The examination is scheduled to be held in August. In early September, it is the Mid-Autumn Festival and the weather is dry.
Candidates who chose to participate in the westward journey have now gathered in front of the imperial city. As expected, those who chose to participate in the westward journey are basically from wealthy families and are accompanied by expert guards from the family.
There were only about thirty people, but they formed a huge convoy with hundreds of people.
Among them, Jiang Liuer is the only one who seems extremely out of place. He comes from a middle-class rich peasant family, and now he is the only monk in the team and the abbot of the Great Ci'en Temple.
The eyes of others would focus on him from time to time, but what they saw was the face of a hopeless man with hanging boots.
For this trip to the west, Daci'en Temple only arranged for two monks with fairly average martial arts skills to accompany them, which shows how perfunctory its attitude was.
But the emperor didn't take it seriously. After a long speech, he finally announced that the westward journey had officially begun, and hundreds of people headed west in a mighty manner.
The emperor and his two important ministers, one civil and one military, all showed meaningful smiles.
Xu Yin was high in the sky at this time, and suddenly felt that a large number of causes and effects began to gather. He subconsciously glanced at the lower world.
Through the induction on Xu Lan's body, he saw everything around him, and at the same time turned his head to look in the direction of Xiniu Hezhou and Dongsheng Shenzhou.
There are also powerful eyes cast there, obviously paying great attention to the cause and effect here.
"Journey to the West is completely different from what I know."
Xu Yin saw Sun Wukong, the Supreme Treasure, following this mighty motorcade at the very back, driving a carriage with a woman.
"Sun Wukong has not yet worshiped Patriarch Bodhi as his teacher, so he is also following the journey to the west? Hmm... Patriarch Bodhi is in Hezhou, Xiniu. Could it be that this is also his chance?"
Then he looked at the loveless Jiang Liuer. He was riding on a very beautiful white horse, with two monks on the left and right carrying burdens, just like two sand monks.
Xu Yin couldn't help but smile. His intellectual corpse was still pinned on Jiang Liu'er, and he didn't know what kind of entanglement he would have with this guy who had great karma.
"Jiang Liuer turned into Xuanzang in some unexpected way, and was forced by the emperor to become a monk and learn Buddhist scriptures.
The emperor's behavior is very abnormal, does he know something? Fortunately, I have left a white jade in the palace through Xu Lan, and it has been accepted by the emperor, so that I can monitor his situation in the future."
In addition, Xu Yin also saw the good corpse Xu Lan in this westbound team, and he originally did not want to go westward with him.
But there was a big cause and effect, and the emperor's words by chance reached the ears of Yuan Yinglong, the commander of the Jinyi Guards, who in turn conveyed them to Luo Jianming.
Luo Jianming hesitated again and again, and finally persuaded Xu Lan to follow the westbound team, and Luo Xiuxin followed.
Then, looking across the Western Region thousands of miles away, Xu Yin saw the evil corpse Su Huai Ming who was practicing magic and had made a great breakthrough in a sea of sand.
After the ultimate death energy and Xuanyin, he found Xuanyang, made up for the shortcomings of his own martial arts, and merged the two into Hunyuan.
Now his strength has improved by leaps and bounds, and he is very close to Suyu.
And this sea of sand is also on the way to the west...
The team of hundreds of people to collect scriptures is huge. They need to go from the Tang Dynasty in the middle of the country to the westernmost tip of Nanzhan Buzhou and reach the West Sea.
Only from this location is there a passage above the Yehai Sea to Xiniu Hezhou.
After all, there is no direct three-dimensional physical connection between the four continents. The sea of ye has to use cause and effect as a boat to cross the spatial barrier and reach Xiniu Hezhou.
The distance between them cannot be judged by human thinking.
A powerful warrior who crossed the void, he once crossed the sea of karma with his physical body. Over the past thousands of years, only one person truly succeeded and got the chance to become an immortal in Dongsheng China.
He was Chunyangzi, the leader of the Quanzhen Sect. He had not even become a Taoist priest at that time. He chose to become a monk after returning from Dongsheng China.
To use his words to describe it, before reaching human immortality, if you cross the sea of karma with your physical body, you will lose your perception of time and space.
Once you can't see any land within your field of vision, you will think that no matter how you move forward or backward, you will just stay in the same place. At the same time, the sky will always be half night and half day, and the position of the stars will never change.
This feeling is full of terrible torture to people's spiritual will, as if the world is lonely, only oneself is left, and survival is meaningless.
Only by getting through the heart test, determining the meaning of one's own existence, and not choosing to give up life due to any setbacks can one enter the next stage.
This stage is cause and effect, involving things done in the past, some good and some evil, and all kinds of retributions are coming one after another, just like heavenly calamity inflicting upon one's body.
Only after passing through the retribution of cause and effect can you finally see where the land is. So whether the land ahead is to turn back or to the other side depends on the choices made in the cause and effect.
Chunyangzi's words now linger in the hearts of everyone in the westbound team. They only think about the sufferings of Ye Hai. They have never thought that the Tang Dynasty in the Middle Earth will need to cross at least 30,000 miles to reach the extreme west of Nanzhan Buzhou!
For the cavalry of the Tang Dynasty, which is now the most powerful in the world, the furthest journey is to Anxi, which is only 8,000 miles away from Chang'an as the starting point.
Those places where civilization has not yet arrived in Middle-earth are all barbaric, and even monsters there can become friendly races.
There are more savage species that are irrational and like wild beasts. They have inherited the blood of various strange beasts from the prehistoric era and are very powerful.
In addition, there are occasional shadows from the netherworld falling into it, forming ghosts and monsters, which is also a place where it is difficult for humans to survive.
But the team of hundreds of people showed a certain blind optimism. After all, the experts in the team included more than half of the top 30 experts in the earth rankings, and they all had the ability to cross the void.
In addition, even the ordinary guards are close to the strength of the Earth Ranking.
The ordinary monsters they encountered on the road were not taken seriously by them at all, and they were all wiped out easily.
And because most of the people traveling westward were from the proud tribe, they would always encounter help from various forces along the way, and even some elite Tang troops to escort them.
Therefore, until we left the four towns of Anxi, the journey felt like an outing and everyone was in a happy mood.
After leaving the Four Towns of Anxi, we encountered barbaric lands with barren land, tough barbarians, and a sudden increase in monsters.
Just a hundred miles after leaving the four towns of Anxi, everyone was attacked by wild beasts, barbarians, and monsters that they had never seen before more than ten times in one day!
They were almost advancing while fighting. Although there was no damage, the supplies were consumed at an unexpectedly fast rate.
The team leader is ranked first on the Earth Ranking and is known as the most promising player to enter the Heaven Ranking in the next twenty years.
This man's name is Tian Jin, he is over forty years old, with a round and thick waist and abdomen. He is a practitioner of both internal and external skills. He practices both internal skills and qi and blood.
Although he has no family or sect in the world and is a Sanren, his reputation is extremely high, only lower than the masters on the Heavenly Ranking and the Black Ranking.
Recruited jointly by the four major wealthy families, he is also the strongest expert that can be hired in the Westbound Rules.
It was already dark at this time, and everyone was setting up camp on the spot. Tian Jin looked at the disgraced people and the obviously low morale, frowned slightly, and then relaxed again.
I thought to myself that this was the performance of a group of children from aristocratic families who suffered setbacks for the first time. The most important thing now is to teach them how to face difficulties and how to solve them.