The assessment had ended, but this year's affair was overshadowed by the detestable act of "selling assessment orders," which incited the ire of the higher-ups in the Azure Cloud Sect.
However, the people of the Azure Cloud Sect were unable to identify the audacious rascal who had done it.
A total of eight hundred twenty-one people received the assessment orders and passed the assessment.
Out of tens of thousands, in the end, only a little over eight hundred remained, a testament to the extreme brutality of the process.
Of course, those who stayed weren't necessarily the most talented; some might just have been lucky enough to find an assessment order.
Those who left weren't necessarily lacking in talent either; some may have been unlucky, missing the assessment order by a whisker, but for whatever reason, the assessment was over.
Those who left could only pin their hopes on the next assessment.
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