The golden sun shines high, making Sunset Mountain seem to be coated with a layer of gold paint, making it appear solemn.
On the way down the mountain, two figures walked side by side, looking slightly lonely.
Looking up at Jin Yang, Chen Xuanqing's eyes were a little dull.
This is the eighteenth year since he traveled through time, and today is also his eighteenth birthday.
But this birthday makes Chen Xuanqing feel extremely heavy. Today is the 175th Disciple Recruitment Trial Ceremony of the Sunset Sword Sect.
This is also Chen Xuanqing’s fifth time to participate in the Sunset Sword Sect’s apprenticeship trial ceremony.
Chen Xuanqing didn't want to mention the failure of the previous four trials, but the failure of today's trial forced Chen Xuanqing to suspect that God was targeting him.
The Sunset Sword Sect changes the test questions every three years. It stands to reason that this year is the third year, and the test questions will be the same as in previous years. But unexpectedly, the elder of the Sunset Sword Sect who presided over the trial meeting was exposed to bend the law for personal gain and sell the test questions.
, which led to temporary substitutions this year and changes to the three test questions.
As a result, there was a test question [Xianyuan] in the first level.
The assessment content is also extremely simple. Place three storage bags in front of you. One of them has a clearance token, and the remaining two are empty. You are given three chances. You only need to win once to successfully pass the first level.
What I didn't expect was that after three chances, I failed once.
But Chen Xuanqing was not angry about this, but because he didn't know about the previous trial ceremonies and could actually spend money to pass them.
If he had known this would happen, he would have tried his best to buy it.
Why do I only know about such good things when I find them out?
Just because you are an honest person? Do honest people deserve to be bullied?
On the way down the mountain, Chen Xuanqing felt particularly heavy.
It's not because you can't survive if you fail, but because of your family.
He is the only son of the ninth generation of the Chen family in the ancient Mansion of Nanyu.
The Chen family is the first aristocratic family in the ancient Mansion of Southern Henan. They want money and power.
But for a family, money and power are important, but what is the most important thing?
It's a male.
To be more precise, straight men.
Starting from the seventh generation of the Chen family, for some unknown reason, it was difficult to have children, and they barely gave birth to some direct children. But the eighth generation was even more outrageous. Seven uncles gave birth to twelve girls. The entire Chen family had
Chen Xuanqing was the only male in the ninth generation.
Good guy, Chen Xuanqing calls him a good guy.
A male in the ninth generation is almost equivalent to severing the inheritance for the Chen family.
Since ancient times, men have been superior to women in the Zhou Dynasty. This does not mean that women are inferior to men. It is entirely due to feudal ideology. Whether it is family business or the transfer of power, it is basically passed on to men. Even if there are no men, sons-in-law must be recruited.
Unless it is absolutely necessary, it will not be passed on to women.
This means that Chen Xuanqing has to take on the responsibility of continuing the Chen family.
It can be said that from the first day Chen Xuanqing was born, he was the treasure of the Chen family. If he fell down, the whole family would feel sad for a while. Sometimes he even did something wrong and was scolded by his father. As a result, the next day his father
My grandfather hung me on a tree and whipped me, while several uncles and uncles took over.
It's just so outrageous.
Moreover, since the age of thirteen, the Chen family has been looking for various women for themselves. The purpose is to continue the family line, and it is best to have ten children, and even better not to have nine.
For ordinary people, this would be a great thing, but for Chen Xuanqing, it would be a disaster.
Chen Xuanqing has an extremely serious mental disorder. It's not that he doesn't like women, but he doesn't like casual women. What he admires is love at first sight, the kind of mutual affection, rather than simply getting married and having children.
It is even more impossible for Chen Xuanqing to close the door and start a new relationship with someone he has never met before on the first day. This would be completely unbearable for Chen Xuanqing.
Furthermore, Chen Xuanqing is also an avid fan of cultivating immortals. In his previous life, his favorite thing was reading novels about cultivating immortals. Now he has traveled to the world of cultivating immortals. Instead of cultivating immortals, he creates humans. Isn’t this what he wants to do when he is full and has nothing to do?
But the Chen family is determined not to allow themselves to cultivate immortality. They believe that it is too dangerous to go out and compete with others. If you are not careful, you may die without a burial place. Who will continue the incense of the Chen family? How can the Chen family continue?
Not to become extinct?
Even in order to cut off his thoughts of cultivating immortals, he banned himself from all resources for cultivating immortals and refused to give him a penny. He also issued an order that no one in the ancient mansion in the Southern Territory was allowed to teach him how to cultivate immortals, and whoever taught him would destroy his family without any joke.
Under such tremendous pressure, Chen Xuanqing also fought tenaciously and went on a hunger strike for three days, and finally got the conditions.
Before the age of nineteen, if you can rely on your own strength to enter the Immortal Sect, you will be allowed to practice immortality. If you cannot enter the Immortal Sect before the age of nineteen, then you can honestly come back to inherit the family property and spread its branches.
The point is to spread the branches and leaves!
The reason why the time was stuck at the age of nineteen was not because they had good intentions, but because the Chen family had a divination and the probability of giving birth to a boy was greater when they were nineteen.
Therefore, in order to join the Immortal Sect and refuse to be reduced to a childbearing tool, Chen Xuanqing started crazily studying immortal knowledge from the age of thirteen. With the stingy support of his family, he began to take the Immortal Sect examinations year after year.
Until today, the fifth assessment failed.
Basically a death sentence for this struggle against men’s rights.
The agreement that Chen Xuanqing made with his family clearly stipulates that he cannot just find an immortal sect. It must be at least a first-level immortal sect. Of course, it can also be above first-level, but Chen Xuanqing himself does not dare to think about an immortal sect above first-level.
That is a true super-grade immortal sect. The difference in size between the two is so big that one is a key university and the other is Tsinghua University. There is no comparability at all.
There is only one first-grade immortal sect in Nanyu Ancient Mansion, and that is the Sunset Sword Sect.
The Sunset Sword Sect only has one apprenticeship trial meeting every year, and every year it is held a few days later than last year.
Now everyone in the Chen family is waiting for him to turn nineteen. Once he turns nineteen, even if he can pass the Immortal Sect examination, they will not admit it. After all, the letter has been written in black and white and no one can deny it.
In other words, I basically won't be able to participate in the next trial conference.
As for the Immortal Gates in other places, let alone the Immortal Gates in your own territory, you can’t enter them, so why do you expect to go to the Immortal Gates in other ancient mansions?
"Sunset Sword Sect, Sunset Sword Sect, if one day I, Chen Xuanqing, reach the pinnacle of immortality, I will definitely come to you Sunset Sword Sect again. You ignored me in the past, but you cannot reach me in the future."
On the mountain road, the more Chen Xuanqing thought about it, the more uncomfortable and angry he became.
Throughout last year, he had been crazily reviewing the assessment content, sleeping for three hours every day, and wasting almost no minute or second. As a result, after a year of hard work, the test questions were changed?
If you change it, change it. The first step is to create a fairy fate. What is the name of it? If a person who cultivates immortality has no fairy fate, he is like a fish without water, half the result with twice the effort.
Chen Xuanqing keeps this hatred in his heart. When he really succeeds in cultivating immortality in the future, he will definitely come to the Sunset Sword Sect again! These guys will be so angry.
At this moment, the man walking side by side suddenly spoke and his voice rang out.
"Brother Xuanqing, will you come next year?"
The voice sounded, and the man walking on the right was named Tao Nan. He was one of Chen Xuanqing's few friends and was also a disciple of an aristocratic family in Nanyu Ancient Mansion. However, unlike himself, his family had many males and there was no need to rely on him to grow branches.
Loose leaves.
"not coming."
Chen Xuanqing shook his head, feeling a little annoyed.
As the voice fell, Tao Nan's fat face suddenly showed a sense of loss. He lowered his head and looked dejected, feeling very depressed.
Glancing at Tao Nan's expression, Chen Xuanqing sighed. Tao Nan didn't have many friends. Because he was not favored and because he was relatively honest, most people bullied him as an honest person, and he was the only one.
Best friend.
If he doesn't come next year, he will indeed be a little sad. Thinking of this, Chen Xuanqing couldn't help but comfort him.
"You don't need to feel bad. Although I won't be here next year, I will definitely be able to cultivate this immortal."
Chen Xuanqing spoke up. The Chen family does not allow him to cultivate immortality for two main reasons. One reason is that after cultivating immortality, his fertility will be greatly reduced. Chen Xuanqing can understand this. After all, after cultivating immortality, genes will be enhanced, and people with strong genes and strong genes,
The children born will have stronger genes.
But cultivating immortals is something that goes against nature. If one generation is allowed to become stronger than the next, the children born within ten generations will probably become immortals directly.
Therefore, the higher the level of a monk, the smaller the probability of giving birth to a child.
The Chen family's idea is very simple. Give birth to a dozen or twenty children, and then abandon yourself. If you want to become an immortal, you can practice immortality.
Very ruthless.
So if you really can't resist your fate, you won't have the chance to practice immortality again.
However, after Tao Nan heard what he said again, he shook his head.
"Brother Xuanqing, it's not that I feel bad about this. The main reason is that if you don't come next year, then I will be the last one. No one will give me the last place. I am afraid that my father will say something about me."
He spoke out, looking a little sad.
Chen Xuanqing: "..."
Nima.
Is this what makes you uncomfortable?
What does it mean that if I don't come, you will be the last one?
I'm just unlucky. You don't really think I'm worse than you, do you?
Chen Xuanqing was stunned. He didn't expect that Tao Nan had this idea?
Why did I sympathize with him just now? This kind of person deserves to fail in the assessment, and it is best to fail for the rest of his life.
But before Chen Xuanqing could say all the complaints, Tao Nan's voice sounded again.
"Brother Xuanqing, since you won't come next year, then I won't come next year either. I'll ask my mother to talk to my father to see if we can choose a better business. Otherwise, if this happens every year, it's better to take advantage of the opportunity.
Stay young and do what you want to do."
Tao Nan spoke, but his words made Chen Xuanqing silent.
Because he knew that Tao Nan was not very favored, and taking part in trials and assessments year after year was just a waste of time. If he delayed for a few more years, he might not even be qualified to inherit the family business, and it would be even worse in the end.
well.
With a slight sigh, Chen Xuanqing just replied with the word "hmm".
Then the whole journey was speechless.
Both of them have their own worries. No one can help the other, and no one can sympathize with the other.
In this way, they walked all the way to the foot of the mountain. The clan's carriage was ready. Chen Xuanqing said goodbye to Tao Nan, then got into the carriage and began to think about how to welcome the ridicule of the clan.