Just then, Lord Lu appeared once more. His gaze swept over Xu Yi for a moment before he began his final words of instruction and summary.
He droned on for the time it took half a cup of tea to cool. Then a large group of black-robed attendants came forward, guiding everyone off to exchange their monster cores and have their points checked.
Their rankings in the imperial examination would be decided by those points.
Soon, an attendant led Xu Yi into a secret chamber. A machine was built into its western wall.
Following the instructions on the machine, Xu Yi removed the jade band from his arm.
As soon as he took it off, the band vanished, leaving only the jade plaque at its center. Xu Yi inserted the plaque into a slot on the machine, and a score of two hundred appeared at once.
Then, following the machine's instructions, Xu Yi fed in all his monster cores. The score on the jade plaque changed rapidly, finally settling at five hundred and thirty.
In Xu Yi's eyes, the Golden Scale General's actions had hardly been generous. Though the jade box he'd sent over held a great many monster cores, almost all were from the Early-stage Tongyu Realm. There was only one from the Mid-stage Tongyu Realm.
An Early-stage Tongyu Realm monster core was worth only ten points, while a Mid-stage one was worth fifty. A Late-stage Tongyu Realm core, on the other hand, was worth a full two hundred and fifty.
In other words, the more than twenty monster cores the Golden Scale General had sent were worth barely as much as one Late-stage Tongyu Realm core and one Mid-stage Tongyu Realm core.
Still, Xu Yi reckoned that this many points was no small amount.
After all, the monster