Chapter 68 - This Boy Has Signs of an Honor Roll Student (1/2)
Chapter 68: This Boy Has Signs of an Honor Roll Student
The Tang Dynasty’s Imperial Examination lasted for three days
The first two days were similar to academy examinations
The first day consisted of the theoretical assessue The only difference was the Imperial Examination had no breaks in between the papers Once the examination started, all three papers would be distributed and they had to complete them within the allocated time
The second day involved the combat assessment, split into written and practical sections
The third day was the core evaluation After the core evaluation, the results would be released the next day
The Imperial Examination was not too complicated Truthfully, it was similar to the examination the students took in their three years in the acadeht of the Imperial Examination laid in the fact that it decided a cultivator’s fate
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Brushessnakes across the white rice paper, eliciting rustling sounds
Fang Lang holly-focused on his calligraphy In all honesty, he was not at all anxious Perhaps it was his personality—when the going got tough, Fang Lang’s nerves became steel
He answered a series of questions about the Tang Dynasty’s history and the de the notes before the Imperial Examination, the questions were easy to answer
The questions were a breeze to Fang Lang
He let out a short breath and let his vision slide He stared at the poetry paper
One could subnette
Most i out the ue entry would earn a candidatefocused his mind and looked at the question He read out the lines under his breath
“Year 266 of the Tang Dynasty, the Loulan De joined forces with a hundred thousand demons and broke out fro and countless Tang Dynasty cultivators fell during the battle
“Martial Arts King Jiang led his forces froed in a bloody battle at the Loulan Demon Portal He invited Taihua First Sword of Mount Shu to assist in the military expedition Hundreds and thousands of demon carcasses littered the area and the demon horde was forced back to the Jade Pass and into the de and Taihua First Sword chased after the horde co returned severely injured and Taihua First Sas lost, never to be seen again Loulan De Dynasty’s sword nated since Based on this scene, co frowned as he realized what he was reading
A suspicious glinted flashed across his eyes ‘Who ca to do?
‘Martial Arts King Jiang… Which Jiang is this?
‘Jiang Linglong’s father?’
Fang Lang did not expect the I The tone of the ue—was it praise or a condeiven to candidates throughout the eeneration In a way, it was akin to publicly sha for hisdid not hurry to answer He rested his head on one palh his asps could be heard from the students around him They were quickly silenced by the cold-hearted head exa Dynasty treats the Jiang fa family to appear as a topic in the Imperial Exa Lang let out a slow breath
He had inadvertently offended the third prince and Donglu’s God of Blades This meant if he entered the Imperial City, he would be faced with an unfriendly environ closed his eyes and caled the vocabulary in hisJiang was right or wrong, Fang Lang could not judge
As the co However, he was to blame for Taihua First Sword’s disappearance in the demon portal
However, the examination asked for the candidates to use the scene as the setting Anyone rote kindly about the topic would likely have fallen into the question’s trap
Although the question had an obvious angle, biting down on the proffered fruit ht not end well Who kneould result from a slanderous work?
The round included Loulan, the foreigners, demons…
He could interpret the question as a request for a poem about the battler frontiers For many students, war poems were not easy to co was different froe student He had approximately 5,000 years of experience in hi, deep within the green plains There was a well-known lake called the Green Sea thatLang spent several ht Then, he picked up his brush and dipped it in ink Brush strokes stained the rice paper
‘Beyond the Green Ocean, theclouds cast shadows on the snowy uards the Jade Pass
‘Battles after battles, eary arht If Loulan is not taken, we shan’t find respite’
A poe wrote He ended the poe’s actions were not for Fang Lang to judge but the story had ele Loulan Demon Portal, the bloodstained Jade Pass and the countless warriors of the empire were all i placed the script aside for the ink to dry He brought out the policy paper and continued answering
The elegance of the poetry ed to clear hispaper Compared to the poetry section, it was nificant brain power
The discussion was to be centered around the current affairs in the Tang Dynasty