August 14th is the day when the county examination of Dachu State begins.
The county examination lasted for three days. On the first day, the test was on classics and meanings. Several passages were taken from the works of five sages that were presented to the main hall of the Confucian Temple by the imperial court, and they were required to memorize and explain them. On the second day, the test was on poetry.
It is required to write three poems and one poem, two of which must be written according to the title; on the third day, there will be a test on policy theory, and three topics will be given, and one of them must be written to explain.
After the three subjects are completed, the papers will be revised separately. The papers are divided into five levels: "excellent", "excellent", "upper", "medium" and "lower". You can get "excellent" in one subject or "upper" in all three subjects.
”, you can be admitted and gain the status of a candidate and the qualification to go to Beijing to take the Beijing Examination.
In this way, on average, most of the people who can pass the county examination are no more than 30 people. The Qiu Wei exam is held once every three years, and each time the talents can be selected in the county, it is not even enough to make up for the vacancies of middle and lower-level civil servants in the county.
Xiong Da, the founding emperor of the Chu Kingdom who instituted the imperial examination system, must have been well versed in the art of hunger marketing.
Carrying a bookcase containing two sets of the Four Treasures of the Study, Lin Lushan stood in a long queue rushing to take the exam. Together with thousands of scholars from various counties in the county, he slowly walked into the examination room along the narrow corridor.
This corridor was built under the supervision of a Taoist expert. It can make everything hidden and concealed without searching. It not only saves manpower and time, but also respects the human rights of the scholars who are rushing to take the exam. It fully reflects the superiority of the fairy world.
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Before turning the corner, Lin Lushan couldn't help but look towards the bustling crowd of people taking exams.
Seeing the pink dress, his nervous and worried mood calmed down, and his high fighting spirit slowly rose.
The greatest ideal of a man is to have a wife and a son, and to build a successful career.
And this moment is his first step on the road to success!
After entering the examination room and receiving the paper, he took a brief look at it and made up his mind - it was simple and he had already memorized it!
Lin Lushan has been reading poetry and books since he was a child, especially the works of the sages. He has read them over and over again and memorized them many times. As long as he is given time, it is easy to write down those works with the annotations of famous writers of the past.
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The discipline of classics and meaning is not difficult for him!
It only took him half a day to answer the paper, and he spent the remaining half day checking it repeatedly to avoid any possible omissions and errors.
When he handed in the paper in the evening, he smiled confidently at his relatives and servants who were already waiting at the door and raised his thumbs towards them.
"no problem!"
At about this time, in the depths of the desert thousands of miles away from the Great Chu Kingdom, Wu Jie and Xiao Buyi were confronting Su Lin and others.
"If you want to ask who is the most suitable person in this world to be the successor of Buyi Shenxiang, it can only be me!"
Just this sentence completely destroyed the originally harmonious atmosphere, and even the evening breeze seemed to be a bit chilly.
When Su Lin said these words, Xiao Buyi became angry and asked viciously: "Why?"
"Based on my lifespan." A certain tree demon said something that made him speechless. "Even if I don't practice cultivation, I can have a lifespan of more than three thousand years; and with my current Taoism, my lifespan is almost tens of thousands of years -
The average lifespan of monks who have entered Taoism does not exceed two hundred years, but I am more than fifty times longer than you!"
These words were so convincing that Xiao Buyi was stunned for a long time, but couldn't think of how to refute.
He originally thought of several arguments, but no matter what Su Lin said, he could refute it on the spot. But he didn't expect that Su Lin didn't talk about it from the perspective of Taoism inheritance at all, but instead turned to Shouyuan's perspective!
How can humans compare their lifespans with tree spirits? They are not on the same level at all!
No matter how advanced one's cultivation is, if a human does not ascend, he or she can only live for fifteen hundred years at most, which is basically the limit. However, there are many monsters who can exceed this number, and three to five thousand years is common.
And tree spirits...even among monsters, they are famous for their longevity.
Among the demons in the world, there are several famous long-lived tree demons, such as the old banyan tree "Rong Yi" who lives in the "Dingmu Forest" by the South China Sea, and the "Songbaisheng" who likes to dress up as a scholar and travel around the world. They are all at least alive. A super old-timer who has lived for 20,000 to 30,000 years.
The spells of Buyi's lineage are very special, and they consume lifespan when performing divination. This causes descendants including Xiao Buyi to age prematurely, and may even die early.
But this problem does not exist for Su Lin. His lifespan is dozens or even hundreds of times longer than that of ordinary people. He can consume his lifespan without caring.
Wu Jie had also heard of the title of the best divine fortune teller in the north. It was said that Su divine fortune teller was a scholar of heavenly fortune-telling. He almost never made mistakes when reading fortune tellers and asking divination. He was simply a mythical figure.
However, Su Lin's whereabouts have always been very secretive. Almost no one has seen his true face, and almost no one knows where he is now - obviously, he has fully learned the lessons of Li Buyi back then and done a very good job in self-protection. good.
So it wasn't until now that Wu Jie realized that he was also a monster, and he was the longest-lived type among monsters.
It is undeniable that compared to Xiao Buyi, whose lifespan does not exceed two hundred years, Su Lin does have a unique advantage in learning Buyi's magic series.
However, Xiao Buyi refused to give up. He thought for a while and found a good reason.
"What our monks seek is the Supreme Way. Immortality is just the inevitable result in the process of seeking the Way. Although the Dryad clan has always lived a long life, there are almost no examples of this clan ascending. What you are suitable for is to be the elder of a sect. rather than heirs to true preaching.”
"Ascension?" Su Lin seemed to find this sentence very funny, and his eyes narrowed when he laughed, "It's so funny. You haven't even mastered the Gang Qi yet, and you dream of ascending. Don't you think it's too natural? ?”
"If it's not for the sake of ascension, why should we ask for immortality?"
"Cultivation is for transcendence. Does it matter whether you ascend or not?" Su Lin said nonchalantly, "Even if you ascend, you may not be able to live longer than me."
"What's more..." He looked at Xiao Buyi carefully and shook his head, "Your destiny is too thin. You may reach the limit at the level of Gang Refining in this life. Ascension or anything like that has nothing to do with you. "
Xiao Buyi naturally had his own fortune told, and the conclusion was no different from Su Lin's. He frowned, stared at Su Lin, and asked disdainfully: "Is your fate heavier than mine? What's the matter? So proud! What’s the use of having a long life? I don’t think you live any longer than me!”
"You can tell my fortune just by looking at my face?" Su Lin laughed. "My appearance is someone else's. Whether I have a strong destiny or not, and whether I live a long life or not, are all other people's business. If I think If necessary, it can completely change into something else."
"Everyone in the world has to look at faces to see the true face, but I am a tree demon, and my true face is a big tree. Do you want to read my face? Do you want me to show my true face and let you touch it for me?
Bone?"
Xiao Buyi said the wrong thing and was teased a lot by him. He was so angry that he was shaking all over, but he had nothing to say.
Since language cannot complete negotiations, violence can only be used. There is a saying that "violence cannot solve problems, but it can eliminate them." Just as there once was the world's largest country on earth, it was good at using nuclear bombs to extinguish oil field fires.
If you drop one, the mushroom cloud will rise, and the world will naturally become pure.
Xiao Buyi took a deep breath and walked towards Su Lin.
His steps were strange, and his walking speed was extremely slow. He slowly raised his feet and lowered them slowly, as if he was singing an opera.
But as he took this step, the surrounding atmosphere completely changed.
Originally, the evening wind was blowing in the desert, and the wind became more and more fierce as it blew through the ruins, making low or sharp sounds. Sand was also carried by the wind and flew in the air, hitting people with slight pain from time to time.
But after Xiao Buyi took this step, the sound of the wind disappeared.
It doesn't mean that the wind has disappeared. In fact, the wind is still blowing, and the body still hurts slightly when the grains of sand hit it.
——But the sound of the wind is gone.
It's like suddenly pressing the mute button on the remote control while watching TV. The picture is still playing, but the sound disappears without a trace.
Wu Jie was stunned and was about to ask why, but he didn't speak.
The strange silence in front of him was obviously Xiao Buyi's spell. He didn't understand the principle of the spell and couldn't help, but at least he could not do anything wrong.
Kotomine, who was about to speak, glanced at him and closed his mouth.
But others didn't think so. The short man who was traveling with Su Lin asked gruffly: "What's wrong? Why is the wind gone?"
In the silent desert, his voice sounded harsh.
Su Lin did not answer, but looked at Xiao Buyi coldly.
Xiao Buyi did not take any further action. He just maintained his posture as if he was about to move forward, but remained motionless.
"Are you suppressing the sound of the wind to stir up the roar of the earth later? Or do you want to cause a roaring wind?" Su Lin waited for a while and asked coldly, "Counting the time, it's almost time."
There was a bit of sarcasm on Xiao Buyi's face, but he didn't speak and just stood there motionless.
"What is he doing?" Another of Su Lin's colleagues, a young man who had been keeping watch at the rear of the sand sled, asked, "Senior Su, can you tell us?"
"It's nothing. This is the magic of Feng Shui. He stepped on the wind sounds in this area, and after a while he can stimulate them together, or cause the sounds of all things on the earth to become 'earth sounds', or turn them into sounds.
The violent roar is for the 'roaring wind'." Su Lin seemed very relaxed, but looking at him staring at the foot Xiao Buyi had just stepped out while talking, you could tell that he was actually nervous.
"Then what's the difference between these two spells?" the young man continued to ask.
"They are all trivial tricks, not worth mentioning." Su Lin waved his hand lightly, "If you want to do it, your brother is much stronger than us, not to mention that there are Taoist friends here. He can't win at all."
"Elder brother alone is stronger than all of us combined." Kotomine's voice was a little hoarse, "Not long after he entered Taoism three years ago, he killed 'Wan' and 'Qian', the four evil men in the southeast, in one go.
Without stopping, he turned back and killed the Holy Goddess of the Supreme Holy Cult who founded a sect that was quite famous. The Zhang family brothers are not stronger than the Four Southeastern Evils, and I don’t think I am better than the Holy Goddess."
"What's more... why should I fight against my senior brother to help you?" He looked at Su Lin with some sarcasm, "This is almost equivalent to betraying the sect! Do you think I am a fool?"
The faces of Su Lin and the Zhang brothers suddenly became ugly.
They never expected how strong Wu Jie was, nor did they expect that Yanfeng's attitude was so resolute, with no mercy at all.
A smile appeared on Xiao Buyi's face. Although he couldn't defeat Su Lin in theory, it would be fine as long as he could beat him.
"I think we should not take action yet." Wu Jie sighed and advised, "The ruins are right in front of us, but the place of inheritance has not been found yet. Even if we want to seize the opportunity, we must at least find the place of inheritance first! If The place of inheritance is no longer there, so aren’t our efforts in vain?”
Xiao Buyi looked at Su Lin, and when he saw Su Lin nodded slightly, he sneered and took back his foot.
The surroundings were immediately filled with the sound of the evening breeze again, as if nothing had happened.
"According to the secret book, on August 15th, the place of inheritance will be opened."
Su Lin immediately took over the conversation: "When the inheritance land is opened, we will compete again!"
