A leaf partial boat, carrying the three people slowly along the Baishui River, into the moat boundary of Lijiabao, after the moat, you can faintly see a yellow fortress standing on the Pingchuan, like a small hill. That is Lijiabao, which is located in the northwest and is famous in the Tianshui Continent.

Lijiabao is divided into the outer gate and the inner gate, and the outer gate lives one hundred and eight outdoor surnames, scattered in the outer ring of Lijiabao, and the stars surround the inner nine gates like the moon. The outer gate is mainly for the children surnamed Li in the inner gate, whether it is housekeeper service, business dealings, or patrol guards, most of them are in charge of the people of the outer gate. If there are occasional outstanding people in the outer door who have the opportunity to stand out, they can also enter the inner door exceptionally, worship under an inner door master's hall, go to the Li family school, and carry out orthodox cultivation and learning, and the treatment will be the same as that of the inner disciples, and there is no need to do those dirty work all day long like the outer disciples.

And the inner door refers to the nine doors of the Li family, when the ancestor of the Li family Li Huai unloaded the armor and returned to the field on the bank of the Baishui River, set up a fort and became a family, divided into nine sons' family business, into nine gates, since then it has been one hundred and sixty years.

From the beginning of the founding of the Tianshui Dynasty and the first year of Jianlong, Emperor Taizu gave the Li family a seat for the nine gates of the Nine Gates of the Deer Terrace with Li Huai's merit of founding the country and supporting the dragon, which was elected by the family and attacked from generation to generation.

Don't look at this reward, there is only one seat in Zhulutai, Tianshui Continent, whether it is the Gyeonggi government or the local tycoons, all of them have sharpened their heads and want the descendants of the family to have a place in the deer competition once every ten years! Therefore, in the Tianshui Dynasty, the generational shadow of a seat in Zhulutai is no less than a hereditary throne saved by real military achievements.

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Zhulutai, located in Kyushu Zhongzhou, is the Taizu Emperor set the world at the beginning, sighing Jin Ge Iron Horse, only the people's livelihood is difficult, so he set up Taiwan as an alliance, invited Kyushu countries, and jointly came to discuss, hoping to have a martial arts friend, point to the end of the competition, so that the people are free from the suffering of war, and at the same time can decide the world's heroes.

Whoever wins the championship in the competition for Lutai will be able to dominate the Tianshui Continent within ten years and enjoy the annual tribute of the rest of the countries. Small countries naturally hope to have such an opportunity to fight for a great future, and the big countries feel that their country is strong, and the talents of a country are not comparable to those of small countries, and the chances of winning are very great, and they are happy to succeed. What's more, the ten-year period is neither long nor short, so that one country will not take advantage of this to become bigger, nor will it let the rest of the countries lose hope. On this day, the alliance test was decided in this way in the frequent nodding of the envoys of various countries.

The person who participated in the deer competition must be the top monk martial artist in a country. However, since the opening of Zhulutai 16 times, three of them have been won by the same loose cultivator, and those 30 years happen to be a rare grand occasion of cultivation in several small countries. However, it is still invincible to the rootless duckweed-like scattered cultivation, and several small countries first focused on wooing, following the good temptation, but they did not have the law and did not see results. In the end, I couldn't bear it anymore, and on the eve of the opening of the fourth Zhulutai stage, the monarchs of several small countries and the monks in the United Nations instigated the assassination of the rainy night that shocked the Tianshui Continent!

Crying on a bloody rainy day, after one night, the monks of the seven realms in the world, eight out of ten, not to mention the blood-stained green mountains, several small countries are even more broken muscles and bones, and the martial arts inheritance within a country is almost severe. For a whole year, he was not able to recover from the night rain.

Today, on the state mountain road, there is a water pavilion, in the pavilion is a woman with clear eyebrows and beautiful eyes, sitting in her arms to hold a scholar lying in front of her, the appearance of a teenager. The blood on the clothes of the two has long since dried up, and under closer inspection, it is like a manzhu sawa blooming in the meantime. After the night rain on the mountain road in the state, for more than 100 years, every time on the eve of the deer platform, there will be countless scattered cultivators from all over the Tianshui Continent to come to mourn.

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Today's Lijiabao is particularly lively, just because today is the only time in a year that Chinese and foreign disciples can enter the inner gate.

Naturally, these outer disciples did not enter the inner gate to learn and cultivate, but participated in the annual crown ceremony with the young people in the castle.

There is an insurmountable gap for those who practice in the Tianshui Continent: before the age of twenty, if they still fail to give birth to a divine soul, that is, the so-called first realm of cultivation: going up to a tall building, then there will basically be no possibility of cultivation in this life. And the crown ceremony is just an ordinary crown ceremony for ordinary people, but for the cultivators, there is one more step: measuring the gods. There are a certain number of god-measuring stones distributed throughout the Tianshui Continent, which is convenient for various countries to count and compile monks and martial artists, and Lijiabao happens to be the location of the rare god-measuring stones in the upper reaches of the Baishui River, which can select and test talents by themselves.

If those outer disciples can measure the divine soul, it will be tantamount to a fish leaping into the dragon gate, and they will not only be able to enter the inner gate to study after that. What's more, he can become a top monk, get rid of his humble birth, and be hired by Li Jiabao as a foreign surname to worship, so as to gain great freedom.

But only God knows how difficult it is for these young girls who have not taken the Divine Refining Pill to cultivate that so-called divine soul by their own talents. Therefore, the probability of this selection is also extremely low, so low that only one outer disciple has entered the inner gate in the past ten years, and he is still the one with the least divine soul among the young people who tested the divine soul in that year's Liguan ceremony.

But how could these teenagers who entered the inner door for the first time take that little chance to heart? It is something that can not be found, it is better to spend their minds on watching the carved beams and paintings of the inner door, and they can go back to brag to those little ones who have never seen the world.

Among this group of playful young people, only one black-robed young man stood out from the crowd, he lowered his eyebrows and bowed his head the whole time, and remained silent. And the people around him also deliberately kept a considerable distance from him, I don't know if they don't want to see him, or they are afraid of him in their hearts.

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A pair of slender hands pressed on a huge stone mountain. Not surprisingly, Shi Shan didn't react, and there were bursts of sighs around him, this girl was the last person in the outer gate to measure the gods today, that is to say, this year's outer door disciples still have no one to stay in this inner gate.

"Outer disciple Zhang Qingqian, the last one, the next one," the examiner in charge of the assessment read out.

A huge stone mountain stands in the center of the central market square of the inner gate of the Li family, and it is the only one of the god-measuring stones within a radius of 100 miles.

Around it, whether it is the servants standing and watching the play, or the outer disciples who participated in the competition, they all have a little sigh in their hearts, as the saying goes, dragons give birth to dragons, phoenixes give birth to phoenixes, if you want to leap into the cold, how light it is to say, but it is cruel and abnormal.

People didn't linger in their grief for long, and there was a commotion in the crowd.

"Look, that's Li Long, the little boy in the fifth master's family. ”

"I heard that he has already gone up to the high-rise building on the spring equinox this year, but I don't know if it's true or not. ”

"Can there be a fake? These young masters have been drinking more medicine since they were children than we have eaten. ”

The crowd was bustling, pointing at the red-clothed young man who was walking up the stone monument.

Suddenly, the young man turned around, walked over to the servant who was talking to him at an unknown point, stood on the high platform and squatted down and said to him: "How much medicine I have taken so far, I can count it, if you can't count how much salt you have eaten today, then I will see how much salt you can spit out from your mouth, if you can't spit it out, it doesn't matter!"

Li Long stood up, shook his red robe and said loudly: "Then fight until you spit it out!"

In a moment, the originally smoky square suddenly fell silent. All the spectators bowed their heads and did not dare to open their voices.

At this time, Li Mo, who had just come back from outside, mixed into the crowd, laughed and scolded in a low voice: "Poof! This Li Long is still not serious, and he has not been beaten, and he still owes a beating!"

Li Mo stood beside his sister Li Qian and a thin young man who was slightly taller than him, the young man smiled slightly, but slowly turned his head to look at a small stilted building with an excellent view on the left side of the square, and Li Mo also looked over with the young man's sight.

"Li Long, I don't think I eat as much salt as the pill you eat, but I can't spit it out, do you want to punch me twice?" Sitting in the stilted building was Li Zhi, the grandson of Master Li Jiabao. He stood up and shook his fan in the plaza below him.

"Second brother, you bully people!"

"Fourth brother isn't bullying anyone?"

Li Long was speechless for a while, and he didn't take advantage of what he said, and he didn't have a bottom when he was beaten.

I had no choice but to wave my robe and walk towards the Divine Monument.

Due to a bad mood, Li Long slapped Shi Shan, and then just wanted to turn around and leave, but found that his palm was tightly attached to Shi Shan, unable to move.

I saw that the stone mountain in front of Li Long exploded, and due to the violent vibration, it shook off a lot of dust accumulated on the stone tablet for ten years, and the dust and mist were filled for a while.

The test tube on the side reminded loudly at this time: "Send the aura in your body a little bit to this Divine Measuring Stone." ”

Li Long hurriedly ran the aura that stayed in the dantian and crossed to the palm of his hand.

Suddenly, as if activated, the stone mountain began to writhe like a human, and finally the dust and mist dissipated. Only then did everyone discover that the stone mountain had been transformed into a humanoid stone sculpture in the shape of a scholar.

A red mark slowly appeared on the navel of the humanoid stone carving, which means qi pregnancy dantian.

"Inner disciple Li Long, the second realm, Mo Pinglan, the next one. The examiner on the side announced expressionlessly.

For the Divine Test Tube that has seen countless talented and handsome people for more than ten years, the twenty-year-old Second Realm is still not too surprised.

Let's just say that on the stilted floors on both sides of the square, the grandson of Zhanglu sitting on the left, Li Zhi, went up to the high-rise building at the age of fifteen. A body of aura quietly flowed, like a river rushing endlessly.

Standing on the stilted building on the right is the grandson of the patriarch, Li Yu, although he is a concubine, but his cultivation talent is still above Li Zhi's line, and he has reached the four realms at the time of the crown ceremony: the clothes are getting wider, the aura is free, and the conceited charm.

But most of the people who watch the play today are servants and outer disciples who have never seen the world, so when they see this scene, they are all surprised and envious. For a while, the cheers were loud, there were the old five families who shouted at their young masters, and there were also outer disciples who were really envious, and some felt that the previous test was too boring, and they wanted to shout twice to help the fun.

The servant who was named by Li Long before was silent in the crowd at this time, and did not leave or speak.

"Inner disciple Li Jie, one realm, go up to a tall building, and the next one. ”

"Inner disciple Li Ling, the second realm, Mo Pinglan, the next one. ”

"Inner disciple Li Lu, one realm, go up to a tall building, and the next one. ”

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The examiner's voice sounded one after another without emotion, and in general, most of the inner disciples were pregnant with their souls and went up to the tall building.

"Sister, it's your turn!" Li Mo said to his half-sister Li Qian beside him, Li Qian buried his head a little embarrassed, and slowly walked out of the crowd.

At the same time, Li Yu, who was standing in the stilted building on the right side of the square, unconsciously took two steps in front of the wooden railing, and looked at Li Qian.

Li Qian walked in front of the examiner, cast a blessing, and then put his palm on the stone mountain, and according to what the examiner said, the aura was crossed.

I saw that the huge stone mountain began to slowly change, and finally turned into a humanoid stone sculpture.

But the stone mountain seemed to show no signs of stopping, and it was still slowly changing in the smoke, and finally turned into a humanoid jade sculpture. Not only that, but everyone also heard the sound of a spring rushing water, and saw that many pathways like human blood vessels appeared in the humanoid jade carving, and out of nowhere, the spiritual qi like a stream of water flowed in these pathways, sending them back and forth.

This was the first time that most of the visitors had seen such a huge humanoid jade sculpture today, so there were many exclamations and gasps in the square.

Some of the people in the crowd who had seen it before shouted, "It's artesian water!"

Suddenly, the square was like a frying pan, you must know that it was forty years ago since Li Jiabao last appeared in the women's three realms at the crown ceremony, but I didn't expect that now, it was actually broken by such a seemingly weak woman.

On the stilted upstairs on the right, Li Yu couldn't hide his smile and looked at the humanoid jade carving in the center of the square. The layman looks at it lively, but he doesn't know that when measuring the divine stone and measuring the artesian flow of water in the three realms, it can completely reproduce and reveal the flow trajectory of a person's aura, so when Li Yu saw that the number of aura flowing around Li Qian's body was the same as his own, he couldn't help but feel a little bit of love for the young man. The scholar beside him stepped forward to flatter: "Sixth girl, the young master has contributed a lot to today's weather." ”

"That's Qian'er's own fate, and it has little to do with me. ”

Li Zhi on the stilts on the left, looking at the proud Li Yu and his gang opposite, couldn't help but be a little angry, but in the blink of an eye, a touch of coldness flashed in his eyes. Then he stood on the fence and congratulated loudly: "Sixth sister is amazing!"

Li Qianyao gave Li Zhi a blessing: "Thank you, second brother." ”

Then he turned to the right and gave a blessing to Li Yu, who was smiling at him.

"Inner disciple Li Qian, three realms, water artesian. Next!" the examiner nodded to Li Qian with a little relief, which was regarded as a congratulatory gesture.

Li Mo had already gone to the square at this time, and Li Qian gently flicked Li Mo's head: "Come on, brother!"

Li Mo smirked, then ran to touch the stone with a smile, and put his palm on the stone mountain.

Half an hour later.

Shishan didn't move, Li Mo touched the rest of Shishan back and forth, but Shishan still didn't feel it.

At this time, there were a lot of boos around, and everyone could see that this young master and the girl before should be out of the same house, so compared with the two, they were full of disappointment.

Li Zhi of the stilted building on the left smiled a little angrily: "The sixth brother is not very good~"

"Inner disciple Li Mo, the last one, the next one. The examiner didn't seem to think of this situation, so he made a little confirmation before announcing it.

Li Mo's hand on the stone mountain also slid down slowly and weakly.