"Old man, can you tell us specifically what's going on?" Ling Xuewei asked.
"An immortal came down from the Immortal Mountain. He said that he was destined to our village and wanted to select a few qualified children from our village and take these children to the Immortal Mountain to practice."
The old man did not hide it. After encountering such a huge happy event, she couldn't wait to share it with everyone who could see it.
"My old woman has lived for so many years, and this is the first time she has encountered such a happy event. When did the immortals on the Immortal Mountains choose their disciples, it was the turn of a poor and remote village like ours? In the hundreds of years since our village was established, not even one cultivator has
No one has ever appeared before, and I don’t know that this opportunity is the result of the confidence that we in Kapok Village have cultivated over several lifetimes.”
"You are saying that there are cultivators in this village now, testing the cultivation aptitude of the children here!"
Everyone immediately understood.
Testing a child's qualifications to become a cultivator is a very common thing in the eyes of Ling Xuewei and others, but among ordinary people in a remote rural area, it is a very rare opportunity.
Ling Xuewei, Huangfu Chen, and Xiao Yifeng were all from noble or royal families, and they had their own system for cultivating cultivators.
When the children in the clan reach a certain age, someone will naturally arrange for them to test their cultivation talents. Children with this talent will be trained with emphasis.
For ordinary villagers in a village like this, it would be a great opportunity to meet a cultivator, let alone the opportunity to test their cultivation talents like this.
In large families, talented children are usually selected from among the family's children to practice.
Among those large and small sects, they select disciples. In addition to selecting some talented children from some smaller families, they also go to some larger towns from time to time to practice their talents among ordinary people.
test.
As long as he passes this test, an ordinary person without any identity background can become an ordinary outer disciple even if he enters a sect.
For him, it can be regarded as an opportunity like a car leaping over a dragon's gate.
No wonder this old lady is so happy.
The sect cannot go to such a remote place to select cultivators. For cultivators to come to their village for selection, it is definitely like smoke rising from the ancestral graves.
"I don't know if any of the children in the village will be lucky enough to be favored by the immortal. Our village has never produced a cultivator. The history of Kapok Village will be rewritten!" The old lady was so excited that she almost shed tears.
"So there is no one in the village now because all the villagers went to watch this training talent test?" Ling Xuewei asked.
"That's right, as long as the villagers can walk, all the villagers went to watch the fun." The old lady said, "My old lady is useless. She really can't walk. Otherwise, I would also like to see this representative.
A moment in the history of Kapok Village.”
"I have never seen a test of cultivation talent." Ling Xuewei looked at the old lady in front of her eagerly, "Old man, can you tell us where the test is, so that we can go and see the excitement?
You Kapok Village are happy!"
"Yes! Old man, the village chief of your Kapok Village must be there now, right? We just happen to have something we want to discuss with the village chief." Huangfu Chen said quickly, fearing that the old lady would not agree.
"What's going on?" Sure enough, the old lady became alert and stared at Ling Xuewei and his party, as if she was afraid that Ling Xuewei and her party would do something detrimental to Kapok Village.
"The thing is like this. A few of us are passing by Kapok Village, hoping to stay here for a day. By the way, we can ask the village chief if it is convenient for us to buy a carriage or other means of transportation." Huangfu Chen
smiled.
The old lady saw that Ling Xuewei and her party were well-dressed, and the material alone made it impossible for them to be ordinary people.
"Everyone in the village is now in the stone forest behind the village. If you want to see the excitement, just follow the path behind my house." The old lady said.
"Thank you, old man!" Ling Xuewei said, patting the old lady's hand and stuffing a few broken pieces of silver into her hand.
Ling Xuewei walked with everyone towards the stone forest behind the village.
"Xuewei, don't you think this is strange?"
Huangfuchen waited until they were far away before whispering to Ling Xuewei.
"Yes! It's really hard to imagine that cultivators from sects would come to a place like this to choose cultivators." Ling Xuewei nodded.
"Why? Isn't this a good thing?" Qingcheng asked nonchalantly.
"Qingcheng, do you know why sects rarely go to such remote places to select cultivators?" Ling Xuewei asked.
"Because there are very few people in these villages and they are very scattered, it will be very troublesome for the cultivators of the sect to come to such villages and test each one one by one." Qingcheng thought for a while and then gave an answer, "It's just that there are always exceptions, right?
?”
Ling Xuewei and Huangfu Chen looked at each other, and Ling Xuewei sighed, "I hope this time is really an exception! It's just the whim of those cultivators who thought of testing the children's cultivation talents here.
."
"Xuewei, you haven't said yet whether my answer just now was correct or not." Qingcheng asked unwillingly.
"Qingcheng, your answer is only half right." Huangfuchen explained to Qingcheng with a smile, "The trouble is one aspect, and another big part is that children with extremely talented cultivation can be found in such a small place.
, the probability is really too low, even if a child with cultivation qualifications appears, at best he will be accepted into the sect as an outer disciple. There is never a shortage of inner and outer disciples in the sect, and what they will always lack is
There are only extremely talented elder disciples."
"It turns out that choosing cultivators in such a place is not only troublesome, but also difficult to find suitable disciples." Qingcheng suddenly realized, "It's no wonder that these sects don't come to such a remote place to select disciples."
"Generally speaking, these sects will only conduct selection tests in larger nearby towns, or some small families that do not have enough training resources will send some of their children into the sect.
So that the family can get stronger protection." Huangfu Chen continued.
"Actually, we cannot rule out the existence of highly talented children in remote places like Kapok Village. Aren't these sects afraid of missing out on some good seeds?" Qingcheng continued to ask.
"The possibility of missing out cannot be ruled out, but this possibility is too low, so low that these sects feel that they can completely accept such a loss." Ling Xuewei said.
"Except for a particularly remote village that is isolated from the world, the sect will actually make announcements in advance when selecting and testing disciples. The reason why it is held in a larger town is to facilitate the selection and testing day. Some surrounding areas
You can bring your children to take the test.”
Huangfu Chen wanted to understand some of the rules of sect selection in more detail than Ling Xuewei.
"Listening to what you said, I think it's even more strange that this cultivator from Kapok Village wants to test his cultivation talent." Ling Xuewei touched her chin and said, "Any parents who have expectations for their children, receive
Everyone will take their children to take this type of test, right?"
"You mean, it's very strange that this group of cultivators came to Kapok Village and conducted such a test?" Huangfu Chen understood.
"Huangfu Chen, the old man just now said that there has not been a cultivator in their village for hundreds of years. Have you ever thought about the reason for this?" Ling Xuewei asked.
"There are few people in the village, and even fewer people have the opportunity to test their cultivation talents. They don't have the opportunity to embark on such a path of cultivation, so how can there be any cultivators?" Huangfu Chen said.
"Even if no sect comes to their village to test the cultivation talents of the village children, it does not represent their village. No one takes their children to the towns to participate." Ling Xuewei said, "But the final result is that all districts participate
None of the children who passed the cultivation talent test passed the test."
"After all, there are only a few children who have the opportunity to take the cultivation talent test." Huangfu Chen disagreed, "Only a handful of children were able to pass the test. It is not surprising that no one in Kapok Village has been able to pass the test for so many years.
"
"No!" Ling Xuewei said, "Everyone knows that the probability of a cultivator in a village like Kapok Village is very low. Kapok Village is not rich. I want to take a child to the town to take the cultivation talent test.
It’s not an easy task either. I think if it weren’t for the kind of child who is extremely smart and is considered to have a high probability of passing the test in the village, I don’t think Kapok Village would have bothered to take such a child there.”
"You mean, the children who were considered most likely to pass the test turned out to be in vain, and the other children in the village had no such possibility, right?" Huangfu Chen finally understood what Ling Xuewei meant.
"Not bad!" Ling Xuewei nodded.
"It seems that it is much more difficult to find a child with the talent for cultivation in a village like Kapok Village than in other places." Huangfu Chen murmured, "So the sect is here
Looking for disciples in such a place is simply a waste of effort."
"Xuewei, you just said that Kapok Village has not had a cultivator for hundreds of years. There are other reasons behind this. What is this reason?" Xiao Yifeng, who had been silent, couldn't help but bring the topic back. He was very curious about this.
The answers behind the questions.
"What should I say?" Ling Xuewei tried hard to organize her words.