Repaying grievances with virtue is the only way for Linzhi to resist the provocation of ghosts.

The venomous female voice was like a poisonous snake, constantly spitting letters in her ear.

How is it possible to recover your skills once and without paying any price?

The selection soon entered the written examination, and a room full of hundreds of people waved their pens quietly under the watchful eye of the guards of the City Lord's Mansion.

There are those who are struggling to write, there are those who scratch their ears and cheeks, there are those who are still dying at the last moment, and naturally there are those who submit the papers in advance.

The invigilator, Lord Lu Cheng, looked at the chaotic scene and nodded with satisfaction.

Too many, too many people. The newly appointed city lord sighed, he was able to go from an unworn little person to this position, and his mind was naturally quite flexible.

The empress wants to recruit talents, not to recruit cats and dogs who can do a little kung fu, but to recruit real talents who can give full play to their talents at this critical moment.

Picking out these talents and sending them to the capital is the primary duty of his Lu City Lord. The questions in this exam are not difficult for him, and the purpose is to brush up on the next batch of bastards who think very highly of themselves but also have mediocre qualifications.

In the end, forty-eight people remained.

The next martial arts test is much more time-consuming and laborious, even if it is a pure knockout match, it will be compared to dozens of games, not to mention that in order to avoid the talents selected by Lu City from being inferior to other counties, he chose a round-robin method.

It took nearly two months to finally select the top four, and then send them to the capital together with the four children of the local outstanding families.

Until the end, the city lord of Lu was apprehensive.

I have to say that the four newcomers selected are all a little mediocre, and their moves are decent, and they are even far less dazzling than Xiao Linglai, the son of General Xiao's family.

Lord Lu knows very well that sometimes it is far easier to attract attention when playing beautiful and good-looking than being strong.

These newcomers are too ordinary...... He shook his head and shifted his gaze to the roster.

Fortunately, there is also this woman in third place, Lin Ying, although she looks gloomy and gloomy, and her spiritual power is not at the top, but ...... It's a woman.

In order to prove the ability of women, the empress will definitely focus on promoting the same sex.

But the city lord of Lu took these eight people to the capital, and when he saw the other teams, he immediately vomited half a liter of blood in anger.

The city lord of Yingyun City next door, six of the eight people he brought were women.

This sycophant ......

Naturally, there is also a team that does not have a single woman, but there are fewer of them.

Although there were only eight people in each main city, there were more than ten main cities, and there were hundreds of contestants, so it was naturally impossible for the empress to see them one by one, but this group of people were selected again in the capital.

The players who thought they stood out suddenly fell down again, and they were still brutally eliminated in the face of them.

Lin Zhi's competition was ranked last, and her opponent was a child of a local family in the capital, and her family was very strong.

There is never a shortage of observers in such a competition, but after the competition in the past few days, the audience is getting fewer and fewer day by day, the reason is very simple, there are too few brilliant people.

After all, most of the people who participated in this were selected by the people, and most of them did not have good elixirs, cultivation resources, and they did not have a lot of experience in the competition, so they had nothing to look forward to. Except for the twelfth game, the two female opponents on the court pulled each other's hair and tore their clothes, which really didn't attract much attention.

And the last one......

The number of people watching the game was less than one-tenth of the first game, and even if there were dozens of people left, it could be seen that they were just passers-by waiting for the results or walking after dinner, chatting about the sky, and looking at the field for a while.

The gong sounded at the beginning of the competition, but in an instant, the loud voice of the adjudicator was heard: "One hundred and eighth, Lin Ying wins!"

This Lin Ying is naturally Lin Zhi's pseudonym, she is not arrogant enough to use the word with the same name and surname as the queen to participate in the competition, swaggering around, but even if it is a pseudonym, it has attracted great attention at the moment.

"What, won?"

"That's it, I haven't started reading yet!"

"Who can see how this won?"

"Yin flourishes and yang declines!"

……

Lin Zhi calmly walked off the field, returned to the players' temporary rest area, and heard a reliable discussion gradually coming from behind him.

"It's dark energy! If I'm not mistaken, she's using dark energy!"

"If it's dark energy, it's possible to defeat the opponent so quickly!"

The defeated family disciple finally came to his senses and scolded: "It's really unlucky, I met someone who used dark energy in the first game!"

Naturally, some people ask, "What is dark energy?"

Someone immediately rushed to answer him, dark energy is the opposite of people's normal use of spiritual power, generally speaking, it is regarded as a mutant of normal spiritual power, just like the mutated fairy grass has a stronger medicinal effect, generally speaking, dark energy is more advanced and powerful than ordinary spiritual power.

A contest did not attract the attention of the Empress.

However, the second and third ......

The empress in Yuyu Qionglou finally heard that there was a wizard who used dark energy among the contestants this year, and most importantly, she was still a woman!

The empress disguised herself in plainclothes and went to watch the battle together, confirming this, full of curiosity and anticipation for this mysterious woman.

If she could, this woman named Lin Ying would be her future right and left hand, her humerus' minister!

At the same time, she also sent someone to investigate the woman's family history, and learned that she was born in an ordinary family, and was feared by her parents and family because of her own dark ability when she was born, and then abandoned and grew up wandering.

Perfect, so perfect.

The Empress couldn't wait to canonize the eagle dog that had been sent to her door on the day the final results were announced.