Chapter 4045: -(゜-゜) Performance Assessment
"..."
The trial inspector jolted at his superior's question, barely recovering from his shock.
He drew a deep breath, carefully examined the magic mirror in his hands, which recorded the Immortal Selection examination, and checked the real-time data on the formation. Then he glanced at the water screen, where the sword formation's core now lay empty and dim. The corner of his mouth twitched again.
Only then did he cautiously correct him, speaking with greater precision but no less disbelief:
"Reporting to you, Director!"
"Actually, this wasn't an ordinary case of 'breaking out of the formation'..."
"According to the mirror's records and the formation's feedback, examinee Lin Daiyu used her own sword cultivation to forcibly destroy seventeen key talisman nodes and evil-spirit formation eyes in the formation's core area. This caused the local spiritual-energy circuits of the 'Sword Formation of Illusory Truth' to collapse and cease functioning..."
"In short, she didn't 'break out of the formation.' She 'slashed her way through' it!"
He had deliberately stressed the words "slashed her way through." That was even more unbelievable than simply "breaking the formation." It meant she hadn't found some clever shortcut, but had overwhelmed the formation's own defenses head-on—not merely located its gate and broken through in the usual sense.
As soon as he said this, the other blue-robed examiners on the platform, who were in charge of recording and grading, nodded in agreement. Shock still showed on their faces as they quietly echoed him:
"The inspector is quite right!"
"That was undoubtedly 'slashing her way through.'"
"Indeed!"
"I've been overseeing examinations for years, and I've never seen anyone break a formation like that..."
"Look!"
"According to the formation records, the peak of her spiritual-energy impact never exceeded the range of a mid-stage Qi Refining cultivator,