Although it is unlikely that the people of the Tang Kingdom will make trouble in front of the mountain gate of Zixiao Palace, the relationship between Qin and Tang is not good, and the spirit riding incident has happened recently, and the relationship between the two countries has fallen to the freezing point. The pen %fun %pavilion www.biquge.info encountering Tang State personnel at this time, it is appropriate to be careful.

General Lang didn't react much when he heard that it was the Tang people's team coming, but he just asked the students to gather together quickly and not to disperse too much.

The Tang people at the other end soon discovered the Qin people on this side, but there were no people with particularly good eyesight on their side, so they didn't find out that this was the Qin people for a while, and they were still amazed by the stone statues around them.

Seeing that the other side didn't mean to come over immediately, General Lang didn't plan to make trouble, so he turned his head and shouted to the students who had already gathered: "The selection and assessment will be held soon, and it is better not to make extraneous branches at this time, in case it affects your results, the gains outweigh the losses." Now let's hurry up the mountain. ”

"What General Lang said is that we should hurry up, not because we are afraid of them, but at this time, more things are better than less. ”

"Yes, yes, the general is right. ”

“......”

There was a chorus of echoes around everyone, and everyone began to turn around and walk towards the mountain gate, but Tianyou was a little confused.

In addition to the eighteen colossal statues, there is only one huge archway left in this mountain gate of Zixiao Palace. The archway built by the boulder is large-scale, even the eighteen colossal statues can also enter in pairs and twos, but the structure of such a large archway is unusually simple, except for some moire reliefs, the rest is only the three big characters of "Zixiao Palace" carved in stone on the archway.

Standing outside this empty archway, you can see the dense forest stretching behind, but further up it is empty, and there is nothing but the sky.

Tianyou looked at the archway suspiciously, a little stunned. I didn't pay attention to the stone statues when I was looking at them before, but now I want to go up the mountain only to find that the mountain is gone.

"Isn't Zixiao Palace on the mountain?"

Guan Qingye, who was walking beside Tianyou, was also suddenly stunned, "That's right, what about the mountains? Although these trees are tall, they won't cover the mountains, right?"

The two were still stunned, and the person in front had already walked under the archway, and then the two of them heard an exclamation at the same time. Looking down at the bottom of the archway, I saw that many people stopped in front of the archway and did not dare to move forward, and some people even retreated again and again, as if they had encountered something terrible.

It looked like something was wrong, but Tenyou and Aoba weren't in a hurry, because they also found some people standing by the torii and laughing, and these people were all people who had participated in the selection before and were eliminated. They've been here at least once, so they know a bit about the situation. Being able to laugh shows that they know what's going on and that it shouldn't be dangerous.

When the two of them walked over, the laughing people had already laughed at the others, and then turned and stepped behind the torii, and the moment they passed under the torii, these people suddenly disappeared from everyone's sight.

Now Tianyou and Guan Qingye finally understand why someone exclaimed before, it turned out that it was because someone had disappeared. The two of them were about to say something, when one of the disappeared people suddenly stretched out a head and half of his shoulder out of thin air and beckoned to everyone. "Don't be in a daze, keep up, it's just a phantom array. ”

As soon as this man explained, and the actions he had just made, the others immediately understood, so they all shouted for the pain of the people who were joking with them, and then scrambled into the phantom array.

General Lang and the escort sergeants obviously knew about this, but it seemed that they had deliberately not said it before, probably thinking that they could relax by having fun here.

Seeing that everyone walked past the archway and disappeared, Tianyou and Guan Qingye glanced at each other, and then hurriedly walked over.

Tianyou's invincible spiritual vision ability seemed to be out of order here, and he couldn't see what the phantom array was generated by at all, as if it was a projection, and there was not the slightest fluctuation of aura with Ben. However, the moment Tianyou walked through the archway, he suddenly felt a trace of aura again. This aura was released by something on the back of the archway, but instead of persisting, it only appeared for a moment.

The aura settled down immediately after it appeared, and then, like a living thing, it divided into many strands, each finding a target and flying over. Tianyou thought that this was some kind of attack spell, and dodged it for a while, but in the end, the aura didn't touch him, but just formed a small aura cloud above everyone's heads, and then just levitated above everyone's heads.

was in doubt, but Tianyou found that everyone around him was not moving, and he was stunned for a moment before he noticed that everyone was looking up at the front at a forty-five degree angle.

If you follow everyone's line of sight, you can immediately discover the real world hidden by the archway.

Behind the archway is indeed a dense mountain forest, but unlike what you see from the outside, there is a winding mountain road that gradually rises in front of you, not a straight road deep into the dense forest. The trail turns two corners and is hidden by the forest, but the majestic mountains in front of you are still clearly visible. The slope at the foot of the mountain is quite gentle, but the farther place is obviously much steeper, and the main peak hidden between the clouds and mist in the distance is like the Qin Tian jade pillar standing between heaven and earth, and it is impossible to see how high the heel above the clouds is.

"It's so high!"

"It's huge!"

"It's spectacular!"

"Don't be good, your test has begun, if you don't want to be eliminated, follow me and get ready to go. As he spoke, General Lang had already come to the front of the line. "Everybody don't fall behind, don't run ahead of me, that's the only test I can help with. ”

The students were very puzzled about what they were doing, but General Lang asked everyone to run first, and everyone had no choice but to follow him. However, General Lang didn't really run away, he was still explaining to everyone while running.

It turned out that this was the first test question of Zixiao Palace-endurance test.

All students who should be selected will start the timer from the moment they cross the mountain gate, and they must arrive at the reception desk halfway up the mountain within the specified time, and those who arrive late will be disqualified from the selection and will be driven directly down the mountain.

"It turns out that there is still a timer!" a student asked worriedly, "Do we need to be faster, will jogging be eliminated in this way?"

The speed of the team's progress is actually not fast, General Lang is not running at all, but the pace is very fast, not to mention that these students are all quasi-cultivators, even ordinary people can easily keep up.

General Lang probably has to explain this question once a year, so he explained all the questions that everyone would ask at once, without asking them in turn.

General Luang took the lead because he knew the distance and time requirements and could control the pace precisely. As for running wild as soon as you don't come up, this is a matter of strategy for running mountain roads. Just like you can't run wild in a marathon, you should always pay attention to your physical strength when running a mountain road, so that you can run your best results. This truth is very clear, but in addition to him and Dashan, the others present are either the children of powerful people or farmers, and some are from merchant families, and they have never run the mountain road anyway, so they don't know about it. However, with General Lang leading the way, everything is not a problem. Just keep up and don't fall behind.

Regarding the timing, General Lang also took the initiative to explain.

It is true that no one at the entrance of the mountain gate has registered the time, but when everyone passes through the archway, they will be marked by a special aura, which is the aura cloud that Tianyou found flying above everyone's heads before.

General Lang could not see these aura clouds like Tianyou, but he could feel some kind of magic attached to his body. After the spell is completed, it begins to dissipate continuously, and the speed of dissipation is fixed, which forms a timekeeping tool, and it is a countdown. Zixiao Palace only needs to check whether the arriving students are still marked, and they will know whether the other party is qualified.

It's simple, it's effective. There is no need to arrange people to be on duty at the bottom of the mountain, nor do you need to gather people to keep a unified timer, everyone will only be marked at the moment of stepping into the mountain gate, and the timekeeping will also start at that time, which means that everyone has their own exclusive timer. Of course, if you can really use the clouds as a timer, only cultivators above the Dust Realm can do it, because cultivators below the Dust Realm, including the Dust Realm, have no spiritual sense and cannot feel the aura, so naturally they can't pinch the time according to the stock of the clouds.

In fact, General Lang couldn't use this cloud to time, because although he had crossed the Dust Realm, his sense of aura was still not very accurate, and what could lead everyone was experience.

General Youlang led the way, and everyone's physical strength was maintained very well, and they arrived at a large complex halfway up the mountain. However, although it has arrived, the state of everyone is different. Like Tianyou and Dashan, their faces are not red and breathless, and when they arrive at the reception, they still have the heart to look around and see the excitement. Like the green leaves, the personal strength is higher, so the physical fitness is also better, although a little wheezing, but quite calm. As for the rest, most of them stuck out their tongues and gasped there regardless of their image, and although no one fainted, they were all at their limit.

In an hour and a half, he ran nearly 160 miles of mountain roads, and the vertical drop was as high as 800 meters. This result can easily break the marathon record on Earth in the previous life. This shows how strong the physical fitness of these cultivators is, you must know that these people are not like marathon runners who travel lightly, they not only have bags, but also carry weapons, and the most important thing is that this is a mountain road, not a flat land, and the physical energy consumption is much greater than that of a marathon on a flat road.

"Hurry up, don't be busy resting, go over there. You're still in the clock. As soon as General Lang came up, he urged everyone to hurry into the building on the hillside in front of him.

The crowd, who was already too tired to move, heard this and hurriedly began to run, but Tianyou was in a posture of coming to travel, and walked forward while looking around curiously. He could see that there was at least a third of the cloud left above everyone's heads, and there was more than enough time, so there was no need to rush with Ben.

In front of the reception area halfway up the mountain, there is also a bluestone-paved square, with three statues of strange beasts standing on each side, but the height is only a little more than a zhang, which is not as shocking as the eighteen statues under the mountain.

The crowd climbed up the bluestone stairs on the left side of the square, and on the left hand side was a slope of nearly 70 degrees, and they could vaguely see the villages and towns below the mountain in the distance, but they didn't know if it was the one they stayed in last night.

On the opposite side of the square, there is also a mountain road corresponding to the one that everyone came up, but when everyone went up the mountain, they didn't see a fork in the road, and they didn't know where it led.

The building that General Lang pointed out to everyone was on everyone's right, directly behind the square. The building is very tall, looking like a large complex of buildings, but only the front row can be seen, and only some of the raised roofs in the back can be seen.

The main door of the main hall in front was open, but there was no one to see at the door, and everyone didn't care whether there was anyone to receive them or not.

Tianyou, who was strolling around at the end, was able to take a good look at the building, and he found that the building was actually exuding a very special aura.

Just as the light seen by the human eye has a color, there are various differences in the aura that Tianyou feels. However, unlike some people who have a preference for color, Tianyou likes different auras at first sight.

The aura in nature is like air to Tianyou, there is no special feeling, but just like people will suffocate without air, Tianyou will be very uncomfortable without aura.

Demonic power is different from natural aura, and the feeling of giving Tianyou is like the aroma of delicious food, which makes him always want to keep it for himself.

This building exudes a third type of aura, which gives Tianyou the feeling of being like a cool breeze blowing on the surface of a summer lake, with a hint of coolness, and a faint fragrance of flowers, which makes people feel refreshed and feel that the speed of thinking has become faster.

This strange aura made Tianyou feel comfortable all over his body, and his pace couldn't help but speed up a little, but when he walked near the building, he suddenly found that the first person to enter the gate, the cloud above his head was suddenly absorbed. Tianyou could see it clearly, not slowly dissipating, but suddenly being absorbed by an invisible barrier at the door.

This discovery surprised Tianyou, and he was about to stop everyone from continuing to enter, when he happened to hear General Lang say next to him: "Hurry up and go in." The spell on your body is a pass through this gate, and once the spell dissipates, you can only stop there. ”

After hearing this, Tianyou suddenly realized. The first test of this Zixiao Palace is actually fully automatic and unmanned. When students enter the mountain gate, they will be attached to a spell, and there is an enchantment on this second gate, and the bundle method attached to the mountain gate archway is the key to the enchantment. If the student is too slow, the key will disappear, and then he will not be able to enter the second door, and he will not even be eligible to register. It's good that they are like God bless them to break through the level collectively, someone leads the rhythm, and those who are left alone are miserable, the first time they come to it, they don't even know the rules, and they wander all the way up the mountain to find that they have been eliminated.

Everyone entered the main hall one after another, and Tianyou was no exception, even General Lang and those escort sergeants followed.

When he entered the door, Tianyou found that it was not that there was no one to receive him, but that the person was standing behind the door and could not be seen from the outside.

This is a middle-aged man dressed as a Taoist priest, who doesn't feel like a cultivator, but like an ordinary person. Seeing everyone coming in, he didn't mean the slightest arrogance, but whispered like a shopkeeper to tell everyone to bypass the statue in the center of the main hall, and then go out through the back door, and the real registration was in the back.

God bless them, they didn't know what the identity of this person was, but they were quite polite, but those old students ignored this person and went over directly.

Bypassing the unknown statue in the middle of the main hall, you will find a small square after exiting through the back door. It's much livelier here than in the main hall.

I saw that the small square was already crowded with no less than 500 people at this time, and the bustle was a little noisy, which was the result of everyone deliberately lowering the volume.

There was a side hall on the left and right sides of the square, and the doors were closed, but the steps outside were full of resting people. In the center of the square is a huge pine tree, planted in an octagonal flower bed. At this time, there was also a circle of people sitting by the flower bed, and there were many people sitting or standing on the ground around them, and some people had even taken out dry food to eat and drink.

On the opposite side of the square, twelve tables were lined up in front of a large hall built on a high pedestal, and behind each table sat a person, and a wooden sign with different items written in red pen on the side of the table, and in front of the table there were many people waiting in line. Tianyou almost thought that he was back at the college job fair, this posture is just a dime!

General Lang reminded everyone not to run away, and they all gathered together, and then followed him towards the steps. Tianyou found that there were still many people dressed as Taoist priests shuttling back and forth, holding food and teapots in their hands, which seemed to be specially prepared for the people in the square.

"These ...... Is it someone from Zixiao Palace?" Tianyou couldn't help but ask General Lang.

General Lang glanced at it and understood what Tianyou was wondering about. "Oh, they are the miscellaneous servants of Zixiao Palace, and they are the students who failed the assessment. ”

"Trainees who don't pass?"

"Yes. If you don't pass the assessment, you can actually stay. If you have money, you can pay it, and if you don't have money, you can turn it into a handyman. ”

"Isn't that okay for everyone to learn?" Dashan also heard General Lang's explanation and looked at him in surprise. Before, he was still suffering from gains and losses, and he was afraid that he would not be selected, but he didn't expect that everyone could stay, but those who passed the assessment could become official disciples, and those who did not pass would be turned into miscellaneous servants.

Guan Qingye said beside him: "What do you think? Even if you don't pass, you must meet certain standards before you are allowed to stay. Those who pay money will become official disciples, and those who don't have money will become miscellaneous servants. However, after becoming a handyman, there is no one to teach, and the cultivation resources will not be allocated, and the prescribed work must be completed every day. After you have some free time, you can find a way to audit on your own, or learn something like fur from a formal disciple you know well. This is not stealing, and the sect will not care, but how much you can learn depends on your ability. However, the fact that he became a handyman himself means that his qualifications are not good, and there is no special teacher to guide him, and there are no resources such as spirit stones, and he still has to work most of the time every day, so it is really difficult to say how much he can learn. ”

Dashan felt uncomfortable when he heard this, and he was afraid that he would be beaten back to his original form if he didn't choose. He is a hunter from the mountains, and his quality of life and knowledge can be said to be constantly rising during the period of becoming a quasi-cultivator, and all this is because he has the qualifications to join Zixiao Palace, once he is brushed down, he is likely to change from a white swan back to an ugly duckling, so he always suffers from gains and losses, and sometimes even seems a little small-bellied.

After General Lang led everyone up the stairs, some people wanted to line up, but they were directly pulled back by the old students. General Lang in front of him took them without looking back, directly bypassing the row of tables in front, and then entered the main hall behind.

This hall is much larger than the front hall, but it is very strange inside. There are a large number of statues of gods on both sides of the main hall, but they are all miniature sizes of more than a foot high, densely packed together, and there are not one or two thousand of them at a glance.

In the middle of the main hall there is a Dharma platform, which is the same as the front hall, but there is a statue of a god standing on this Dharma platform in the front hall, but the Dharma platform here is empty, and there is nothing on it. There is a shadow wall behind the altar, which is not found in the front hall. On both sides of the shadow wall, there is a rune written in a small seal, extending from the top of the shadow wall to the bottom, densely packed, and the number of words is quite a lot. And in the center of the shadow wall, there is only one word, a huge and incomparably large word for "earth".

Everyone else just glanced at the word on the ground and went to observe the idols on both sides, but Tianyou kept staring at that word, because Tianyou finally found out that the illusion barrier under the mountain actually extended from here. In the eyes of Tianyou, the huge word "earth" is suspended there like a small sun, constantly emitting terrifying aura radiation to the surroundings, and in the surrounding air, there is also a large amount of aura in the autonomous convergence into the word "earth", one in and one out just to achieve a balance.

This is a fucking array eye! Zixiao Palace actually placed the phantom array eye used to guard the mountain so close to the periphery, is it fearless or something else?

Tianyou is still thinking, but General Lang has already found the right registration position.

Of course, this hall is not empty, and there are many people in it who are in charge of signing up for reception. Just like outside, the people sitting behind the table are all young or middle-aged people in different costumes, and they should all be formal disciples.

General Lang took a stack of invitation-like things directly from the sergeant, and then distributed them to the various desks with the sergeant, seemingly with no purpose, just evenly separated.

After sending it, General Lang said loudly to everyone: "When you hear your name called, just go and report it." I couldn't help much after that. We'll wait in the square outside for the eliminated people to leave, but hopefully none of you come out, I don't want to see you. ”

Everyone knows that General Lang is blessing everyone, and going back with him means that he has been eliminated, and those who are qualified will stay directly, and he doesn't want to see everyone, which means that he doesn't want everyone to be eliminated.

After saying hello, General Lang and a few sergeants walked out, and the official registration on their side began.

An older disciple standing aside read the note again, and then the people behind each table began to roll call, and those who had been ordered went to the table where they were called.

The things like the greetings sent by General Lang seem to have recorded their details, so the person on the other side doesn't need to ask any questions, just check the name is correct, and then don't know what to write on the mountain and it's over, which is very efficient.

"God forbid. One of the tables suddenly shouted.

Because of the previous precedent, Tianyou immediately ran over, but before he reached the table, he suddenly saw a horse-faced young man at the next table stretching out his head and shouting at the young man behind the table: "Senior Brother Wang, I suddenly forgot a word, can you come and help me." ”

"I won't teach you what words. ”

The young man sandwiched between the two tables enthusiastically stretched out his head to help, but was pushed back by the horse-faced young man when he didn't want to.

"Pull it down, do you recognize all the words? Senior Brother Wang, come on. Saying that, the horse's face began to shout God bless the young man at this table again.

The young man here originally planned to finish Tianyou and then go over, because this was the last book in his hand. But there was a hurry, and he thought about it and stood up.

"Come on, come on, what words can't be written?"

The Shenzhou Continent is different from the world before Tianyou crosses, the popularization rate of basic education here is extremely low, and more than eighty percent of the people are illiterate, so all sects and factions have to teach literacy part-time, after all, the exercises and cultivation experiences are all written down, and there is no way to practice if you don't know how to read. If you want to learn talismans and utensils, you need to recognize words, and not only to learn the general characters, that is, traditional characters, but also to learn seal characters, because the talismans and inscriptions and even the formation are written in small seals.

After the young man on Tianyou's side passed, the horse-faced young man suddenly said after asking two words: "Oh, this person has too many things to record, and I don't recognize all the words." Senior Brother Wang, let's change the two of us. You can do it for me, and I'll go to you. It's the last person anyway. ”

Senior Brother Wang agreed after a little hesitation, and then the horse-faced young man ran to Tianyou's side and sat down, and smiled at Tianyou when he was done. "Little brother, bear with me, I'm delaying your time. ”

Originally, it was only two sentences of time, of course Tianyou would not care, and after a few polite sentences, the other party began to handle Tianyou's registration qualifications, and after a few simple sketches, he looked up and said: "It's done, wait for someone to take you to participate in the assessment later." ”

After thanking them, they waited on the side like the others, and soon a few handymen came from outside and took away all the things that Godbless them had to worship, while the other handymen guided them out from behind.

When God blessed them to go out, the horse face suddenly stood up and said to the middle-aged man who had been idle before: "Senior brother, I'll go and make it convenient for me, take care of me for a while." ”

"Go ahead, I'll watch it for you. At this time, just after finishing a wave, it is equivalent to being idle, and the man readily agreed.

The horse-faced ran out of the side door quickly, but instead of going to the hut, he turned around to a side hall outside the courtyard.

"Senior Brother Lu, Senior Brother Lu. ”

"Shhhh A hand suddenly reached out of the shadows and pulled the horse's face into a nearby room.

"Why did you run out?"

Ma Mian said excitedly: "Senior Brother Lu, I saw the God you said." ”

"Did you see him......?

"Don't worry, Senior Brother Lu, that Tianyou happened to be in the hands of Senior Brother Wang, I found an excuse to switch positions with Senior Brother Wang, and I didn't write any of his plus points. ”

"Well, that's good. Hahahaha, God bless, I see how you can join my Zixiao Palace this time. The man in the shadows smirked wickedly.

A flattering smile appeared on the face of the horse and asked, "Then, Senior Brother Lu......"

Lu Zhengyi glanced at the music style, and said in a good mood: "Don't worry, I, Lu Zhengyi, will do what I say." I'll add a place for you next time the crape myrtle cave opens again. ”

"Then thank you, Senior Brother Lu. After Qu Feng finished speaking, he said: "I escaped by urine, and I have to go back quickly, so as not to be suspicious of others." ”

"Well, okay, there you go. ”

At this time, Tianyou, who was waiting in line to participate in the selection assessment, didn't know that the extra points that Ying Ying helped him win didn't fill in any points because of Lu Zhengyi, and he could be selected as long as the assessment results were not too bad, but now he had to fight hard with others. Moreover, Lu Zhengyi's revenge is not so simple. (To be continued.) )