Chapter 9 An Extraordinary Year

"It is indeed a Danshu iron coupon, judging by its appearance, it should be a copper coupon in the Danshu iron coupon. Qiu Boyan in the crowd looked closely at the gilded scroll in the hands of Chief Master Wang and spoke.

"Bronze coupons?!" the congregation was puzzled.

"The so-called Danshu iron coupon was originally a certificate given by the emperors of the past dynasties to the meritorious heroes to enjoy preferential treatment or exemption from crime for generations, and to the fifth emperor of my Great Xia Empire, Emperor Xin began to use it as a holy decree to draw up major edicts, divided into gold, silver, and bronze three coupons, different from ordinary holy decrees, the Danshu iron coupon itself is a magic weapon with spiritual value!" Qiu Boyan explained.

"Dharma weapon!?"

"Hmm. Qiu Boyan nodded, "The Danshu Iron Coupon itself is the words of the emperor, which is already extremely noble, and then the words of the emperor are integrated into the instrument through a powerful caster to form a magic weapon. The Danshu Iron Coupon contains the aura of the emperor, and ordinary people who have no cultivation can touch it, and they may even break their muscles and bones!"

All the teachers were extremely surprised, but they didn't expect to see such magic weapons as Danshu iron coupons in this beginner examination room.

"It's just that I don't know if in previous years it was just a document to be promulgated by the county government, why this year is His Majesty Emperor Xia's Danshu Iron Coupon. Qiu Boyan was also puzzled.

As if feeling the puzzled gaze of everyone, Chief Master Wang on the stage of Xi said: "His Majesty the Xia Emperor has a will......

When the martial arts officers on the sidelines heard this, they all knelt on the ground, and hurriedly waved their hands while kneeling to signal the children in the square to kneel down and receive the order.

A group of children did not know what was happening, only to see their masters all kneeling on the ground, and they all learned to kneel on the ground.

Chief Master Wang put the old man of the flip flops, and after catching a glimpse of everyone kneeling, he said, "Since I ascended the throne, I have followed the holy orders of the emperors of the Great Xia dynasties, governed the country with martial arts, and established martial arts schools throughout the country. Today, in order to commend the martial arts halls, this Danshu iron coupon is hereby awarded to encourage the teachers, and I also hope that the students will compete to increase the number of people in the martial arts of my Great Xia Empire, and I will appreciate this!"

After announcing the Danshu iron coupon, Chief Master Wang carefully rolled it up and put it into the pear wood tray just now, and the two Gongtang masters slowly invited it down.

Chief Master Wang looked at the children in front of him and said, "Today is the day when my Great Xia Empire holds the examination of the First Martial Academy! His Majesty the Xia Emperor is impressed by the achievements of my Great Xia Empire in establishing the Martial Arts Academy, and hereby promulgates this Danshu Iron Coupon to encourage all the Martial Arts Academy, and promulgates gold coupons in the Martial Arts Academy, silver coupons in the Middle School, and bronze coupons in the Junior Academy. Hall Leader Wei specially instructed me to convey Emperor Xia's will to you, hoping that you will calmly cope with the exam and perform well!

The children below didn't know what the Danshu Iron Coupon was, but as the people of the Great Xia Empire, they naturally knew the supreme Emperor of the Great Xia Empire, and they were all excited when they heard this as the Xia Emperor's words of encouragement. Some of their faces were flushed. The little hand squeezed tightly. I'm very encouraged.

The group of military attachés studying next to the square also heard the will of Emperor Xia for the first time, as martial artists with cultivation, they all felt the imperial spirit contained in the Danshu iron coupon, domineering, emperor, and majestic!

"I wonder what level of magic weapon this bronze coupon is?" asked a military attache who studied at Qiu Boyan.

"It should be a magic weapon that belongs to the upper grade of the Yellow Order. In addition, it was created by Emperor Xia Chrysostom Yuyan, and I am afraid that ordinary Xuan-level low-grade artifacts are not comparable to its spiritual power. Qiu Bo said slowly, his words full of praise for the copper coupon.

"Xuanjie inferior grade!" The group of military attachés who studied were really shocked too much today.

Utensils are universal things in the world, from large houses to small farm tools, which can be called tools.

And the weapons that the warriors are talking about are magic weapons and weapons with spiritual value. In the martial arts world, weapons are divided into eight levels from low to high, namely, Yellow, Xuan, Earth, Heaven, Waste, Hong, Celestial, and Universe, and each level is also divided into three grades: lower, middle and higher.

Powerful artifacts are very rare, and in a county like Chuanluo County, the strongest is only a treasure knife of the lower grade of the Xuan Rank held by Wei Yuankun, the head of the Junior Academy, the Ningxia Knife. It was also the martial arts branch of the Lindu County Government that rewarded him for his meritorious service in managing the beginner school. Even if it is only a weapon of the lower grade of the Xuan rank, the value has reached nearly 100,000 gold coins, and even so, no warrior is willing to exchange the weapon of the lower grade of the Xuan rank for gold coins. You must know that powerful weapons can gain more than one and a half stars to a warrior. Some powerful weapons can even turn things around in a decisive battle between a warrior of the same cultivation!

And when it comes to tools, we can't fail to mention the casters who cast the artifacts, and the world also divides the casters into one to nine stars, and the higher the level of the casters, the more powerful the tools cast, and they have become the things that are sought after by warriors. Therefore, it also makes the status of the caster respected, perhaps its own martial arts cultivation is not strong, but because of its talent for casting weapons, the warrior is willing to serve it, so the average warrior will not ask for trouble and find the bad luck of the caster.

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The military attachés who studied the military were impressed by the powerful spiritual value of the Danshu Iron Coupon. Moved by the addition of a volume of yellow-level high-grade magic weapons to the junior school, everyone sincerely sighed at the strength of the resources possessed by the martial arts hall as the martial arts holy land of the Great Xia Empire, and suddenly envied the children who had the opportunity to join the martial arts hall in the square.

"This examination is divided into four exams, and this one is a literary exam, which is called Zhishi. "On the stage, Master Wang entered the topic and said the name of the first assessment, "Knowing the World" is intended to test how much children know about the world before entering the school, and the scope is relatively broad. The so-called "knowing the world and knowing oneself", "knowing the world" is also a discipline that will be in the martial arts academy from beginning to end.

The children below were not surprised, and this was the case with the study of what the Master had learned in the Martial Arts Hall for two years. At that moment, they all placed the inkstone and concentrated on studying the ink.

Lu Chen also moved the inkstone on the sandalwood table to his side, and looked up to find that the brush hanging on the pen holder was actually quite chic, the pen barrel was made of white jade, the sharp nib, the neat lines of the pen bristles, and the round shape of the pen all showed the cost of this kind of brush. Xiao Luchen did not know the origin of this kind of brush, which was produced in the Huxiang region in the middle of the Great Xia Empire, where a variety of brushes were abundant, and it has always been sought after by people who like hair cones. This kind of brush is a famous pen in the Huxiang area, called the white jade glazed pen, which is made of high-quality glazed white jade, although it is not the most expensive local brush, but each one also costs ten gold coins.

Lu Chen naturally didn't know the origin of this money, and after a little amazement, he also began to grind and wait.

"Now start to distribute the test questions, the time limit for the Shishi will exam is two hours, don't make noise, turn heads and ears, and violators will cancel the results of this course. ”

Chief Master Wang admonished and instructed the teachers of each column to distribute the test papers to the candidates. After the distribution is completed, the trial will be announced. Immediately, he let the military attachés on the side follow him out of the square. Only a dozen or so engineers were left to supervise the order of the examination room.....

Looking at the test questions that were handed out, all the children who were still confident were blindfolded and let out a sigh.

"What is this?!" shouted some of the children, puzzled.

"No noise. "One of the hallmasters once again emphasized discipline.

The children had to pick up the pen, but they didn't write for a long time.

At this moment, Lu Chen looked at the white test paper and was a little confused, only to see that the white paper was empty, without any words.

"It's... How to answer!?" Lu Chen was also stunned.

"Master Tang, there is no content on the test paper!" finally a child couldn't help but ask.

"There are no questions in the test paper, answer them quickly, don't make any more noise, and ask questions again. When the two hours came, I consciously put down the brush and handed in the paper. A slightly chubby master said coldly.

The children stopped talking, but all of them frowned, unable to write.

The chief master Wang led the study military attaches out of the square, and when he arrived at the corridor in front of the hall, he smiled at the study military attaches and said, "Do you know what the topic of this year's knowledge of the world is?"

Hearing this, all the study military attachés were stunned, the knowledge of the world in previous years was nothing more than a few basic questions, some were to identify the names of several common beasts depicted on the test papers, and some questions were to require candidates to write the names of the basic moves of martial arts, etc., all of which were the knowledge learned in the usual study classes, and for all children who listened carefully, they were not difficult topics, so the Xi officials were also surprised by the questions raised by Chief Master Wang, could it be that this year is different?

At that moment, they also bowed their hands and said: "Please teach Master Wang." ”

"This year's exam questions are a blank slate. Master Wang said slowly.

"A blank piece of paper!?" all the military attachés were stunned.

Chief Master Wang no longer paid attention to the surprised crowd, and walked straight to the junior high school with an intriguing smile on his face.

"Isn't this a pit man?" Guan Quan couldn't help it at first, thinking of how his students should answer when they looked at a blank test paper, and he was not angry at the moment.

Alas, everyone shook their heads and walked towards the area where they were resting and waiting, and even the usually talkative Anle Festival frowned and said nothing at this time.

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in the exam room.

The children scratched their ears and cheeks, but still couldn't put pen to paper.

Time passed little by little, and finally someone lifted the pen, and then all the children started to write. It's better to write something than nothing, right?

Lu Chen had been pondering, and at this time, when he saw the big guys, he started to write, and when he looked up, he saw that Yuan Lai, who was not far away, also started to write. I was nervous at the moment, and I hurriedly picked up the pen.

Lu Chen, who was thinking about it, only felt that his head was getting more and more painful, and suddenly, a dry old man's face appeared in his mind, Lu Chen's face froze, and he slowly wrote a paragraph on the test paper:

The way of martial arts lies in the way, the way itself, strict with oneself, and cultivating one's body; if you want to become a martial art, you must first cultivate its way.

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