Nearly half a year has passed in the blink of an eye, and on this day, Sima Shuo and others collectively asked Songhuang for half a day off, in order to observe the once-in-a-decade miscellaneous labor assessment.

Song Huang was originally going to go, he was not out of curiosity like Sima Shuo and the others, after all, he didn't have seen the miscellaneous service assessment, nor was it like the selection, which would change every time, but the miscellaneous servants who passed this assessment would become the new outer hall disciples on the seventy-fifth floor, and they would be disciplined by him, so he wanted to understand what kind of person he would be through this assessment.

The location of the assessment is located on the edge of the Iron Tree Hall, close to the Tie Eel River, and only about a hundred zhang away from the upstream waterfall.

When Sima Shuo and the others came here, all the miscellaneous servants who participated in the assessment had already arrived, plus Zhu Yi, there were only twenty people in total, and everyone looked very nervous and excited.

Zhu Yi saw Sima Shuo and nodded firmly, Sima Shuo just responded with a smile, not wanting to add pressure to Zhu Yi.

Tang Hua looked at the handymen who were smaller than the number of people at the time of selection, and wondered: "Why are there so few people?"

Sima Shuo once learned about the miscellaneous labor assessment through Zhu Yi, so he said: "If you want to participate in the miscellaneous labor assessment, you need to meet two conditions, the first is age, you must be less than twelve years old, and the second is the realm, you must be above the late stage of the bone refining realm. ”

Ming Shiyu looked at the twenty people in the audience and said in surprise: "So their realm is even higher than ours." ”

At present, there are only five people in the late stage of the Bone Refining Realm on the seventy-fifth floor, Tang Lanyu, Toad Xin, Wolf Guo, Tang Gui and Tang Bao, Tang Hua and Ming Shiyu are in the middle stage of the Bone Refining Realm, while Sima Shuo, Yue Ling'er, He Wushuang, and Xuhui are all in the early stage of the Bone Refining Realm, and the youngest Ao Xuan is in the late stage of the Blood Refining Realm.

Moreover, Crane Wushuang and Xuhui had only just broken through and stepped into the Bone Refining Realm, which was very rare in previous years.

Songhuang explained: "Most of them were only six or seven years old in the last session, and their realm was low, so they were defeated in the selection. ”

This can also be regarded as a method of Tieshutang to check and fill in the gaps, after all, for some children who are not born at a good time, the first time they meet is one or two years old, and the second time they meet is six or seven years old, if there is no help like Ming Shiyu and Wolf Guo, at most, they are only in the early stage of the bone refining realm, compared to those eight or nine years old, or even ten-year-old children, the realm is one to two small realms lower, and the selection is very disadvantaged.

But if Songhuang said so, the number of people would be less, and there shouldn't be only twenty people.

Sima Shuo knows this reason, because this is also the main source of pressure on Zhu Yi, compared to the selection of disciples in the outer hall, if he loses, he will only go back to his own home, find his own mother, once the assessment of miscellaneous servants does not pass, then he can only stay in the Iron Tree Hall to do miscellaneous labor, unless he can condense an inner pill, then he will have the opportunity to be sent to other places by the Iron Tree Hall to be a deputy to the outer hall disciples who have not been able to enter the inner hall for a hundred years.

Therefore, it is not easy to become a miscellaneous servant and then pass the assessment to become a disciple of the outer hall, only those who are willing to gamble their lives will stand in this place, and if they fail, they need to send people under the fence for a lifetime, it is difficult to develop, and if they succeed, they will leap into the dragon gate, become a disciple of the outer hall in one fell swoop, enjoy all kinds of treatment, and those who are lucky can even become a disciple of the inner hall, which is the identity that countless people of the nine major clans dream of.

Sima Shuo found that there were not only them who were watching the assessment, but also several people from the seventy-fourth floor, and the leader was Songting.

The reason why Sima Shuo was able to recognize them was thanks to Xuhui, after a few people appeared on the seventy-fourth floor, Xuhui immediately secretly told Sima Shuo who the others were, which made Sima Shuo smile and nod to greet Songting from afar, and did not appear at a loss because he didn't know who the other party was, which gave people a sense of arrogance or perfunctory.

The time of the miscellaneous service assessment is in the middle of the hour, the time has just arrived, the life of 'bang', the iron eel river exploded a splash several feet high, a rotten toad fell in front of all the miscellaneous servants, shook its head, and the water droplets splashed on all the miscellaneous servants, but no one dared to hide and block, let the cold water droplets fall on the body, and they all shivered, but they didn't dare to complain.

Tang Bao said worriedly: "Is this okay?"

If it's just the water droplets of the Iron Eel River, then naturally there is no need to ask.

He froze all the tumors with the water of the Iron Eel River, so there was no mixed venom in the droplets. At some point, the Flame Silk Thread appeared behind everyone.

Songhuang asked, "What do you think?"

Huo Silk Worm walked up to Songhuang and said, "There are only three of the twenty people who need to pay attention, they are Huo Xi of the Fire Sideburns Horse Clan, Crocodile Wu of the Crocodile Wolf Clan, and Song Xi of the Heavy-mouthed Squirrel Clan; ”

Hearing Song Xi, everyone found out that there was actually an old acquaintance among the twenty people, who was the guy who was eliminated by Crane Wushuang during the selection, but they didn't expect that he was also the same as Zhu Yi, who had become a miscellaneous servant of Tieshutang, and had already reached the peak of the Bone Refining Realm.

The fire silk red looked at Sima Shuo meaningfully, Sima Shuo naturally knew what the fire silk red meant by the words, and nodded gratefully, the fire silk red red smiled and turned back, but Song Huang said: "You are too worried." ”

Even if Song Xi is in the Dirty Realm, in Song Huang's opinion, he is still not Sima Shuo's opponent, and there is no need to think about shaking Sima Shuo's status in other people's hearts.

Huo Silk Thread didn't refute, she knew that Song Huang valued Sima Shuo very much, and she was also very confident in him, so she changed the topic and introduced: "That rotten toad is named Toad Jian, eighty-seven years old, a cultivator in the middle of the Danhuo Realm, and is the right-hand man of Shuxi, the head of the miscellaneous servants. ”

Song Huang was suddenly, no wonder he didn't know who he was, he had already retreated when the other party began to break into the Tieshu Hall.

Toad Jian moved his hands and feet, and after feeling that his body was a lot warmer, he said: "Yes, daring to come to the assessment proves your courage, and then you need to prove your perseverance, all for Lao Tzu to jump into the river, no one is allowed to move, no one is allowed to come out without my order." ”

Twenty people responded in unison: "Yes!"

Then 'Puff Pass' and 'Puff Pass' jumped into the river one by one, Toad Jian nodded with satisfaction, walked to the river and began to speak: "You failed to pass the selection to enter the Iron Tree Hall and become a disciple of the Outer Hall, but became a lowly handyman, you have to know that you have lagged behind others on the road of cultivation, and if you want to catch up, you need to have the courage to fight and perseverance. Indomitable mental strength and invincible strength, therefore, the assessment of miscellaneous servants is to prove that you have these four things, and only with these four things can you be qualified to enter the outer hall, stand at the same height as other outer hall disciples, and compete and compete with them, is it clear?"

"Qing~Chu~!" twenty people responded with chattering teeth.

At this time of year and time, the water temperature of the Iron Eel River is about minus 10 degrees, and you can imagine the taste of staying motionless in it.

Time passed minute by minute, looking at the bloodless faces of the twenty people, Ming Shiyu worried: "This won't happen, right?"

This concern is not unreasonable, even the outer hall disciples regard the life of miscellaneous servants as grass mustard, let alone the inner hall disciples.

Huo Silk Hung smiled and said: "Don't worry, that guy has presided over many assessments, and he has never had an accident, so he will be measured." ”

Sima Shuo asked, "Will this be?"

If there is always one person in charge, then what if someone buys him? Although the assessment is conducted in full view, as long as the examiner turns a blind eye, the handyman who participates in the assessment can be allowed to cheat successfully.

Originally, Sima Shuo thought that Tieshutang would take measures to prevent this situation, but he didn't think about it, but he said: "It is indeed possible that this situation will occur, but this is inevitable, as long as no one finds out." ”

Toad Xin didn't fork the road and said, "Isn't that unfair?"

Huo Silk nodded and said: "So as long as there is no accident, one person will always be in charge of this position, but if something happens, then even the identity of the inner hall disciple will be lost, and he can only be an outer hall disciple for life." ”

Sima Shuo suddenly said, the punishment is so huge, it is to prevent someone from taking bribes, favoritism, and the identity of the inner hall disciple of the Iron Tree Hall is the same, who would just use it to make a miscellaneous servant become an outer hall disciple, isn't this a tyrannical thing?

In the midst of everyone's chat, two quarters of an hour had passed unconsciously, and two people were eliminated by Toad Jian because their bodies moved, and one person took the initiative to give up the assessment because he couldn't bear the cold water temperature of the Tie Eel River.

Looking at the three people who left with their heads down, Sima Shuo could feel deep remorse from them, and this feeling was as similar to those scholars who had fallen into Sun Mountain.

After another quarter of an hour, another person gave up, one person violated the rules, plus the previous three, there were still fifteen people who remained in Tie Eel Hanoi at this time, and the speed of elimination was much slower than Sima Shuo and the others expected.

The perseverance of the fifteen people amazed everyone's hearts, and they also felt ashamed of themselves, because if it were themselves, they would probably be one of the five people who were eliminated.

After the exclamation, everyone felt an invisible pressure from the miscellaneous servants who participated in the assessment, their realm was not lower than their own, and they also had such perseverance, if they became disciples of the outer hall in the future, they would definitely be strong competitors, which was also another important reason why the Tieshu Hall set up the miscellaneous labor assessment, as the so-called pressure is the driving force, so as to spur the disciples of the outer hall to work harder to cultivate.