"Is this the Child Scholar Examination?"
Lin Ke was somewhat surprised.
The people packed densely around him were all about his age!
And beyond that, he spotted a whole host of people he had never expected to see.
The Sightless Monk, for example, and Su Liuli, the Merfolk Heavenly Prodigy.
"Young Master Lin, this is indeed the Child Scholar Examination." Su Liuli looked sorrowful beside him. "I have kept my talents hidden for years, hoping to astonish everyone with a single brilliant showing in this examination. I never expected you to come as well."
Kept her talents hidden for years...
Lin Ke glanced again at the other youths, who all looked sixteen or seventeen, and understood.
They were all waiting to astonish the world with a single brilliant showing!
Such things had happened before in history, and Lin Ke even knew someone who had accomplished it.
Ye Jun!
Of all the Imperial Examinations held since the founding of the Great Wei Sacred Dynasty, Ye Jun was the only fellow who had achieved such a feat.
Within a single year, he had advanced all the way from the Child Scholar Examination to the Palace Examination.
That had also laid the groundwork for him to become Zhuangyuan.
So anyone hoping to compete for the title of Zhuangyuan this year would, at the very least, have to match Ye Jun.
"Sightless, what about you? Aren't you past the age limit?" Lin Ke turned to the Sightless Monk.
The fellow kept his eyes shut all day long. Although his skin looked so delicate that a breath might break it, Lin Ke had always felt he was no longer that young.
Su Liuli, at least, looked like a girl in the midst of adolescence, so it was perfectly normal for her to be below the