After successfully driving away that troublesome old fox, Li Yunxian returned to her villa for a night’s rest.
The next morning, she was greeted by even more people in the group, all shocked by her signing up for the Jifa exchange.
However, what surprised everyone wasn’t that Li Yunxian was about to leave the academy again.
Most classmates still didn’t know that Li Yunxian had taken a trip to Wenwu.
What truly shocked them was—”Yunxian, you actually joined an academy event!!”
Among the Four Great Academies, there were plenty of events, and participants could win spiritual materials, spirit stones, or academic credit rewards.
But everyone knew that ever since Li Yunxian enrolled a year ago, she hadn’t participated in a single event.
The only exception was before her official enrollment—when she entered the Xuanwen Secret Realm, placed in the top hundred on the arena, and won a Xuanwen Token.
And now, the first time she participates again, she goes big.
“The exchange requires at least seventh level Qi Refining before you can join. Yunxian, are you at seventh level now?”
“@Shen Bofeng, Yunxian is going to Jifa. Are you going with her?”
Not long after, Shen Bofeng replied in the group with an angry emoji: “What do you mean, am I going with her?”
Everyone in the group saw the message and burst out laughing, then Ying Qian popped up.
“He can’t go, he’s already reached Great Perfection.” The exchange has a minimum limit of seventh level Qi Refining and a maximum of ninth level.
“But I can go!” Ying Qian sent a smug emoji, “I’m going out to play with Sister Xian and not taking any of you~”
Currently, Ying Qian is at eighth level Qi Refining.
Among the group, he has the highest cultivation apart from Shen Bofeng.
Everyone spammed him with furious emoji attacks, which only made Ying Qian show off even more in the chat.
Li Yunxian looked at the bustling group chat and smiled, but didn’t reply. Instead, she began working towards meeting the minimum standards for the exchange.
Exchanges between academies didn’t only require a certain level of cultivation; participants had to meet various criteria.
Besides the cultivation requirement, there was also a requirement for a top 500 arena ranking.
This, Li Yunxian could disregard.
Although her current ranking had slipped a bit, she was still in the top hundred.
Even if she dropped out of the top hundred, she could just go beat up Shen Bofeng again and climb back up.
Simple.
What gave Li Yunxian more of a headache were the other criteria.
For example, having participated in activities and received three excellent evaluations, or achieved first place in an event.
Or at least attended five types of classes and passed the school’s exams for them.
Just as her classmates said—
She… almost never participated in school activities.
She’d barely attended any classes, much less taken any exams.
For the average student, the hardest part was the combat value requirement.
There were fewer than a hundred students in the entire academy who were both in the top five hundred on the arena and not yet at Great Perfection Qi Refining.
The bar was set very high.
But for Li Yunxian…
Her first concern was to think about what events at the academy she could still join.
Soon, she spotted a drama troupe activity, a cooking competition, and a cultural field trip.
Only the spirit power sparring event in the training area seemed remotely normal.
Li Yunxian:
All she could say was—the academy sure had a lot of activities.
Li Yunxian stared at the spirit power sparring event for a while, then finally decided to go to the Academic Affairs Office.
She could easily take first place in that event, but if she robbed the teachers and outsiders for their resources, that was one thing.
The former would only offer her the kind of things meant for juniors, which didn’t matter much to them.
Li Yunxian happily accepted, and they gave without feeling the loss.
As for the latter, Li Yunxian was always the type to take lives along with the loot.
But for this event, her classmates would be fighting tooth and nail for those resources. If she were truly just eighteen or nineteen, it’d be one thing—but she was on her second round of cultivation.
Stealing what little they had would prick her conscience.
When Li Yunxian suddenly appeared before him, the Academic Affairs teacher looked confused.
“Is there something you need?” he asked.
Li Yunxian put on a well-behaved expression: “Teacher, I’d like to ask about the requirements for Jifa exchange students.”
The other party was silent for a moment.
He’d been in charge of exchange student affairs for years, but it was the first time a student had come straight to his face to ask about it.
But it wasn’t a problem.
He sat up straighter: “Go ahead.”
Li Yunxian cleared her throat, sounding a bit embarrassed: “Um… does that time in the Xuanwen Secret Realm count as an event? If it does, could my performance then count as a first place?”
All the teachers in the office, upon hearing this:
That’s… a really good question.
The Xuanwen Secret Realm, being an academy-organized activity outside the regular curriculum, undoubtedly counted as an event.
But it was like the Wenwu Pagoda—meant for top-tier students to use when graduating.
Theoretically, those who made it to the top should graduate right after finishing the event.
No one really cared about ranking first, second, or third in activities—nor about being rated ‘excellent’.
Unfortunately, now there was a ‘weirdo’ like Li Yunxian.
The teacher in charge considered it for a long while, then smiled and gave the standard response: “We teachers will discuss this among ourselves and let you know later.”
Hearing this answer, Li Yunxian didn’t press.
She knew this wasn’t something a single Golden Core teacher could decide on the spot.
Li Yunxian asked her next question.
“For the five categories of courses and passing the exams, can I take five different courses and then test for another five?”
The academy didn’t have strict requirements for students to attend classes or take exams; graduation had nothing to do with them.
However, passing subject exams did earn you credits, so many students would take them.
But Li Yunxian was clearly not among those students.
Because, unlike other schools, there weren’t unified exam times here, so… the few classes Li Yunxian had attended this semester currently weren’t open for exams.
If she couldn’t operate this way, it meant she’d have to start all five from scratch.
Once again, the teachers were left speechless.
What kind of question was this? What ordinary student never attended class but could still pass the exams?
But seeing it was Li Yunxian, known across the entire academy…
Well, never mind.
The teacher in charge checked the selection criteria twice and finally gave Li Yunxian a clear answer.
“This requirement doesn’t specify the same courses, so yes, you can.”
As righteous path teachers, they had good hearts and wouldn’t purposely make things difficult for students.
Li Yunxian smiled, then asked her final question: “So… can ‘Introduction to Swordsmanship’ count as a course I attended?”
Whether teacher or student, everyone would say—doesn’t that count as attending class!
The teacher in charge paused for a few seconds, then looked up and smiled back at Li Yunxian: “‘Introduction to Swordsmanship’ was taught by Assistant Instructor Hua Shunyu, wasn’t it?”
Whether teacher or student, if you’re the substitute teacher, of course it doesn’t count as you attending the class yourself!
Li Yunxian:
Tsk.
Speechless.
Li Yunxian brought back her answers. Over the next two days, the students at the academy were shocked to see Li Yunxian at every single exam venue.
From body refinement, to various weapon disciplines, spiritual power, apertures, artifacts, and even beast-taming exams, Li Yunxian was present at all of them.
As a legendary figure on campus, Li Yunxian’s strange behavior immediately caught everyone’s attention.
Soon, news spread that she’d signed up for the Jifa exchange.
With only ten days left before registration closed, seeing someone start from scratch to meet all the requirements—this was a first for everyone.
Everyone was curious: could Li Yunxian pass all five exams?
The answer…
Yes.
***
In two days, she passed every personal cultivation-related exam she took with scores far above the passing mark.
As for why the specification ‘personal cultivation-related’ is necessary…
That’s because Li Yunxian failed the beast-taming exams.
The Demon Cultivator Teacher at the Beast Park fumed, saying: “Other than petting spirit beasts, you’re good for nothing! Get out!!”
Upon hearing this, the students at the academy suddenly understood.
Afterwards, when the beast-taming exams reopened, the number of applicants immediately shot up several times.
Demon Cultivator Teacher:
The spirit beasts in the park:
Unaware of the odd trend she’d brought to the academy, Li Yunxian, upon being informed that her performance in the Xuanwen Secret Realm would count as a first place, showed everyone what it meant to ‘take the exam before learning’.
After finishing all her exams, Li Yunxian chose a few classes and, in the last week, put on another show of cramming all her required class hours.
She’d attend the first and second periods of a course with Teacher A in the morning, then the thirteenth and fourteenth with Teacher B, then go to Teacher C for the eighth and ninth.
It was complete chaos!
Seeing Li Yunxian achieve in ten days what took them two or three years, the other students:
Is this even fair!!
Some were so shaken that their hearts wavered, green with jealousy.
Soon, others suppressed these voices.
Their reasoning was utterly convincing.
A talent like Li Yunxian shouldn’t be kept caged in Tiantong; wouldn’t that only torment the rest of us?
Of course, Jifa should also experience this level of devastation.
Whether they envied or admired Li Yunxian, everyone nodded in agreement.
So, as exchange student registration ended, the student selection results quickly came out.
Li Yunxian was listed first, becoming the representative for the exchange students this time.
Incidentally—
Last time, when students from Wenwu Academy came for the exchange, their representative was Pei Dongyuan.
Simply put, that’s the ‘mockery position’.
Li Yunxian, upon receiving her assignment from the academy:
If she says she doesn’t know how to stir up trouble, who would believe her?
Of course… no one.
The name ‘Li Yunxian of Ginkgo’ had, over this academic year, become downright terrifying in the rumors.
No, it’s become reassuring.
They had never so eagerly anticipated going to Jifa for the exchange!