Chapter 115 — A Wicked Nature

All who passed were scholars of the Five Luminaries realm; no scholar of the Spirit Fetus realm could pass any longer. Shen Mu looked and saw that Wei Yong had passed smoothly as well.

This fat-faced, big-eared youth's cultivation was indeed deep — worthy of a scholar of the Wei clan of Jiangling. The many Daoists were taken aback, never having imagined that a perfectly proper trial would turn out like this.

After a moment, a Daoist called out loudly, "Scholars who have passed, enter the hall; the rest, descend the mountain.

" Shen Mu and the other scholars walked toward the great hall ahead.

He kept feeling eyes upon his back; turning his head, he saw that the gaze of all ninety-nine Daoists rested on him.

Shen Mu straightened his clothes, found nothing amiss, gave the Daoists a brilliant smile, and walked into the hall. "Wicked, wicked! " Behind him, the ninety-nine Daoists said in unison.

The leading Daoist wrote a comment after Shen Mu's name in the register, then tossed the register into the air; a crane flew up, seized it in its beak, and flew over the hall toward the mountain. "A youth so wicked had best be weeded out along the way, lest he bring calamity upon our Grand Academy and ruin its name!

I hope the examiners to come will strike him out! " Shen Mu and the many scholars entered the great hall, and still did not see the batch of Six Harmonies realm scholars who had gone up the mountain earlier. Those scholars were all divine-ability practitioners; their trial, surely, was different. Shen Mu looked around and saw that the pillars of the hall were painted with murals, strange and varied beyond reckoning.

He said, puzzled, "What does this trial test?

" Wei Yong laughed and said, "The Grand Academy tests something different every year; no one knows what will be tested.

If one knew the questions, entering the Grand Academy would not be so hard. " Shen Mu nodded.

Suddenly his heart gave a small jolt: the murals on these pillars were in fact the vital-essence circulation diagrams of certain cultivation arts!

Each diagram was the circulation route of a different art!

He looked them over one by one, deeply shaken. The Grand Academy had carved these circulation diagrams here — was it not far too careless?

Was it not afraid of people spying them out? "The vital-essence circulation diagrams in this hall are all incomplete.

" A scholar beside him said, "Every art here is incomplete. I have heard that the Grand Libationer of the National Academy gathered incomplete arts from all under heaven and had these fragmentary diagrams carved here.

" Shen Mu suddenly noticed one diagram, and his heart gave a violent leap. This diagram was the circulation chart of the Mystic Body Three Elixirs Art!

Then he frowned. This diagram was likely the Six Harmonies realm circulation chart of the Mystic Body Three Elixirs Art, not the Five Luminaries realm chart he most needed.

"Could it be that the Patriarch found the circulation chart of the Mystic Body Three Elixirs Art somewhere and had it carved here?

Then does the Patriarch know the other charts?

In any case, I must become a Grand Scholar of the Grand Academy and meet the Patriarch! "