Chapter 553: Epilogue (Finale)
In the year 233 of the new calendar, Suzhou and Hangzhou City, the seventh affiliated middle school, three years and seven classes in the classroom.
"It's over, I went straight to sleep last night, I didn't memorize the "Basic Principles of Monks", I'm afraid that this mock exam will hang a red light!" A little brother with eyes temporarily crammed his feet, holding a thick textbook and quickly flipping through it.
"Don't be so scared by you, I forgot a few modern history exam points I just memorized!" complained the freckled girl next to her.
"Haha, if you want to die, everyone will die together, anyway, I will definitely fail the scripture theory!" the boy sitting in the corner said to himself rather shamelessly.
"Hmph, scumbag! I will definitely be admitted to the top ten in the country this time and obtain the qualification to be sent to Yanjing Monk Academy!"
"We don't have the talent to become a monk, and we will be satisfied if we can enter the special department and mix an iron job bowl in the future!" said a sleepy-eyed student with a yearning face, if only the reality was the same as in the dream.
In the penultimate seat by the window, which is jokingly called the exclusive seat of the protagonist, a fair-skinned and handsome-looking boy is holding his head with one hand and looking out of the window.
The clear blue sky makes people feel a sense of calm and comfort, but the dark and deep hole at the eastern edge is very glaring.
According to the records in the history books, more than 200 years ago, an evil organization called the True God Temple planned a terrifying incident that changed the global pattern, and this hole in the sky was the big basket they poked out.
The rich aura overflowed from the hole, and the aura of heaven and earth began to recover, which is why there is now a scene of national cultivation.
At the same time, the Elder Demons invaded, and the result was an apocalyptic disaster.
More than a billion people have died in the world, social order has been seriously damaged, and many countries and regimes have even been reduced to history.
It can be said that this is the darkest period experienced by human civilization in the past thousand years.
And in this dark and difficult years, there are often many shining characters, who either turn the tide and help the building to fall, or save the people from fire and water, and relieve the people from hanging upside down.
"Tsk, Xuanwei Sword Formation, no matter how many times I watch it, I still feel quite shocked!" A voice came from the side, but I saw a slightly flirtatious yellow-haired handsome guy coming over on the right.
"Well, it's really shocking!" Ye Cheng subconsciously said.
It was mentioned that there was a hole in the sky, and the alien race continued to invade through this hole, until on the New Year's Day of the first year of the new calendar, a monk used a wooden sword as the base of the formation, and the supreme sword intent as the guide, and laid down a sword formation!
The sword array could not block the hole, and the aura would overflow into the mortal world from inside, so that it would not repeat the period of the end of the law again.
The powerful sword intent in the sword array was only aimed at the lifeforms on both sides of the shuttle hole, and over the years, many alien races who had tried to invade the mortal world were strangled by the sword array, avoiding the scourge of alien invasion.
In order to commemorate this far-reaching sword formation, the world reached a consensus and decided to name the sword formation after this monk.
"Xiao Yezi, you did quite well in the mock exam before, are you really not going to apply for the Monk Academy?"
"Classmate Yi Ze, please don't call me in such a meaty way, thank you!" Ye Cheng frowned, reached out and patted off the arm of the little yellow hair on his shoulder.
"Ah, Brother Cheng, we have been friends for three years, as for such a life?" Yi Ze blinked and said, with no displeasure on his face.
For this self-acquainted rich second-generation classmate, Ye Cheng said that he was quite helpless, probably this is the so-called bad fate, right?
"I am ready to work after graduation, and the social donations received by Qidian Orphanage have been decreasing over the years, so I am afraid that the tuition and living expenses of my younger brothers and sisters will be lost. Ye Cheng said quietly.
"Brother Cheng, I'm not joking, just with your background and your name, you are the protagonist template, okay? Don't you become a monk and become famous, but you are a social animal in a small company?" Yi Ze said sadly.
"I see you've watched too much, the exam will start soon, go back to your seat!" Ye Cheng said speechlessly.
Yi Ze was about to say something, but the door of the classroom was pushed open with a bang, and the invigilator came in with the exam papers.
All of a sudden, the classroom was silent, so quiet that even the sound of a heartbeat could be heard clearly.
No matter how the times change, for candidates, the exam will always be a threshold that cannot be passed!
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Ye Cheng opened the exam paper, and after reviewing the questions a little, he found that the exam paper covered a wide range of areas, and if nothing else, there should be a mournful voice after the exam.
Multiple-choice question 1: [Please select the author of "Introduction to Taoist Medicine" from the following options.] A: Ruoshui Fairy B: Danqing Taoist C: Canghai Zhenjun D: Anonymousγ
At first glance, this is a question that is given off, and the vast majority of candidates choose it without thinking about it when they see option A.
After all, when it comes to Taoist doctors, the name Ruoshui Fairy cannot be avoided in any book.
However, the author of this question is very insidious, and the word "new repair" in the question stem is very easy to ignore, a proper trap.
Ye Cheng picked up the pen and wrote D, the author of "Introduction to Taoist Medicine New Cultivation" is a personal disciple of Ruoshui Fairy, this person is indifferent to fame and fortune, and he did not leave his name after sorting out the new cultivation, which has become a major historical puzzle.
"Known as half of the door, this question is simple, choose C, Qingfeng Daoren. β
In the past hundred years, there have been many Taoist talents, the most outstanding of which is Lingyun Mountain, these seven people have cultivated to be high and profound, and they have formed a formation to kill the remnants of the True God Temple.
Later, for some reason, Xia An stayed in the Heaven and Earth Temple, and founded the outer courtyard, which was the inner courtyard where the family was located.
[In the 22nd year of the new calendar, what famous historical events happened in the island country?]
This question is relatively biased, but fortunately, Ye Cheng learned world history well, and he immediately filled in the answer.
"In the 22nd year of the new calendar, under the leadership of Saori Fushimi, the witch of light, and Harumi the Great Onmyoji, the remnants of the people of the island country were attached to Huaxia in the form of a special zone. This is the 11th special zone attached to China after many small countries in Southeast Asia, and it is known as the annexation of the 11th region in history. β
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After the fill-in-the-blank questions are done, the short-answer questions and essay questions that follow are the real big heads.
[Please briefly describe the basic policy of Huaxia in the management of foreign races, limited to 50 words.] γ
This kind of topic needs to be concise and concise to point out the key points, Ye Cheng conceived it, and transformed the knowledge in his head into words.
"Divide and rule, peace is coexistence, the enemy is driven away, everything is based on the safety of citizens' lives!"
The Xuanwei Sword Array blocked the invasion of ancient demons into the mortal world, but the revival of the aura of heaven and earth is destined for other living beings to also embark on the path of cultivation, such as the inevitable appearance of the local demon race.
This part of the alien race is not very hostile to humans, and there is completely the possibility of peaceful coexistence, as long as the corresponding laws and regulations are formulated to restrain them, there is no need to fight each other.
On the way to find this path of coexistence, the Demon Clan's power, who is revered as the Dragon God, single-handedly created the Demon Clan Association, absorbing and managing those Demon Clans who are not determined to fight, and making a great contribution to the peace of the two clans.
[Before the New Calendar, metaphysics was regarded as superstition and the opposite of science, please explain the relationship between the two from a modern point of view.] γ
So far, this kind of debate has been very tricky for questions that have no standard answers, and the slightest carelessness will cost you a lot of points.
"Metaphysics and science are opposites, but they have the same end. The end of science is metaphysics, and the sublimation of metaphysics is science. In the final analysis, the two are nothing more than different cognitive perspectives. For example, in ancient times, human beings dreamed of flying into the blue sky, and modern airplanes and rockets were the products of deification in the eyes of the ancients. In modern times, the aura has been revived, and with the deepening of scientific research, many metaphysical knowledge such as talismans, formations, and feng shui can gradually be explained and analyzed by science. In the future, perhaps metaphysics and science will be further integrated......"
Ye Cheng finished expounding the ideas in his mind, and it didn't take long for him to fill up half of the exam paper.
[Please use the principles of mechanics to prove what mistakes were made in the refining drawings in Figure 1?]
[Knowing the flight speed curve of Monk A, how much time does it take to circumnavigate the earth? γ
[In modern times, there have been three revival of the Shanshui School of thought, please summarize the core and differences of these three doctrines. γ
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After the test of various test questions, Rao is Ye Cheng was well prepared, and he was still dizzy.
As for the scumbags, like Yi Ze next to him, he is now completely sluggish and bad.
"Hey, I've come back to my soul, there will be a practical assessment in the afternoon!" Ye Cheng patted Yi Ze's shoulder and said.
"Brother Cheng, I guess it's completely cold this time, and almost half of the entire set of exam papers are blind spots!" Yi Ze said with a lot of pain.
When Ye Cheng heard this, he was silent for a few seconds, and then replied indifferently: "There is no need to use the subtle word 'estimate'. β
To be reasonable, the test papers are difficult to return, but half of them are blind spots, then you are really Watson!
"Forget it, the exam is over anyway, it's useless to dwell on it!" Yi Ze glanced at Ye Cheng angrily, and quickly recovered his heartless and optimistic appearance.
Ye Cheng thinks that it is not unreasonable for some people to always get low scores, because he may not have shame.
"Oh, I suddenly thought of something, aren't we about to graduate, and the class is planning to organize a graduation trip!" Yi Ze suddenly thought of something, and said with a fluttering eyebrow.
"PASS!, I'M GOING TO WORK!" Ye Cheng refused on the spot.
"Brother Cheng, is it really good for you to dismantle the stage like this? The last good memories of the high school days, anyone will be a pity if they are missing! I don't care, I have already filled out your registration form and handed it over to the class president with the registration fee!" Yi Ze chirped.
Ye Cheng rubbed his forehead, this has already been cut first, what else can he do?
"Where is the location of the graduation trip?" Ye Cheng asked.
"Hehe, Brother Cheng, you would never have thought of it!" Yi Ze squinted his eyes and said proudly.
Ye Cheng sighed, and did not take the opportunity to ask where the destination of the tour was.
This time, Yi Ze was uncomfortable, he grabbed his hair, and said depressedly: "We are fortunate to be able to visit the inner courtyard of the Lower Heaven and Earth Temple this time, I finally applied for it!"
Hearing the view of heaven and earth, Ye Cheng couldn't help but show a little interested.
To say that you are not interested, it is absolutely a lie, the view of heaven and earth can be said to be the holy place of the holy land of the Daomen, I don't know how many people are eager to visit and admire.
The inner courtyard of the Heaven and Earth Temple, except for some big days and festivals, has rarely received pilgrims.
Yi Ze was able to get this kind of opportunity, which surprised Ye Cheng.
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More than a month later, the national college entrance examination ended, and the teachers and students of the seventh class of three years came to Lingyun Mountain.
"It's worthy of being a famous mountain in the Immortal Mountain, just after arriving at the foot of the mountain, there is a pure aura and Taoist rhyme rushing to the face!" Student A took a deep breath and sighed.
"Look, the deep crack on the mountain, it is said that it is the traces left in the shocking duel back then!" "Student B, who was holding a camera, was so excited that his face was flushed, and he kept taking pictures.
Following the wide mountain road, a simple and elegant building appeared in front of everyone.
This is the holy place in the eyes of the monks of the time, and it is known as the cradle of Taoism.
On both sides of the gate of the Taoist Academy, there are eight big characters engraved - "Heaven is vast, humanity is eternal"!
The handwriting is slightly blurred under the erosion of time, but the moment I see these words, it seems to be deeply imprinted in everyone's minds, lingering.
"What kind of vision should Daoist Xuanwei have in mind to leave these eight words here?" everyone pondered.
Continuing to walk up the mountain, everyone had a pilgrimage reverence, and it took more than half an hour to arrive at the gate of the Heaven and Earth Temple.
In the wide open space, a tall banyan tree towers into the sky, and the shade of the tree shades most of the courtyard.
Under the shade of the trees, a refreshing coolness arose, and even the irritability and sorrow brought by the college entrance examination dissipated a little.
On the edge of the thick roots, there is a Chinese pastoral dog, this earth dog is in good spirits, like a conscientious guard, staring intently at everyone who passes.
"You may not believe it, but see that dog, according to legend, it is the gatekeeper beast of the Heaven and Earth Temple!" The squad leader pushed his glasses and whispered.
Everyone was a little dumbfounded, unable to connect the earth dog in front of them with the divine beast.
But soon they were relieved, the view of heaven and earth, as long as everything is the view of heaven and earth, can not be measured by common sense!
Don't say that this earth dog is a divine beast, even if someone tells them that the banyan tree at the door is a thousand-year-old demon, they don't have any suspicions!
"My grandfather was a pilgrim of the Tiandiguan when he was alive, and he mentioned many times in his diary that there were two sacred dogs guarding the gate of the Tiandiguan. Later, one of them seems to have gone to the northeast, and only this one is still left in the Taoist temple to watch the door. The squad leader continued to break the news.
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Passing through the gate and through the corridors, everyone was guided by a young Taoist priest to the inner courtyard.
"Brother Cheng, do you think we will take shit luck and see the famous Seven Saints of Lingyun Mountain with our own eyes?" Yi Ze leaned into Ye Cheng's ear and whispered.
Ye Cheng didn't respond, how could a big guy of that level be so easy to see?
"Supreme Heavenly Venerable, are the monks who have come to visit?" A childish voice came from behind everyone.
At some point, a slightly baby fat child appeared behind everyone.
The child looked like he was about eight or nine years old, pink and fleshy, but his expression was a little old-fashioned, and a flaming red gold mark on his forehead revealed a bit of majesty.
Although his tone was like a spring breeze, everyone couldn't afford the intimacy they had when they faced the children next door.
Ye Cheng looked at this rather strange child, especially his shiny head, and stretched out his hand like a ghost.
Well, it feels good, Ye Cheng couldn't help but take two more plates!
Seeing this, ......the young Taoist priest was almost so shocked that he collapsed to the ground on the spot.
Do you know what you're doing, boy?
The child himself was a little stunned, and a complicated look flashed in his eyes.
"I'm sorry, I was rude!" Ye Cheng, who came back to his senses, hurriedly withdrew his hand and apologized.
"It's okay, maybe the layman has a relationship with the poor road!" said the child with a smile.
"Is there a fate?" Ye Cheng muttered to himself, and there seemed to be a bit of indescribable emotion in a trance.
The child saluted the crowd and walked straight inside.
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When the children were far away, the young Taoist priest breathed a sigh of relief as if he had been pardoned.
"All the laymen, don't act without permission, otherwise the poor Dao will have to invite you out!"
Everyone immediately responded, and that was called a well-behaved and sensible person.
After visiting the main hall, visiting the Temple of Heaven and the Temple of Earth, everyone finally followed the Taoist priest to the ancestral hall.
As soon as they entered the ancestral hall, a solemn and solemn atmosphere pressed on everyone's hearts.
Here is enshrined the ancestors of the Heaven and Earth View of the past dynasties, and every portrait, every spiritual position, and even every object in it is the embodiment of its profound heritage and inheritance.
On one of the cases at the bottom, there is a dress and an ancient sword case.
In an instant, it was like a blessing to the soul, Ye Cheng didn't look at the ranking of the enshrinements next to him, and he actually guessed who the owner of this suit and this sword box was.
"Ding! The host is found to exist, and the system is binding!"
Coldly, a mechanical sound sounded in Ye Cheng's mind.