SCRATCH-SCRATCH-SCRATCH... SOB!
Inside the top hundred steps of the Heavenly Stairway Secret Realm. The sound that echoed out to the one hundred thousand spectators in Central Sky-Plaza wasn’t the clash of immortal swords or the roar of spirit beasts.
It was the agonizing, sweaty scratching of one thousand charcoal pencils—followed by the muffled sniffles of. Hundreds of pampered nineteen-year-old Inner Sect geniuses who were staring at the fraction problems on Page 2. If they were reading an untranslatable ancient heavenly tome!
“Wait... how do you subtract two-fifths from the remainder after taking away one-third?! Do you subtract the top numbers or the bottom numbers?!”
In Row 3, nineteen-year-old Supreme Sword elite Jian Hu , at Rank 4 Peak, tugged at his hair with both hands, cold sweat dripping onto his exam paper as he stared at Question #4:.
> [ QUESTION #4 (10 Points — Fair Trade & Qi Conversion): ]
> *Old Farmer Wang grows 240 baskets of Spirit-Wheat in six months. If a righteous cultivator buys 3/8 of the harvest at the fair market price of 4 Low-Grade Spirit Stones per basket. Helps Old Farmer Wang clear a blocked irrigation ditch worth 15 Spirit Stones, how much cash should the cultivator hand Old Farmer Wang?
