"Everyone enter a meditative state, feel the resonance with the stone tablet's energy, and prepare yourselves!"
"Students whose names are called will come forward to inject energy into the stone tablet to create a resonance!"
"The chief examiner will assess your innate talent!"
"The admission rate to key universities in this city is 25%, meaning only the top 1/4 of students will be eligible for admission to key universities."
"Other students will be admitted sequentially to ordinary universities based on their rankings!"
The teacher stood before the stone tablet, shouting at the students through a megaphone.
At the command, all students began to close their eyes and meditate according to the methods they had learned in school.
Zhang Chen also began to meditate.
The moment he closed his eyes, the scene before him startled Zhang Chen.
Normally, when closing one's eyes, the surroundings should be pitch black.
But as Zhang Chen closed his eyes, he could clearly see the students standing on the field.
No! To be precise, it wasn't the students themselves, but the energy meridians within them.
The energy meridians and energy cores of everyone were displayed before him.
The strength of each person was determined by the brightness of their energy core.
The clearer and brighter the energy meridians, the stronger the energy within their bodies, and vice versa.
Not only the surrounding students, but Zhang Chen could also clearly perceive the faint energy within the earth, the air, the surrounding trees, and insects.
Everything was clearly presented before his eyes, unaffected by any distance.
The stone tablet in the center of the field was a complex energy core made of a dark red energy network, constantly drawing energy from all directions.
"First, Li Rong!"
At the chief examiner's shout.
Zhang Chen "saw" a person with a faintly glowing energy network slowly walk to the stone tablet.
The moment his hand touched the stone tablet, some of the energy within his body was immediately absorbed by it.
At the same time, the complex energy network of the stone tablet began to operate rapidly.
"Low-grade talent, 3 characters!"
The chief examiner shouted again.
On the stone tablet, three faintly luminous green characters gradually began to fade.
Upon hearing the chief examiner's words, some of the students who had broken out of their meditation began to whisper.
"Low-grade with 3 characters, he'll probably barely get into an ordinary university. He definitely won't get into a good one!"
"Didn't Li Rong's usual mock exam scores not bad? How did he perform so poorly in the actual exam?"
"Sigh, mock exams are just simulations. As long as your theoretical knowledge is solid, it will give you a boost. This stone tablet test is purely based on innate talent, accounting for 70% of the weight. Mock exam theoretical scores only account for 30%, so talent is more important!"
"However, with solid theory, those with the same talent will definitely get higher scores. If you encounter a top student, they can get into a key university based solely on their excellent theoretical results."
"That's right, that's right. I heard that some key universities will specially recruit those with strong theoretical knowledge to become researchers of cultivation techniques and skills. It's quite glorious after graduation!"
As the crowd discussed in low voices, many more people stepped forward for assessment.
"Zhao Da, mid-grade six characters!"
"Zheng Ran, low-grade seven characters!"
"Xu Guoguo, mid-grade four characters!"
"Zhou Qiang, high-grade five characters!"
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"Next, Zhao Xiyue!"
At this shout, the venue instantly fell silent.
All students who had completed their meditation held their breath and focused their gazes on the heavenly gifted Zhao Xiyue.
She was seen walking gracefully in her pink sports shoes to the stone tablet.
Zhao Xiyue took a deep breath, then reached out her hand and gently placed it on the stone tablet.
Instantly, a pure white light emanated from the characters on the stone tablet, illuminating Zhao Xiyue's beautiful face and the astonished expressions of the surrounding students.
"It's white light! It's supreme grade! A supreme talent beyond high-grade, a rare prodigy that appears once in a century!"
"My goodness, first place in the joint entrance exam, such incredible talent, and so beautiful, with a good family background too. This is just too perfect!"
"Alright, I can brag to my friends from now on that my schoolmate Zhao Xiyue has supreme talent!"
"Now it depends on how many characters it is. The color of the light represents the type of talent, but the number of characters represents the amount of energy contained within the body. If there's only one character, such talent is useless!"
The white light on the stone tablet began to extend downwards from the first character...
Two characters... three characters... four characters... a row of characters...
Two rows of characters...
Three rows of characters!
The white light slowly stopped when it reached the second to last character in the third row.
Instantly, the entire venue erupted!