The first stage of the new students' advancement assessment had ended. Next came the second stage: the Pill Dao assessment!
Steward Li looked around and slowly began to speak. "The Pill Dao assessment consists of two rounds. The first covers Herb Identification and Spirit Beast Identification, while the second covers Herb Catalysis."
As he spoke, he waved his hand, and a hundred alchemy desks suddenly appeared.
A long sheet of paper lay on each desk.
"The first round begins now. All one hundred new students will take their assigned seats in order and answer the questions at their desks. Each paper contains two thousand questions, with a time limit of one hundred minutes. Once time is up, your scores will be determined by your accuracy," Steward Li told the new students, pointing at the desks.
"Any returning students who are interested may also take the test. Of the Herb Identification and Spirit Beast Identification questions on these papers, fifteen hundred were selected from the Pill Dao assessments on the first two stone tablets outside the Pill Pavilion. I personally wrote the remaining five hundred. They are among the screening questions for the Inner Disciple selection in half a month. You may challenge yourselves as well."
With another wave of his hand, a hundred more alchemy desks appeared.
The returning students' eyes lit up at his words.
Steward Li was making it perfectly clear that answering these questions would not only help them with the Pill Pavilion's stone tablet assessments, but also greatly benefit their advancement from the outer sect to the inner sect.
Without any hesitation, almost all the returning students rushed to claim seats at the desks.
Steward Li nodded inwardly at the sight. These returning outer sect students had sacrificed their own time to help with the new