Chapter 9 Rushing for the Exam
Time passed, summer turned to autumn, the leaves in the courtyard changed from green to yellow, and Zhou Chen had lived in the Tong family for more than two months.
On a flat stone platform in the center of the courtyard, Zhou Chen, dressed in a green shirt, sat cross-legged, constantly breathing and breathing.
At this moment, it is more than half of the hour, the morning sun is about to rise, the stars are about to disappear, and the starlight that is falling down is gradually thinning.
In addition, the sun star power is too manic and violent, so it is time for Zhou Chen to end his cultivation.
The purple qi slowly dissipated, and Zhou Chen slowly opened his eyes, as if there was a flash of brilliance in his eyes.
Immediately afterward, he didn't see any other movements in Zhou Chen's body, he actually levitated out of thin air and stood up on the flat stone platform.
Thanks to the supernatural power of the Star Channeling Technique, coupled with the particularity of Zhou Chen's own physique, although it has only been more than two months, Zhou Chen's strength seems to have undergone earth-shaking changes.
According to the cultivation speed of his skills alone, Zhou Chen's achievements in more than two months are enough to be worth three or five years of diligent cultivation of ordinary martial artists.
At present, the capacity of Zhou Chen's own dantian is stronger than those second-rate realm masters in the Jianghu martial arts.
After all, for example, Zhou Chen, who has never cultivated, has smooth meridians throughout his body, which is too rare and rare.
When ordinary martial artists are cultivating the internal strength and mental method to accumulate strength, they also need to constantly consume internal force to impact the obstacles existing in the meridians.
And Zhou Chen's situation is completely different, after the baptism of star power quenching, except for the second vein of Ren Du, there are still obstacles, and the other meridians have already been unblocked.
Therefore, when Zhou Chen condensed his skills, he directly saved the process of penetrating the meridians, and how much power he condensed would be accumulated.
Coupled with the power condensed by the Star Channeling Technique, it was several times that of an ordinary martial artist who exhaled the vitality of heaven and earth.
This made Zhou Chen's martial arts cultivation speed far beyond the ability of those ordinary martial artists above the Jianghu martial arts.
The most important thing is that Zhou Chen's own meridians have already formed a small Zhou Tian cycle, and the skill that he has condensed at the beginning is the innate true qi.
It is precisely for this reason that the strength of Zhou Chen's current skill is only equivalent to the second-rate master in the Jianghu martial arts, but in terms of the condensation of innate true qi, the master of the general top realm cannot compete with him in terms of the strength of his skill.
Of course, this refers to Zhou Chen's most ideal state of martial arts cultivation.
In fact, the situation is that he may not even be able to deal with a third-rate realm martial artist in the Jianghu martial arts.
Because in the Star Channeling Technique that Zhou Chen practiced, there was no mention of attacking methods with just a few words.
Therefore, today's Zhou Chen is like a child holding a divine weapon, with a strong skill and unable to exert it.
The reason for the current situation is actually reasonable, after all, Zhou Chen's time to practice martial arts is still short, and it is not enough for three months to be full.
Whenever the stars and moon hung in the sky and night fell, except for the necessary rest, Zhou Chen spent almost all of his time practicing the Star Channeling Technique.
If it weren't for that, it would have been impossible for him to condense such a strong skill in just over two months.
When it was daytime, Zhou Chen spent all his time reciting the Four Books and Five Classics.
In Zhou Chen's future planning, participating in the township test is the most important thing, and he definitely doesn't dare to slack off in the slightest.
And Zhou Chen didn't plan to get too much contact with the martial arts of the rivers and lakes for the time being, everything was based on the title of the gold list to get the rank of advancement, so as to be among the temples of the Ming Dynasty.
What's more, with Zhou Chen's current situation, he has no access to any clever martial arts at all.
The core martial arts of the entire Longmen Dart Bureau are all in Tong Boda's hands, and Tong Boda personally escorted the darts to the Yungui region before Zhou Chen came to this world.
To this day, Zhou Chen hasn't even seen Tong Boda's face, so how can he talk about practicing the martial arts inherited by the Tong family?
In addition to the martial arts techniques inherited by the Tong family, there are also some usage and practice methods of swords, guns, swords, and halberds in the Longmen Dart Bureau.
It's a pity that there is a good saying, it is called the law cannot be passed on lightly, how can the real secret technique be placed on the bright side?
The practice of those swords, guns, swords, and halberds was just the most superficial showcase, and it didn't involve the use of internal force and true qi at all.
Rather than wasting time contacting these crops, Zhou Chen might as well carefully condense his skills, or read books to prepare for exams.
After passing the imperial examination, Zhou Chen had some spare time to study those offensive methods.
Today is the end of July, and it seems that there are only a few days left before the first day of the imperial examination starts on the ninth day of August, and it is time for Zhou Chen to leave for Taiyuan Mansion in Shanxi Province to catch the exam.
The reason why Zhou Chen did not take the township test in Xi'an Mansion in Shaanxi Province was because his ancestral home was in Guangyang Mansion in Shanxi.
In the imperial examination of the Ming Dynasty, the most basic children's examination and the academy examination were not too strict regulations, and candidates could participate in the academic administration of any prefecture and county.
However, the scientific examination system of the township examination is more stringent, and all candidates must return to the provincial capital of their ancestral home to participate in it.
Therefore, if Zhou Chen wants to participate in the township examination, then he must return to Shanxi Province, where Guan Guangyang Mansion is located, to take the exam, that is, Taiyuan Gongyuan.
Although the distance between Hanzhong in Shaanxi Province and Taiyuan in Shanxi Province is not far, it also requires a few days of walking.
In order to avoid any accidents on the way to the exam, so as to delay the time to participate in the township examination, Zhou Chen must have rushed to Taiyuan Mansion in advance to prepare for the exam.
It happened that the Longmen Dart Bureau had a trip to Taiyuan, Shanxi Province today, so Zhou Chen simply decided to go on the road with the Dart Bureau.
As early as yesterday, Zhou Chen had already packed his luggage.
In fact, there are not many things in it, except for the necessary coiling and change of clothes, most of them are the corresponding items needed for the Zhou Chen exam.
For example, stationery such as pen, ink, paper, inkstone, household registration, road guide, customs clearance documents and other relevant materials to prove identity, etc.
These luggage are now placed next to the stone platform where Zhou Chen used to practice and practice, and after he collected his breath, he immediately picked up the luggage package around him and left the courtyard, and went straight to the outside gate of Tong Mansion to join the team of the Longmen Dart Bureau.
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