He Yi
Even with the basic talisman drawing techniques, the highest grade talisman ever produced was only Earth Grade 7 or Earth Ninth Grade. We had never seen anything like it before.
"Could it be that this person deliberately suppressed their grades before?"
"Is this really necessary?"
How could we possibly know what someone is thinking? Perhaps they have some special reason.
"Could it be Yang Changming?"
"No way? He didn't even get a single seventh-grade Earth rank score in the last competition."
"Wasn't it possible that the grades were deliberately suppressed before?"
"But he doesn't look like it..."
"Do you think the next one will be another Earth Ninth Grade?"
Before the audience could even begin to speculate, the tester swiftly produced another talisman, began the test, and immediately announced the results.
As expected, it's another Earth Ninth Grade!
The audience was so excited and surprised that they were almost numb.
Everyone was thinking to themselves, "Could these all be Earth Ninth Grade?"
Then the facts proved them right.
The first tenth cards are all of the Earth Ninth Grade!
This result caused the crowd to erupt in even more excitement than before.
They really are all Earth Ninth Grade!
At this moment, almost everyone in the audience had the same thought: Who is this person? I need to know all the information about this person's name and background within one minute!
The tester didn't keep the audience waiting long; after the test, he immediately announced the name on the talisman bag.
"Talisman Master He Yi has entered the top 100 and is currently ranked first."
Upon hearing this somewhat unfamiliar name, the audience became restless.
"He Yi? Who is this?"
"I've seen this name by chance before, but I remember this person's grades weren't particularly outstanding..."
"The Talisman Master Assembly... there shouldn't be any cheating, right?"
"Shh—what are you talking about? After what happened before, do you think there's any chance of cheating again? Besides, who would cheat so openly? Are they afraid someone won't check up on them?"
"So, it seems this person was suppressing their scores all along? That's really something. Suppressing scores at the Talisman Master Assembly —aren't they afraid of being eliminated by accident?"
"Sigh, the world of capable people is beyond our understanding..."
Lin Xiao and Jiang Youfu, who had been listening intently for a while, couldn't help but whisper among themselves as they listened.
Wow! Brother Xiao, this guy is amazing!
Lin Xiao couldn't help but nod.
Since meeting Liu Chun, and also because they sometimes tried making talismans in the sect's talisman-making room in their spare time, they were quite clear about the difficulty involved.
The clearer the information, the more one realizes just how remarkable this person named He Yi is.
Lin Xiao transmitted his voice to Jiang Youfu:
"Moreover, this person must be both bold and meticulous, otherwise they wouldn't have dared to suppress their own performance before."
This requires a high degree of certainty about one's own abilities and a very clear understanding of the overall level of the talisman masters participating in the Talisman Master Assembly.
Then they suddenly heard someone in the audience point at the fourth group of talisman masters waiting for their results in the hall and whisper:
"Ah! That's Master He Yi Yifu! I saw him by chance before!"
As he spoke, everyone's eyes followed the direction he was pointing.
Among the fourth group of talisman masters, a young man, who stood out from the hundreds of others despite the surprised gazes of the other talisman masters, remained calm and composed.
This young man looked to be no more than twenty years old. His eyes were like stars, his hair was tied with a jade crown, and he wore a purple robe. He was tall and slender, and was truly a handsome man.
He seemed to have long been accustomed to the feeling of being the center of attention, completely unmoved by the overwhelming gazes directed at him.
The audience couldn't help but praise it:
"This Master He is truly as handsome as he is talented!"
"Yes, yes, no wonder he's a powerful Earth Ninth Grade talisman master, and so handsome too."
"Furthermore, everyone, look at Master He. Despite his remarkable achievements, he shows no sign of pride. This indicates that he must possess exceptional character."
But Lin Xiao noticed a hint of arrogance in He Yi's expression.
A thought suddenly popped into his head.
Could this person have also suppressed their score when they said Zhang Zhang was at the Earth Ninth Grade?
If that's the case, then he certainly has every reason to be arrogant!
Although the audience is still discussing He Yi's results, the progress of the Talisman Master Assembly will not be halted.
The assessment is still proceeding in an orderly manner.
After a long while, it was finally Liu Chun's turn.
Compared to He Yi, his grades were much more disciplined.
But for him personally, this result was a small breakthrough and quite good.
Ten talisman seeds: one of Earth Grade 4, three of Earth Grade 3, five of Earth Grade 2, and one of Earth Grade 1.
If it weren't for He Yi's previous performance, he would be ranked first in the fourth group right now, but he can only be second.
Despite this, those who previously thought the fourth group's performance was perhaps the most mediocre have fallen silent.
There are still over two hundred people whose results haven't been released yet. We've only released the results for less than three hundred people, and we already have two such impressive scores. We'll have to wait and see how things turn out in the end.
When all the results for the fourth group were finally released, the audience gasped in surprise.
Liu Chun, who ranked second among the top 300, suddenly plummeted to seventh place after all 500 people's scores were released!
I initially thought the fourth group would be the "easy group," and that the people in this group were considered lucky. But it turns out that the fourth group is the "group of death"!
The first three groups only produced one Earth Rank Fifth Grade result, but in this fourth group, the top five each had at least one Earth Rank Fifth Grade result talisman!
These results have led people to wonder about the group assignments for this Talisman Master Assembly.
It's so unbalanced.
This group has a larger weight than the previous three groups; isn't that going too far?
Fortunately, apart from the top-tier talisman masters, the overall performance of the lower-level talisman masters is not significantly different.
So no one felt that this was too unfair.
The audience was surprised, little did they know that the organizers of the Talisman Master Assembly, as well as the big shots in the stands, were also somewhat astonished.
The bigwigs quickly summoned the person in charge:
"Quickly check what's going on. Why is the fourth group's score so impressive?"
The fourth group was indeed the most impressive.
The Talisman Master Assembly has been held for so many sessions, and very few have achieved results as outstanding as He Yi.
But there are very few, though some are roughly the same.
However, it is unprecedented that after the Talisman Master Assembly carefully allocated the results according to previous historical performance, one group could still produce such an unbalanced performance compared to the other groups.