Chapter 19

屾邬 incense also has powerful spirit-cleansing effects. Many human experts who raise spirit pets such as tigers, wolves, and pythons often use spirit-cleansing pills made with屾邬 grass as a main ingredient. This can help their spirit pets evolve in intelligence, greatly increasing their ability to understand and learn.

This involves spirit plants that affect the mind or soul. When refined with special techniques and combined with other spirit plants to make幻神, whether ordinary people or cultivators take it, they will enter all kinds of mental illusions. In a daze, even if you stab someone physically, they might not notice. It is highly addictive and ranks among the top banned substances in the Ming Empire.

Which option should you choose for this question?

ACD are all arguably the main uses of屾邬 grass. Several countries on Earth rely on making幻神 as one of their main economic sources, and it's hard to distinguish which is more important.

The answer to this question is B...

But answer B is also a trap. Many major conglomerates have long been researching the big topic of life extension, and屾邬 grass has always been a focus of research. No matter which of its effects, it demonstrates a strong positive or negative influence on the mental or spiritual state of life.

A month ago, the Royal Spirit Academy of the Ming Dynasty published a paper. The top spirit plant scholar, national-level expert Jack Brooks, proposed a concept: academically expounding and theoretically speculating, verifying the life-extending effect of屾邬 grass. Alone,屾邬 grass is not enough, but when combined with another spirit medicine that slows aging, it can comprehensively extend human life.

This paper is essentially proving that屾邬 grass will become one of the main spirit ingredients in life-extending medicines in the future. This concept is also one of the hottest topics on Earth recently.

“Is this from our Jiangzhou Polytechnic’s question bank? Must be a newly updated question bank. I’ve been grinding the question bank a lot these days, but I haven’t seen either of these two questions, and they’re both really tricky.” Henry Sutton complained as he decisively chose A.

This question bank has definitely been updated!!

And it was updated just recently.

Henry Sutton has also reached level 1 mastery in spirit plant studies. When answering questions, he understands one principle: always pay attention to the wording, and accurately judge the precise meaning of the question. The greatest use of屾邬 grass... refers to the present, not the future.

You also have to pay attention to your standpoint!

Science and cultivation theories have no borders, but scientists and cultivators have their own motherlands!

The life-extension theory proposed by the spirit plant expert Jack Brooks is an academic hypothesis, still at the theoretical research stage!

Just like in his previous life, countless industries on Earth were dominated by petroleum energy. In theory, you could propose renewable energy, solar power, etc., but in reality? They still used petroleum.

Since this question is being asked today, the life-extension effect proposed by the expert Jack Brooks should be excluded.

The standpoint issue is also simple!

Henry Sutton is human, and the one answering the question is also human, so the effect of cleansing spirits for pets can also be excluded.

That leaves屾邬 incense and幻神. If he were a citizen of one of those small countries whose main economic source is making幻神, and the national economy depends on幻神, of course he would choose D. But Henry Sutton is from the Ming Dynasty, where this is a banned substance.

Answer submitted, and the big screen corresponding to Henry Sutton changed immediately.

Henry Sutton, score: 4.

First question correct, second question correct.

Grace Warren, score: 2, first question correct.

Frank Young, score: 2, first question correct.

Emily Thompson, score: 2, first question correct.

George Grant, score: 2, first question incorrect.

Shawn Dudley, score: 0, first question incorrect, second question incorrect.

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Out of 19 contestants, several were tripped up by the very first multiple-choice question. It’s not that they’re not strong—each spirit ingredient contains dozens of trace elements. If an ordinary student can remember the names of all the elements, that’s already impressive, let alone accurately recall the ranking of each element’s content. And you also have to keep up with the latest academic reports and papers from home and abroad...

The second question isn’t easy either. With tens of thousands of spirit plants, memorizing them all is already a huge challenge, and this question also has traps.

Chapter 013: The Chance to Overtake Has Arrived

After finishing the second question, Henry Sutton glanced at the answer speeds of the others. Most people were still stuck on the second question, so he composed himself and continued.

Next was the third question. Relying on his strong knowledge base, Henry Sutton once again identified the correct answer within a second or two, and after reaching question 11 with a score of 20, he was finally stumped by a question with even more confusion and traps.

This one was also a multiple-choice question.

The entire process of breaking it down was no less difficult than the graduate exam question Olivia Warren had used to tease him last time. It’s not that Henry Sutton couldn’t solve it, but that he needed to think carefully, pay attention to the traps and avoid being misled, and also keep an eye on the time.

Don’t forget, in this kind of competition, others like Grace Warren and Frank Young could also get a perfect score of 100. The undergraduate question bank is randomly selected, and the question setters only control the difficulty ratio. In the end, if more than one person gets a perfect score, the winner is determined by who answers the fastest.

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“Huh, Professor Warren, it seems Henry Sutton might just be the down-to-earth student you like. It’s only been a few minutes since the exam started, and the young man already has 20 points. Not bad, he’s already in first place on site.”

Henry Sutton was solving questions with unstoppable momentum. From the high platform overlooking the whole venue, Edward Thompson joked with his companion.

Two or three minutes into the exam, besides Henry Sutton, the highest score was contestant number 3, Emily Thompson, with 18 points, having answered all 9 questions correctly.