Chapter 17 The Examination of the 'True' 1
On this day, Wanan Castle at the foot of Hayama Mountain is bustling with activity. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. biquge。 infoThousands of scholars flocked to this small Wan'an from all directions, so that the city of Wan'an was overcrowded, and the city could not be accommodated, so the city lord set up some tents along the city wall to provide rest for the scholars who did not live in the guest house. This scene, people who don't know it, think that the emperor is going to recommend the exam, but those who know know that this is the sensation caused by the fact that Yushan's law book gate will open the mountain gate three days later and recruit disciples from mortals.
The Fashumen recruits disciples, generally held once every three years, and recruits 360 disciples each time, such as the Xu Hall, the Xungu Hall, and the Calligraphy Hall each recruit 120 disciples, but each hall only selects 12 disciples to enter the inner hall, and only the disciples who enter the inner hall are recognized as official disciples of the Fashumen. The Six Arts Sect is the only sect of the Heavenly Scholars to cultivate immortals and enlighten the Tao, the six sects of the Six Arts Sect, each with its own specialization, the Law Book Sect is the only sect in the Six Arts Sect that specializes in the study of words and the only sect of enlightenment and immortal cultivation, because most of the scholars in the world are adhering to the concept of taking the study of words as the right way, so joining the Law Book Gate is the right way for them to cultivate immortals and enlightenment, so that the Law Book Gate opens the mountain to accept disciples, and it has become a big gathering of the scholars in the world, and the number of participants even exceeds the recommended examination held by the emperor. Coming here, there are not only literati who have seen through the red dust and are dedicated to the Tao, but also scholars who have repeatedly tried and failed, and some scholars who have been recommended by scholars, after all, after entering the Fashu Gate, they have become monks who are different from mortals, and once they have stepped into the immortal path, they have the hope of immortality, which is much more attractive than recommending officials through examinations. Although there are very few disciples in the inner hall recruited by the Fashu Gate every time, the heavenly scholars still flock to them, and they report a glimmer of hope, it is best to enter the inner hall, even if they can't enter the inner hall, if they can enter the outer hall, it is better than recommending them to be officials. You must know that if you can study in the Immortal Cultivation Sect, the knowledge and skills you learn will definitely be much stronger than what you learned in the mortal Taixue Temple. Generally, as long as a disciple of an immortal cultivation sect is willing to enter the mortal world, it is the object of competition between the royal families and the sects of various rivers and lakes.
Yun Jing didn't expect that when he came to Yushan, he happened to catch up with the grand event of the Fashu Sect to recruit mortal disciples. Yun Jing was very competitive for a while, and he thought about taking this opportunity to test what he had learned, so he hid Lin Mo's recommended jade slip and joined the flow of people who applied for the exam. Yun Jing applied for the Xiangxu Hall according to Lin Mo's opinion, while Xu Luo reported to the Xungu Hall, and Cheng Chuan reported to the Calligraphy Hall. Since these three people left Lanlingdu, they have traveled together and come to Wan'an City together. Along the way, Cheng Chuan put away his arrogance, Xu Luo was even more talkative, and gradually, the three of them became friends who talked about everything. Yun Jing learned a lot about the outside world from their mouths, and even the examination methods and rules of the Fashumen, and through talking with them, Yunjing also mastered a lot, and it was precisely because of this that Yun Jing strengthened his confidence in passing the exam and entering the Fashumen.
The examination of the Fashu Gate is divided into three levels, the first level is the primary selection, according to the test results, the top 120 directly enter the next level of assessment. After passing the first level of the exam, it is equivalent to entering the outer hall of the Fashu Gate, and is qualified to participate in the first sub-examination of the inner hall. The second level of the assessment is called the 'true' assessment, it is said that this level is very difficult, even if you take the first test in the first level of the exam, if you can't pass the second level of the assessment, you still can't enter the inner hall, and although the enrollment quota of the inner hall is twelve, but if there are no twelve people who pass the second level of assessment, each hall will not make up the record, therefore, the situation of dissatisfaction with the enrollment of disciples in the inner hall is something that has happened in the previous recruitment examinations. The third level of assessment is presided over by the hall master himself, this is the assessment of directly recruiting personal disciples from the inner hall disciples, as for how to take the test, what to test, the Fashu Gate has never been announced to the public, and the outside world has no way of knowing.
In the early morning of the day of the examination, the mountain gate of the Fashu Gate was opened, and all the candidates consciously lined up to get the number, so they followed the guidance of the disciples on duty and walked towards the door of their respective halls. Yun Jing went to line up to get the number at the beginning of the day, but only took one hundred and twenty-one. As soon as the mountain gate opened, Yun Jing followed the team to Yanxia Peak, where Xiangxu Hall was located. Yanxia Peak is to the left of the mountain gate and is one of the higher peaks of the twelve peaks of Hayama. Yun Jing entered the mountain gate and kept looking towards Yushan, this Yushan is worthy of cultivating the immortal sect mountain, the mountains are ups and downs, the clouds are steaming and foggy, compared to Geshan, there is more aura, compared to Baiyue Mountain, more majestic. As one of the mountains of the Six Arts Sect Cultivating Immortals, this mountain is usually closed by a strong prohibition, and it is difficult to see the true face outside, but now that they have entered the mountain gate, the scholars and scribes have the opportunity to see the wind of the Lingshan Mountain, and they can't help but admire again and again, and the disciples on duty who lead the way shouted: "Don't make a noise!" The scholars and scribes who were reprimanded immediately fell silent, and had to follow the disciples on duty and walk silently all the way.
Like the Xutang examination room set up in the Foreign Affairs Hall under the Yanxia Peak, as soon as Yun Jing and other candidates arrived at the Foreign Affairs Hall, the deacon disciples began to check their identities one by one, after the verification, each person received a jade identity card, and then the candidates gathered in front of a jade tablet on the square of the Foreign Affairs Hall, this jade tablet is like a mirror, shining brightly. After a while, a middle-aged scribe walked out of the Foreign Affairs Hall, came to the jade stele, and with a wave of his big sleeves, lines of words immediately appeared on the mirror of the stele. The middle-aged scribe then spoke: "Everyone, I am like Xu Tang's sergeant Xu Wenwei, is the chief examiner of this exam, this stone tablet is called the list, now it shows the rules and requirements of the exam, you have to look carefully, after you enter the examination room and start answering questions, the list will automatically display the answers and results of each of you, after the exam, you go to the list to check your ranking, the top one hundred and twenty remain, and the rest of the people exit the mountain gate." Xu Wenwei's voice was not loud, but the words came clearly into everyone's ears, as if they were talking next to everyone's ears.
After Xu Wenwei finished speaking, with a wave of his hand, the disciple on duty led everyone into the Foreign Affairs Hall. Yun Jing saw that this foreign affairs hall was not broad, and thought to himself that with so many candidates, how could this foreign affairs hall be accommodated? Although the number of people who applied for the exam was smaller than the other two halls, Yun Jing glanced at it and found that there were at least five or six hundred people. When he walked into the Foreign Affairs Hall, he was shocked to find that the hall of the Foreign Affairs Hall was wide and bright, not to mention five or six hundred people, even if it could accommodate more than a thousand people. The hall was divided into five or six hundred small spaces, and the entrance of each space was marked with a serial number.
Walking into the small space, Yun Jing found that on the right side of the entrance, there were two pieces of jade on a jade case, and a jade pen was placed. Yun Jing sat down in front of the stone desk, and a light curtain fell at the entrance, and the small space for the exam was immediately quiet. According to the procedural requirements displayed in the manifest list, Yun Jing pressed the question stone with his left hand, and the question stone flashed, and three lines of words appeared, A: Barbarian text, B: Sanskrit, C: Xianliu text, according to the requirements of the highlight list, A and B are required questions, and C is an optional question. Yun Jing's fingers were a little nail, and the question stone flashed out ten barbarian text questions, Yun Jing's eyes swept away, picked up the jade pen and wrote quickly on the answer stone, after answering ten questions, Yun Jing pressed the question stone with his left hand, and ten questions appeared on the stone surface again, so that Yun Jing finished answering a hundred questions in barbarian language with a pillar of incense, and then a little Sanskrit, and also came out with a hundred questions, Yun Jing only took less than a pillar of incense to answer them all, and the last bit of immortal Liuwen, the pen answered in one breath without pause.
In front of the list, Xu Wenwei and a group of disciples were watching, only to see the red dot under the name of Yunjing on the one hundred and twenty-first flashes rapidly, and quickly ranked first, Xu Wenwei smiled, and the onlookers began to chatter, "Yunjing is a disciple of a literati family?" So fast? "Look, that's right, one hundred and eighty o'clock!" "Amazing, the second place is less than a hundred points." After a while, when Yun Jing answered all the required questions, the onlookers erupted into a sensation, "It's amazing, it's all right!" Two hundred points! "Look, two hundred and thirty o'clock," "Two hundred and fifty o'clock!" "Two hundred and eighty points, work hard! Come on! Some disciples waved their hands and stomped their feet to cheer for Yunjing.
For example, Xu Tang has never reached more than 290 points since the opening of the exam, and the highest record is 290 points, and the person who created this record is Yunjing's mentor Lin Mo, but unfortunately Lin Mo's name has been canceled, and only this record is left as a legend.
Yun Jing naturally couldn't hear the discussion outside, and he didn't know about other people's exams, but he just read and answered the questions wholeheartedly, and when he answered the two hundred and eighty questions, his speed slowed down significantly, but fortunately, his own consciousness was enlightened, and when each immortal word flashed five times and disappeared, the immortal word was reflected in his sea of knowledge, and he could answer it correctly after a little figurative thinking. As the difficulty increases, ordinary people can't answer one question, and the second question flashes out, and if they don't have a super memory, they will immediately get stuck, and they will make mistakes if they are a little entangled. When he answered the two hundred and ninety questions, he thought about the kung fu of half a pillar of incense, but while he was thinking, he also mapped the words that flashed behind him on Zhihai, so as not to panic and make mistakes. By the time he answered the two hundred and ninety-one questions, the stone had already flickered and returned to a blank space. Fortunately, Yun Jingji mapped the next nine questions to Zhihai, and after he answered the 291st question in a hurry, he called up 292 questions from Zhihai, and when other candidates stopped flickering and stopped flashing out of the examination room, he was constantly refreshing the record.
In front of the monument on the square, the onlookers looked at it, and they were dumbfounded, the record was constantly refreshed by Yun Jing, which had surprised them, but what was even more surprising was that the topic had disappeared, and the red dots under his name were still flickering and increasing, even if they were single-minded, it was impossible to reach this level! "Genius, genius!" When the three hundredth red dot under Yun Jing's name shone inside, I don't know who shouted, and suddenly thunderous applause rang out in the square!