On the Wenxin Pavilion, the bronze bell that indicates the upcoming examination has been ringed.

After the eighteenth ring, the first round of the general examination will begin, and preparatory students who have not yet entered the examination room will not be allowed to enter.

"Let's not talk about it yet, I'll take the exam."

Roland said goodbye to everyone and stepped into the main hall, and in the main hall, there were already fifty or sixty preparatory students, each seated.

He found a seat in the temple and sat down.

The old preparatory student Sandall looked around the hall, saw Roland come in, and immediately came to Roland to sit down, and said with a smile: "Brother Roland, I wish the top three in the high school hall examination, and I, the veteran of the third term of the big test, also came to be happy." ”

He has participated in three consecutive big exams, and if he doesn't do well in this year, he won't have a chance to participate in the next big test.

Of course, in this big test, there are still some hopes for him to squeeze into the top ten, even if the qualifications are not very good, but the accumulation of these years is here after all.

"Let's go to high school together." Roland couldn't help but smile and said.

When the bell of Wenxin Pavilion rang seven or eight times, the remaining small group of preparatory students finally entered the hall.

Xia Zihao, Dai Ning and a small group of twenty or thirty preparatory students entered the hall together at the last time, and they were like a rainbow, with a posture of ambition.

After Xia Zihao stepped into the hall, he paused slightly, his eyes swept over the hall, and he caught a glimpse of Roland who was sitting, and his handsome face couldn't help but show a proud sneer.

"Roland, you have to remember our bet yesterday, after the first round of the big test is over, see who is the real first in the big test this year."

Then he found a place to sit in the spacious temple.

"Of course, I hope you remember to fulfill the contract later."

Roland shrugged his shoulders, speechless.

This Xia Zihao came to the examination room, and he didn't forget to demonstrate in public, for fear that others would not know, and he didn't know what kind of expression Xia Zihao would have after the exam.

After the bell of the big exam was struck eighteen.

Among the five chief examiners, Morn, the dean of the Divine Palace Branch, saw that all the preparatory students had arrived, stood up, and Zhengse said to the preparatory students: "Everyone, the first round of the Divine Palace Branch Examination has officially begun. ”

"The dean, the vice dean of Levin, the three tutors, and the five representatives of the empire will invigilate the examination together, and judge your assessment results, and no communication will be allowed in the examination, and each will answer the paper."

"This round of essay examination will take a total of three hours, and the papers will be handed in within a time limit, and the scores will be judged on the spot."

As soon as he raised his hand, he shot a pure battle qi at the beam of Wenxin Pavilion.

On the pillars of Wenxin Pavilion, a large number of formation magic patterns were engraved, and they were immediately activated by this battle qi.

In an instant, a huge sealing force covered the entire Wenxin Pavilion and the outside world, and even in the examination room, the spiritual power of the preparatory students could not spread, and they could only communicate with each other, so they could only answer the questions by themselves.

The five chief examiners personally handed out the examination papers to nearly 100 preparatory students in the palace, and these literary examination papers were escorted to the imperial capital by the Holy City by the Divine Palace half a month ago.

In order to ensure that the exam questions were not leaked, the five of them guarded the exam papers for half a month, and they did not appear together in the main hall until today.

Roland took a deep breath, sat upright, unfolded a thick scroll of martial arts exam questions on his desk, and began to read the questions.

In the first round of the general examination, there are a total of five questions.

But in the big test, most of the preparatory students chose the questions of martial arts and answered them, the reason is very simple, 99% of the preparatory students are all open martial arts cultivation paths.

These five exam questions were issued by senior practitioners of the Divine Palace, and each of them had a full score of 100 points, and the total score of the literary test was 500.

Three hours, a time-limited solution, is enough for the vast majority of prep students.

Roland's gaze swept over the five exam questions, and after he had a bottom in his heart, he began to enter deep thought.

This month and a half, he was not in vain, he would spend two hours almost every day, with merit in the branch building, looking through some secret information, coupled with the accumulation of more than ten years of knowledge before, he has far surpassed all the preparatory students.

Wenxin Pavilion, inside the main hall.

The five representatives of the court looked at the preparatory students in the hall who were answering the questionnaire, and most of their expressions were a little worried.

No one is optimistic about Roland's literary test results.

In contrast, he is more optimistic about Xia Zihao.

Xia Mar, the former secretary of the military department, used to be the first place in the big test, and he was a famous genius in the imperial capital, and he was talented.

And Xia Zihao has been carefully taught by his grandfather since he was a child, and he is better than the blue, when he was the first star, he once won the first place in the imperial capital and the House of Representatives, and he was very famous in the imperial capital early.

In the years since entering the Divine Palace Branch, I have calmed down and meditated for seven or eight years, and my strength has been quite profound.

And Roland was born in a small town in the north, and he was still a waste material before the age of sixteen, and no one at home taught him, so this congenital condition is 108,000 miles behind Xia Zihao.

In addition, Xia Zihao's family has a deep foundation in the imperial capital and strong financial resources, and there are a lot of cultivation resources invested in him.

Roland clearly didn't have the full support of his family.

A simple comparison can clearly see that under the same innate qualifications of the two, but the acquired conditions are too different, Xia Zihao's strength can still be far superior to Roland countless times.

At least half of the five court representatives were very worried.

Prime Minister Drini, the emperor's confidant, naturally understands the emperor's thoughts, and the emperor sent him as a representative, obviously also secretly helping Roland.

Taradim is the palace master of the Northern Academy Palace, and he knows Roland, a student of the Inner Palace, very well.

But his family has some conflicts with the emperor, and it stands to reason that it is impossible to become a representative of the court, but the emperor sent him over in order to secretly help Roland.

And the Imperial Lieutenant Kosf, as Roland's boss, also has a deep understanding of Roland's performance in the imperial capital this month.

These five court representatives seem to have a neutral position, but at least three of them are openly and covertly inclined to Roland.

There are two delegates left, Tasker and Kavala.

Tasker has an upright temperament and will definitely not secretly help other preplorants, and the Great Sage Avert has personally suppressed the rebellion of the Golden Luan Temple, and the Kavala Patriarch will naturally not stand on Xia Zihao's side.

The emperor arranged this way so that Roland could get as high a score as possible in the first round of the big test.

If Roland fails in the first round of the literary exam, it will be difficult to do it later.

If the emperor forcibly raised Roland's ranking in the second round of the palace test, it would undoubtedly be a huge damage to Roland's reputation.

But if Roland is not promoted to the top three, then it will be difficult for Roland to justify his name and become an important minister of the Holy Court.

This is undoubtedly a situation that the Emperor does not want to see, and Drini, Taradim, Kosf, etc., do not want to see.

Outside the main hall of Wenxin Pavilion.

Almost all the big families and wealthy families in the imperial capital sent their younger brothers to the Shengong Branch.

Seeing the Holy Empire with their own eyes, the most important test, the cultivators of all levels are innumerable.

Luo Lan, Xia Zihao and others who participated in the big test this time have a very high prestige in the imperial capital, which naturally affects the hearts of many people.

(End of chapter)