mtlumby2d Chapter 236 Preliminary Round
Chapter 236 Preliminary Round
Seeing that all the weapon refiners participating in the competition had sat down, Li Zhufeng stood up from the podium at the front. His powerful voice was wrapped in spiritual power and spread throughout the entire central square.
"Thank you all for taking the time out of your busy schedules to come all the way to Mingliu City to participate in the weapon refining competition held by my Li family."
"Thank you for your kindness! I am very grateful!"
"Okay, enough talking, now let's get into the rules of this preliminary round."
"The preliminary round will last for ten days. During these ten days, the top three thousand weapon refiners who answer the most questions and have the highest accuracy rate will successfully advance to the promotion round."
As he spoke, Li Zhufeng waved his hand, and tens of thousands of jade slips flew onto the table in front of the weapon refiners participating in the preliminary round.
"Ding!" With the ringing of a bell, Li Zhufeng announced the official start of the preliminary round.
Almost as soon as Li Zhufeng finished speaking, a weapon refiner picked up the jade slip in front of him.
As soon as he input his spiritual power, a dense array of questions appeared on the jade slip in front of him. A rough glance showed that there were about several thousand of them.
At this time, the weapon refiners who participated in the preliminary round also found the blank test paper on the table in front of them, with pen and ink next to it. Obviously, this was their answer sheet.
Lin Xia did not rush to answer the questions, but instead roughly scanned the questions in the jade slip.
After scanning through the questions, Lin Xia felt a little depressed. What kind of questions were these?!
If Lin Xia had no grudge against the Li family, she would have almost thought that the Li family was targeting her.
Lin Xia originally thought that to select 3,000 from more than 10,000 weapon refiners to participate in the promotion competition, the questions posed by the Li family would not be simple. At least there would be some quite profound questions to widen the gap between these many weapon refiners.
Who would have thought that a large part of the test questions set by the Li family were actually common knowledge of the Tianyan Continent.
Where are the main production areas of gold sand?
Which secret realm does the Star Fantasy Yarn come from?
Who were the most famous weapon refiners in Tianyan Continent ten thousand years ago? What magical weapons have been passed down?
……
Haha, just tell me if you are specifically targeting Lin Xia?
As a cultivator who was able to come to Tianyan Continent from Qianyuan Continent, Lin Xia prided himself on being knowledgeable and experienced, but who would care who was the most famous weapon refiner in Tianyan Continent ten thousand years ago?
Not to mention those from Tianyan Continent, even Lin Xia from Qianyuan Continent doesn’t know.
Also, Lin Xia has not been in Tianyan Continent for a long time, so how could he know where the main production areas of the golden sand in Tianyan Continent are?
The most important thing is that such questions account for almost one-third of all the questions. How should Lin Xia answer them?
I haven't even finished the test yet, and I've already lost a third of my total score?! Really, haha.
I'm afraid that only if you get full marks on the other two-thirds of the questions will you have a chance to advance.
Lin Xia turned his head and looked at the cultivators beside him. Many weapon refiners had not started answering the questions yet. However, the expressions on those weapon refiners' faces were very relaxed, and they looked confident.
Seeing this, Lin Xia couldn't help but frown.
Noticing Lin Xia's frown, Li Zhufeng and others on the podium who were secretly paying attention to Lin Xia couldn't help but look confused.
What's going on? Why is he frowning before he even finishes the question? Is the question too difficult? This shouldn't be the case!
Or is it too simple? If it were too simple, there wouldn't be such an expression, right?
They admitted that there were some very difficult questions in this preliminary round, and some were even tricky, but it was not necessary to frown before answering the questions, right?
Aren’t there a lot of basic knowledge in the beginning? Those are all easy points!
This is a weapon refiner who has delivered perfect quality refined iron. How could he not be able to answer a single question?!
Unless this person isn't a weapon refiner at all? !
Just when Li Zhufeng and others were about to start suspecting that the piece of fine iron that Lin Xia handed in might not be made by him, Lin Xia started to write.
Hey, this is right!
Li Zhufeng and others on the rostrum gradually relaxed their expressions.
With such skills, this alchemist named Su Xia should have no problem entering the promotion round.
Little did they know that Lin Xia had already given up.
Skipping the previous questions about the common knowledge of refining equipment in Tianyan Continent, Lin Xia began to answer the following questions seriously, writing non-stop with the pen in his hand.
Ten days was neither long nor short, and Lin Xia finished her answer sheet almost on time.
Except for those one-third of the questions, I wrote down my own answers for the rest.
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After the preliminary round, all participating refiners will have five days of rest.
These five days are also the Li family's busy time for marking papers.
Because it was a weapon refining competition hosted by the Li family, and Li family’s own disciples also participated in the competition.
Therefore, the entire marking process is open to the public and will still be recorded using photo stones.
In addition, in order to prevent the examiners from favoring the Li family's weapon refiner, all the answer sheets will be covered with names.
Therefore, even though Li Zhufeng and others were very curious about Su Xia's answers, they had to suppress their curiosity and wait until the entire marking process was over before they could know Su Xia's specific score.
The marking work went smoothly. In just four days, all the answer sheets were reviewed and the relevant scores were calculated.
Next, the list of the top three thousand weapon refiners will be screened from high to low scores.
On the morning of the fifth day, the list of weapon refiners who could participate in the promotion competition was compiled.
The list was compiled into a blank scroll, which would be posted in Qirui Garden so that the weapon refiners living in Qirui Garden would know whether they could continue to participate in the promotion competition.
The weapon refiners who lost their qualifications naturally had to move out of Qirui Garden. After all, providing accommodation for so many weapon refiners was a considerable expense.
Being able to achieve this, the Li family is already very generous.
Of course, if there are still weapon refiners who are not convinced, they can also check the photo stone. The Li family does not mind this.
As soon as the statistical results came out, the backup list was sent to Li Zhufeng.
"Okay! Okay!" Li Zhufeng suppressed the excitement in his heart and his eyes immediately fell on the scroll in his hand.
I took a quick look, but didn't see the name I wanted to see.
"Huh?" Li Zhufeng was greatly surprised. He looked carefully again and finally saw Su Xia's name at the end of the list.
This? Did Su Xia actually get a spot in the qualifying round by being the last one?
"Go, go get Su Xia's answer sheet. I'll go by myself." After he finished speaking, Li Zhufeng's figure disappeared like the wind. He actually used his spiritual power. It seemed that he couldn't believe the results in front of him. Li Zhufeng planned to check Su Xia's answer sheet himself.
The marking work has just been completed, and the things are easy to find.
Soon, Su Xia's test paper was in Li Zhufeng's hands.
Li Zhufeng looked down and saw that almost one-third of Su Xia's paper was blank. Su Xia did not answer a single word of those basic questions that Li Zhufeng thought were easy points.
Almost all the points for the entire test paper come from the last two-thirds of the questions.
Is this really because the question is too simple? Recalling Su Xia's performance in the preliminary round, especially the frown on her face after reading the question clearly, Li Zhufeng couldn't help but widen his eyes. This is truly an incredible talent for refining weapons!