The four people of Luochen walked all the way, and there were many pavilions and places to do things, but it was not difficult to find the general direction of the building complex according to the east-west central axis into the pattern of learning before and after the temple. So he took the road and walked away.

Looking for the location of the Confucius Temple, according to the red mud love to join in the lively temperament, I can't help but go to see it first.

When I got closer, I realized that it was a temple, but it was a large place of worship. The front side of the wall, the pond, the archway, the mountain gate and the square are not mentioned, in the back, the halls of various places are lined up one after another, it is also a black press, and there are countless landscape arrangements connected in the meantime.

A few people originally made a mistake and walked towards the pile, so they didn't stick to the front and back, and found a road to go straight to the main Dacheng Palace.

When you go inside, the so-called Confucius Temple is not an ordinary Confucian Temple, nor is it intended to worship a certain person. Looking at the past, regardless of civil and military affairs and genres, there are countless statues of sages, and there are offerings in front of every house.

Luochen didn't know anything about the world, so he asked Qu Yi.

Qu Yi actually didn't know everything, after all, it was not the same thing as the Confucius Temple in the world. While admiring, I guessed a few according to the description in my memory, but half of them seemed to come from myths and legends, and were made the founding masters by the immortal cultivators.

Hongni couldn't help but laugh when he heard him stumble, followed up to look here and there, and then turned his head and said: "This great immortal looks at these mud tires a little like the golden immortal lord of the heavenly realm, if you put it here, will it be for those immortal Taoist priests to come to worship the mountain gate and recognize their relatives?"

The three almost choked on their saliva when they heard the words.

Hongni thought so, so he urged Qu Yi to find a place to worship, and asked him to quickly recognize the ancestor so that it would be convenient to clear the customs.

Qu Yi smiled: "What I learned in the mortal world was originally obtained from traveling around, and I have not seriously worshiped the master, so it is difficult to return to the lineage." Lai Youying recruited the gods to turn this opportunity to ascend to the immortals, so it should be the same as you, from Huaijiang Mountain. Where do you want me to find another patriarch to worship the mountain gate?"

"Oh, then there is no need to worship, this great immortal didn't see the statue of the Heroic Divine Venerable here. Hongni smiled, pointing at Luochen and Mo Ran, "If you have to report to the master's door, they won't recognize the Ying Zhao Divine Venerable, and we still have the Emperor of Heaven to use." ”

After watching the flowers and flowers in a circle, Luochen was worried about it, so he urged him to move. The red mud didn't feel very interesting, and he didn't plan to rely on it. So the four of them departed, and continued to look for the old way.

I didn't think about it, ** said it lightly, referring to the old way in the examination office near the Confucius Temple, but the four of them were very tired. I searched the school palace behind me along the line, and I didn't see any Dengxian Examination Office.

Later, I asked for directions, and I learned that a large section away from the Confucius Temple and the School Palace, there was another place on the east side that was similar to the Human Tribute Courtyard.

Then I looked to the east again, and when I saw it, it was a large number of houses. Asked Ming to indeed go to the Immortal Examination Office, and then went around in a circle along the periphery, and walked around most of the time, only to see the person he was looking for at a corner.

A few feet away diagonally, a fence is circled like a martial arts field, and the fence is hung with a sign of "idlers do not approach". There was a broken table, a broken chair, and rolls of paper scattered all over the floor.

At the table sat an old man who was buried in thought, dressed in rags. It's not that the lotus crown and Qingyun shoes still have a little bit of their original appearance, and it is almost impossible to see that it is a person who cultivates immortals.

The three of them looked at the dust in surprise, and it took a long time for their legs and feet, just for him?

Luochen smiled apologetically, didn't explain much, and wanted to come forward to visit the old Tao after a few words of appeasement.

Just a few steps, before approaching the fence, I saw a few guards jumping out of nowhere, pointing to the sign that idlers should not approach. The four of them then brightened the jade Jane. Those few are also interested, look at the jade slip, and soon it will be as if it suddenly appeared, and there is no shadow in an instant.

Without any hindrance, Luochen stepped forward and wanted to talk to the old man. Who knew that Lao Dao was addicted to the paper, and it took several calls in a row to make him lift his head from the pile of paper.

When I looked up, I saw a face with a beard and eyebrows, and a somewhat dull expression, which did look a little like a fool. Only those eyes are not cloudy or out of focus, and they should not lose their minds.

Luochen thought that he should be an ordinary person, so he asked directly: "Why did the Taoist master come here to ascend to immortals, why did he become like this?" Could it be that the atmosphere of learning and culture here is even more painful than those dangerous fights for life when he came?

Hearing this, Lao Dao cried and sighed with a sad face: "When the book is used, I hate less!"

Qu Yi was a little embarrassed when he heard this, and asked tentatively: "What is the test in this Dengxian exam? Where are you stumped?"

Lao Dao replied: "There is no certain question, each depends on the teacher's teaching." If you can't find a master in the Confucius Temple, if you have a serious cultivation path, you are not afraid of him making things difficult. ”

A few people looked at the red mud, did he really guess correctly?

He also listened to the old Tao list the examples, and then sighed: "The poor Tao is planted on this last item." ”

"And what's the last test?"

"Untitled. ”

"Untitled?"

"Well, there is no proposition. Only let everyone write some mountain and sea observations or allusions according to what they know, regardless of length and content, as long as they are true, they can pass the test. ”

Qu Yi breathed a sigh of relief.

Luochen was puzzled, and muttered: "It's not very difficult to listen, why are you ......?"

"I also thought the same way when I answered the paper, I was afraid that they would pass by the best, and I deliberately wrote a few more words, but I didn't expect that I would be detained as soon as I handed in the paper. ”

"Detention?!" exclaimed several people, especially Qu Yi.

Although he had never entered the academy, he had never heard of being imprisoned if he did not pass the exam. Unless committed as a traitor, committing fraud, or intending to commit a reckless crime. Mountains and seas and allusions -- these have nothing to do with adulterers, right? Are they suspected of fraud?

was puzzled, so he listened to the old Tao and continued: "Later, for some reason, I was released again, and then I was thrown here, and I was ordered to rewrite." I was afraid of causing trouble again, so I wrote two other sentences briefly, but they didn't want it, and forced me to rewrite the original one. ”

Luochen thought of Meng Po Tang, suspected that there was something taboo or hidden in the content of the writing, so he asked Lao Dao what he had written.

Hearing this, Lao Dao buried himself in the pile of papers, and replied: "Poor Dao has never been far away since he was a child, let alone any famous mountains and rivers. When I saw and heard about the mountains and seas, I thought I couldn't write it, so I chose some allusions to answer the questionnaire after reading a few books. ”

Hearing this, Hongni teased Qu Yi: "It's better than you, and people are also self-taught, but they don't even have to go out of the house." ”

"It's not self-taught. If it weren't for Sang'er, Poor Dao wouldn't have been able to do it on his own. Lao Dao was a little ashamed, "Even the apprentice was parroted by listening to Sang'er's words." ”

"San'er, where is the master?"

Lao Dao paused, as if he regretted his mistake. Raising his eyes to see that the four of Luochen looked pure and good, his heart was horizontal, and he didn't plan to hide it: "Poor Dao cultivation is different from people, it is not out of the idea of immortality, it depends on adventures. ”