"I’m the one who excluded it..."
The others asked with frowns, "Why?"
The examiner pointed to the name section in the margin of the answer sheet, "Guess the age of this Formation Master?"
The margin bore the name "Mo Hua."
Seeing this, everyone exchanged glances and began guessing:
"With such a profound foundation, he must be at least one or two hundred years old?"
"I guess over two hundred..."
"Below a hundred isn’t impossible. After all, amongst Formation Masters, there are countless geniuses..."
The middle-aged examiner slowly said, "Thirteen years old."
Everyone was taken aback.
"How much?"
"Thirteen."
"What kind of joke is this?"
"At thirteen years old, how many formations could he have drawn, how many Formation Books could he have read?"
"One hundred and thirty years old is more like it..."
The examiner named Zhao let out a sigh, "It’s thirteen years old."
The room went silent for a moment.
"Truly thirteen years old?"
"Impossible, right?"
"Are you kidding us?"
"Did he really draw this himself, or could someone have drawn it for him..."
"There was someone proctoring the exam, how could he have someone else draw for him?"
"Who proctored this person?"
The stern-faced, rigid examiner named Zhao said indifferently, "It was me."
At that, everyone fell silent again.
Someone asked, "Brother Zhao, are you certain the formation was drawn by him himself?"
The examiner named Zhao gave a wry smile, "Yes."
He himself was unwilling to believe it, but the formation was right before his eyes, and he had no choice but to accept it.
Previously, he had only intended to check Mo Hua’s paper to see what nonsense he had scribbled. If it really was nonsensical, he was prepared to report it to the Heaven Shu Pavilion and hold the local Taoist Court accountable.
But he hadn’t expected that the formation would leave him feeling ashamed...
Another question came to the middle-aged examiner, "If that’s the case, with the child drawing so well, why did you exclude him on your own?"
The middle-aged examiner helplessly replied, "He’s too young... For Formation Masters under one hundred, we have to consider carefully, not to mention, he’s only thirteen..."