The First Interstellar Energy Gambler

Chapter 123: Examination Passed 

Of course, Lin Luo didn’t actually need to practice at home as they thought. The purity of the element liquids he extracted from the very beginning had always been extremely high. On top of that, he had extracted a lot of vials of element liquid over time, so his control over his mental power had been significantly improved. As such the purity of his extracted element liquid had been improved by a lot.

“Lin Luo, are you sure you want to use this jade?” an examiner asked with a frown.

The earth element was known to be the least active among all natural elements, so there was a certain degree of difficulty in activating it. It would require extremely high spiritual strength for an energy master to extract compared to other elements. Generally, there were very few energy engineers who would willingly choose to extract the earth element during an assessment.

“I…”

Just as Lin Luo was about to give an affirmative answer, he heard Master Miao suddenly say, “He can do it.”

Master Miao still remembered Lin Luo’s outstanding performance in the last assessment. The speed at which he was able to stimulate the elemental energy in his jade was the fastest of any person he had ever seen, so he was able to confidently say that Lin Luo could do it.

“All right. Now that you’re both ready, we can go ahead and begin the assessment.” The examiner saw that Master Miao spoke up in support of Lin Luo, so he didn’t bother to pursue the subject any longer. Instead, he just directly pressed a switch on the table which caused the walls on the left and right sides of the room to suddenly disappear. As a result, two separate rooms were revealed with each having a layout inside that was exactly the same as the room Lin Luo worked in during his last exam.

Gu QiuYang picked up his piece of jade and walked straight into the room on the right, so Lin Luo could only go to the room on the left.

After the examiner pressed the switch a second time, a transparent partition wall closed over each room.

After the sounds between the rooms were cut off, the examiner who had questioned Lin Luo previously whispered to Master Miao, “Mr. Miao, I know you’re very optimistic about that child, but if he wants to extract a vial of element liquid of sufficient purity, he’s going to need to activate as much of the elemental energy contained in the jade as possible. Normally this is already a burden on mental power, but since the earth element is so difficult to work with, it just means he’ll need to consume even more mental power in the process. Ultimately after activation he’ll have that much more of a difficult time with the extraction step and it will be hard for him to pass the exam.”

The examiner’s previous questioning was originally for Lin Luo’s sake, as he didn’t want him to fail the examination because of a poor material choice.

“Let’s just watch.” Master Miao smiled without saying anything further. He was still very confident in Lin Luo.

At this time, Lin Luo and Gu QiuYang each had already sat down, and both held their jades in both hands, closed their eyes and began to feel the elemental energy in their jades with their mental power.

Normally, this process would take about ten to thirty minutes to complete, while Lin Luo only took less than two minutes.

When they saw a large number of yellow light moats emerge from the jade in Lin Luo’s hand and gather around him, all three examiners except Master Miao were stunned.

“How… can this be?”

“His aptitude test was double S.” Master Miao said with a smile, “The last time he tested it was on a piece of blue water jade, and the activation speed was even faster than this.”

The other three examiners suddenly gasped. Their eyes fixed on the transparent partition wall, unwilling to move them again.

Lin Luo skillfully used his mental power to guide the earth elements to condense together before he began to compress them. Because the amount of elemental energy he was stimulating this time was relatively large, the process was destined to take longer.

At the same time in the other room, Gu QiuYang was able to stimulate the green wood element energy in his jade, and the amount he stimulated was also quite large.

“This examinee is also okay.” An examiner looked at Gu QiuYang and commented.

In fact, Gu QiuYang’s current performance was the best among the candidates other than Lin Luo so far, but with a jewel like Lin Luo testing just across the room from him, his performance was suddenly downgraded to just ‘okay’.

However, the person who completed their extraction first was Gu QiuYang.

“I’m done.” Gu QiuYang wiped off the sweat from his forehead and walked out of the room holding the vial of wood elemental liquid he had just extracted. His legs were still a little weak, and his temples were twitching with the strain. Just now he had really tried his best and used up all of his mental power.

When he saw that Lin Luo was still finishing his extraction, he couldn’t help showing a happy smile across his face. He managed to pull ahead of Lin Luo in the end, so it would seem that he was the more powerful one.

However, the eyes of the four examiners were all watching fixedly in Lin Luo’s direction, which made Gu QiuYang quite unhappy. Nonetheless, he still knew that these masters were people who couldn’t be offended easily, so he could only endure the displeasure in his heart as he stood by and waited.

Seeing Lin Luo struggling to control his elemental energy, he felt a little better.

Only a fool would choose to extract the earth element during an assessment! This Lin Luo is definitely going to fail!