The next day, after breakfast, their group of ten people was invited to the side hall to meet with Kang Mazi.

Among these ten people, there were three or four young girls, who also entered the side hall together, Tang Wenlong and the other two yellow-clothed people were busy beckoning everyone to sit down and drink tea.

When he was young, Kang Mazi walked out of the inner room, arched his hand to everyone, and said with a smile: "Everyone, in Xia Kang Xiaoen, in charge of the position of the guard commander in the palace, today I have the fate to meet you young heroes, it is really a pleasure to live a life, now please report your name, I am also familiar with you, and make a friend by the way." ”

So everyone took turns to report their names and politely said some words of admiration.

When it was Liu Ming's turn, he stretched his neck and shouted, "Liu Ming!" and then turned his gaze to the side, no longer looking at him, with a very strange attitude.

Kang Mazi looked at him very attentively, and after looking at him for a long time, he moved his gaze to Wang Xizhi, and said with a smile: "This must be Wang Xizhi, who is known as the fast son-in-law of the East Bed." ”

Wang Xizhi returned the salute with a smile and said: "Don't dare! Commander Kang's prestige is far and wide, and he can see the deity today, and Xiaosheng is really fortunate to have three lives." ”

Kang Mazi said some modest words in his mouth, but his eyes looked at Wang Xizhi without blinking, but Wang Xizhi smiled freely from beginning to end, without any embarrassment.

Kang Mazi looked at him for a long time, and saw that he couldn't see any results, so he turned to Xiao Yi, arched his hand, and said with a smile: "I don't know the name of this young man?"

Xiao Yi returned the salute with a smile, tried not to leak traces, pretended to be cute, and said one by one: "My name is Xiao Yi, dare to ask the name of the master?"

Kang Mazi nodded slightly, touched the silver hair under his chin with his hand, and said with a smile: "My name is Kang Xiaoen, I don't know where Xiao Shaoxia came from?"

This sentence made Xiao Yi stunned, did he really not know his identity? Or did he pretend not to know, so he opened his mouth and said: "I am from Heishui Village in Zhao Kingdom, dare to ask where my master is in Xianxiang?"

Kang Mazi never expected Xiao Yi to ask himself, and was stunned for a moment: "I am the original name of the Golden Dragon King City, but Xiao Shaoxia is from the Zhao Kingdom?"

Xiao Yi knew that he was probing his details, and regardless of whether he really didn't know or not, he nodded and said, "Yes, I am from Zhao Kingdom, dare to ask where the master is from?"

Seeing him ask himself again, Kang Mazi couldn't help frowning slightly, and thought to himself: "Could it be that this kid is an old man, deliberately like this?"

Thinking of this, Kang Mazi smiled slightly and said: "I am from the royal capital, Xiao Shaoxia's martial arts are not bad, this journey is thousands of miles, and he has a healthy complexion." ”

Xiao Yi smiled and replied: "The boy's family is poor, he makes a living everywhere, the wind and the sun are exposed, over time, it is naturally like this, how can he be as comfortable as the old gentleman?

Kang Mazi was so angry that he really wanted to blow his beard and stare at him, so he touched the beard on his mouth with his hand in embarrassment, and laughed to cover it up: "Haha...... Xiao Shaoxia is really good at laughing, I'm old, I'm getting old, how can I not be in vain?haha......"

Xiao Yi also laughed, Wang Xizhi didn't expect that Xiao Yi's words could be said to be fluent, and he said it so sophisticatedly, so that Kang Mazi, an old Jianghu, was helpless.

At this time, Kang Mazi saw that he couldn't ask anything, so his eyes swept to the audience, and he said with a pleasant face:

"Ladies and gentlemen, today's saints are thirsty for talents, so they ordered me to go out of the palace to recruit talented people, and it is rare for you to appreciate the light, which really makes me happy. You are all through the tripod into the temple, although the tripod is ordinary, but there are about two thousand catties, you can easily lift it up without effort, you are a miraculous skill, needless to say. ”

"This time, although we aim to recruit the world's wonders, the number of places is limited, so among the ten, we can only select four to follow us into the palace on an errand, but the other six, if you want, can go to the palaces to serve after the recommendation of the following......"

Before he finished speaking, everyone below whispered, and the familiar threes and threes exchanged in twos and threes.

"Brother Wang, what do you think about this?" Xiao Yi said to Wang Xizhi.

Wang Xizhi shook his head and secretly said to Xiao Yi: "Of course we don't enter the palace, but so far, we don't know the purpose of Kang Mazi's coming here...... Let's do what we can!"

When Kang Mazi and the others lowered their voices, they continued:

"Practicing martial arts is like writing an article, each has its own skills, and it is difficult to say, so the choice for you may not be fair, but we just do our best. For today's plan, I have to ask you to show a few stunts, and the test will be conducted by Zai Xia and Tang Wenlong's guards, divided into two sides, five people on each side, and now the five here please come with me!"

As he spoke, he stood up, and the five people he designated naturally included Wang Xizhi and Xiao Yi.

Xiao Yat and the others followed him through several corridors and came to an empty lobby. It appears to be a long-abandoned hall, with a faded Buddha statue in addition to an offering table.

Among these five people, in addition to Xiao Yi, Wang Xizhi and Liu Ming, there is another man and a woman, all of whom are mediocre in appearance and nothing unusual.

Xiao Yi couldn't stop looking at the woman, and said in his heart: "A girl can lift two thousand catties of tripods, it seems that it is not to be underestimated." ”

He looked at her appearance again, compared to Qu Wanting and Sima Yu, but he thought it was too far behind, and then his eyes turned to other places, only to see that in this empty house, except for what was said above, there was nothing else, empty and suspicious.

Xiao Yi was very strange in his heart, and thought, "I don't know what this Kang Mazi is doing with us in this empty house?"

Unexpectedly, Kang Mazi actually asked the guards to prepare some brand-new futons, just one by one, he took the lead in sitting on the futon, and said to everyone: "Everyone, please be wronged for the time being, please sit down too." ”

Although Xiao Yi and the others felt very strange, they had no choice but to sit down as they said.

Seeing that everyone was seated, Kang Mazi said with a smile: "From now on, I want to test your concentration, so please start zazen according to the essentials of your usual meditation...... I'll be with you as well. ”

After he finished speaking, he immediately closed his eyes and did not move, and the others also went to pranayama according to the essentials of zazen.

Xiao Yi glanced at Wang Xi, Wang Xizhi nodded, and secretly said, "We will do the same." ”

After Wang Xizhi finished speaking, he immediately closed his eyes and said nothing, although Xiao Yi was strange, he had to do as he said. He closed his eyes, used his internal strength, and sat up in meditation.

At first, Xiao Yi only felt extremely irritable, but gradually settled down, and even reached the realm of forgetting things and me.