All Heavenly destiny reduced to ashes
Chapter 633 - 8: Cheating? Cheating is Useless!

Chapter 633: Chapter 8: Cheating? Cheating is Useless!

"I knew it! It was bound to be tested!"

Facing this seemingly ordinary exam paper, he felt an immense headache: "This exam discriminates against people from other worlds!"

If, instead of testing pure technical knowledge, the exam were about topics such as extended discussions, analyzing specific instances from local history, and thinking about strategic responses, what could an otherworlder like An Jing do?

This was the real issue An Jing was worried about.

He had long realized that the academies in the Tianyuan Realm were not the same as those in his previous life but were akin to ’excellent civil servant’ training schools.

It makes sense, thinking about it; everyone here is a cultivator, and excellent cultivators work for groups becoming mid-to-senior level management; however, the groups in Tianyuan Realm are the government itself, so their management is essentially civil servants!

A civil service exam certainly wouldn’t test purely on technical skills. Even if it involved technical elements, it would mostly assess how to apply that technology for analysis, how to manage real-life situations using technology, and how to discover and solve existing issues with technology!

An Jing didn’t fear any simple technical questions; what he feared was exactly this!

"Who is Master Qingye? Where is Marsh at North Pass? This place must have changed its name, prohibiting chips in the exam room; I can’t search on the Spiritual Network, making it completely unclear!"

An Jing could be certain that this matter must have been a significant event in the history of Xuanye City, being included in the exam, with losses so devastating that it must have etched into the memories of the higher-ups and surely in the general populace as well.

But he truly had no clue!

Even with various interviews available, such a significant event would certainly have its causes and consequences, and knowing only about the event itself wouldn’t allow for any analysis!

Moreover, there was another crucial issue.

"What other solution is there? Internal conflicts call for killing, damn it, even when there’s warfare for expansion, internal strife persists, isn’t it necessary to kill one to warn the others?!"

"Expanding warfare yet still engaging in private fights, heads really should roll, right? As expected, it has to be decapitation, only killing is an option!"

The more An Jing looked at the information in the appendix, the more upset he became. He read back and forth through at least eighty pages of information several times, only to find one word between the lines: kill, kill, kill!

At this point, there are no other options; there is only killing, solely killing!

But writing such an answer would only result in a zero score; doesn’t Xuanye City understand that killing is the simplest, the most convenient, the ultimate problem-solver?

It’s precisely this most practically resolutive answer that cannot be considered correct, for if it continued to be right, everyone would revolt, and if everyone resorted to killing, what would become of the world?

But An Jing didn’t know the reasons behind it; facing this question, he was completely in the dark.

"No other way, I have to cheat."

An Jing sighed deeply in his heart; he didn’t mind using extraordinary measures, but he would rather not if it could be avoided. However, now, if he couldn’t answer this major question, his identity as someone not from the wilderness around Xuanye City would surely be revealed.

According to the current information, this incident is very famous, similar to some of the old clichés used to screen for spies in his previous life. Even someone from the wilderness should know about the failed expedition of Xuanye City, as a new settlement area meant that a large number of people from the wilderness could reassimilate and become residents of the safe zone.

At the exam site, chips can’t connect to the network nor can they use the information database function. A normal cultivator can only rely on themselves.

Fortunately, An Jing isn’t a normal cultivator, and his chip isn’t a normal chip.

A flicker in his eyes, An Jing forced the sixth-generation chip to shut down, then simultaneously initiated the high-privilege, backdoor-free seventh-generation chip.

Having studied the local Formation skills of the Tianyuan Realm, An Jing was crystal clear about what a high-ranking chip without backdoors meant in this world... it signified actual cheating.

Just like now, An Jing’s seventh-generation chip outright ignored the restraining Formations and programs targeting Divine Soul Chips within the examination hall, allowing direct connection to the Spiritual Network, and no one at Third Middle School noticed anything was amiss.

This was expected because, before he even entered Third Middle School, An Jing had already tried using the seventh-generation chip to trace back those monitoring Formations—although the high privileges of Xuandu Group weren’t handy inside the school due to Luofu’s jurisdiction, conversely, Third Middle School couldn’t detect An Jing either.

If this weren’t the case, An Jing would not have recklessly employed it.

"The uses of high privileges are truly numerous, but today I only need to extract some additional information."

An Jing was well aware of the major future role of this chip, but for now, being able to access the internet for research was sufficient: "Although it’s a chip that works best within the regions controlled by Xuandu Group, it can also make do in Xuanye City."

Swiftly, he gathered a massive amount of information on the Beize Expansion War via the Spiritual Network, gaining a rough idea of its entire course: "So that’s how it is, this war fundamentally represents a struggle and compromise among the various factions within Xuanye City... Uh, but what exactly are these factions?"

However, the more you know, the less clear it can become.

"Struggles between sects of Luofu Mountain’s branched chains lasting hundreds of years? The discord between disciples and descendants lineage? The overt and covert battles between Chen Family, blood descendants of the Luofu ancestor, and the various disciples with different surnames?"

Thanks to his high privileges, An Jing could access many materials utterly invisible to ordinary people, but precisely due to this, he was utterly bewildered by those overly complex events, which could even be traced back to ancient incidents from a millennium ago: "Is this matter really that serious? Do these actually relate to that Expansion War?"

They really do relate.

Some matters aren’t the kind you can simply study and ace.

An Jing now had the feeling of being able to look up answers yet still not quite understanding them.

How should it be phrased? It’s akin to reading the history of other countries; even after reading it all, a lack of local life experience, cultural understanding, and certain ways of local thinking, those metaphorical and ironic comments that only those within the cultural circle would get and smile knowingly, means you could never fully grasp those relatively objective but profound historical narratives filled with countless connotations.

"Forget it."

Having read for a good while and only feeling more confused, An Jing’s first attempt at cheating on an exam concluded with a ’do as you please, cheating is futile’ outcome. He shook his head and sighed: "No need to strive for top grades, just try to blend in as a local as much as possible."

No matter what, An Jing felt that at least in terms of technology, he was absolutely perfect.

However, with Xuanye City’s stark social stratification, having only technical skills was not enough, appreciation from the upper echelons was a must, as well as the capability to handle complex issues, knowledge ranging from astrology to geography, and the ability to manage a team, only then could you catch the eyes of this elite group.

After musing for a long time and spending more than three times the duration he had on the technical questions, An Jing cautiously started to write his answers.

Some time later.

"Hmm..."

Inside the conference room, a director scrutinized the answer written by An Jing and couldn’t help but ponder for a moment before cautiously noting, "Clearly, he is exceptionally skilled in straightforward technical applications, but why does it feel like this An Xuan is somewhat naively childlike when it comes to current affairs and strategic discourse?"

"Indeed..."

Observing the answer from An Jing, another director who had previously been quite optimistic about him, stroked his chin, uncertain how to evaluate: "It feels like he’s the kind who’s engrossed in his Cultivation and completely unaware of the outside world... In the past, such Cultivators still had room to survive, but in recent years that’s no longer the case. Could it be An Xuan has been sheltered a little too well?"