The two were carried out of the room.

Now, Lin Ye was the only one left in the entire testing room.

He remained seated in front of the screen, his fingertips a blur as he furiously updated the number of completed questions.

In the observation hall.

When he saw the last two students from Celestial Star Martial Arts High School being carried out, Chen Meng let out a heavy sigh of relief and unclenched his fists.

An immense sense of ease washed over him.

He raised his wrist and glanced at the time on his personal terminal.

Thirteen minutes!

According to the official scoring criteria, lasting more than twelve minutes, answering over fifty questions, and maintaining an accuracy rate above eighty-five percent was enough to earn a rating of "Excellent." His score for this subject was guaranteed to be over ninety.

Seeing Lin Ye’s relaxed and effortless state on the screen, Chen Meng was confident he would have no problem with the number of questions answered or his accuracy.

A complex smile, filled with a hundred different emotions, spread across Chen Meng’s face.

’Lin Ye, you kid... just how many more surprises do you have up your sleeve?’

’I clearly didn’t give you a good Spirit Observation Skill, so why is your spiritual strength so high?’

Time passed.

Another five or six minutes went by.

The audience in the hall had gone from their initial tension to a state of boredom and numbness.

Just as everyone thought Lin Ye would stay seated until the test timer ran out, he stood up.

He walked out of the testing room.

Several proctors responsible for the area all sighed in relief.

They had even begun to suspect the spiritual pressure generator was malfunctioning. Otherwise, how could someone last so long with no reaction at all?

’He finally couldn’t take it anymore.’

However, when one of the proctors walked over to the testing machine Lin Ye had used, he suddenly froze.

His eyes were glued to the screen, which displayed the final test statistics.

[Questions Completed: 200/200]

The proctor’s mouth slowly fell open.

’This student didn’t leave because he couldn’t hold on any longer.’

’It’s because he finished the entire question bank—one said to be almost impossible to complete—in less than twenty minutes?!’

"Come look at this!"

His voice trembled as he pointed to another area of the screen.

The other proctors gathered around.

On the screen was the electronic answer sheet, a dense, solid block of green.

There wasn’t a single red ’X’ indicating an error.

questions, all correct! 𝒇𝒓𝒆𝒆𝙬𝒆𝒃𝓷𝒐𝓿𝙚𝙡.𝒄𝓸𝒎

"Heh..."

In the second-floor viewing area, Li Kai Nian watched the close-up on the main screen, a smile of pure appreciation finally gracing his face.

"These questions may seem basic, but mixed together, they are a tremendous test of a candidate’s knowledge, logical ability, and spiritual stability."

"It looks easy, but getting a perfect score is anything but. Impressive. I didn’t realize he was so well-rounded in both scholarly and martial pursuits."

A smile also blossomed on Wang Zhengguo’s face as he said, "A little over four months ago, when the new college entrance exam trial cut-off scores were announced, his teachers all advised him to transfer to the Mecha-Warrior track or even just switch back to liberal arts."

"His liberal arts scores at the time were among the very best in the entire school. He has an extraordinary memory, and his science and engineering grades were also very high. I heard that, influenced by his father, he can even repair many models of mecha armor on the market himself."

Li Kai Nian’s smile didn’t fade. "Indeed. It’s a good thing you didn’t actually have him switch tracks. Otherwise, it would have been a great loss for you here in Dongjiang."

Naturally, Wang Zhengguo’s smile grew even wider.

Meanwhile, the director of the Dongjiang City Education Bureau, who was sitting next to Li Kai Nian and had been trying to find a chance to speak, stiffened abruptly upon hearing this.

A drop of cold sweat silently trickled down from his temple.

’Is... Is Mr. Li calling me out?’

’If a peerless genius like this had been buried, when it came time to assign blame, he, the director of the Education Bureau, would be the first one to be held responsible!’

His brain’s CPU instantly overloaded and began spinning frantically.

’No, I have to find a way to make up for this!’

The spiritual strength test ended.

As Lin Ye walked out of the testing room and followed the directions into the arena for the final test, everyone’s nerves tensed up once more.

Here it comes.

The final test, and the one with the highest point value.

The combat test!

It was a massive, open field paved with high-strength alloy, large enough to accommodate a small-scale team battle.

Lin Ye stood in the center of the field, his expression calm.

Opposite him, five figures slowly rose from an underground platform.

Their bodies were cast from a dark, silvery special alloy, and their forms were identical to that of an adult male.

But their joints exposed intricate mechanical structures, and a cold, red light glinted in their eyes.

These were Martial Artist puppets, built with special materials and techniques, and implanted with combat logic.

Lin Ye’s brow furrowed slightly.

’This... this isn’t right, is it?’

’The number is wrong.’

’The strength of the puppets themselves also seems wrong.’

He swept his Spiritual Power over them. The simulated fluctuations of Qi and Blood emanating from the five puppets were identical to those of the Vein Opening Realm.

The level indicators provided by the system also showed that each puppet was Level 18.

Chen Meng had said before that the opponents for this mock exam’s combat test would be three Tier One Puppets at the peak of the "Quasi-Martial Artist" level, infinitely close to the Vein Opening Realm.

’Was there a mistake in the exam procedure?’

Just as Lin Ye was wondering whether he should raise his hand to report the issue, up in the second-floor viewing area, Wang Zhengguo’s face was also filled with astonishment and confusion.

He was just about to speak.

But Li Kai Nian, beside him, seemed to have read his mind. His calm voice sounded out.

"This was my idea."

Li Kai Nian’s gaze remained locked on Lin Ye on the screen, his tone even.