Six years later

The glimmer of the morning light drives away the last rays of darkness of the night, bringing a busy and gentle morning. Compared with other moments, the hustle and bustle of the day has not yet arrived, and there is no shallow sadness of the night, there is only a freshness, a suitability, and a tranquility of still water flowing away. Beautiful and warm, hazy and beautiful in the morning mist like a clear veil!

Yunxi Village, a small mountain village located in the middle of the Nine Regions Continental Plate, in the middle of Dongling Prefecture, is hilly and adjacent to the mountains. The village is relatively large, with about 200 households, and the brick and stone houses are built along both sides of the north-south central avenue.

At the end of a small field road on the east side of the village, the atmosphere is very different from the past, an elderly man in a white robe and coat, holding a rattan crutch that has accompanied him for many years, leading the six-year-old child of Yunxi Village to the ancestral hall of Yunxi Village.

The winding stone paths, the green of the annual rings, have sunk into the earth, and some of them have indeed been re-paved. The journey was not long, and the elder held a rattan crutch with a dim white light, and hammered his half-bent back from time to time with one hand, stopping and watching a few frolicking children. In front of them are eight lively and cute children, playing back and forth on the path and shuttling through the Mowgli Terraced Road. The old man slowly stroked his old silver beard, and his face showed not fatigue but hope and joy.

The ancestral hall of Yunxi Village is a three-room ancestral hall built of all blue-gray stones. The two-storey large sloping eaves roof is paved with fired green tiles, and the strips are placed and spliced down like a snake like a dragon, and the architectural style of three vertical and two horizontal is neat and uniform and does not lose with the mansion and hall. Outside the red ruler-high gate, two beige stone carved stone lions, honest and majestic stand on both sides of the door, and the town guard ancestral hall also adds a mystery to the ancestral hall.

The elder panted and thumped his back, and gently stroked his white silver beard with a peaceful face: "Children, children, don't run so fast, don't stumble......."

Children's childhood is basically innocent, but when it comes to everything in the world, some are just playful and virginal.

At this time, a rough little hand gently tugged at the corner of the elder's clothes: Grandpa Yunzhen, why did you bring us to the ancestral hall today, didn't you say that children are not allowed to enter the ancestral hall?

The elder looked down at the child who was asking him questions, and said with a smile: It's Yi'er! Come and help grandpa to sit down in front of the door, and grandpa will tell you why he brought you here today.

It turns out that this child's name is Yun Yi, but he doesn't have delicate skin like other children, and he doesn't have a clean and tidy appearance, but he just has a very ordinary family's unpretentious heaviness. Thick eyebrows, big eyes, long eyelashes, high nose bridge, vibrant bright red lips, and shiny black hair. If it weren't for the poverty and hard work of life, it would be brighter than every child present.

Yun Yi held the elder's arm with both hands and walked slowly to the front of the stairs in front of the ancestral hall. The elder watched the children play in front of him, took a deep breath of cool air, took out a pool of copper smoking guns from his waist, and took two puffs to slow down the fatigue of aging.

The elder spat out a sullen smoke and smiled and said: "Yun Yi, our Kyushu Continent has a total of nine territories connected, east of our Dongling and Xiling Prefectures, south of the South China Sea and Biluo Prefecture, west of Sumeru and Helan Prefectures, and north of Beiming and Beihai Prefectures. After speaking, the old man replaced the pipe with golden tobacco and smoked slowly......

Grandpa Yun Zhen, isn't it Kyushu? Why did you only say Bazhou? Yun Yi asked kindly. The elder looked at Yun Yi and smiled and said: Yun Yi is the smartest and smartest, come and give grandpa a beating on the shoulder, and grandpa will tell you slowly.

Yun Yi sat up from the steps, walked behind the elder as if running, and gently tapped the elder's back and shoulder with his strong little hand.

The elder took two more puffs of stuffy smoke, and the blue-white smoke spit out of the elder's mouth like petals, and said with a smile: The last state is the center of our Kyushu, the state of Kyushu, the state of Kyushu, he represents not only wealth and luxury, but also the most powerful in Kyushu, the territory is equivalent to the area of eight states and one, and the place where the royal power and dignity live. How many rich and noble people have devoted their lives to their pursuits, and it is ultimately futile to think that Jiuyu Prefecture will build a family according to .......

Yun Yi's face did not change after hearing this, after all, he was an innocent child, and he did not have the luxury of prosperity and dignity, but he did think about things.

The elder gently picked up the pipe that emitted this dark light and slowly said: Yun Yi, you are a smart child, and our Kyushu Jianji is in the soul realm. Every year, the Nine Regions Prefecture will be established in each state school, and the school will send people down to beckon students who are suitable for cultivating soul power.

The elder puffed lightly: "It's your turn this year." The old man squinted his eyes and turned his head to look at Yun Yi: Our village has not had a soul master for many years, and I am really ashamed to be the head of Yunxi Village. After speaking, he slowly turned his head with some sadness, looking at the group of innocent children playing in front of him, and the anxiety and hope in his heart were displayed on his kind face.

Suddenly, a blue light appeared in the sky above the Yunxi Ancestral Hall, and they saw a man wearing a white green coat, a jade crown on his head, and a man with blue eyebrows and beautiful eyes, riding a big red horse with blue eyes appeared in front of them. The two blue eyes of the big red horse revealed a flame that twisted and rose, like a ghost ascending to heaven, frightening the children present.

The children had never seen such an evil horse before, and they were all frightened and shivered behind the elder. When the elder saw this person, he stood up slowly with a cane, smiled and bowed: "Welcome Teacher Abu!"

The man riding the blue red horse nodded, and jumped off the Great Soul Horse, where the evil red horse also turned into a cloud of white smoke and entered the purple crystal knee pad of Abu's arm.

Abu looked at Yun Zhen's luggage and said modestly: "Zuo Lao, let's start when we are ready!" I still have several villages to go, this time don't be the same as in previous years, and there is no one in the end.

Yun Zhen smiled and said: Yes, how many years! Our village has not had a soul master, after all, it is a village that cannot be compared with the royal family and sect in the big city.

At this time, the children were still hiding behind Yun Yi in a circle, and Yun Yi was really embarrassed and didn't know what to do, so he could only stand in place and wait.

Yun Zhen turned around and waved his hand: "Children, come, I've seen Teacher Abu!" The children came back to their senses and came to Yun Zhen's side with frightened faces. Abu didn't even look at the children, so he walked up the steps of the ancestral hall quickly. The palm of his hand released a white mist and lifted it gently, like a fire mist, which suddenly covered the ancestral hall, and the ancestral hall was covered by a semi-elliptical transparent light mask.

Abu glanced back at Yun Zhen: "The children are coming with me!" As soon as the words fell, Abu stepped into the door with one foot, and entered through the door like a shadow. The children were stunned at this time, suspecting that they were looking at hallucinations, which is not true??

And Yun Zhen on the side stroked his pale beard, and said with a smile: Children, get in quickly...

The children lined up and walked into the shrouded ancestral hall, and the moment they entered the door, they were all curious and excited. Only Yun Yi was at the end, and when he entered the door, he glanced back at the hopeful old man Yun Zhen.

Walking into the ancestral hall, Yun Yi saw the internal structure of the ancestral hall, and when he followed Abu into the last hall, eight stone pillars as thick as stone pillars supported the arch bridge frame and dragged up the wide roof. And in the middle of the ancestral hall is not the tablet of the ancestors, but a stone tablet that is black and solemn, the tablet is as black as ink, and the Tengwen above has a convex garden-shaped seal stone at the bottom to spread upward, like nine soaring snakes, and nine convex discs are arranged on it. The long offering tables in the wings on both sides are neat and orderly, and the ancestral spiritual positions of Yunxi Village are placed, which gives people a depressing feeling from time to time.

Abu walked to the stele with his hands behind his back, turned around and held his head high, looking at the eight children in front of him who were staring at the ancestral hall with wide eyes, and his innocent curiosity and virginity were displayed on each child's face.

Abu coughed slightly: "Children, I am your mentor, your guide who leads your studies. The ink tablet in front of you is also called the soul tablet, and there are branch shrines set up everywhere on our Kyushu continent, and there are soul power colleges that specialize in learning to start down. Our Kyushu Continent is composed of three major structures: soul power, soul pill, and soul beast. But not everyone is born with soul power, so when you reach the age of six, you have to use the soul tablet to test, those with soul power can enter the junior college to study soul power, and those without soul power will farm for a living.

After Abu finished speaking, a blue flame condensed in the palm of his hand, and struck it on the soul tablet with a strong palm, and the soul tablet began to emit dazzling golden light from the bottom up, piercing everything like a needle and thread. A quarter of an hour later, the radiant Tengwen dispersed to return to his slumbering stillness.

Abu took a light breath: "Children, I have activated the soul tablet, everyone will test it in an orderly manner, press your left hand on the soul disk in the middle, if the soul power can light up the first soul disk, it is clear that you have soul power, and you can enter the academy to study, if you can't light the first soul disk, you will belong to those who have no soul power."

The first child stepped forward with curiosity, curiosity and surprise filling his unknown world. The boy raised his delicate little hand and gently pressed it on the soul plate, and suddenly the soul disk was like a black hole with golden light, and like a strong and powerful hand in a tug-of-war competition with the boy. The flickering light slowly rose along the snake-like tengwen, and the boy trembled as if he had been sucked out of his entire body.

At this time, the golden text road stopped rising above the first soul disk, and when the first soul disk was extinguished, the boy immediately put down the hand that was attached to the soul disk, and covered his knees with both hands and gasped for breath.

Abu saw this Yaoyao's head: Zero soul power! I can't study, and the next one .......

After testing like this for half an hour, except for Yun Yi, who had not yet been tested, the rest of the children dragged their prostrated bodies and twisted out of the white cover that shrouded the ancestral hall. Yun Zhen counted but Yun Yi didn't come out, and coaxed the children to let them go back first. And Yun Zhen looked a little regretful, but he still stood outside with the greatest hope. What a soul master brings to a village is not just a superficial decoration, it contains the expectations of the family's fathers and villagers, and that indescribable inner mood cannot be expressed in words.

Indoors, Abu looked at the poorly dressed and dark-skinned child in front of him, thinking that it should be the same as in previous years, there would be no satisfactory answer, and walked towards the gate without considering Yun Yi's feelings.

Yun Yi shouted when he saw this: "Teacher Abu, I haven't tested that yet." A clear, loud voice, so elastic and unyielding questioning reached Abu's ears. Abu stopped when he heard this, and looked back at the child in front of him who had given him up, and he did exude an indescribable feeling, as if his words had moved the spirits of the undead in the whole room!

Abu thought for a moment: "That's good boy, you can try it if you want to!" But you also have to be mentally prepared, you have also seen the results of the previous children.

Yun Yi nodded and walked to the Soul Monument, showing his hard-working and rough hand, due to the lack of wealth in the family, he did not have a happy childhood like a child of the same age, and some just went down to the farmland to help his father with farming, chopping firewood .......

But Yunyi was not unhappy by his family, and he had a father who loved him. With the happiness of not having the wealth of other people's families but also having love, thinking of this, he did not hesitate, and struck his palm on the soul disk under the soul monument, and suddenly the dazzling light slipped into every corner of the room, like the sun of fire was placed in a space of more than 100 square feet, burning his dazzling light infinitely.

The momentary moment also stunned this arrogant soul guide. The golden light like a snake on the soul monument looked like a beast that had been trapped for a long time and was breaking free from its cage. One, two, three...... Finally, the golden text path stopped along Tengwen after igniting the sixth soul disk. Yun Yi put down his left hand at this time, panting and holding on to the soul monument to prevent himself from falling.

Seeing this, Abu quickly stepped forward to help Yun Yi, and the joy of incomparably surprised drove the entire nerves: the child has passed the test, and since he has reached the sixth order soul. I have never seen such a powerful soul power as you on the Kyushu Continent of the same age, I underestimated you! Abu formally apologized to the shabby-dressed child in front of him with a state of shame.

The panting Yun Yi came back to his senses after resting for a while, Teacher Abu, what is a sixth-order soul?