A young disciple walked over, carrying a dragon-head-shaped bronze box in both hands.
Zhao Qingchuan slapped the dragon head, and streaks of white light flew out, landing before each examinee's desk and transforming into ten full-sized octavo books, each an inch thick.
Many had come prepared, but at the sight of a full foot of examination papers, their hearts still tightened.
Besides the foot-thick stack of papers, there were also tools required for the examination, such as Fate Disks.
"This examination will last three days. Begin." Zhao Qingchuan's voice echoed across the square.
Across the vast square, the examinees were evenly spaced, with three or four zhang between every pair.
With a wave of Zhao Qingchuan's hand, white curtains of light crisscrossed and divided the examination grounds into separate white rooms. Each examinee could see only the sky, not anyone else.
Li Qingxian opened the first volume. The opening section contained the Rules, which he read carefully.
It listed numerous regulations: no use of spells, no cheating, no interfering with others, and many more.
Li Qingxian read them three times over, memorized every rule, then quickly flipped through all ten examination books. There were no problems.
Only the final examination book was not ordinary paper, but the subsidiary artifact of the parent-child magical artifact, the Ten Thousand Cloud Book.
Li Qingxian opened the first examination volume and began answering.
The first book was entirely fill-in-the-blank questions, very basic. Yet Li Qingxian still read every question carefully, ensuring that every word and meaning passed through his mind. Then he first searched his thoughts for the tested concept and relevant knowledge before putting brush to paper.
Li Qingxian answered at an unhurried pace, stroke by stroke.
After completing the first examination volume, he checked it once from beginning to end. Once he