The morning light shone on Chaosi Lane, with a touch of morning sun into the small courtyard, Li Mengzhou got up, began to wash briefly, and also found a new dress from the package to change, although they were all worn, but after all, they were washed and considered new clothes.

Pushing open the courtyard door, Li Mengzhou kept yawning, rubbing his eyes a little astringent, obviously he didn't sleep well last night, and he still had a pair of dark circles under his eyes, although his complexion was not white, but the dark circles were still obvious.

The topography outside the city of Langya, by the southeast and northwest four city gates open out of the official road, leading to the states and counties, outside the west of the city is the Tianhe, the tributaries of the Tianhe River crisscross, straight to the west of the Jiang country, there are forest sources, there are countless mountains.

The Xingguan of the Xingxing Mansion is in the inner city of Langya, and the Pear Flower Academy is also in the inner city of Langya, but it takes over the back mountain in the north of Langya City, and the Buluo Mountain and the Ligong Sword Courtyard are located on the two hills outside Langya City.

The mountain does not fall more than ten miles away outside the east city gate, and the palace sword courtyard is in the south city, that is, the main gate of the capital city obliquely outward more than ten miles, its terrain is slightly higher, and many of the areas are depressions left by the years.

The mountain where the Imperial Palace Sword Temple is located does not have a name, and it is directly called the Imperial Palace Mountain Gate, which may have had a name before, but after the Imperial Palace was erected here, this mountain represents the Imperial Palace.

There are many carriages parked at the south city gate, which is a carriage specially arranged for young people to enter the mountain in the court, and all the teenagers who want to be admitted to the mountain gate of the palace need to meet at the south city gate.

For individual reasons, he can also rent a separate carriage to go to the palace, Li Mengzhou has no silver on him, he can only follow the large army.

The snow on the mountain has not melted, the mountain road is difficult to walk, and there will inevitably be wet or muddy areas on the ground, and nearly dozens of horse-drawn carriages will fill the official road, and I don't know how many horses' hooves are kicking the snow in annoyance.

Except for the separately rented carriages, each carriage can seat about four or five people, Li Mengzhou was reluctant to squeeze into a carriage with people, so he discussed with the palace guards who followed, borrowed a horse, and planned to ride the horse uphill.

Regardless of whether these people can enter the palace or not, they are the ones who want to enter the mountain after all, and no one can guarantee which one will become a disciple of the palace, so the accompanying guards did not refuse Li Mengzhou.

Even if ordinary young people are from nobles, in fact, these guards will not take it seriously, but if the young people are cultivators, or even enter the palace sword academy, it is not something that these guards can easily offend, as long as it is not too demanding, most of them will agree.

In the capital of Jiang Guo, candidates have always been more important than officials, and more important than those wealthy businessmen who have wealth and power, although this seems incredible to outsiders, but it is also an indisputable fact.

Most of the candidates are teenagers, teenagers represent the future of the entire Jiang Kingdom, and in places like being admitted to the Imperial Palace and the Academy, the identity of the teenager will also rise with the tide, just like Shen Qiubai, who is known as the first young cultivator in the Jiang Kingdom, in addition to his own honor and identity as a disciple of the Star Picking Mansion, the height he stands on is far higher than that of many officials in the court.

Except for the emperor and a few high-ranking and powerful old ministers, Shen Qiubai could not be courteous when he entered the court, but those officials also gave Shen Qiubai a courtesy.

Of course, these candidates who have not yet been named cannot be compared with Shen Qiubai, but no one can guarantee that there will be a second Shen Qiubai among these teenagers, and Jiang Guo is the most important talent, whether they can enter the mountain gate or the academy or not, in the process of taking the exam, or even when they have not taken the exam, their identities are different from ordinary people.

This is the preferential treatment given to these candidates by Jiang Guochaotang, and it is also to encourage them to get a good score in the exam.

Although Jiang Guo is the current dynasty of Confucianism, Confucianism is also one of the three types of orthodox monks in the world, and the status of practitioners is naturally very high, and the status of cultivators who have studied and are literate is naturally higher.

Along the gradually climbing mountain road, after several hours of bumps, countless carriages left the south city gate and arrived within the range of the mountain gate of the palace.

Seeing the white mist of the high mountains, there are always several white clouds covering most of the area, and in the white clouds fluttering, occasionally a large area of the temple is revealed, which is extraordinarily immortal.

Li Mengzhou rode forward, looking at the cultivation place in front of him, and his eyes couldn't help revealing a strong color.

The carriage did not continue up the mountain, and the guards only accompanied the candidates to the palace range, and to reach the examination site, the candidates needed to walk there, which was also part of the palace examination.

The guards would wait in place, and if any of the eliminated people descended the mountain, they would naturally take them back to the capital.

Although the Palace Sword Academy is not a top-notch cultivation sect in the entire Jiang Kingdom, and because of the withering of sword cultivation, the situation of the Palace may fall into the most gloomy ending at any time, but even so, the Palace Sword Academy still exists in Jiang Country after all, and it is also a top three cultivation mountain gate in the capital city of Langya, and such a cultivation place is not something that anyone can enter.

Among the nearly 100 young people, it is inevitable that there will be people who are worried about not being able to leave the palace.

Compared with the grand occasion of the enrollment of Ewha Academy, the opening of the mountain gate of the palace only attracted less than 100 people, which is already a very poor situation, but it will not affect the competitiveness of the mountain gate assessment at all.

Bidding farewell to the accompanying guards, nearly a hundred young people began to hike the mountain.

The trail is not winding, but it is muddy, and most people walk a little cautiously because they walk through the snow to avoid mud on the soles of their boots.

Li Mengzhou was dressed in black, not only was he inferior in appearance, but his hands were empty, and he walked with a fast pace.

Li Mengzhou naturally did not hold the Pu knife that was broken last night to verify the defensive power of the black silkworm armor, and he did not find a craftsman to forge a Pu knife again.

What he wants to be admitted to is the Sword Cultivation Mountain Gate, and holding a Pu knife certainly doesn't seem like that.

And he is actually not good at making knives, Pu Dao is just used by him to cut grass and chop meat, killing and killing people by the way, the skills he practiced are not much related to knives, only because of the need for weapons, he chose the most common Pu knife in Shuning Town.

Most of the young people who traveled with him were very particular about dressing, obviously not from poor families, wearing brocade clothes, wearing silver crowns on their heads, or holding folding fans, or carrying long swords, and some even had slaves to follow and serve, as if they were nobles in the capital or the children of powerful people from other places.

These candidates are boys, and there are only a dozen girls, Li Mengzhou looked at them casually, most of them looked good, fair complexion, or small and exquisite, or heroic, and obviously they all had an identity.

No one paid special attention to Li Mengzhou, and Li Mengzhou walked alone at the end, and he couldn't find him if he didn't look back.

Walking side by side in front were two young men of about sixteen or seventeen years old, one in a white robe and the other in a green robe, looking at the surrounding mountain scenery, and from time to time they would look back.

The white-robed young man's face was immature, but he showed a very strong look of pride, and he said to the green-robed young man beside him: "Brother Zhou, there seems to be no one worth paying attention to when the gate of the palace is wide open this year. ”

The young man in the green robe didn't seem to agree with the young man in the white robe, he looked sideways at the people around him, and said: "Do you see the person with the folding fan in his hand, that is the young master of the Zheng family in Youzhou, it is said that it is a martial arts family, although martial arts and cultivation are two worlds, but his hands and feet are not simple."

Before we fail to become cultivators, we must not offend him, and this young master of the Zheng family is also one of the biggest obstacles to our trip. The person behind him is the He family in the capital, the He family is a famous family, and there is no shortage of ancestors who have entered the court as officials, but it is a pity that the younger generation of the He family is not angry, and there are no commendable characters.

It is said that at the age of ten, he was able to visualize the aura of heaven and earth, and now he is only fourteen years old, he has been baptized by Amaterasu, although he has not been able to directly enter the realm of travel, but compared with those who only visualize the aura of heaven and earth, and have not even entered the visualization stage, he is definitely the most likely candidate to be admitted to the palace.

and Shen Jiyue, the eldest lady of the Shen family who covered the sky in Tongzhou, is said to have been baptized by Amaterasu, and it is only a matter of time before she enters the realm of Yuanyou. All three of them have the qualifications to be our opponents and will need to be focused on. ”