Today's first update: Chapter 1028! 1/4!
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"Alright, you said it yourself!" Tree Sage smiled meaningfully.
Just as Xu Kun looked expectantly at the latest round of assessment questions, his expression froze...
The price of skipping grades was having to leap straight into high-difficulty questions!
And the assessments at the A-rank stage were comparable in difficulty to the college entrance examinations!
They combined all the knowledge points from the A, B, and C stages into systematic exam questions!
This test paper, densely packed with questions, did not contain a single one that could be completed through luck. There were no multiple-choice or fill-in-the-blank questions!
There were over ten thousand questions in total, every one of them involving deduction and application!
They were also divided into different sections by category. For example, the alchemy section covered herb gathering, medicine refining, pathology, flame temperature control, pill furnace usage, and more!
As for each individual question, they made Xu Kun feel as if all the theoretical knowledge he had learned had been for nothing!
For instance, the first question was a video showing an entire pill-refining process.
Yet this twenty-minute pill-refining video had failed at the final pill-forming stage due to unknown factors. When the video ended, the question appeared: What rank and type of pill was being refined in the video? Specify the pill's purpose, summarize the reasons for failure based on the conditions in the video, and then carry out the actual operation to successfully refine the pill!
A devastating blow right from