When system cheat becomes rampant!

The sky was very blue, with white clouds drifting by occasionally.

By the end of January, winter break was drawing near.

The students at Liangzhou University had been incredibly busy lately, with final exams representing a significant hurdle for them.

The final exams for martial arts students at elite universities were not something they could pass by simply filling out a few test papers; they had to complete practical assessments in various simulated classes.

The assessment requirements for each course were very high!

For example, in "Introduction to Jiuzhou Alliance Defense," as the person setting the exam, Professor Guo required every student to set up a thirty-meter-long isolation zone according to what they had learned.

Professor Guo would directly release fifty desolate beasts at the early stage of Qi-Controlling, letting these beasts charge towards the students' isolation zone to see how many of the fifty would survive.

If one survived, two points would be deducted; if all the beasts survived after passing through the isolation zone, then the student would score zero for that course.

To pass, the isolation zone must kill at least thirty early-stage Qi-Controlling desolate beasts!

When everyone received these assessment details, they all complained bitterly.

On the surface, it seemed that they were only early-stage Qi-Controlling desolate beasts, which appeared as if everyone could kill one with a single punch, but the assessment wasn't about killing the beasts with one's hands; instead, it was about using traps to do the killing!

This caused everyone a lot of headaches!

"Professor, which specific desolate beasts will be charging towards the isolation zone? The final exam outline should be defined at least!"

Some students hoped Professor Guo could indicate the key points for the exam. Once the specific types of desolate beasts were determined, students could set traps specifically for them, increasing the likelihood of killing the beasts.

However, the strict Professor Guo threw cold water on their hopes: "You are all martial arts students. When a beast tide erupts, any desolate beast might charge your isolation zone, not just a few specific ones! If I point out the key areas today, and a real beast tide erupts tomorrow, where will you look for key points then?"

"But there are just too many types of early-stage Qi-Controlling desolate beasts, and surely some traps would end up being a waste," the students pressed on, not ready to give up.

Professor Guo then played a video: "This is Xiang Beifei's final assessment. The requirement I set for him was a fifty-meter isolation zone with a hundred late-stage Qi-Controlling desolate beasts. Ten points would be deducted for every beast that survived."

The video showed a swampy area, outside the boundaries of the wasteland, shrouded in a hazy mist. Soon, a group of ferocious desolate beasts that made everyone's hearts tremble were driven into this swamp.

Following that—

Boom! Boom! Boom!

Explosions, whizzing sounds, sonic booms, ice blasts, water bullets, spatial restraints... various formations were launched, accurately ensnaring their respective desolate beasts and outright killing them!

Blood spattered everywhere, and limbs flew in all directions!

The scene was extremely gory.

In just a short moment, a hundred late-stage Qi-Controlling desolate beasts were completely slaughtered by the various traps!

Professor Guo, pleased, pressed the pause button on the video, scanning over everyone before his gaze settled on Xiang Beifei, who was sitting and resting his chin on his hand, and then said, "Full marks."

Everyone looked at each other, speechless.

The assessment Professor Guo had set for Xiang Beifei required dealing with a hundred late-stage Qi-Controlling desolate beasts, with ten points deducted for each one that survived. In other words, if more than four beasts survived, Xiang Beifei would fail.
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However, they were only tasked with dealing with fifty early-stage Qi-Controlling desolate beasts, with two points deducted for each survival, allowing them to pass even if twenty survived.

Compared like this, everyone was left at a loss for words.

"You think that's all there was to it? I then rushed over another hundred late-stage Qi-Controlling desolate beasts. They went through his set-up isolation zone, the second wave of beasts!"

Professor Guo played the video again, and Xiang Beifei's isolation zone was very thoroughly set up. Many traps weren't one-time use—they continued to function after killing the first wave of desolate beasts, quickly slaying the second wave as well.

There was a single survivor from the third wave of desolate beasts, and it wasn't until the fourth wave that four beasts survived.

That is to say, an isolation zone set up by Xiang Beifei blocked four waves of different types of desolate beasts!

Nobody had any rebuttals anymore because the professors only required them to block one wave, and many people's traps couldn't even hold off the second one.

In other subjects, people might still claim Xiang Beifei succeeded due to his high cultivation level, but for the defense class assessment, this explanation no longer held water. That was because Xiang Beifei hadn't personally engaged in killing; he had purely used traps!

These traps, they should have been able to master as well!

With nothing to say, without comparison, there wouldn't be any hurt, but Xiang Beifei's assessment was so much harder than theirs. What could they possibly complain about? They could only return dejectedly to prepare for the exam.

After class, Xiang Beifei continued to study his diary.

He had had the diary for ten days now, and he would take it out every day, carefully pondering the fragmented sentences written in it, thinking about his own matters.

Xiang Beifei had always wanted to find clues from his father's diary, the most pressing issue being what Xiang Tianxing was searching for. What answer was he trying to find?

Did he act according to his own will, or did he follow the mission arranged by the alliance?

"Still thinking about that matter?" Professor Guo approached and asked.

"Professor." Xiang Beifei closed the diary and greeted him politely.

"Luo told me everything. I'm very sorry about your father's situation. He was a talented individual, just like you. Don't overthink it." Professor Guo sighed.

"Professor, is there a way to restore a Pioneering Stone?" Xiang Beifei asked.

Professor Guo shook his head, "The Pioneering Stone is meant to avoid detection by desolate beasts, so it's not created by system items but from a very special material, which also means that any system-related abilities are ineffective on it."

"System-related abilities are ineffective on the Pioneering Stone?"

"Right. Otherwise, many restorative Awakeners would have repaired it long ago," Professor Guo nodded.

But Xiang Beifei suddenly thought of something.

Many system-class abilities were also ineffective on him.

Then, of what material was this Pioneering Stone made?

Professor Guo said, "Alright, don't think too much about it. What you should do now is make good use of your talent to train and improve your cultivation level. It's better to pursue this matter afterward. You've been through a lot this semester; it's time to go home and rest for a while. When do you plan on going home?"

"I'll go home after the Anatomy class exam."

Xiang Beifei said this and slightly furrowed his eyebrows.

Come to think of it, he had almost forgotten about the teacher of the Desolate Beast Cognition and Anatomy course.

That Xu Yang, who had released the mutant hounds to attack him just days after his Awakening System had activated!

Xiang Beifei still hadn't figured out Xu Yang's intentions.

Was Xu Yang's attempt to probe him because of Xiang Tianxing?

Did he know what his father had done in the extraterritorial desolate wilderness?