It's in the Bag

Someone among the poor family onlookers angrily stood up, took off the storage bracelet on their wrist and slapped it on the table of the Four Seas Silver Bank: "The Three-flowered Fire-tongue Vine mustn't be taken away by the Fengtian Star Academy. I'll bet all my possessions on the poor families! The Pinglan Star Academy can't lose!" The noble family cultivators disdainfully threw out a purple jade bead as big as a pigeon egg and sneered, "Can you stop it? The Fengtian Star Academy is sure to get the Three-flowered Fire-tongue Vine." These words aroused the indignation of more poor family onlookers. Immediately, more poor family cultivators came out to place bets, and the noble family cultivators were not to be outdone. In the blink of an eye, the table in front of the Four Seas Silver Bank was crowded with people placing bets. Listening to the noisy voices in her ears, Lan Zhi, standing at the back of the queue, showed an almost imperceptible sneer at the corner of her mouth. It's in the bag. As everyone went to place bets, the tense and surging atmosphere on the square immediately turned into a heated confrontation until the bell rang. Dang— Time's up. Chang Youfang, the pavilion master of the Medicine Cultivation Pavilion, gave a speech for this assessment. He didn't mention a word about the Three-flowered Fire-tongue Vine. He just welcomed the cultivators to participate in this enrollment assessment on behalf of the Pinglan Star Academy and announced the rules of this assessment, clearly stating that only cultivators who hadn't entered other star academies to study could participate in the assessment of the Pinglan Star Academy, and that during the assessment process, they were not allowed to attack each other, and those who violated this would be disqualified from the assessment. After that, he introduced the cultivators who would serve as notaries for this assessment, namely the Lord of Pingzhou, the City Lord of Pinglan City, the Headmaster of the Pinglan Star Academy, the Vice-teacher of the Fengtian Star Academy, and Elder One-Two-Seven of the Tianyi Family. The assessment was the same as the usual recruitment. First, the bone age and star veins had to be tested. The star academy was not a noble family. It wasn't responsible for taking care of children or supporting the elderly, so there were requirements for the age range. However, there was definitely no problem for the students who were called to participate in the assessment on this point. But when it came to the test of star veins, the huge difference in the results between the noble family students and the poor family students was quite astonishing. Among the noble family students, except for Jin Yuman, who was at the very end of the queue and had awakened four star veins, the rest all had awakened five or more star veins. Si Jichuan, who had completed the task of fighting a hundred people alone, had even awakened all eight star veins. Although one of his star veins was slightly darker in color, it still didn't affect his standing out among those present. On the part of the poor families, the vast majority had awakened two or three star veins, and there were even a few who had only awakened one star vein. Those who had awakened four star veins were very few, and there was only one who had awakened five star veins. In the blink of an eye, half of the poor family students were eliminated. There were few noble family cultivators, and they finished the test quickly. The onlookers saw that among the remaining poor family students who hadn't been tested yet, there wasn't anyone particularly outstanding, so they simply didn't watch anymore and directly went into the Pinglan Star Academy in advance to occupy good positions to watch the third round of the assessment. By the time Lan Zhi was tested for her star veins, there were only a few scattered people left on the scene. Even the seated notaries got up and turned around, ready to leave. Lan Zhi didn't want to be too high-profile to attract the attention of certain people. The current situation was just what she wanted. She quietly cast a spell of Invisibility to the Mind, making people subconsciously ignore her, and then walked to the vein-testing stone. The vein-testing stone was a circular jade that was transparent throughout and had a base. Lan Zhi put her hand on the base, slightly activated her star power, and immediately, brilliant eight-colored light emerged from the circular jade. There were eight star veins, each with a different color, a total of eight colors. The colors of her eight star veins were evenly distributed and bright, obviously much better than Si Jichuan's. The cultivator in charge of testing the star veins was overjoyed as if he had found a treasure. Just as he was about to loudly announce the result, Lan Zhi quickly cast a Forgetfulness Spell on him. He was slightly stunned and suddenly forgot Lan Zhi's test result. His words got stuck in his throat. Lan Zhi reached out her hand in time to give him a hint. He gave Lan Zhi a grateful look and announced loudly, "Lan Zhi, four of the eight star veins have been awakened. Passed!"