In the tea room.
The officials of various workshops in Sinong Hall were drinking tea and chatting.
"The assessment should have started, right? I wonder how Li Heng from our workshop is doing."
Xishanfang was taking a sip from his tea cup. As he said this, there was a bit of contentment on his face. It was obvious that he still had some confidence in that Li Heng.
"Stop bragging!"
Another Fangzheng next to him rolled his eyelids, put down his tea cup, and said to Xishan Fangzheng: "Who doesn't know that Li Heng of your Fangzheng is a genius? You are deliberately showing off!"
"That's right! Look at your smug face."
"Okay, okay, the first place in this assessment must be yours. Congratulations in advance!"
Sinong Palace also has an assessment of Fang Zheng. Whether the Fang can produce talents is also an important assessment indicator.
The businessmen were talking and laughing, and they were all optimistic about Li Heng of Xishanfang, and they were all congratulating Xishanfangzheng in advance.
As for Hedongfangzheng Liu Yongtian? What kind of shabby place is Hedongfang? What talents can be produced?
While everyone was laughing and talking, a practicing disciple came in and informed everyone of the results of the first assessment.
"Everyone, the first assessment has ended and the results are out."
"First place in the hair-raising technique assessment: Hedongfang Xu Ke!"
As soon as these words came out, the whole hall was in an uproar.
"Who? Who is the first?"
"Xu Ke from Hedongfang? Very strange. Have you never heard of this person?"
"The first place is from Hedongfang? The person from Hedongfang won the first place?"
"Damn it, can a phoenix really fly out of a chicken coop?"
This result completely exceeded everyone's expectations, and all the workshop leaders looked at each other in shock.
Hedong Fangzheng Liu Yongtian was also obviously stunned for a moment. Not only other Fangzheng were surprised, but even Liu Yongtian never thought that Xu Ke could perform like this.
"Chirp!"
The Purple Skylark flapped its wings and called out as if hearing the name "Xu Ke".
"Are you happy for your master too?"
Liu Yongtian happily took out a handful of spiritual rice and fed it to Purple Skylark, "I didn't expect that kid is really a genius!"
Based on Xu Ke's results in the first assessment, as long as his subsequent performance is up to standard, his promotion will be guaranteed.
At the age of fifteen, he was promoted to be an executive disciple of the Sinong Hall. Among the tens of thousands of outer sect disciples in the entire Sinong Hall, he was already regarded as the top figure.
"Old Liu, you are not being authentic!"
Xishanfang just walked over, stretched out his hand and gave Liu Yongtian a gentle blow, "There is such a genius in the workshop, and he is still hiding it from me, waiting to see my joke?"
"How can it be?"
Liu Yongtian smiled and shook his head, "You may not believe it, but I really didn't know Xu Ke was capable of this."
Xishanfang rolled his eyes and said, "I believe you are a ghost!"
"If you don't believe it, there's nothing I can do about it."
Liu Yongtian had a look of helplessness on his face, "Xu Ke, that kid, is usually very quiet. I really didn't know he still had this ability."
Having said this, Liu Yongtian comforted Xishan Fangzheng again, "Lao Li, you don't have to worry. This is the first assessment."
"How many years has Xu Ke been practicing? It will be good if he can master the activation technique, and the other spells must be average. Xu Ke's potential has been exhausted, and the final first place will definitely be yours, Li Heng."
"I'm not here to compete for first place."
Xishanfang Zheng waved his hand, and he also agreed with Liu Yongtian's statement. How many years has Xu Ke been practicing? It's not easy to practice the triggering spell well. How can he practice other spells so well?
Li Heng is different.
In the ten years since he started, under the deliberate training of Xishan Fangzheng, Li Heng has already become very proficient in several spells to be tested.
He was promoted to the fourth level of Qi training two years ago. If the promotion assessment was not held only once every three years, Li Heng would have been able to take the assessment long ago.
Such a profound accumulation is not something that Xu Ke can catch up with in just two or three years.
Xishanfangzheng knew what was going on, and after casual greetings with Liu Yongtian, he turned around and left.
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"The first assessment is over."
"First place in the hair-raising technique assessment: Hedongfang Xu Ke!"
In the examination room, Deacon Wang announced the results of the first exam.
After hearing that he had won the first place in the first exam, Xu Ke stopped caring.
"The second round will proceed, the Corruption Technique test."
After speaking, Deacon Wang waved his hand, and a wave of spiritual power rippled out. Seeds flew one by one and landed on the grass in front of everyone.
The next moment, Deacon Wang cast another growth-promoting spell. Vibrant wood-type spiritual power covered the grass, and plants grew rapidly on the ground in front of everyone.
Deacon Wang’s hair-stimulating technique is really superb.
Xu Ke secretly admired it and compared it with himself, and found that... although his spiritual power was not as good as that of Deacon Wang, he was still stronger in terms of the activation technique.
It seems that Deacon Wang’s activation technique, which is the perfection level, failed to break through the limit and advance to the extraordinary.
I am different from others. Even if others practice their magic to perfection, without enough opportunities, it is almost impossible to break through the limit.
However, for me, there are no bottlenecks or limits!
Xu Ke smiled, stopped thinking, and focused on the assessment in front of him.
"The Corruption Technique Assessment requires you to cast the Corruption Technique on the vegetation I just activated. Note that each person only has one chance to cast the spell, so you must try your best to cast the spell."
Deacon Wang warned, stretched out his hand to knock the jade chime on the desk, and announced loudly: "The assessment begins!"
At the command, everyone took action and began to cast spells.
Xu Ke was deliberately slow, observing the situation of others before taking action.
After all, Xu Ke naturally didn't dare to "cast a spell with all his strength" as Deacon Wang said. The corruption technique that turned into a natural spell, when cast with all his strength, even the ground would corrupt into a big pit.
The basic requirement for this assessment is that the spell reaches the proficiency level. Mastery-level spells cannot be cast instantly.
Xu Ke took a glance and found that all the people participating in the assessment were holding spells and casting spells, and none of them could cast spells instantly.
In this case, as long as I reveal the Dacheng level of corruption, it will be enough to win first place.
So, Xu Ke waved his hand, and a dark green light flew out of his hand, covering the ground in front of him.
The next moment, the vegetation that Deacon Wang had just activated was quickly corrupted and decomposed by Xu Ke's adult-level corruption technique, melting into slag.
Instant spell!
The art of corruption is complete!
Deacon Wang, who was conducting the abbot's assessment, raised his eyebrows and glanced at Xu Ke.
This Xu Ke, at such a young age, actually has such attainments in magic?
I originally thought that he only had some talent in the activation technique, but I didn't expect that he also had such attainments in the corruption technique.
After five years of entry, three years of being promoted to an outer disciple, and coming from a bad place like Hedongfang, he can still be successful in cultivation and have profound attainments in magic. It is really commendable and not simple!
