Chapter 160: End of the First Part of the Theoretical Test

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The first day of the competition was mainly to examine the participants of the first category.

Once that was done, it was finally time for the group of Ethan, Yan Mei, and Xiang Hua.

Last night, when they met in their residence, some congratulated those who had passed, while others consoled the one who had been eliminated.

Even though he was already out of the competition, he would wait for the next few days for his group.

However, he would only watch from the sidelines for the rest of the time.

Ethan didn't join them and returned to his room, as was his habit. S~eaʀᴄh the NôᴠelFirё.net website on Google to access chapters of novels early and in the highest quality.

At this point, no one even tried to stop him, not even his fan, who had given up after three days of constant rejection.

She thought that maybe he trained every time he had the chance, and unlike them, he didn't take breaks to rest.

'It's clear that we're on completely different levels,' she thought.

And although her assumption wasn't entirely correct, it was true in a sense.

Ethan was indeed training, but not in alchemy, he was cultivating.

When the next day came, the three participants were ready.

He and the two girls greeted each other with a nod and went to take their assigned seats.

Once everyone was ready, the same scene as yesterday unfolded.

However, unlike yesterday, there was a noticeable difference in the seating arrangement today.

The space separating the seats was much larger and more spread out.

This indicated that the number of participants in this category was much lower than the number from yesterday, where they had to squeeze as many seats as possible into the arena.

Currently, there were a total of 143 participants in this category, and according to Ethan's knowledge, these were all the participants of the second category.

There wasn't a second group like the participants from yesterday.

Time passed, and finally, a minute had passed.

Ethna finished first again, but with his high cultivation base, he could have a more precise sense of time, so he slowed down on the last few questions to synchronize with the time limit.

Even though he aimed to finish within a precise minute, he still managed to answer all ten thousand questions, just like last time.

When he began answering, he noticed that the difficulty level was very similar to the one used for seating selection.

Ethan understood that the more challenging questions would come only now that the first part of the theoretical test was over.

Just as he expected, all participants in this category passed without any problems.

However, this time, unlike yesterday, a transparent screen was projected with the help of a special artifact, displaying the initial scores of everyone.

1. Nuyu: 10,000 points

2. Xiang Hua: 8,534 points

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15. Yan Mei: 7,859 points

The list of 143 participants was shown to everyone, and as soon as people's eyes landed on the top scorer, the entire crowd fell silent.

"Nuyu? Angry fish? What kind of name is that?"

"Forget the name, look at the score."

"What? A perfect score!"

Immediately, the crowd burst into a series of exclamations as they noticed the first-place score.

A perfect score in the first round.

This was something that hadn't happened in several centuries.

In fact, the last person to achieve a perfect score did so over 300 years ago.

The reason for this was obvious.

Many struggled just to get close to 9,000 points, which was understandable given the time constraints, and only a few geniuses in the history of the tournament had managed to go beyond that, with some even achieving a perfect score.

The number of people who achieved such a result could be counted on one hand.

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The audience knew that the competition in the expert category would be more exciting to watch, but to start by breaking a record like this was something no one expected.

Even the elderly man who was supposed to comment on the participants' results remained silent for a few seconds at the sight of this score.

'Who the hell is Angry Fish?' he thought as he looked towards the examiners to ask for their opinion.

They shook their heads to indicate that the results were correct and that there had been no mistake.

Seeing this, he took a deep breath, regained his composure, and announced excitedly,

"With great surprise to the public, and even to us, someone has managed to score a perfect score this year, earning the honor of being added to the Hall of Fame of the competition," he said as he made another projection of a list of various names appear.

At the end of this list, a light appeared, and the name "Nuyu" was inscribed.

Although the examiner wasn't entirely sure of the name, he knew there was little he could do about it.

They had allowed the participants to choose an alias.

This was both for privacy and for those who wanted to choose a professional name.

The only question was what kind of problems this person had to call himself that.

With today's excellent result, his name had already been added to the Hall of Fame, and the tournament was just beginning.

Everyone who had taken the first test knew that a particularly powerful competitor had appeared, and compared to the second-place scorer, he had a lead of over a thousand questions.

A significant gap.

After the initial shock, everyone started to get excited again as the announcer declared the beginning of the second part of the theoretical test.

This was merely a formality, as although all the participants in this category had already been tested, it wasn't guaranteed that they would achieve a good score here as well.

There were many cases of participants who did well in the seating selection test but then scored poorly or insufficiently in this round.

Relying on the seating test was one thing, but taking it as the final proof of their ability was not.

It might seem like they were questioning the ability of those alchemy masters, but that wasn't the case, and even those masters didn't mind it.

So, now that the first part was over, it was time for the part entirely dedicated to the second category: questions and answers with difficulties adjusted by the participant themselves.