"Brother...... Did you buy a bucket of rice for 30 baht? ”

In the small courtyard of the homecoming, Gui Li looked at the dejected Guichen in disbelief and shouted angrily.

"Why don't you look elsewhere?"

Although Guichen was also distressed, he straightened his waist when he heard this, pursed his lips and glanced at the silent girl behind him, and said to his sister.

"Later, Mingyue and I went to Jishang and other villages, which were really much more expensive. And the price at the end of the afternoon is actually higher than when the market opens! ”

"Shi ......" froze this time.

Guichen looked at the girl behind him in disbelief.

At that time, if she hadn't insisted, he might have waited for another family, but everything was as she expected, and the old man's words were actually right and not to trick him.

The price of rice on the set is indeed skyrocketing.

"How can this be...... Gui Li's brow furrowed, "is this to starve the people to death?" ”

"It's a little cold, but I don't see anything out of the ordinary," Guichen said, "but I think it's probably because of rumors." ”

"Rumors? What rumors? Guili asked, and the next moment she spoke in disgust without waiting for an answer, "Is it because Princess Heqin hasn't been found yet?" ”

"Yes," Guichen carefully picked up the rice bag from the bamboo basket, "It is estimated that it is judged that the relatives may be yellow, and it is not clear that Nan Chu will take the opportunity to start a war, and those rice sellers will just move when they hear the wind." ”

After all, the biggest thing in Qianqin now is that he lost his princess, and the news in the countryside is closed, and many traders will make waves with this.

They have experienced this kind of thing a lot over the years, but most of it is thunder and rain, and the belt of Lele's pants has passed.

"It's really so easy to fight," Guichen spread his hands, "If you can't get married, you think you're going to fight, and the officials above won't be so stupid." ”

This is also the truth, Ying hugged the moon and said in her heart. In this kind of turbulent tide, it depends on who can calm down, but all officials and rulers who have some experience in troubled times should stand still at this time.

The premise is experience.

Ying Baoyue recalled the depressed scene she saw in the market today, and her heart sank slightly.

"Besides, Nan Chu is going to prepare to hold a beginner ceremony this year, this is a triennial event in the entire cultivation world, all the immortal officials are busy doing this, how to start a war this year, it is impossible to say this year!"

However, at this moment, Guichen's words interrupted Ying Baoyue's thoughts.

"Beginner's Canon?" Ying Baoyue opened her mouth in a daze.

And with the word, countless memories flooded into her mind.

"Yes, Beginner Canon," Guichen turned his head to look at her, his eyes excited and complicated, "You don't even remember this?" This is the only way for beginner cultivators to advance, and it is also the starting point for touching the threshold of immortal officials! ”

Yes, she remembers.

No matter how one becomes a cultivator, even if an ordinary person is fortunate enough to become a cultivator, what awaits him is an incomparably arduous and long path.

If you want to go on this never-ending path of cultivation, you must rely on the wisdom of your predecessors and a steady stream of cultivation resources.

The texts, prescriptions, enlightenment of cultivation, and the most important training for practitioners are left behind by their predecessors.

That's fighting and competing.

Heroes are born in troubled times because everyone does their best to survive, but how to cultivate strong cultivators in a peaceful and prosperous world?

A few decades ago, Emperor Taizu established the cultivation system and created two major systems at the same time, the immortal official system and the canonical examination system that complemented each other.

The way for a cultivator to advance is a top-secret resource, and this secret is hidden in the codex left by Emperor Taizu.

Emperor Taizu himself was not a top-level cultivator, and he was only the third rank before his death, but this man, who was once said to have held a "group meeting" with Yagami and was favored by the gods, had extremely complete theoretical knowledge of cultivation.

His method of cultivation was also transformed from theory to reality by a woman beside him. Dasi Ming Lin Shubai completed the cultivation codex above level three, and proved that level one really existed, so that the Taizu codex became the authority of the cultivation world.

Cultivating the tenth order, if the first five orders can still grow by barbarism, but when they reach the sixth level, they must use the power of the Taizu Codex, and if they want to obtain the qualification to read the Taizu Codex, there is only one way in the entire Shanhai Continent.

That is to become an immortal official.

Emperor Taizu's Chrysostom said that only immortal officials of the same rank were qualified to read his codex.

The corresponding system of immortal officials and the system of cultivation is also ten ranks, and cultivators of the same level are eligible to become immortal officials of the corresponding level, but ...... And just qualifying.

A cultivator of the ninth rank is eligible to become an immortal official of the ninth rank, but if he does not participate in the canon test and win it, he cannot become an immortal official.

The so-called canonical test is such a thing.

In a sense, the canonical examination system can be called the imperial examination for the selection of practitioners, although the method of testing is ...... in Ying Baoyue's opinion It's kind of like the Olympics.

The examination system is divided into three parts: junior high school and high school, the elementary canon, the intermediate canon and the advanced canon.

The Taejo Codex was divided into four parts and delivered to the four most powerful vassal states of the time.

Among them, the primary and intermediate ceremonies were held in the same country, and the high-level ceremonies were not widely known, and in a sense, they were closer to the secret rituals of a few people, and they were carried out in two countries.

After all, cultivators who can go to the high-level canonical ...... It's really rare.

Even if you can see the Taizu Codex, cultivation is a complex process that combines talent and opportunity, and it can be seen that there are only eight Divine Sons in the whole continent of the second rank.

Different from the hidden high-level ceremony, the first-level ceremony that selects the most immortal officials is a grand event in the whole continent, and the scale is extremely grand.

And the venue for this most attended beginner ceremony is ......

The blessed land of the Four Heavenly Spirit Vermilion Birds, the place where the most powerful cultivators were once born.

"Nan Chu."

Guichen clenched his fists and inhaled deeply, "Sooner or later, I'll have to save enough money to get there." ”

"I remember that the money should have been almost saved, brother, you won't use this money to buy rice, right?" Gui Li frowned and looked at Gui Chen.

"No, how can it be...... It's just ......" The young man bit his lip and sat down on the ground in a gloomy manner.

"If you don't become rank ten, you won't be eligible to participate in the beginner ceremony."

Of course, the selection examination for practitioners is only for practitioners.

Rank 10 is just the lowest standard, but Guichen hasn't even reached this minimum standard.

"Now there are only three months left before the Beginner Ceremony, and I'm already fifteen years old, and your brother really doesn't seem to have the talent to cultivate." Guichen looked at his pale sister and smiled bitterly.

"Brother, don't say that, you're just ......" Gui Li's rare brother didn't squeeze his brother, but he didn't know how to comfort him.

"It's okay, Nanchu Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, even if I am lucky enough to enter the tenth rank, I'm afraid I will be brushed down in the first round," Guichen looked at his sister, who had an unsightly face, and barely squeezed out a few smiles, and smiled more ugly than crying.

"Nan Chu......" Ying Baoyue muttered.

It was indeed a holy place for spiritual practice.

Because there it is.

Master's hometown.

But now too......

"That's where our princess is going to marry," Guichen said as he looked back at her and spread his hands, his brows furrowed.

"Anyway, where did Her Royal Highness go to the princess?"