"Tree Sage, these questions you gave me really think highly of me!"
Having learned his lesson from the first question, Xu Kun quickly reviewed the entire exam paper, and his expression instantly fell.
"Hehe, but you were the one who said you wanted to challenge your weaknesses. Being able to solve these questions will greatly benefit your future growth. Ordinary people wouldn't even be qualified to encounter questions like these!"
In other words, the difficulty of this so-called A-rank stage assessment varied from person to person!
The better Xu Kun performed during his studies, the harder the questions he was given became!
Even the forging questions, which Xu Kun had been confident in, made his teeth ache.
For example, a data analysis question: Please provide a written analysis of the flexibility, ductility, and rigidity of a composite metal forged from 20% A-rank Metallic Stardust Iron and 80% B-rank Metallic Radiance Steel...
A video practical question: Could he use a faster and more labor-saving method to unlock the B-rank Luban Lock shown in the video? The video's source was also a senior Xu Kun knew—the foremost student of the Forging Institute, Gongshu Ye.
Time used: 2 hours and 6 minutes, divided into seventy-six steps.
There were also questions on the temperature of the flames required for practical forging with various metals, the time required, the force used during forging, the points of application...
Many of these questions did not require the keen thinking and bold innovation of the first alchemy question, but the amount of calculation involved was absolutely astronomical!
If Ou Yezi had been the one facing these questions, he would have dismissed them with disdain.
Don't ask. The answer would be: instinct. Precise data was completely unnecessary!
No matter what metal it was, he would not even need to