He calmly began preparing to connect the second one, but this time, things didn't go so smoothly. Just as the mental energy thread was about to take shape, it suddenly broke in the middle, which meant that the connection of this mental energy thread had failed.
The boy looked regretful, shook his head, and knew he had to start all over again.
After observing the two men's actions, Xu Jintang had a general idea of what was going on.
The assessment requires completing the connection of ten spiritual energy threads within half an hour to pass.
Then she just needs to hand in her paper right on time.
There was still plenty of time, so Xu Jintang wasn't in a hurry. In about three minutes, she quickly completed the first mental energy connection.
At the ten-minute mark, just in time, the four mental energy threads were connected.
At this moment, Sun Yuantian finally noticed Xu Jintang's performance.
He walked over with his hands behind his back and a smile on his face. He stood to the side without saying a word, just silently watching Xu Jintang's performance.
Xu Jintang pursed his lips, pondered for a moment, and then looked troubled.
Her hand holding the pen trembled slightly, and the connecting threads of spiritual energy showed signs of breaking.
Sun Yuantian frowned quickly, about to speak up to remind him, but then he remembered that this was an assessment, and it would not be fair for him to speak up.
He had no choice but to shut his mouth and continue to observe Xu Jintang's behavior.
Fortunately, Xu Jintang steadied himself at the last moment, and the spiritual energy thread in his hand became solid again. A few seconds later, the spiritual energy thread was successfully completed.
"Hmm." Sun Yuantian nodded in satisfaction, glancing at the candidate's name on the table: [ Qian Duoduo ]
After noting the name down, he turned and left to observe the performance of the other inscription masters.
Chapter 37
Xu Jintang, who had been pretending all along, also breathed a sigh of relief.
His tense nerves immediately relaxed, and the unstable thread of mental energy in his hand instantly solidified.
However, it was still early, and after thinking it over, Xu Jintang decided to abandon the spiritual energy thread and start over.
"The assessment will end in ten minutes," Sun Yuantian reminded them.
Upon hearing this, the inscription master candidates present felt even more pressured and became even more focused.
Seeing that everyone around him looked as if they were facing a formidable enemy, Xu Jintang had no choice but to follow suit and concentrate on the spiritual energy threads at the tip of the pen.
Time ticked by, and Xu Jintang sighed quietly.
This was the first time she had ever felt that creating inscriptions was so tiring.
In that half hour, she could have made several Inscription Talisman.
With only three minutes left, Xu Jintang couldn't hold on any longer. He stopped deliberately delaying and connected the remaining four strands of mental energy in one go.
After finishing, she let out a breath and slammed the bell on the table.
The internal assessments for inscription masters are all monitored in real time. Xu Jintang's assessment just now was recorded by the satellite monitoring system on the table.
As soon as she rang the bell, the satellite proctoring system immediately began calculating the scores.
A light screen popped up in front of me with a notification:
[Examinee: Qian Duoduo ]
[The first test, connecting the threads of mental strength, has been completed in 27 minutes and 14 seconds.]
Sun Yuantian and Xue Zhongqi received notifications from the proctoring system at the same time.
The two exchanged a surprised glance, then turned their gaze to Xu Jintang in the last row.
Normally, even if an inscriptionist manages to pass the test, it's always by the time limit.
But Qian Duoduo was able to finish three minutes ahead of schedule, which is a very good result.
Xue Zhongqi closed his folding fan, nodded his chin, and his smile became even more pronounced.
His judgment of people was indeed correct; this girl definitely has some hidden strength.
With the last three minutes of the assessment over, the other inscription masters were all timing their final spiritual connection.
After one round of assessments, only twenty out of more than fifty inscription master candidates passed.
"The other inscription masters who did not pass the test may leave on their own. We will begin the second test in half an hour," Sun Yuantian said.
The inscription masters who failed the exam all showed regretful expressions, got up one after another, shook their heads, and walked out of the examination room, their figures looking very lonely.
The twenty inscription masters who remained in the examination hall all wore expressions of joy.
The girl at the next table to Xu Jintang also stayed.
She noticed Xu Jintang's gaze, smiled, and walked over. "Sister, I just saw your score. You finished the assessment three minutes ahead of schedule. You're amazing!"
Xu Jintang paused for a moment, then chuckled dryly, "It's alright."
"But why is there a half-hour gap between the assessments?" Xu Jintang asked.
The girl hesitated for a moment, "Because we all used up a lot of mental energy in the first test, this half hour is for us to recover."
Xu Jintang slapped his forehead, almost forgetting that she had a lot of mental energy again.
"Look at my brain, I completely forgot about that. Let's not waste any more time, let's quickly recover our mental energy."
"Hmm." The girl nodded, returned to her seat, and began to slowly recover her mental energy.
Before long, the other inscription master candidates around them all did the same.
Xu Jintang followed the crowd and began to restore the mental energy she hadn't consumed much of to begin with.
In just a few minutes, my mental energy was fully restored.
Perhaps because her spiritual sea of consciousness is larger, her mental energy seems to operate faster than others, and her recovery speed is basically twice that of others.
After waiting for quite a while, Sun Yuantian and the other staff members finally returned to the assessment area.
"The second assessment: Inscription of a formation diagram. Limited to ten raw stones, complete the inscription of a formation diagram and successfully create a level one basic inscription. There is no time limit for this round of assessment."
Xu Jintang glanced down at the ten attribute-less raw stones on the table.
Simply put, this round of assessment means you have ten chances; you pass if you successfully engrave it even once.
She rubbed her hands together, finally perking up.
Just like in the previous round of assessments, she first observed the progress of the other candidates around her, and only after getting a general idea of the situation did she begin to formally inscribe the characters.
At her normal inscription speed, she can now successfully create a basic inscription in about half an hour.
However, judging from the performance of the other candidates, this speed was clearly a bit too exaggerated.
Xu Jintang pursed his lips, making inscriptions while discreetly observing the progress of the other examinees.
Twenty minutes later, just as her first inscription was about to take shape, a faint glow emanated from the surface of the rough stone.
This immediately attracted the attention of Sun Yuantian and Xue Zhongqi.
Both of them were stunned for a moment, and even glanced at the time.
The assessment had only been going on for less than half an hour, and someone had already succeeded in engraving it?
Sensing the astonished gazes around him, Xu Jintang immediately severed the threads of his spiritual energy, forcibly destroying the raw stone.
Noticing this, Sun Yuantian shook his head with a hint of regret.
Judging from what just happened, this candidate should have been able to successfully inscribe the mark soon, but he slacked off at the last moment.
Xue Zhongqi pondered for a while, feeling that something was amiss. He stopped checking on the other candidates and instead stood directly by Xu Jintang's table, carefully watching her as she began to recreate the inscription for the second piece.
This time, with someone watching, Xu Jintang dared not resort to the tactic of forcibly scrapping the item again, and could only reduce the inscription speed.
Forty minutes passed, Xue Zhongqi remained in the same spot, staring intently at the raw stone in Xu Jintang's hand, not turning away for a moment.
Having dragged things out until now, Xu Jintang knows that he can no longer hide his talents.
She coughed lightly and slowly added the last stroke to the array diagram.
In an instant, the Inscription Talisman shape, emitting a dazzling white light.
An incredulous look appeared in Xue Zhongqi's eyes. "You can complete the creation of an Inscription Talisman in forty minutes?" He was so shocked that his voice unconsciously rose.
This shout immediately summoned Sun Yuantian.
Sun Yuantian hurried over and looked at the completed Inscription Talisman on Xu Jintang's table with surprise.
"Young lady, did you just make this?"
Now that things have come to this, it's all Xue Zhongqi's fault for insisting on standing aside and watching; otherwise, she wouldn't have made such a high-profile move!
Xu Jintang took a deep breath, calmed himself down a bit, and then scratched his head with a smile, "This was quite unexpected. Maybe it's because of the assessment that I was more focused, and I actually managed to finish it so quickly."
At this moment, the satellite monitoring system beside him also calculated Xu Jintang's score data.
[Examinee: Qian Duoduo ]
[The second assessment, the inscription of the formation diagram, has been completed in one hour, eight minutes, and fifty-four seconds.]
This result was achieved after she voluntarily scrapped her first rough stone; otherwise, her time would have been halved.
Sun Yuantian picked up the Inscription Talisman on the table in surprise, checked it repeatedly, and only returned it to Xu Jintang after confirming that there were no problems.
Congratulations, you passed the second test.
Xue Zhongqi continued to stare at Xu Jintang with suspicion, as if trying to find something different in the changes in her expression.
When he took the Inscription Master exam, he had to discard three raw stones before he could successfully inscribe an Inscription Talisman.
Moreover, it took as long as two hours.
But this girl broke his record effortlessly?
Soon, the other inscription master candidates in the vicinity also noticed the commotion.
The pressure was already immense, and seeing such a prodigy among the other test-takers only intensified their anxiety.
The atmosphere in the examination room grew increasingly heavy.
Having finished his assessment early, Xu Jintang had nothing to do but sit in his seat, resting his chin on his hand, looking around at the performance of the other candidates.
They persevered until the last candidate ruined his tenth gem.