Rebirth: Slice-of-life Cultivation Chapter 87 – Chapter 87: Chapter 87: Fellow Sufferers

Chapter 87: Chapter 87: Fellow Sufferers
 

Exam day two.

In the morning, the subject was mathematics, and the invigilator in Exam Room No. 8 was Teacher Guo Ran.

Guo Ran entered the exam room and, seeing Jiang Ning, even winked at him, completely unlike a teacher.

After distributing the test papers, Guo Ran sat at the podium playing “Candy Crush Saga.”

Mathematics wasn't Jiang Ning's strong suit, but that was only relative. The topics of Math Required One were “sets,” “inequalities,” “functions,” and the like, all basic knowledge.

Jiang Ning found the problems straightforward—the latter few questions posed no difficulty at all.

The exam lasted two hours, but Jiang Ning finished in less than forty minutes, his answer sheet densely filled.

Afterward, he engaged in his cultivation practice and pondered various matters.

After gathering the materials for Evergreen Liquid, he had completed constructing the Spirit Array yesterday. To facilitate later dismantling, he had taken some care to make it a portable array.

He took the spirit soul of that big wolfhound and, after creating a magic imprint, incorporated it into the array.

Now, by just adding the herbal ingredients of Evergreen Liquid and infusing a spirit flame, it would automatically remove impurities from the herbs, meeting the standards necessary for producing Evergreen Liquid.

Through this period of searching for and purchasing materials, Jiang Ning had spent more than half of his two hundred thousand in savings.

Due to Jiang Ning's generous expenditures, his social media account had gained a large following, making him an influencer in several forums.

However, the progress in finding materials wasn't as fast as he had envisioned.

For some cultivation materials, although people claimed to have seen them in certain places and even taken photos, they weren't available on the market, so Jiang Ning had to search for them himself.

Without a Flying Artifact, traveling long distances was very troublesome.

Although, with his current physical condition and the addition of the Divine Step spell, he could reach speeds of over forty meters per second.

While this was manageable for short distances, for longer distances it proved insufficient—not only was it slow, but each journey required him to cover his tracks, and it was all quite unbecoming.

Therefore, Jiang Ning was now preparing to refine a Spirit Boat Magic Artifact for long-distance travel.

Based on his recent experiences, he thought it highly likely that he could gather the materials for the Spirit Boat in the Real World. He wasn't aiming for a high-tier Spirit Boat; as long as it was functional, it would suffice.

Jiang Ning had prepared some auxiliary materials and now lacked only “Broken Silver Sand,” “Biling Wood,” “Wind Removing Crystal,” and “Purple Vine Mucus,” a few key materials.

Jiang Ning's eyes flickered; it was time to change his method of searching for materials, such as first drawing the materials and then posting the pictures to forums to facilitate easier recognition by netizens.

Drawing, a skill Jiang Ning had never learned, should not be too hard given his photographic memory. Once his drawing skills had matured, he could illustrate each needed material.

For now, Jiang Ning didn't plan to learn to draw.

A few days ago, Geng Lu had given him a painting of him sitting by a window, looking out.

Though the technique was somewhat childish, it possessed a unique spiritual rhythm. Geng Lu's aesthetic sense was fine—resulting in a painting that was quite appealing.

Geng Lu said she had been drawing since she was young, and Jiang Ning remembered that she had taken up art in her second year of high school, following the path of an art student. Unfortunately, her overall college entrance exam scores were average, and her academic subjects had held her back, leading her to a second-tier college.

“She loves to draw and has some talent,” Jiang Ning thought to himself.

With that in mind, he could give her a few materials to try drawing to see how well she grasped it.

If, in the future, there's a possibility, like with some Spiritual Objects and talismans, he might entrust her with drawing them. Although those items required a combination of spiritual power and Divine Sense to create, regardless of the future, training the basics now was never a mistake.

Having decided this, Jiang Ning felt much more at ease.

Previously, in Luoyun Sect, he was unconcerned with worldly matters because there were elders, stewards, and disciples below him; he just needed to command, and various spiritual objects would be presented.

Resources were scarce in the Real World, and going it alone was too slow; it was better to have help.

His gaze then returned to Teacher Guo Ran.

At that moment, Guo Ran had stood up from his seat and was patrolling the classroom.

Jiang Ning raised his hand. “Teacher, I'd like to turn in my test.”

Jiang Ning left the exam room, sweeping with his Divine Sense. Guo Ran stood by his desk and covered his test paper, preventing other students from copying.

As Jiang Ning exited the exam room, the corridor outside was crowded with students; more had turned in their math tests early compared to other subjects.

If you didn't know math, you just didn't. Unlike language arts, no amount of struggling would help. Humans could achieve many things in extreme anger, but solving math problems wasn't one of them.

At the entrance to the exam hall, two students were discussing math problems too loudly. The invigilator from Class 1 came out and sent them away.

The students ran to the small garden in front to discuss.

Jiang Ning, having nothing else to do, went to the garden too.

Two girls stood in front of an outdoor bench, carefully wiping it down with tissue.

Jiang Ning casually cast a small magic spell that removed the stains from the wooden bench.

Just then, Ma Shicheng and Dan Kaiquan ran over. Dan Kaiquan took out his mobile phone, preparing to connect to the wifi, but he discovered the signal was incredibly weak due to a blocking device, making it unusable.

Ma Shicheng was quite calm about it. He first greeted Jiang Ning:

“Brother Ning, did you also turn in your paper early?”

“Yes,” Jiang Ning replied.

Beside them, Dan Kaiquan said, “I don't know which teacher made up this math test, but it was so hard; I couldn't do it at all.”

Ma Shicheng opened a game and said nonchalantly, “I only did the multiple-choice questions. If it weren't for the rule against turning in the paper too early, I could have left twenty minutes in.”

Dan Kaiquan expressed his admiration, “Brother Ma is awesome.”

“Jiang Ning, did you manage to do the last two big questions?” Dan Kaiquan asked.

Jiang Ning said, “I filled them out anyway.”

Dan Kaiquan empathetically said, “Same as me. I filled in the formulas I knew, and I wrote very neatly, hoping the teacher could give me a couple of points.”

“I should be able to score seventy or eighty in math this time,” he said.

Considering the total was one hundred fifty and the paper was tough, getting seventy or eighty wasn't bad, Dan Kaiquan felt content, especially with Ma Shicheng, who completed only the multiple-choice questions, and Jiang Ning, who had a similar experience. Dan Kaiquan didn't have a hard time accepting his performance.

He even had a feeling that ‘I actually didn't do too bad.'

Ma Shicheng was enjoying his game. While Dan Kaiquan watched the game screen, where a boy was running on a railway, he wondered,

“How is this game so much like Temple Run?”

“This is the newly released Subway Surfers; I find it quite fun and thrilling,” Ma Shicheng said.

Dan Kaiquan remarked, “These games all have the same pattern, they get boring after a while.”

After watching for a while and finding it quite fun, he said,

“Send it to me through ‘Kuaiya'; let's see if I can beat your score.”

After the math exam, Jiang Ning returned to Room 8.

Chen Qian, Dong Qingfeng, and Chen Siyu were discussing and matching answers, debating whether the last question of the multiple-choice section should be A or C.

After matching answers for a while, Dong Qingfeng humbly said,

“The math paper was kind of difficult, there were many questions I wasn't sure about.”

Chen Qian agreed, “Yeah, I feel like I didn't do well.”

The sports committee member, Zhang Chi, came back to get something and completely agreed with what he heard; the math paper was indeed tough, it was like reading a book of spells to him.

Originally thinking he had bombed this exam, expecting at most seventy, but hearing that Chen Qian and Dong Qingfeng, who usually studied so diligently, also found it difficult,

We're all in the same boat!

Zhang Chi felt slightly better and comforted them,

“Hey, don't worry, everyone did poorly, it won't affect the rankings.”

“Indeed,” Dong Qingfeng said.

Zhang Chi offered a few more words of comfort before finally asking,

“So, how much do you think you scored?”

Dong Qingfeng said, “I guess I could only get about one hundred twenty, oh, I really bombed it this time!”

Chen Qian said, “Breaking one hundred thirty seems tough, it's really bad.”

Zhang Chi's face darkened, and without a word or greeting, he left silently.

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