1. The Petrified Choir's Dark Symphony
The thirteen examiners didn't just chant—their voices unmade reality in layers:
Harmonic Dissonance Effects
First Child's Note: Cracked nearby time-ice into fractal patterns matching Scholar Wen's silver strands
Seventh Child's Note: Turned the black pear tree's sap into liquid mnemonics that flowed upward
Thirteenth Child's Note: Made Lin Feng's primer fluid boil with forgotten equations
Porcelain Skin Revelations
Where their flesh chipped away:
Showed embedded lesson plans glowing beneath
Each plan ended with the same instruction:
"When subject achieves 68.3% fracture consistency, harvest soul chalk for next cycle."
The True Nursery Rhyme
Their full reversed verse held a secret meaning:
"Break to make (bones into tools),
Make to break (tools into rules),
First the wound (the initial cut),
Then the ache (the endless rut)."
2. The Primer's Damning Solution
Lin Feng's body wasn't just solving the equation—it was becoming it:
Mathematical Transfiguration
His 68.3% quill-bones:
Could write new cultivation laws
But only in fractured calligraphy
His 31.7% grading ink:
Showed two colors under light:
Red for incorrect answers
Black for system-approved truths
The Facility's Masterstroke
The perfect score wasn't accidental—
—Lin Feng had been pre-fractured as an infant:
His pear-blossom scar matched the whetstone's calibration mark
His mother's disappearance was actually the first harvest
Primer Fluid Visions
When his ink-tears hit the ground:
Formed a miniature model of the original facility
Showed thirteen identical cradles in the nursery
Each cradle had his name on it
3. Rubber Prophecies Uncoil
Bai Yu's answer key scroll kept growing:
Third Layer Discovery
Revealed the source material for prophecies:
Strips of nurse-doll skin with handwritten reports
Each report described:
A different Lin Feng from alternate cycles
Their breakage percentages
Their final uses (quills, ink, paper, etc.)
Most Disturbing Entry
Dated "Cycle -13":
*"Subject shows 68.3% consistency.
Harvested for:
Ribs → Tome binding spokes
Blood → Original mnemic ink
Memories → Standardized testing bank
Mother's compliance: 100%."*
The Rubber's Origin
The scroll wasn't paper—it was:
Condensed comedy from failed humor experiments
Stretched between timelines like puppet strings
4. The Whetstone's Brutal Mathematics
The nurse-dolls' assessment took a visceral turn:
Live Demonstration
They reassembled Bai Yu's petrified fragments into:
A human abacus
His rubber prophecies as counting beads
His stopwatch heart as the pendulum
Calculation Process
Poured Lin Feng's primer fluid through his chalk fingers
Collected the drip patterns in silver assessment trays
Compared them to historical fracture records
The Perfect Score's Cost
To maintain 68.3%:
Lin Feng had to forget:
Xiao Qi's first gift
Li Feng's last unbroken memory
The 7th's true name
His body automatically complied
5. The Recursive Quill's Omega Point
The thirteen quills didn't just write—they rewrote:
Article Ω's Full Text
*"When the student is perfected:
Their bones become the curriculum
Their blood becomes the ink
Their soul becomes the grading system
Their mother becomes the next examiner."*
System Reboot Sequence
The black pear tree uprooted and walked on its branches
The nurse-dolls petrified in grading positions
The examiners regressed into:
Frost Moon's first needles
Cloud Soaring's original threads
Celestial Strategy's prototype ink
Final Horror
Lin Feng looked down to see:
His hands turning into chalk-dusted lesson plans
His chest cavity forming a shelf for...
...thirteen new porcelain dolls in progress
Cliffhanger
The first examiner's whisper finished:
"...the graders grade themselves."