve recovery, energy, stamina, drug resistance, metabolism, digestion, and other aspects."
"If you insist on refining dragon blood every day, you can even continue to increase your potential, increase your lifespan, and gain some dragon abilities."
"Um… but there are also side effects, that is, the personality will be affected by the dragon nature, such as the dragon nature being inherently lustful, with the continuous refining of dragon blood, the practitioner's aesthetics will also change accordingly, and their hobbies will become more and more extensive."
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"It is best to have sterilization surgery after practicing to continue to improve."
But this small side effect is nothing in Zhang Yu's eyes now.
If he could practice this cultivation method for free, he would be willing to undergo a small surgery.
As the 10-minute cultivation method selection time continued to pass, Zhang Yu looked at the three cultivation methods in front of him, and felt incomparable hesitation and difficulty.
"I want them all."
"Alas, this is too difficult to choose."
Compared to Zhang Yu's difficulty, Ye Lingxiao on the other side seemed very decisive.
As the heir to the perfect bloodline of the Immortal Capital Ye Clan, Ye Lingxiao has a highly developed nervous system far surpassing ordinary high school students, and has terrifying control over muscles, internal organs, and even mana from birth.
This talent was completely released after he entered high school, allowing him to master any cultivation method with just one look, and become proficient with just one practice.
It can be said that since entering high school, the number of cultivation methods he has practiced has long surpassed the imagination of ordinary students, and even his classmates, teachers, private coaches… all don't know how many cultivation methods he has learned.
And at this moment, in Ye Lingxiao's eyes, many of the cultivation methods in this row are those that he has already learned.
Of the remaining ones that he hasn't learned, he has mostly heard of them and knows roughly what direction they are in.
However, he would not risk choosing a cultivation method that he has already practiced for this exam.
On the one hand, he himself disdains to do so, and on the other hand, each of his cultivation methods is a genuine cultivation method for which he has purchased the right to use.
As a pure genuine user, the True Gods on-site can find out what cultivation methods he has practiced with a single check.
So Ye Lingxiao filtered out the cultivation methods with a difficulty of ten stars, and randomly chose one that he had not practiced and did not dislike.
Ye Lingxiao thought, "Let's go with this Myriad Swords Without End Art."
Yun Jing on the other side was even simpler. Unlike Ye Lingxiao, who had practiced a large number of cultivation methods, he directly sorted them by difficulty from high to low and chose the Senluo Vientiane Palm, which was ranked at the top.
Yu Xinghan thought for a while.
Xinghuo Zhenren had already planned and arranged each cultivation method's training and selection in the Qi Refining stage.
Judging from the rankings of the previous two exams, his performance pressure in this exam is not very high, and he does not need to find the most difficult cultivation method to practice.
"There is no need to choose a cultivation method outside of the master's plan, that would only waste my extra time and energy."
After all, Xinghuo Zhenren's arrangement for Yu Xinghan is already very tight, and he simply doesn't have any extra time to practice extra cultivation methods.
"I still have to choose the cultivation method in the plan."
"In this way, the next time Li Xuelian transfers money to me to buy cultivation methods…"
Thinking that he could learn a cultivation method for free here today, and next time he could get a sum of cultivation method fees from Li Xuelian, Yu Xinghan felt a burst of joy in his heart.
"Then of course, I have to choose the most expensive one in the plan…"
Yu Xinghan's gaze stayed on the Tiangang Qi Art, which had a difficulty of seven stars and a value of 900,000.
"Even if I want to master the Tiangang Qi Art with a difficulty of seven stars in two hours, it will be difficult."
"Moreover…"
Looking at the eight big characters "If you want to practice this art, swing the knife against life" in the cultivation method introduction, Yu Xinghan felt a trace of chills.
He had just asked the True God examiner, and the Tiangang Qi Art requires the integrity of the body. Therefore, if he chooses this cultivation method, the on-site examiner will respectfully ask the Ministry of Health's great divine power to restore the physical defects brought about by his sterilization surgery.
"So practicing the Tiangang Qi Art will face the Tao heart being affected, and the physical and mental changes brought about by various hormone changes in the body, which is very harmful to one's own practice."
This kind of change that hinders one's own practice is simply a poison for Yu Xinghan, who is determined to bravely advance on the path of immortality.
"No wonder the master wants to arrange for me to practice the Tiangang Qi Art in my second or even third year of high school."
"It turns out that practicing this cultivation method requires such a great price?"
Yu Xinghan gritted his teeth and thought, "But wealth is found in danger. If I don't dare to fight for 900,000, how can I strive to climb on the path of immortality in the future?"
"Fight!"
The remaining students, such as Dai Xingzhi, Meng Tao, and other Immortal Capital high school students, mostly chose five- or six-star difficulty cultivation methods.
This is for the sake of prudence. After all, if the chosen cultivation method is too difficult and cannot be mastered within two hours, it will be directly counted as zero points.
