"Why are you here today?"

Xu Xia pretended to be angry and said: "What you said is not right, if we don't come today, will you forget about us!" ”

Lu Yu's face was black, knowing that Xu Xia's big mouth liked to talk nonsense, and he sneered at each other: "Where have you been hiding these days, and I haven't seen you come to me?" ”

"Huh!"

Xu Xia said smugly: "It's almost the same as you, retreat and cultivate!" ”

Lu Yu had already discovered that Xu Xia's aura had changed, but now his cultivation was too low and his divine thoughts could not be released, so he couldn't find out whether Xu Xia's cultivation had improved in the end.

"Judging by your appearance, the effect of retreat cultivation should be good!"

"Needless to say, I'm now at the fifth level of qi refining, and I'm at the second stage of body refining, so I'm getting stronger and stronger!"

Xia Yueming's face was ugly, he had also been cultivating in the past month, but he couldn't break through the fourth layer of qi refining, and the current situation was a bit dangerous to enter the top three.

"Brother Lu, what is your current cultivation?"

Lu Yu said half-truthfully: "Not long after breaking through, I have reached the third layer of qi refining!" ”

Xia Yueming sighed and said: "As far as I know, the level of the candidates in this big exam is not low, there are quite a few of them at the sixth or seventh level of qi refining, and there are several sect disciples who have even reached the Great Perfection of Qi refining, if nothing else, the first rank in this big exam should be all these people." ”

"It's hard to say!"

Xu Xia said disdainfully: "Although the outer disciples sent by the major sects this time are not weak, the children of the major families are also not weak, and there are also a few cultivators who have reached the Great Perfection of Qi Refining. ”

Lu Yu didn't know what was going on outside, so of course he wouldn't care about it.

"I heard that the location of this big exam is set in an independent space of the Ministry of Rites, and the way of this big exam has also changed a little, you must be mentally prepared!"

"What's changed, have you heard?" Xia Yueming said very concernedly.

"I don't know!"

Xu Xia shook his head and said: "Actually, you don't have to worry, the content of the essay test has always been those, as long as the strategy is written well and decently, the score of the essay is not much different." The next qualification assessment has long been doomed, and the only thing that has changed is cultivation, so there is not much suspense in each big exam. ”

The Tianlan World scientific examination is divided into two parts: the literary examination and the individual cultivation, after so many years, the content of the examination has been fixed, as long as it is rote memorization, it will not be too bad, even if it is a strategy, as long as it is not scribbled, the literary examination can be passed.

Regardless of the quality of the exam, there are only two kinds of results, passing and not passing, the candidates who do not pass are directly eliminated, and the candidates who pass enter the next round of personal cultivation evaluation, usually the higher the cultivation also represents the higher the qualification, as for the determination of the spiritual root and special physique, basically it has little impact on the final result, because the probability of this happening is too low.

For example, the spiritual root, the spiritual root is divided into mortal, low-grade, middle-grade and high-grade spiritual root, most of the ordinary monks are medium-grade spiritual roots, and very few have high-grade spiritual roots, as for what is the best spiritual root, immortal spiritual root, Hongmeng spiritual root, basically these monks are the objects of competition among the major sects, as for the major families, they will hold this kind of child in their hands, and they will not let the world know easily.

The situation of monks with special physiques is basically the same, so every time there is a scientific expedition, there are very few such people, even if there are fish that slip through the net, once they are discovered, they will be the objects of the various sects and families, and they don't need to participate in any scientific expeditions at all.

Therefore, the basic conditions of the candidates who participate in the scientific examination are not much different, the only difference is in their personal cultivation and qualifications, among which even the qualifications are not too good.

Don't look at every scientific examination, there are as many as millions of candidates who participate, in fact, nine out of ten candidates have similar conditions in all aspects, so Xu Xia can roughly analyze how high his chances of entering the second class are.

However, the situation of this scientific examination is a bit special, first someone assassinated the candidates of various major sects, and then the imperial court revised the content of the exam, without knowing the content of the exam, it is difficult for Xu Xia to speculate whether he can enter the second class this time.

Xu Xia didn't know if he could enter the second grade, and Xia Yueming didn't know if he could enter the top three.

Don't think that you won't be able to pass the exam this year, you will still have a chance in three years.

There is an age limit for the scientific examination of the Great Holy Dynasty, and all candidates are between the ages of sixteen and twenty-five, which is also the time to start cultivating.

Like Xu Xia and Xia Yueming, they are both twenty-three years old this year, and they will be twenty-six years old in three years, so they have no chance to participate in the next scientific expedition, and as for Lu Yu, who is twenty-four years old this year, it is also impossible to participate in the next scientific examination.

Because of the age limit, ordinary people basically only have one chance to participate in the scientific examination, so Xia Yueming is more nervous than anyone else.

"Actually, Brother Xia has put too much pressure on himself, your current cultivation is just a kick in the door from the fourth layer of qi refining, maybe you will break through when you can, now there are three days before the scientific examination, plus three days of the literary examination, Brother Xia still has hope to break through the third layer of qi refining."

Xia Yueming was indeed a little restless during this time, and when his mentality was unstable, it was almost impossible to break through the current realm, which even Lu Yu, who had just started, knew this.

"Brother Xu is right, I have too much pressure during this time, and I need to relax."

"Let's go! Today I have a treat. ”

Lu Yu didn't want to go out, so he said, "Forget it, let's eat today." ”

"That's right, now Brother Lu is also a celebrity in the capital, and going out may be discovered, which will affect our mood!"

Lu Yu rolled his eyes and said, "You two tell me honestly, who passed on those poems." ”

Xu Xia immediately raised his hand and said, "It's not me, I've been practicing in the second uncle's house during this time, and I don't know anything about this matter." ”

Lu Yu looked at Xia Yueming, Xia Yueming said with a wry smile on his face: "You can't blame me for this matter, when I was in the Tongwen Pavilion, I drank with a few fellow villagers, and they wrote poems after drinking, so I said Brother Lu's poems by the way, who knew that it would be spread all over the city afterwards." ”

Xu Xia said indifferently: "This is actually a good thing, just with Brother Lu's poems, even if I can't make the list, someone will invite Brother Lu, if I also have the level of Brother Lu's poetry, I don't have to worry about the scientific examination." ”

Lu Yu was speechless by Xu Xia's words.

"Brother Lu doesn't know, there are poetry sects among the major sects in the Tianlan world, and the poetry sect can also be ranked among the top 100 sects, after the scientific examination, the poetry gate will definitely find Brother Lu, isn't this a good thing?"

"And the Poet Gate?"

"Although the reputation of the poetry gate is not obvious, it belongs to a small sect, but the strength is not weak, most of the people in the door are some officials of the imperial court, and the poetry door and Confucianism are inextricably linked, and the monks who want to enter the poetry gate do not know how few, but unfortunately there is no such opportunity."

It was the first time Lu Yu had heard of Shimen, so he really couldn't make any comments.

"There are only two conditions for entering the poetry gate, one is a monk, and the other is to be able to make three poems that move the Great Holy Dynasty, and these two Lu brothers are just right."

Lu Yu smiled helplessly, there is such a task in the system: join the top 100 sects in the Tianlan world, the outer disciples will be rewarded with more than one skill point, the inner disciples will be rewarded with more than five skill points, the core disciples will be rewarded with more than 20 skill points, the elders of the sect will be rewarded with more than 50 skill points, and the head of the sect will be rewarded with more than 200 skill points.

When Lu Yu saw this task before, he didn't take it to heart, it was impossible for him to have a top 100 sect in his cultivation, but he didn't expect to jump out of a sect that didn't follow common sense, which greatly surprised Lu Yu's expectations.

"Brother Lu must not give up the opportunity to join the poetry sect, to become one of the top 100 sects, the background is not simple. There are many such schools, such as songs, dances, teas, wines, etc., such as painting, which seems to be painting, but is actually painting into the Tao, and many enlightenment pictures are from the masters of painting. The same is true for poetry, a poem can give a monk a great insight, and it is normal for a poem to be worth 10,000 spirit stones. ”

Lu Yu is really eye-opening now, poetry, painting, singing and dancing can become one of the top 100 sects, and it is not surprising that he drinks and eats tea to become enlightened.

The three of them chatted while eating, Lu Yu broadened his horizons, and Xia Yueming's mood was relaxed and at the same time, he also had a lot of feelings.