New Skill: Dao Gathering
During self-study period, all the students were busy writing furiously on the test papers in front of them.
In this era, getting ahead in life had become more difficult than ever.
For now, people could still rely on studying to change their future.
However, it was said that the Second Colony Planet had already developed brain-computer interface technology capable of transferring knowledge directly into the human brain within seconds.
If that technology ever became widespread, then ordinary students might truly have nowhere left to go.
As one of the elite classes of a prestigious academy, Su Tu's class had an excellent learning atmosphere.
Not a single person spoke during self-study.
Only the soft scratching of pens against paper could be heard.
While everyone else was still writing nonstop, Su Tu had already put down his pen and neatly organized his test papers.
At the same time, notifications rapidly appeared before his eyes.
Completed Gaokao Mathematics Mock Exam, Paper A.
Spiritual Wisdom Proficiency +1
Completed Gaokao Mathematics Mock Exam, Paper B.
Spiritual Wisdom Proficiency +1
Completed...
After ten consecutive notifications, Su Tu gained a total of ten proficiency points.
Su Tu had always been an excellent student.
His grades had remained steadily within the top thirty of his year.
After awakening the system, his normal studying had also unlocked a skill.
It wasn't something like Mathematics or Physics.
Instead, it was a skill called Spiritual Wisdom.
Ultimately, everything he learned could be considered knowledge.
Knowledge itself wasn't exactly a skill.
However, accumulating knowledge could improve a person's intelligence, emotional understanding, perception, and many other aspects.
The combined improvement of all those things had created the skill known as Spiritual Wisdom.
Learning any kind of knowledge would increase its proficiency.
Because of that, Spiritual Wisdom had been the first skill Su Tu raised to the Intermediate level.
But after reaching Intermediate, gaining proficiency became much slower.
Previously, completing a single test paper could give him ten proficiency points.
Now, it only gave him one.
Still, Su Tu could clearly feel the benefits.
His memory, comprehension, and even his overall intelligence had rapidly improved after obtaining Spiritual Wisdom.
The simplest example was his school ranking.
Before awakening Spiritual Wisdom, Su Tu had practically been stuck around thirtieth place.
After all, this was a prestigious academy.
The one thing it lacked least was outstanding students.
But after unlocking Spiritual Wisdom, Su Tu's grades suddenly soared.
In the last two mock exams, he had ranked first in the entire school.
After finishing the mock papers, Su Tu's thoughts returned to what Lin Feiyang had told him earlier that day.
The more he thought about it, the more convinced he became that his guess might actually be correct.
It was almost like intuition.
Ever since Spiritual Wisdom reached the Intermediate level, he had gained a strange ability to notice connections that were difficult to explain.
But in this era, does individual martial strength really matter anymore?
With the current level of Federation technology, I wouldn't be surprised if the colony planets already have things like cybernetic augmentation and genetic modification.
No matter how much an ordinary person trains their techniques or physical strength, how could they compete with technologies like that?
The government would never add a useless subject to the Gaokao.
Unless... there's something behind martial arts that I can't even imagine.
Countless thoughts flashed through Su Tu's mind in an instant.
At the front of the classroom, the teacher noticed someone spacing out.
He was just about to use the legendary teacher technique, Flying Chalk...
Then he saw who it was.
Su Tu.
The teacher immediately pretended he hadn't noticed anything.
Did you understand the value of being number one in the entire year?
If another student spaced out, that was called slacking off.
When Su Tu spaced out, that was called relaxing his mind.
What?
You thought that was unfair?
Then go rank first in the school too!
Su Tu continued thinking.
I'll have to find Brother Feiyang again and see if I can get anything else out of him.
I don't know how many points martial arts will be worth. If it's a major part of the Gaokao, then things could become troublesome.
The university Su Tu wanted to attend was called Star Ark University.
It wasn't located on Blue Star.
Instead, it was on the Third Colony Planet, a world called Tiandu Planet.
After humanity entered the interstellar age, Blue Star had remained under constant protection because it was the birthplace of mankind.
Dangerous experiments were generally conducted on colony planets.
Policies that might cause major social changes were also tested on the colony planets first.
The world was like a hundred ships racing through the same current.
If you didn't advance, you would fall behind.
Blue Star enjoyed protection.
But because of that protection, it was also gradually falling behind.
It wasn't that the colony planets refused to share their technology with Blue Star.
Quite the opposite.
Whenever technology developed on a colony planet became sufficiently stable, it would immediately be introduced to Blue Star.
The important word, however, was stable.
Every form of development and progress carried risks.
By the time a technology became completely stable...
It usually meant that something newer had already replaced it.
At present, almost all of the world's top one hundred universities were located on colony planets.
Star Ark University was among the very best of them.
Its required admission score was so high that most students could only stare at it in despair.
Originally, Su Tu had been fairly confident that he could enter Star Ark University.
But if martial arts were suddenly added to the Gaokao, then everything could change.
Information itself created barriers.
By the time you heard about something from someone else, there were usually already people who had been preparing for it for a long time.
Some might already be standing at the end of that road.
Others might not even learn that the road existed until everything was over.
For certain reasons, Su Tu absolutely had to enter Star Ark University.
Therefore, he couldn't afford to ignore this matter.
As soon as class ended, Su Tu immediately left the classroom.
That caught the homeroom teacher's attention.
The teacher frowned.
Why does that kid seem so distracted lately?
A terrible possibility suddenly entered his mind.
Don't tell me he's started dating...
