NOVEL NEXT Chapter 95: The Last Assessment
Seeing that Jin Yuman was about to enter the illusion range of the filthy beasts' attacks, Lan Zhi reminded her again: "Cover your ears, close your eyes, don't listen to anything, and don't look at anything!" Jin Yuman was just clinging to her last breath and didn't have the extra energy to think about why. She just subconsciously did as Lan Zhi said. She kept crawling and crawling. With her eyes closed, everything in the illusion had nothing to do with her. She didn't even realize that she had already crawled past the finish line and continued to crawl forward until she heard Chang Youfang announce that she had passed the second assessment. Only then did she belatedly react. She looked back at the long bloodstains left by her crawl and tears welled up in her eyes instantly: "Lan Zhi, I made it!" However, she didn't know at all that Lan Zhi was sitting right beside her. Lan Zhi didn't plan to reveal herself to her either. She just smiled slightly and then withdrew her attention. After Jin Yuman passed, until the end of the assessment time, no one else passed. In total, only six people completed crossing the bridge. The three family cultivators were Si Jichuan, Luo Sutong, and Jin Yuman respectively. The three poor family cultivators were Tian Youjin, Zhang Liuzi, and Lan Zhi respectively. The number of people on both sides was equal. Then came the rest time. Lan Zhi was also a bit tired this time, and her body was covered in blood. So she went to the temporary residence prepared by the Pinglan Star Academy to heal her wounds, change clothes, and have a sleep. She didn't get up to participate in the third assessment until it was almost time. In order not to reveal her true appearance, Lan Zhi applied some Phantom Spirit Liquid near her distinctive eyes and stuck the dirt back on again. Then she continued to go to participate in the third and also the last special assessment, still looking dirty and smelly. The last special assessment was held in the Medicine Cultivation Pavilion on Jishi Peak, which was exactly the mountain they had painstakingly crossed the Rainbow Bridge to reach. As a once top-notch star academy, the buildings of the Pinglan Star Academy were also far beyond the reach of other star academies. Just the Medicine Cultivation Pavilion alone was more magnificent than the main peaks of many families. Its architecture and space were in the most ideal form in the minds of the Star Spirits. Viewed from a large scale, it was magnificent, and when looked at closely, it was refined and meticulous. After declining for so many years, it didn't look dilapidated but instead exuded an ancient charm. An hour before the assessment, the square of the Medicine Cultivation Pavilion was already crowded with people. Besides the crowd that came to watch on the day when the special assessment was opened exceptionally, there were also many students from small families near the Jiqing Tower and various star academies. All the students from the Pinglan Star Academy who could come had come. Their positions were clearly demarcated. A quarter of the audience was from families, and the rest were from poor families. There was a distance of three or four meters between the families and the poor families, forming a wide aisle. On this aisle, the flag of the Four Seas Silver Manor was flying high, and the sound of gongs and drums was deafening. Combined with the noisy crowd, it was extremely lively. People who didn't know the situation would think that some happy event was being held. The third special assessment was indeed a test of medicinal materials. The person presiding over the assessment was still Chang Youfang, the pavilion master of the Medicine Cultivation Pavilion. To prevent cheating, each of the six notaries took out five different kinds of pills, six pieces of each kind, on the spot and put them in medicine boxes. In total, thirty kinds of pills, one hundred and eighty pieces in all, were laid out. The person who completed the second special assessment first would draw lots. What was drawn would be the examination question for this time. The person who completed the second special assessment first was Si Jichuan. Si Jichuan was a sword cultivator and knew nothing about medicinal materials. He didn't care which pills he would draw. Hearing that he was asked to draw lots, he just picked one casually. Chang Youfang distributed the medicine boxes containing six pieces of the drawn pills to the six people respectively and said, "The person who completes this assessment first and can correctly write down all the ingredients of this pill will be the first place in this special assessment held exceptionally and can obtain a Three-flower Fire-tongue Vine. As for the other examinees, as long as they can separate out eight ingredients within an hour, they can become students of this star academy."