MM Racing Chapter 58 Six-pointed Star
Chapter 58 Six-pointed Star
Upon returning to the Water Curtain Cave, Fang Yingyue took out the piece of paper that Cai Fei had returned, and then remained silent for an hour.
"What's wrong today? Is it unusually quiet?" Teacher Yue had been focused on grading homework, but when she turned around occasionally, she noticed Fang Yingyue's unusual expression and couldn't help but smile.
"I'm thinking we might need to reconsider those extra questions that Wansongmen sent..." Fang Yingyue said hesitantly.
The materials from Wansongmen have been in hand for over ten days, and Fang Yingyue has promptly adjusted the teaching plan, increasing the difficulty of the courses.
However, she was unimpressed by the few questions that were included as a bonus.
These questions are too difficult, completely beyond the scope of normal selection. If the Taibu Bureau had any sense, it would never have put such questions on the exam paper!
Teacher Yue agrees with this point.
Even Fang Yingyue wasn't confident about these questions, so she was in an even worse situation, as she couldn't even understand the questions!
These questions didn't have answers, only the questions themselves. They even sent a message saying that these were Wansong's internal questions, and there was a risk of leaking them. If you wanted these kinds of questions, you would have to pay 5 spirit stones!
A dozen or so completely beyond the scope of the curriculum, questions that even Foundation Establishment cultivators would be stumped by, and they still haven't given the answers, just to keep people in suspense!
She thought this was just pure desperation due to poverty!
Although 5 is not a lot, Teacher Yue did not want to satisfy the other party's greed!
So she used the excuse that "the students here are not advanced enough to handle high-level material" to refuse their "kindness" and only asked them to mark a certain amount of material and send it over on time.
This was a decision she and Fang Yingyue made together. Hearing Fang Yingyue bring up these questions again, and remembering how Fang Yingyue's desk was piled high with draft papers and her eyes were dark and swollen these past few days, she couldn't help but laugh: "You want to see the answers, don't you?"
Fang Yingyue sighed and handed over the paper in her hand: "Take a look."
Teacher Yue took it and glanced at it. It was a densely packed bunch of numerical equations, which she didn't want to look at at all. She only knew that someone had solved it, and the handwriting looked fresh. Remembering that Fang Yingyue had just finished her class in the Earth Class, she guessed, "Is it that Cai Fei?"
Fang Yingyue nodded, sighed, and said, "The world is vast, and there are experts everywhere. It's laughable that I used to humiliate them time and time again with questions. I was just a frog in a well, making a fool of myself."
"Suppose there is a section of sandy land, with a small slope of 13 li, a medium slope of 14 li, and a large slope of 15 li. There is a method for this: subtract each of these three sides from half the perimeter, multiply the three terms together, multiply by half the perimeter again, and take the square root to get 84 li. This is called the 'method of surveying the land'. Try to prove that this method has a feasible basis."
After reading the first question, Teacher Yue asked in bewilderment, "This solution is so complicated, where did this person learn it from?"
"The principle is still simple, it just uses the Pythagorean theorem repeatedly, but the formula is full of squares and the transformations are so complicated..." Fang Yingyue sighed again, "It can only be said that there are truly people in this world who are born with knowledge."
"A genius?" Teacher Yue exclaimed. "Even better than you, Cai Fei is truly extraordinary!"
Fang Yingyue pointed at the formula and said, "This formula is so beautiful and highly practical. I wonder where Wan Song got this problem from, and how much more useful information he has hidden away. It's really making me very curious."
"..."
Teacher Yue thought to himself: Last time you said that others were pretending to be gods and ghosts and making a fuss, but now that someone has proven it, you're itching to get involved?
"I've thought it over. This time, Group A is selecting 1 out of hundreds of thousands. The scale is unprecedented, and the acceptance rate is also unprecedentedly low. It's not appropriate to use past experience to deal with this exam. Since Wan Song dared to ask for 5, she must have her reasons. If what she said is true, our students will collapse when they encounter this level of difficulty in the exam room, and their results will be unimaginable," Fang Yingyue said formally.
"The problem is, if we use this in class, the students won't even need to take the exams, and they're already in a state of chaos..." Teacher Yue said helplessly.
Time is limited; in just six months, students will be intensively training in four subjects and gaining practical experience. Currently, the top-tier students are basically not sleeping. They often study hard for several days in a row before getting a few hours of rest, and they are all in a very tense state.
If such drastic measures are applied at this point, the students won't even be able to understand the questions, their minds will be a complete mess, and it will be a blow to their self-confidence.
"At least we need to show them what it's like, so they'll have a general idea even if they can't solve it, and won't be completely lost when they get the questions," Fang Yingyue said. "Also, we need to determine a rough proportion. How many of these questions are there? One question won't have much of an impact, but if there are three or four, then I'll have to prepare the students psychologically."
"There's really nowhere to ask... Xingyue refuses to share information; they clearly don't want Group A from here, they want more Group Bs." Teacher Yue glanced at Fang Yingyue and said, "Isn't your friend a disciple of Penglai? Why don't you have him ask?"
Fang Yingyue, a beauty of her stature, naturally had suitors. Among them, the most persistent was one of her senior brothers. The two originally came from a small sect. After Fang Yingyue went to serve the Heavenly Court, this senior brother tried every means to join the first-level sect, Penglai, in order to be a match for Fang Yingyue.
They had been exchanging letters for many years, and Aolai had even traveled thousands of miles to visit him several times, so Teacher Yue knew of this person's existence.
Upon hearing Teacher Yue's words, Fang Yingyue stamped her foot and repeatedly denied it: "What 'my guy'! I have no feelings for him, really not at all!"
Teacher Yue glanced at her but didn't reply.
However, Teacher Yue still approves of Fang Yingyue's refusal to take any benefit from that senior brother. Since she refuses to go to him, the only option left is to seek help from the old dean.
Fifteen minutes later, Yue and Fang arrived together at the back mountain, knocked on the door of the dean's office, and explained the situation.
While having his assistant offer him a seat and make tea, the former dean Guo Lichan said, "You two have really gone to great lengths. It is also my incompetence that these are all my duties, but now I have to rely on your guidance."
Both Yue and Fang repeatedly said they dared not.
Guo Lichan also came from a humble background. He was appointed as the headmaster of the academy because of his military achievements. His only connections were within the Six Jia and Six Ding, and he had no way of getting into the Nine Heavens or the Great Mountain Gate.
After pondering for a long time, he finally agreed to the matter, but did not disclose the specific method, only saying that there would be a result within a week.
After Yue and Fang took their leave, the young assistant who had been standing beside Guo Lichan bowed and asked, "Uncle, are you looking for Yingtian Academy?"
"That's all the relationship I have with you." Guo Lichan tapped his fingers unconsciously on the table. He had never owed anyone a favor in his life, but this time he had to make an exception.
"Go to the cave and bring back those jars of monkey wine." His voice was a little hoarse. "Things that have been hidden for decades should see the light of day."
The young assistant responded and went out, soon bringing back five jars of aged monkey wine. Half an hour later, the assistant, carrying a handwritten letter from Guo Lichan, boarded the flying shuttle heading north.
Leaving aside his busy work in trying to verify the difficulty of divination, Cai Fei also unusually skipped the illusion array trial that day. He spent half a day in the library, flipping through all the books on divination, but he couldn't find what he was looking for, and he couldn't help but fall into confusion.
Today, Fang Yingyue gave three questions. Besides the geomancy, the other two questions were about formations.
The questions were difficult, but they did not deviate from the scope of the Five Elements' mutual generation and restraint, and the Nine Spirits' mutual transformation, clearly bearing the characteristics of this world.
However, the formation was very rare. Both questions were based on the Six Spiritual Qi Formation, but the formations were neither the common Six Harmony Formation nor a superposition of the Three Talents Formation.
The question refers to this formation as a hexagonal formation, but if Cai Fei's memory is correct...
This formation has another name – the six-pointed star.
In Cai Fei's previous life, this thing was associated with "Solomon".
A six-pointed star appeared in the world of the Monkey King!
Cai Fei felt that his brain was not working properly.