In front of the ceremonial department, a bustling crowd gathered. Most of them are students who come to take the exams, and some are business vendors, and of course, there are quite a few guards around the children of the family.

Shi Yuanji and Jiang Renyun bought breakfast, ate in front of the Ministry of Rites, and waited for the door of the Ministry of Rites to open. While they were waiting, Gui Yihu, Hu Dan and even Ouyang Xuan's sedan chair had already entered, and obviously, the Ministry of Rites was already busy.

Jiang Renyun touched his swollen face, and said to Shi Yuanji tentatively: "Alas, Shi Yuanji, will you report to the law department?"

"Of course. Shi Yuanji ate the bun in his hand and replied nonchalantly. He looked at the crowd around him, and didn't find too many masters. The smoothest mana fluctuations are only Duguxin and Yuwentai, and it seems that this time the entrance exam has been secured.

Shi Yuanji said: "Anyway, we have to go into the Chengyun Pavilion first, and then think about something else." Don't always try to get to the top of the world. I want to warn you that you can't squash the big guys, you have to watch out for them. ”

When Jiang Renyun heard this, he seemed to suddenly realize, and squatted there and continued to eat steamed buns.

With a gong sounding, the door of the Ministry of Rites opened, and a clerk shouted, "The exam has begun." ”

The people preparing for the exam immediately became active, and walked into the yamen of the Ministry of Rites with fish talismans in their hands. Seeing this, Shi Yuanji and Jiang Renyun also squeezed towards the gate of the Ministry of Rites.

At the gate of the Ministry of Rites, six officials appeared, and they all had a small box in front of them, and each box had a sign on it, on which were written the subjects to be examined. The box with the scripture and history signs on it is on the left, the box with the law department in the middle, and the rest of the spirit weapons department and the math department are on the right.

Shi Yuanji handed over his fish talisman to the law department, registered his name, got the new fish talisman for the exam, and walked into the yamen of the Ministry of Rites according to the instructions of the officials. He looked back and saw that Jiang Renyun was still waiting in line, and there were too many people who applied for the spiritual weapon department and the mathematics department.

"Wait, what is the last subject? Why are there so few people?" he looked at it, and it turned out that there was nothing written in the last box at all, but the children of those families were there to sign up. Those children of the family got the new fish talisman, walked into the yamen of the Ministry of Rites from the side gate, and entered a small hidden courtyard.

It turned out to be Dugu Xin and Yuwentai's territory, Shi Yuanji slandered.

"Don't be stunned, get inside. Under the scolding of an official, Shi Yuanji bowed slightly and hurriedly walked towards the examination room of the law department.

The examination room was actually in a courtyard of 300 zhang square, and a small house more than one person high was neatly built in the courtyard, and the small house was equipped with desks, pen, ink, paper, and inkstones. Shi Yuanji roughly counted, there were more than a thousand such small houses, which was really a big deal.

Five examiners were maintaining order in the examination room, one of them was named Guo Jiao, he saw Shi Yuanji looking around, so he said: "Take the fish talisman, find your own examination seat, don't look around." ”

Shi Yuanji replied slightly, took the fish charm, and walked to the corresponding small house according to the number of the fish charm and sat down. After a while, the people who applied for the examination came one after another with fish charms, and they all sat in their small houses.

After everyone was seated, the five examiners patrolled the surroundings, and the soldiers stood at the important part of the examination room to maintain order. Then the examiners handed out the exam papers, and the exam actually began.

This is too casual, Shi Yuanji wondered in his heart. The entrance exam of Chengyun Hall is like child's play, the form is as simple as playing house, and even the questions on the exam paper are as simple as a quiz when Mi Sida chats with him.

"There are only four questions in total, and the most difficult one is only a combination of twenty dragon patterns, and there are only three functions realized, is this really the level of the entrance exam?" Shi Yuanji was puzzled, and the brush in his hand stopped in mid-air, and he didn't put down the pen for a long time.

Guo Jiao saw Shi Yuanji's appearance, and asked with some concern: "What's wrong with the one sitting in Kanjiasi, can't you answer the question?"

When Shi Yuanji heard this, he thought that the number of his fish talisman was Kan Jiasi, so he raised his head and replied, "Lord Qiqi, I'm just a little stunned. ”

"For the exam, don't think about it, write your name and number first, and answer the questions well. Guo Jiao was expressionless and said sternly.

Shi Yuanji held the brush and dipped it in thick ink, and wrote his name and number, but he wrote the entire test paper in a quarter of an hour. "It's not that simple, it's better than the question that Master gave me. ”

Thinking of the way he racked his brains when he was studying the Great Array, the arrangement and combination of thousands of dragon patterns, and the arrangement of a total of eight black stones, just one combination of dragon patterns to maintain the circulation of sealing mana was enough for him to think about it for five or six days. Now, it only took a quarter of an hour to write the entire exam paper, and there was a strange worry in his heart.

When he looked up, the candidates around him were all thinking hard, and they all looked worried, which made his worries even more serious.

Guo Jiao couldn't help but be a little angry when he saw Shi Yuanji looking around again. The other candidates are answering the questions seriously, but he is absent-minded, is this underestimating Chengyun Hall?

Guo Jiao said sternly: "Kan Jiasi, what's wrong with you?"

"Lord Qiyu, I'm done writing the question, can I go?" Shi Yuanji asked tentatively.

"Done?" the examiner looked incredulous, hurriedly walked over and took the exam paper, only to glance at it and be shocked. He looked at Shi Yuanji carefully, looked at the exam papers again, and said solemnly: "You stay here now, and I'll be back in a while." ”

With that, he took Shi Yuanji's exam paper, quickly copied it, and put the original back on Shi Yuanji's desk. After explaining a few words to his colleagues, he took the copy of the paper and walked out in a panic.

In the ear room deep in the Ministry of Rites, Hu Dan, Ouyang Xuan, and Gui Yihu all worked there. But what most of the officials of the Ministry of Rites did not know was that there was an even more noble figure in the ear room.

"Why can't these family members even answer such a simple question?" The Emperor of Heavenly Destiny sat at the head of the ear room and jumped up angrily. "In just three hundred years, the Eight Pillars National Clan, which followed the Great Grandfather to fight the world, has degenerated to this point!

"I came here today, I wanted to see the demeanor of these proud sons of the sky, but I saw these things!" Emperor Tianming picked up the exam paper and threw it out fiercely, and Hu Dan and the three of them had to stand there respectfully, silent.

In the face of the anger of the Emperor of Heaven, Hu Dan, Ouyang Xuan, and Gui Yihu, the three of them actually had their own ghosts. Hu Dan was a little surprised on the surface, but in fact, he had no waves in his heart, and he was even happy to see it, while Ouyang Xuan scolded the younger generation of the Eight Pillars Kingdom in his heart, and everything he said to them at the banquet that night was taken as a deaf ear.

Although Gui Yihu stood there respectfully, his heart was agitated and completely panicked. Hu Dan had already broken with him, Ouyang Xuan's relationship with him was about to leave, and now the only thing he could count on in the court was the support of the Eight Pillars Kingdom. But now that these sons of the family are unabashedly disgusted by the Emperor of Heavenly Mandate, and they are in charge of the Ministry of Rites, is the support of the Eight Pillars Kingdom also going to be lost?

The Emperor of the Mandate of Heaven was furious, and almost roared: "Such a bunch of waste, why should they be given the privilege of being exempted from the exam? Why should they be allowed to enter the court without any consideration? They should be allowed to start from the bottom and climb up step by step!"

Ouyang Xuan and Gui Yihu suddenly realized that they finally understood the reason why the Emperor of Heavenly Destiny came to the examination room. It's not a whim, it's not a young man's curiosity. The sixteen-year-old emperor had extraordinary ambitions that have not been revealed to this day.

"Your Majesty, this is a big matter, and it needs to be considered in the long run. Gui Yihu hurriedly stepped out of the ranks, knelt on the ground and said. "The law exempting from the Eight Pillars National Clan Examination was formulated by Grandpa Tai, and once it is changed, I am afraid that there will be changes. Your Majesty, since ancient times, the Son of Heaven has shared the world with the family, not with the people, you have to think twice. ”

"Are you saying that I came here to inspect today, or is it a mistake?" said the Emperor of Heavenly Destiny as he stared at Gui Yihu and said suspiciously.

"Your Majesty, in the past, there was no precedent for these families to take the exam, because they didn't prepare much, so they couldn't answer the exam questions given by His Majesty. Gui Yihu thought for a moment and said calmly. "But this doesn't mean that the children of the Eight Pillars Kingdom are useless, Your Majesty is really too much to say that they are waste. ”

"Are you saying that although these wastes can't answer the questions, they are all extremely capable and talented?" said the Emperor of Heavenly Destiny, holding back his anger and saying in a strange manner.