Not only Ye Fan, but also the candidates of the beast control department who were watching in the examination room understood the examiner Zhao Shulu's intention to make things difficult.
"The examiner, Zhao Shulu, is the son of the elder of the Zhao clan. Ye Fan has been too popular these days, which has damaged the Zhao family's face. The wealthy Zhao family wants to show Ye Fan some color!"
"Hmph, if you offend the wealthy Zhao family, you can still have a good ending!"
"If City Lord Jiang and Dean Mu hadn't taken a fancy to his talent and sent people to protect him, he, a small commoner, would have been beaten to a disability long ago. He still doesn't know how to restrain himself and dares to take the beast control test!"
Some young candidates whispered to each other, taunted and laughed in low voices.
Of course, there are some young candidates who think this is unfair, but no one dares to challenge the authority of the examiner.
"It's really pitiful for Ye Fan to be suppressed by five examiners!"
Ao Lie was at the exam table nearby. Seeing this scene, he couldn't help showing sympathy.
Although he didn't want to see Ye Fan take away his top spot.
However, several examiners from Luyang Mansion actually took advantage of their power to bully others and came up with such tricky test questions to suppress Ye Fan regardless of their appearance. They went too far.
It was a waste of money, and even made Ye Fan, who was mute, eat Coptis chinensis, unable to tell the story of his sufferings.
Even if this matter becomes a big deal, it will at most be an accusation that this year's beast control exam questions are too difficult. The people of Luyang Mansion cannot yet accuse them of cheating in the examination room.
It seems that Ye Fan is completely out of luck this time!
Let alone being at the top of the beast control department, it's impossible to even get points!
Alas, if he had known this would happen, there would be no need for him to run to intercept Ye Fan halfway.
"As long as Ye Fan doesn't take action, no one else in this examination room can be my opponent! It seems that I will definitely get the top spot in this beast control examination!"
Ao Lie secretly said.
The examination room quickly returned to silence. All the candidates were busy dealing with the exam and did not dare to be distracted.
There were only the slight sounds of footsteps walking back and forth as the main examiners and assistant examiners invigilated the examination.
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Ye Fan was almost furious and felt very dissatisfied, but his little arms couldn't twist the examiner's thigh.
As the examiner Zhao Shulu said, stone eggs are eggs, and weird test questions are also test questions - even if this test question is just for himself.
I have no right to pick and choose the test questions set by the government academy, I can only answer them.
He could only stare at the stone egg in front of him, trying to identify it.
Ye Fan looked at the stone egg carefully.
The stone egg is three feet in size, with a light gray shell, many rough and mottled spots, and a large number of thick egg patterns surrounding the stone egg. There are large pieces of peeling off the shell and a few cracks.
Ye Fan was confused. From the shell of this stone egg, there was no clue to identify it.
I am not very familiar with beast eggs. Even ordinary beast eggs may not be able to tell anything, let alone fossil eggs that are millions of years old.
This is not because he is not good at controlling animals. Rather, there are at least millions of ancient beasts from the barbaric period. No one has the ability to determine what kind of beast it is just from the outer shell.
"Use the divine perception technique of the beast control system to try to communicate with it!"
Ye Fan closed his eyes, touched its stone shell with one hand, and used his spiritual mind to sense its interior.
The only way for the human beast master to communicate with the beast egg is to call it with spiritual thoughts.
If the beast egg is alive and it responds to the beast master, then the beast master can communicate with it to obtain some information about it and complete the identification.
If the beast egg does not respond, then the beast master will be helpless.
However, Ye Fan could not sense anything.
It is estimated that the inside of the stone egg is completely petrified. It is just a stone and cannot communicate with people.
These examiners are so insidious, they can actually think of such a question.
Ye Fan was angry and said: "Shang, is there any way to identify it?! I don't believe it, there is no way to know what kind of egg this is."
"There is a way! However, it is not a beast-control method, but an adventure-type method."
Shang said calmly.
Countless knowledge is recorded in its billions of pages, so there is a way.
Ye Fan was surprised: "Oh, how to do it?"
"There are many ways to identify beast eggs. The 'Spiritual Perception Technique' of the Beast Taming Department allows you to communicate with the beast egg without any obstacles. However, it is a stone egg, so this technique cannot be used. The Adventure Department's The technique of 'Historical Recall' allows you to use your spiritual thoughts to perceive its shell and trace its past. The shell of the stone egg records all of its history, which is enough to find out everything it has experienced!"
Ye Fan nodded and thought: "Okay, then start the 'Historical Review'!"
Soon, Ye Fan touched the stone egg shell with one hand.
The power of his spiritual thought quickly penetrated into the stone egg watch case.
"good!"
Shang immediately activated the "Historical Backtracking" technique of the adventure system.
As Ye Fan's spiritual power penetrated, he began to perceive the backward history of this stone egg.
Suddenly, Ye Fan's mind was no longer in the beast control examination room in Luyang Mansion, but completely immersed in the extremely ancient wilderness era.
A magnificent picture appeared in his eyes.
It was a barbaric era when the ancient gods had just been annihilated, the four major races of humans, beasts, ghosts, and spirits had just emerged on the continent, and even the ancestor gods of the four major races had not yet risen.
The continent at that time was called the Savage Continent, not the Shenwu Continent now.
The entire land still looks very desolate. The living environment is extremely harsh with sun-scorching deserts and wind-swept hills. There are only a few places with oases suitable for survival.
The continent is surrounded by vast oceans and giant icebergs.
The ancient barbaric tribes struggled to survive on this desolate continent, struggling for food.
In the northern ocean far away from the wild continent, there is a floating mountain covered in ice that is tens of millions of miles away. This boundless glacier is gradually melting, and pieces of icebergs are collapsing, and sea water is overflowing.
A catastrophe is threatening all living things on this frozen floating mountain.
A gathering place of a large ancient beast tribe has been submerged by the melting ice sea. The whole family is migrating, traveling long distances to find a new place to live.
One of the female animals laid a huge egg on the way to migration. If it were normal, this beast egg would have been produced in a safe place in the tribe, waiting for it to hatch smoothly.
But at this time, the entire clan was migrating, and along the way they had to pass through numerous dangerous places and engage in life-and-death battles with other ancient beast clans. The mother beast was unable to protect the egg.
This female beast could only leave the egg in a narrow gap in an iceberg. She turned back three times and reluctantly left the egg, leaving it to fend for itself before finding a new tribe gathering place.
This beast's egg was left alone on the iceberg where the cold wind was howling.
Perhaps because of the ice disaster, all the ancient beasts were fleeing in panic. Fortunately, it was not targeted by any predatory ancient beasts.
I don't know how long it took, but with a "click!", the iceberg shattered and collapsed.
The iceberg carrying this beast's egg slid into the sea. The iceberg floated in the vast ocean of ice for several years, reaching extremely remote sea areas.
Giant icebergs float in the sea, gradually melting due to wind and sun, becoming smaller and smaller, and eventually disappear.
"Plop!" a sound.
This egg fell from the melting iceberg into the sea water, and gradually sank ten feet, a hundred feet, a thousand feet... until it sank to a depth of thousands of feet, and the sky was dark and the bottom of the sea was dark.
This is a lifeless and silent underwater world.
Even though it is just an animal egg, it still has a strong desire to live.
It was very scared, as if it had been abandoned by the whole world, and fell into boundless loneliness and fear, waiting for the unknown fate to arrive.
But, nothing appeared.
There are no enemies that threaten it, and there are no orc companions who live and die together. There is only boundless darkness and deathly silence.
Day after day, year after year, thousands of years later... it gradually became desperate in the darkness, completely closed its self-awareness, and no longer had any hope.
This beast egg was swept up by the undercurrent of the seabed and ended up somewhere unknown. Gradually it was covered by the thick sediment in the sea. Tens of thousands of years passed, and its outer shell petrified. Year after year, it gradually began to petrify, and its interior gradually penetrated.
"Loneliness...! Despair...!"
Ye Fan touched the stone egg with his hand, feeling everything it had experienced, and his heart trembled suddenly.
This feeling of loneliness and despair was so familiar to him.
Just a few days ago, on the day he graduated from Nanchen Martial Arts Academy, he felt that he was about to sink forever and be abandoned by the whole world.
The loneliness and despair were unbearable, almost to the point of collapse.
Ye Fan suppressed his grief and continued to "watch".
After countless thousands of years, the sea water receded.
The ups and downs of sea and land!
Volcanoes erupt, mountains rise, and the world changes!
Countless holy gods of the four tribes have risen and died, huge dynasties have experienced one round after another, and everything in the world has already experienced thousands of changes.
This stone egg was eventually buried deep in a mountain and never saw the light of day.
Until a certain year in the eleventh thousand years of the Zixuan Calendar, a group of human miners from Luyang Prefecture accidentally dug it out of the mine and curiously took it away from the mountains.
Everything it has experienced ends here.
Only then did Ye Fan suddenly emerge from this "historical review".
He woke up with a start and said in a daze: "Shang! How come my feelings are so real, as if I have experienced all this personally? The adventure-based 'history retrospection' technique is so powerful!"
Shang smiled and said: "That's nature. Looking back on the history of the adventure department, we can observe all the details. The petrification process of stone eggs is a gradual process. The color change of each layer on the stone shell represents it. The different events it has experienced. All the drastic changes it has experienced over the past tens of millions of years have left subtle traces on its stone shell. The details identified through historical retrospection are even better than the identification techniques of the beast control system. detailed."
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Not far from Ye Fan's exam table.
Ao Lie placed his right hand on a cyan-spotted beast egg the size of a fist on the examination table, closed his eyes, and used his spiritual mind to summon the egg.
Because the types of beasts are too huge, as many as one million species, and the eggs of different beasts are very similar, and the differences are too small. Therefore, it is impossible to memorize such a huge variety of animal eggs simply by relying on the appearance of the memory egg.
Spiritual induction is the only best way.
It only took a few incense efforts, but Ao Lie's call received an enthusiastic response from Beast Egg.
Once the beast master gets the active response from the beast egg, the beast egg will feed back a lot of information to the beast master. This allows the animal handler to quickly identify its species, etc., and complete the identification of the eggs.
"It's done!"
Ao Lie suddenly opened his eyes, his determined eyes full of confidence and pride.
In the entire examination room of the beast control department, he was the first candidate to successfully get a response from the beast egg. He already knew all the information about this beast egg.
Ao Lie picked up the pen and quickly began to answer the questions on the examination paper:
"Beast species: Blue-feathered Bird—Wing Clan. Grade: First level, first grade. Purpose: Blue-feathered Bird is generally used to quickly transmit emergency information over short distances, ranging from a few miles to hundreds of miles. It is used in the military and government , has been widely used in various aspects. Beast Talisman: "Flying". Food and feeding methods: This kind of winged bird has an impatient nature and is easy to die. Its staple food is pupae and rice millet. Because of its impatient nature, it is easy to cause other diseases when domesticated. Death, the beast handler needs great patience when taming it. Growth stages: This winged beast is divided into egg stage, juvenile stage, and adult stage. The various growth stages are as follows..."
Ao Lie quickly wrote down the species, grade, purpose, animal talisman, temperament, food and feeding methods, and the strength of each growth stage of this beast egg.
These are all things that a beast master must master.
The more detailed and accurate a candidate's identification of animal eggs is, the higher the assessment score will be.
"Hmph! As long as Ye Fan, the strongest opponent, cannot pass today's beast control examination, then I will have absolute confidence that I can win the first place in the beast control examination."
Ao Lie secretly said happily while writing vigorously.