Chapter 1: A Small City in the Wilderness

Boom! Boom! Boom!

The Emperor's Proclamation, Barren Mountain City Order~

A sharp and strange announcement with a strong sense of metal friction, accompanied by the close and rhythmic striking of the fine copper gong made of heavenly crystal brass, which is owned by the royal family, broke the inherent silence and peace of the morning light in this wild town. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

The newly rising morning sun in the sky enveloped the bulletin pavilion in front of the drum tower in the small city in a warm and charming pale golden light. As far as you can see, you can see a straight path paved with smooth, pale cyan rocks stained with morning dew.

The road looks like it has been weathered, and has been carved out of the wind and rain and countless pedestrian footsteps of the long years.

Occasionally, there are horse-drawn carriages carrying meat from the specialties of this small and wild town to the shore post and transport them to the car. For hundreds of years, this kind of Tianjiao beef produced in Barren Mountain City has sold particularly well in cities outside the mountains by virtue of its high quality and low price.

Cars drove by, and the road was covered with thick green grass on both sides, but now it was early winter, and the lawn was already yellow, and the wind whipped up the debris of the dead grass, and the sun shone on it, floating like golden dust.

Shrouded in golden dust and debris, the entire Barren Mountain City looked like a warm town with warm colors after being painted with yellow gold paint, full of the fragrance of breakfast and abundant grains.

The streets of the small town slowly gather with residents from all walks of life, most of them are businessmen who get up early and rush to the morning sun, carrying bags of various shapes and sizes and hurrying by in the morning sun.

With the news of the Emperor's Announcement, the fragrance of the early morning in the small town overflowed. More and more businessmen who should have been in a hurry gathered around the notice booth.

For a while, the drum tower of the small town, which is usually deserted, was bustling with people, including businessmen in a hurry and street stall owners selling breakfast.

The most eye-catching thing is a group of teenagers and girls wearing the same azure power suits and full of vitality like the morning light.

On the chest of their uniform outfits, there are four large characters with a fine black silk delicately embossed with "Barren Mountain Academy". It is the academy named after this small town "Barren Mountain City".

The morning glow in the sky was pierced by the sunlight to open a gap, the sunlight shot down from the sky, shining on the large square outside the bulletin booth, at the fork of the avenue more than ten zhang away from the city gate and drum tower, a group of students dressed in the "Barren Mountain College" strong clothes were walking towards the bulletin booth.

Most of them were unmoved by the pedestrians around them. The forward pace brought a burst of wind to announce their noble status and the force that ordinary people could not reach. The golden morning light cast a thin halo on the large embossed letters on their chests.

The eight students who had just arrived were all dressed in uniforms, neat and noble college uniforms. The purple bracers on the cuffs of their power suits represent the highest-ranking cadets of the Barren Mountain Academy.

The men all wore gorgeous and prominent tiaras with their hair tied up, and an elegant ancient jade pinned to their waists. This ancient jade is a communication jade uniformly distributed by the academy, even if they are thousands of miles apart, they can also transmit messages to each other with soul marks. One of the eight students was clearly very popular here.

The eight of them squeezed through the crowd and stood in front of the bulletin board, and several teenagers gave way to the girl behind them, and the blue power suit looked graceful and elegant on her body, revealing her slender white neck.

The black hair is tied up and draped behind the head like flowing lustrous black ink, and the two neat tufts of hair on the sideburns flutter at will, exuding youthful vitality.

Her eyes were clear and bright, and her eyes were dark and clean, and her long eyelashes were like mist, which made her eyebrows extremely moisturized. Her face was small and delicate, her skin was as white and smooth as soft snow, and her whole person looked faintly shining.

Cardamom is in its prime, slim and elegant.

Her eyes stopped on the emperor's list, and she muttered, "It's finally here..."

Immediately, the corners of his mouth were pursed, and his eyes were firmly in the direction beyond the barren mountain.

"You Barren Mountain Academy, you have to fight this year, otherwise even if the empire does not surrender, the county government will deprive you of support for this Barren Mountain Academy."

The eunuch who posted the imperial list looked at the eight academy students opposite and said coldly. "It's such a small place, and it's pitiful that the strength is weak..."

The eight people standing in front of the imperial list looked at the eunuch, although they didn't dare to show an angry look, but they still looked somewhat unwilling and helpless, especially the two young men who had just had a strong sense of superiority, and their expressions were a little stiff. The soles of his feet moved, just about to refute.

"You two are equinox." The girl with pink makeup said quietly.

When they stopped, the girl took another step, her eyes closed slightly. Just like the Holy Spirit imagined by mortals, the spiritual power on his body slowly overflowed like a tide of light, and then burst out, and the beam of spiritual power went straight to the sky, dazzling beyond measure...

"Boom..."

The spiritual power shook the air, and the sonic boom sound hit people's eardrums, and the people around them stared blankly at the group of most noble people that such a young girl had entered the dream of many people.

"For those who are new to the spirit, it's okay, but that's all." The eunuch looked at the girl intently, spoke slowly, and then walked away. There was more of that mocking contempt in his eyes.

The spectators around the bulletin booth didn't care about what the eunuch said, and in their eyes they could only be shocked by the little girl's strength.

Also shocked by this was the young man Cangqing who was quietly observing in the corner.

The nine-year-old boy had a pair of bright eyes, which looked like stars twinkling in the night sky, and his big dark eyes and black eyebrows that were as sharp as two straight long swords, he looked very handsome.

A black and healthy hair is not tied up at the crown, but simply tied with a cowhide hairband at the back of the head, casual and natural.

With both hands rolled up the small half of the sleeves, he pulled the long-standing horned ox behind him, and the blood that had not yet congealed showed the freshness of the meat, obviously the boy had just hunted from the barren mountains.

The sturdy little arms exude the vitality of a half-mature teenager, the muscle lines are clear and beautiful, with vigorous vitality, the emaciated skeleton is very symmetrical and perfect, and the clothes on the body are simply sewn with coarse cloth made of linen, which is in great contrast with the group of college teenagers.

Cang Qing looked at the academy girl, three years ago they were still playing and talking together. In the eyes of children, the world is very simple, and at that time they naively think that life is like this, and they do what they like with the people they like, and time is always there.

When I knew that she was selected by the academy because of her outstanding talent and entered the Barren Mountain Academy to study, she was destined to meet unexpectedly today, and the three years seemed to separate the two people into two worlds, which were strangers but went with the flow.

Now this girl has broken away from the realm of ordinary mortals and become a spirit being, and he is still an ordinary mortal, and he is even running around to take care of the family's livelihood.

At this time, he stood in the warm morning light of early winter, he was one of the countless people who rushed to buy and sell in the barren mountain city in search of a livelihood, and the clear morning breeze rose, and the wind blew his brows and eyes into wrinkles, and he looked a little more mature, which was particularly incompatible with his age.

In his heart, he thought to himself, maybe a relationship like a friend should be based on equal status, right? In his heart, he wasn't sure if this was the case, but it was indeed something that a teenager had to go through to grow up.

At this time, the girl looked at it at a glance, and the first meeting after three years did not have the nostalgia that the teenager expected, and it was better to miss each other.

The girl recognized Cangqing, there was no speech between these eyes, no greetings, and glanced at the young man's pure Mai and the bloody Tianjiao Ox behind her, and then looked away, looking into the distance, maybe in her heart, the two people are really not in the same world.

The young man looked at her seriously, very carefully, as if he wanted to find the little girl before, the heel who followed him and called Brother Cangqing with a milky voice, and Xiao Qiong still had snot under her nose... But all this doesn't matter anymore, and it's better for memories to keep it only in memories.

"Stinky boy, look at Senior Sister Lan Li again, believe it or not, gouge out your eyeballs!"

The two proud young men who were just about to move and were drunk by the girl shouted at Cang Qing coldly.

Before Cang Qing came out of his memories, he was awakened by these two people, the young man did not speak, and there was still a glimmer of hope in his heart, he was waiting for the little girl named Lan Li to stop those two people, even if it was not entirely for him.

It's a pity that the only remaining thought of the young man is also when the girl turns her cheeks away and walks away, without any words or even eye fluctuations when she rubs her shoulders, and disappears cleanly, completely as if she hadn't had this thought just now...

Looking at the young man's averted gaze and slightly disappointed expression, not only the two shouting teenagers, but the other five people also flashed disdain and disdain on their faces, as if they saw that the toad wanted to eat swan meat but was as depressed as when he ascended to the sky.

They feel that they shouldn't deal with this kind of person, they have seen so many of this kind of person, so much so that they never think that they are actually one of them. Walked away majestically, scrambling to keep up with Senior Sister Lan Li, who they thought was the only one worthy of themselves.

The crowd dispersed, Cang Qing suddenly felt that he had lost something, but he felt more relaxed, raised the corners of his mouth, and strode forward towards the Yikou trading area, which is the destination of the trip, he needed to sell the freshly hunted Tianjiao cattle for a good price, buy a few winter clothes for his mother and brother...

Passing by the bulletin booth, the boy also took a curious look. What does the Imperial List of the Bulletin Pavilion say...

"Jingqi National Decree, Barren Mountain City Order, Spring in March, the county seat test......

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Recruit talents and ...... for the country"

Looking at the scattered crowd, the young man vaguely knew the edict of this notice, and the county court test..., as if it was the matter of the spirit world of Lan Ling at that time....

As he spoke, he quickened his pace towards the Yikou trading area.