I Can Level Up By Staying Idle

Chapter 108: It’s Not like I’m Short of This!

Translator: Atlas Studios  Editor: Atlas Studios

“June 7.”

Early morning.

Haicheng City. The sun was unusually bright.

In the martial arts testing hall, all kinds of staff were already in place.

In the hall, hundreds of examiners from the Xia country’s Martial Arts Administration were waiting.

Outside the hall, the various departments of Haicheng City mobilized together to maintain order.

After all, this was an examination that concerned tens of thousands of third-year martial arts students in the city. There was no room for carelessness!

“The weather today is very good!” Chief Zhao Xu of Haicheng City’s Martial Arts Department (MAD) had an abnormally solemn expression. “I hope all the candidates in Haicheng City will have good results this year!”

The weather would indeed affect the overall results of a city.

If the weather was good, it would undoubtedly give the candidates participating in the Martial Arts College Entrance Examination a better state.

To Chief Zhao, the most important job every year was the results of the city’s martial arts college entrance examination! This was also his greatest pressure, and it directly determined if he could sit firmly in his position.

If Haicheng City’s martial arts college entrance examination results were too poor, Chief Zhao would be the first person to blame.

“Fortunately, our Haicheng City has already produced two official martial artists this year!” Chief Zhao thought of Liu Zhonghao and Jiang Xue and immediately felt a little relieved. “These two are both hopeful of reaching a high score of more than 400 points! With them as backup, even if the average score in the city this year is not too ideal, I won’t be under too much pressure!”

“Wang Tong!” Suddenly, Chief Zhao shouted. “Go to the side of the road over there and hold the tape steady!”

“Yes! Chief Zhao, I’ll go now!” Although Wang Tong, Yin Jian’s Uncle Wang, was a little depressed, he still hurriedly replied.

In the past, Wang Tong was the director of the department with real power in the Martial Arts Department! In the past years, during the martial arts college entrance examination, he would be in charge of some management work. But ever since he was fired by Chief Zhao, he had become a small soldier in the department and could only do some miscellaneous work.

However, Wang Tong did not dare to have any objections.

If he dared to object, he might lose his job.

“Who did I offend…” Wang Tong felt that he must have offended someone to make Chief Zhao fire him. However, he could not remember who he had offended.

Wang Tong walked to the side of the road and stood there foolishly holding on to the quarantine tape. The few fat security guards who were doing this with him made him feel even more disappointed.

Suddenly, Wang Tong couldn’t help but look at a student walking over.

Wang Tong recognized this person. His name was Lin Mo. Not long ago, when he was still the director of the Martial Arts Department, he even went to Haicheng Martial Arts High School and asked Baldy Yan to expel Lin Mo!

“Isn’t he a bad student?” Wang Tong thought to himself, “Previously, Little Yin told me that he chose to become idle half a month ago and gave up on the Martial Arts College Entrance Examination. Why is he still here today?”

… .

Lin Mo was in a bad mood today.

Curiosity killed the cat! Last night, because of his curiosity and his recent increase in strength, Lin Mo’s mentality was indeed a little inflated. Therefore, he couldn’t help but scratch himself with the silver feather.

With just a light stroke, Lin Mo immediately felt terrible!

At that moment, he felt his soul convulse! Even though an entire night had passed, he had yet to recover from his mental state. He was still in a daze, as if he had lost his soul.

“The martial arts testing hall is ahead. Take out the admission ticket and the like first!” Lin Mo began to rummage through his handbag.

But suddenly, his fingers trembled uncontrollably.

‘Splat!’

An ID fell out of the handbag.

It was the “official martial artist certificate” that Yan Yimo had helped him with not long ago.

At this moment, a petite girl from another martial arts high school passed by.

“Student, you dropped something!” The girl clearly didn’t know Lin Mo and even kindly bent down to help pick it up. But when she saw the contents of the certificate, she was immediately dumbfounded. “An… official martial artist certificate?”

Weren’t there only two official martial artists among the third-year martial arts students in Haicheng City this year?

Why did this student also have a “official martial artist” certificate?

“Thank you!” Lin Mo ignored the other party’s dumbfounded expression and did not explain. He thanked her and put the certificate back into his handbag. Then, he quickened his pace towards the examination hall.

However, Wang Tong happened to see this scene not far away.

“That’s… an official martial artist certificate?” Wang Tong was shocked. “Isn’t Lin Mo a bad student? How can he pass the official martial artist assessment and obtain this certificate? Could it be…”

Under normal circumstances, one could only rely on their strength to obtain an official martial artist certificate!

However, there were also abnormal situations—for example, if one had an extremely strong background and connections, even if they did not have the strength, they would still have a way to obtain an official martial artist certificate.

“It’s impossible for anyone to dare to forge an official martial artist certificate!” Wang Tong was extremely certain.

Forging an official martial artist’s certificate was a crime even more serious than killing someone. There were not many benefits to be gained, so who would be so bored that they would want to die? If they had the time to forge this thing, they might as well rob a bank!

“Our Haicheng City Martial Arts Department definitely didn’t send it to him! Otherwise, it’s impossible for me not to have heard any news!” Wang Tong was certain. “Could it be that… this Lin Mo has some big connections outside?”

Wang Tong suddenly felt a huge fear in his heart. He thought of what had happened earlier. “That morning, I had just gone to Haicheng Martial Arts High School and asked Baldy to expel Lin Mo! And then by noon that day, I was fired by Chief Zhao…”

“Hiss—” Thinking of this, Wang Tong immediately gasped in horror.

Previously, he had subconsciously thought that Lin Mo was a bad student with no background. Therefore, even after the incident, he did not think of Lin Mo at all.

But now, this official martial artist certificate that he had accidentally seen gave Wang Tong a huge shock!

“Moreover… Baldy Yan seemed to have met with an accident that day? It’s just that the Martial Arts College Entrance Examination is around the corner, so he hasn’t been fired yet!” Wang Tong thought of this again and was even more certain of his guess.

“What kind of background does this Lin Mo have!?” The more Wang Tong thought about it, the more he felt suffocated.

… .

Lin Mo naturally did not know how shocked the others were by the official martial artist certificate he accidentally dropped.

Lin Mo felt very helpless!

“I actually accidentally dropped something on the ground?” Lin Mo was in disbelief.

One had to know that his combat technique was at the fifth rank!

What was combat technique? To put it bluntly, it was extremely precise control of the body!

As for the fifth rank, it advanced from the “macro-level” to the “micro-level”!

What shocking control was this!

He still accidentally dropped something on the floor?

‘That means…’

“The influence of the silver feather makes it impossible for me to use my combat skills at all! It will probably take until the afternoon or even tomorrow to recover!”

This was very awkward!

The first test this morning was “combat technique”! And Lin Mo’s strongest combat technique could not be used at all?

“With my current control over my body, my combat technique probably can’t even be considered rank 1!” Lin Mo was very clear about his state. “If I can’t even be considered rank 1, how can I take the test?”

Lin Mo had come to take the Martial Arts College Entrance Examination with the intention of “shocking everyone with a single brilliant feat”! Otherwise, he wouldn’t have come for the exam at all. He would have just used the admission channel.

But in his current state, he clearly couldn’t even ring. How could he be “amazing”?

“What are we going to do?”

Did he run in and get a zero? Or a 30-50?—that would not be shocking, but embarrassing himself!

Lin Mo did not want to embarrass himself.

“Or just give up on one?”

Lin Mo thought about it carefully. It did seem feasible.

There were a total of four subjects in the martial arts college entrance examination, each with 150 points. Even if he abandoned one at the beginning, wouldn’t he still have 450 points?

“I’ll definitely get full marks in the punching force test this afternoon!” Lin Mo was very confident.

More than three thousand kilograms of punching force, just for fun?

Moreover, the punching force test was actually a live test of cell strength. Lin Mo’s combat technique was only affected, and his cell strength was not affected at all.

Therefore, a full score of 150 was set in stone!

“As for the two subjects tomorrow…” Lin Mo was quite confident, because no matter how the martial arts college entrance examination was taken, it was actually a test of overall strength. Lin Mo’s overall strength was just this strong. “I should be more or less recovered by tomorrow! Even if I lose 10 points in each of the two subjects tomorrow, I can still get 430 points in my total score for the martial arts college entrance examination!”

400 points was a very high score. Many third-tier cities could not produce a score above 400 points in a few years.

For example, Li Jiaxuan should be one of the top geniuses in the entire Xia country. He had only scored 429 points in the Martial Arts College Entrance Examination last year!

Therefore, if Lin Mo could get 430 points, he would definitely be able to suppress the entire Haicheng City, or even the entire Jiangnan Prefecture. He would be able to compete with the top geniuses in the entire Xia country!

Moreover, Lin Mo felt that he might be able to exceed 430 points and aim for more than 440 points!

“Three scores are enough to beat others with four. Then why would I take the fourth exams?” Lin Mo couldn’t help but think. “It’s not like I’m missing this one!”

‘Isn’t that what happened?’

It was not that he could not brace himself to take the test now, but there was no need!

It wasn’t that far off!

‘Throw it away!’

‘Unnecessary!’

He was in such a bad state now. Couldn’t he just lie down and rest and recover earlier? Why did he have to torture himself?

Moreover, even if Lin Mo failed both subjects tomorrow, so what? In the Primordial Universe, was his mailbox full of admission notices to a top school fake?

Thinking of this, Lin Mo walked to the entrance of the examination hall in a relaxed mood. He found the teacher who had entered to review and handed over his information. “I choose to give up on combat technique!”