Starting with the wrench given by the old man, Zhang Xiaoxian faintly felt that his body was much smoother than before, and the time to practice the knife technique every day could last longer.

So he was now beginning to realize that there was something about this seemingly inconspicuous thing—extraordinary.

Helping Zhang Linzi in the small calligraphy and painting shop, he was busy for a while, and after seeing the guests who came to buy things gradually leaving, Zhang Xiaoxian walked to the door of the shop with a little leisure.

"Do you think that there seem to be a lot more people coming to the shop to buy things recently than before?" Zhang Linzi suddenly asked him.

Zhang Xiaoxian nodded, how could it not be much, there is still a month to go, the world's holy place of cultivation, Helan Academy is about to conduct a preliminary test for the world's talents, people from all over the world have come to Lin'an, the capital of the Great Song Kingdom, ready to go to that mysterious and solemn place, for the most important test in their lives.

Such a thing, no matter where it is placed, is a big deal and must be prepared in advance, therefore, there can only be more and more people.

"So, don't you stop wandering out at will, but memorize and write well, if you really want to enter the Helan Courtyard!"

Zhang Xiaoxian listened, raised his hand and touched his nose with some embarrassment, and said: "That being said, I can't be as first-class as you are in writing and writing, so naturally I don't want to do anything in these aspects, I rely on my combat ability, if I can pass the test of my skills, then everything will be fine." ”

"Haven't you asked these days what considerations you need to pass if you want to pass the preliminary examination of Helan Academy?" Zhang Linzi looked up at him helplessly: "Either you have outstanding literary talent, proficient in music theory, and have the potential to practice......"

Speaking of this, Zhang Linzi's tone softened, and he was no longer ready to continue.

Zhang Xiaoxian understood what he said, sighed and said: " I know that you are worried about my meridians, afraid that I will be eliminated in the initial examination of Helan Academy, so you ask me to memorize and write more, but, you also know, although I also like these things, but the level has always been average, I am not a literary genius, I don't have the ability to export into a splendid beauty, so I don't have to spend any more trouble in this regard, besides, even if you have the knowledge and no cultivation potential, Mr. Helan Academy's palm test will still not judge you to be qualified, therefore, whether I read or write during this period of time, it doesn't matter, what matters is whether you can make people feel that you have that potential......”

There may be such a thing as potential, Zhang Linzi may have it, but Zhang Xiaoxian has been denied, which makes the two of them sad.

"Anyway, I'm going to give it a try!" Zhang Xiaoxian said with a resolute face.

Time passes very slowly in the eyes of people who have expectations, but for people who have uncertain ups and downs in the future, blessings and misfortunes, it passes quickly, a month of time, it passes quickly, and in a blink of an eye, it comes to the day of the first examination of Helan Academy.

It was the end of summer, the weather was still a little muggy, and the sky in the east was just faintly shining, so Zhang Xiaoxian gathered the two brothers up and stopped everything to get ready.

The carriage that took them to Helan Courtyard also stopped outside the courtyard at this time.

Zhang Linzi and Zhang Xiaoxian quickly got into the carriage and went all the way east along the streets of Xiliu Street.

The carriages were not moving very fast, for there were already one carriage after another in the streets, several times more than usual.

The first examination held every three years in Helan Academy has long allowed Lin'an City to gather too many young talents from all walks of life, celebrities, and all kinds of people who are dreaming of practicing in Lin'an City.

Today's test is held, because I know that it is difficult for many people to walk, and it is also to go to Nahelan Courtyard as soon as possible and win the jackpot, so everyone got up very early, and the mood became a little strange.

So on the way there will inevitably be accidental collisions, originally this kind of trivial matter, in normal times you have to complain a few times, but today, everyone seems to have become a saint all of a sudden, actually politely said a few words of apology to each other, just borrowed from each other, there is no sense of annoyance.

Although the carriage traveled slowly, it was always moving forward, and as long as it was moving forward, it would reach Helan Courtyard.

When the coachman parked the carriage in one place, Zhang Xiaoxian helped Zhang Linzi sit in a wheelchair, looked up, but saw a dark crowd of people, and a very wide Yinyin grassland, there were many vertical and horizontal paths in the grass, and the other end of the path was the direction of Helan Courtyard.

Zhang Xiaoxian pushed Zhang Linzi, who was in a wheelchair, and began to walk towards the criss-crossing path with the flow of people, the path was not narrow, enough for several people to walk together, and there would be a few trees standing on both sides of the road not far away, and the flowers on the trees were blooming and lively.

The faint fragrance of flowers and the fragrance of grass with dewdrops came, which shocked most of the students who took the exam.

The slightly nervous mood gradually relaxed, and began to walk towards the academy building, while talking to people who knew or didn't know next to him.

It began to grow noisy, but when they reached the end of the path, in front of the rows of black and white houses, they all stopped again.

For in front of this house, there stood a few people who looked like Mr. Palm.

This Mr. Zhang, who has nine men and three women, has been divided into four groups by himself, and at this time, a slightly older grade and wearing a Helan Academy teaching uniform came out of it, standing at the front of the crowd.

"Ladies and gentlemen, the preliminary examination of Helan Academy is about to begin, and the gentlemen in charge of recruitment are divided into four groups, and you are also divided into four parts in turn, register one by one, and then hold a literary examination and a physical test, okay, everyone can now enter the house by themselves. ”

As he spoke, he turned around and went to the four houses that had been prepared in an orderly manner with the gentlemen in charge.

Zhang Xiaoxian and Zhang Linzi were naturally assigned to a house, and after registration, they were arranged to take the literary examination in an adjacent house.

The essay test for the first time is not very difficult, but it just allows you to write a comprehensive essay about art, learning, and strategy.

Although Zhang Xiaoxian made his life by practicing martial arts, he and Zhang Linzi, a disabled but very knowledgeable person, were together all day long, and they were also influenced by themselves, so the article about learning and strategy was successfully written after a short period of brewing.

But that art word made him a little embarrassed, he was a person who didn't have much interest in any piano, chess, calligraphy and painting, and he felt that it was impossible to write such an article.

However, fortunately, Zhang Xiaoxian was very clever, and he actually remembered the situation when Zhang Linzi was playing the flute for himself, and when he thought of his feelings at that time, he wrote some nonsense and handed over the file.

Although Zhang Linzi and Zhang Xiaoxian were in the same room, they were separated by a few people, so they didn't see Zhang Xiaoxian's happy and frowning appearance.

This level of taking the exam is nothing to him, but in a short time, Zhang Linzi was the first to hand in the paper.

The gentleman in charge of the test, the one who had just lectured to everyone outside, frowned when he saw that the first person to hand in the paper was a half-disabled young man in a wheelchair.

Maybe there's a little discomfort in my heart.

But when he subconsciously glanced at the scroll that Zhang Linzi put on the table, and saw the beautiful square Xiaokai on it, he not only showed a shocked expression.

The literary examination of this house has been completed, and when Zhang Xiaoxian walked out rubbing his aching forehead, Zhang Linzi was already waiting for him anxiously outside.

"How?" asked Zhang Linzi with concern.

"Naturally, it's all written, but I don't know if it's written correctly!" Zhang Xiaoxian said with some confidence.

Seeing him like this, Zhang Linzi hurriedly comforted him in a low voice: "Don't worry, the questions in this preliminary exam are not difficult, even if you don't study hard, you can probably pass." ”

Zhang Xiaoxian pursed his lips and said, "I don't have the confidence you have......"

After the completion of the literary exam, it will be the physical test that Zhang Xiaoxian is most worried about, entering Helan Academy to study and practice, one of which is to have a good literary talent, and whether there is cultivation potential in the body, is the top priority of this preliminary examination, think about you Even if you are talented and have a good exit, but if you have no cultivation potential, then there is no point in entering Helan Academy to study and practice.

So, this is what makes it a place of spiritual practice that is slightly different from other colleges.

But this difference is that most of the people who have the dream of practicing are blocked from Helan Courtyard.

As the candidates for the exam were called by the examiner one by one, there was a completely different scene from the previous exam.

When the students who were called in entered the house where Mr. Zhangxue was tested again to see if any of the students had the potential to practice, there was a situation where some people were happy and some were sad.

Most of the students in this house were actually depressed and sad under the shaking of the head of Mr. Zhang's denial.

Some even questioned whether the gentleman who took the test was deaf and dazzled, knowing that he had such a strong body, he didn't even have that thing called cultivation potential......

"Sir, why? Although I am small, I have practiced with some students from the martial arts gym near us, and they can't beat me, so how can I not have that potential?"

Mr. Charge was not surprised by his recklessness, but explained to him seriously: "You are indeed in good health, strong enough, but you are only strong, but you are not the kind of civilized student that our academy wants, you must know that the human body has twelve meridians, and what we need is above the nine meridians, and you, a very ordinary one, have only opened seven meridians, so you can't enter Helan Academy." ”

"And this kind of thing?" The man, who had obviously been eliminated by Mr. Palm Test, suddenly looked very sad and angry.

Then he became a little excited: "Is your Helan Courtyard too much, is there such a thing as cultivation potential, and there is such a mysterious thing as opening a few veins, it's not like you just say it, how can others know whether what you said is right or wrong, or if you deliberately want to make a mistake, I don't know!"

When Mr. Zhangxuan heard this, his face immediately sank.