The entire hall fell silent in an instant.
"Colleagues."
Zhu Mingyi's voice carried clearly through the speakers, reaching every person's ears.
"As you all know, I gathered the prodigies from every province here in the Imperial Capital. The established procedure was to select this year's undisputed top scorer."
"To that end, I specifically added an additional test round after the final assessment."
He paused, his gaze seeming to pierce through the dark screen and land on an unseen figure.
"But now, I have decided to exclude Lin Ye from this additional test."
His words were met with dead silence.
It was followed by a wave of hushed, irrepressible murmurs.
'Excluded?'
'What does that mean?'
Before anyone could figure it out, Zhu Mingyi dropped an even bigger bombshell.
"I declare that Lin Ye is this year's top scorer of the Great Xia Martial Arts College Entrance Exam."
