Concentrating on reading in the library and enduring the temptation of sleepy insects at night to meditate and practice, Lu Beichen's life during these days was as simple as being in the mountains, as if he had really returned to the time when he was studying in the academy.

The first level of the national examination is the literary examination.

Although the proportion of the literary test score is not high, this also determines whether you can enter the martial arts test to a certain extent.

According to the requirements of the syllabus, the scope of the examination is mainly to practice common sense, and occasionally there are some deviations. The key questions will focus on how the human race completes the cultivation path, and sometimes they will turn around and examine the cultivation of other races, and at the same time, they will also examine the kendo, magic weapons, fist techniques, bows and arrows, pills, etc.

If you can't even comprehend these things, and you can't even get sixty percent of the scores, then the examiner won't pay attention to you because you are not paying attention or because of other reasons, and will always think that you have no chance to do the road, and uniformly brush off the qualifications for the martial arts examination - if you don't understand common sense, how can you be expected to go far on this road?

In short, the significance of the literary examination is not to select the reading elite, but to screen out those students who have no chance or no intention.

This year's cultural examination is still held in Jingzhuyuan, and in the early morning, some small vendors have gathered. Among them, there are those who sell fruits and melons, some who sell all kinds of refreshments, and some who sell sugar gourds and the like. As for the vendors who sell kites, paper-cuts and other gadgets on weekdays, they will also sell food and drink during the days of the national test.

It has to be said that the reason why the Holy Capital is prosperous in the entire continent is due to these small traders, in addition to its location in the center of the continent.

The national test has a history of several years, and after living here for a long time, I am familiar with the rules here - people around the Holy Capital will come to join in the fun, and even the Spirit Clan, which is adjacent to the Middle-earth continent in the West Sea, will come here from thousands of miles away.

Over time, this has become a way for some ordinary people in the holy capital to make a living, and it has also created a scenery during the national examination.

There are a lot of students taking the exam, and the quiet environment in Jingzhu Garden is a huge contrast to the noisy crowd outside the garden. There is nothing special inside, except for the door that separates the inside and outside of the garden, which is specially designed at first glance.

The gate is a stone gate, which is said to have been built of the finest soundproof stone. The reason why the imperial court is willing to spend a huge amount of money on the two doors is because this is where the disciples of the Holy Capital studied in their childhood. The world has long attached importance to the cultivation of people in reading, and only with reading can they cultivate themselves, and only with cultivation can they cultivate the Tao, and only those who have become talented can become real pillars of talent, rather than peerless and intelligent black sheep.

There are a lot of good-looking bamboos in Jingzhu Garden, with unique shapes and quite a charm. Legend has it that this was originally a small bamboo forest, and later the time passed, although the small bamboo forest has been transformed into a place for reading and writing, but most of the bamboo forest is still preserved, and Jingzhuyuan is also named after these beautiful bamboos.

In the faint morning light, there is still half an hour before the official start of the literary test. The examiners of each compartment have already taken their places, and there are more than 100 compartments in Jingzhu Garden, so there are about 20 people in one compartment.

Students who take the exam go to different booths according to the examiner's arrangement. As soon as the stone gate is closed, the inside and outside of the garden are like two worlds.

The parents who accompanied the teenagers to the exam were isolated from the garden by the stone gate, and the scene just verified a certain sentence - the life of parents and children is the process of watching them go farther and farther.

Compared with those teenagers, Lu Beichen felt an inexplicable loss in his heart for some reason, and even his palms and foreheads were sweaty.

When he was a child studying in the academy and taking the monthly exam, Lu Beichen's heart was as calm as a lake, but now he is always inexplicably a little nervous.

Maybe it's because I've grown up, right?

His previous life was very simple, a little boring, so he was obsessed with another way of life all day long. But after he came to the Holy Capital, those complicated things completely broke his rhythm of life and habits.

Then, everything changed.

People are really afraid of change, no matter how much they desire to do something in their hearts, there will be times when they are hesitant and nervous. But when the desire is greater than the fear, the person has the courage to take the first step.

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The bell rang far away, and each compartment of Jingzhuyuan closed the door, and the question paper also came. The students took the paper from the examiner's hand, with different expressions, but they all sat up straight and began to write obediently.

Hundreds of students began to write hard, the morning breeze was blowing, the morning sun was shining, and a breath of youth came to their faces.

Most of the candidates on the field are from the three major colleges of the Holy Capital, of course, this time, as Shang Lu said, this year's national examination has obviously opened up the quota, although there are still restrictions, but it has undoubtedly attracted many outsiders and foreigners to participate, so that today's Jingzhuyuan has many new faces compared to previous years, and at the same time derived a lot of interesting pictures.

For example, a mediocre-looking male disciple quickly started the mode of writing hard from the moment the bell rang. Perhaps the movements were a little exaggerated, and the posture was a little flamboyant, so that all the pens on the table fell to the ground, and at one point a proctor academician was shocked into a sweat.

For example, the white-headed boy who was a little eye-catching transcribed every word with a calm expression, and was not affected by any noise on the field in the slightest. It's just that the gray hair will inevitably attract some strange glances, so that the two invigilators stand in the distance and stare at him secretly, talking softly.

Another example is the two girls who happened to be sitting in the middle. The two girls were dressed in clothes of similar colors, and their hair was a little messy under the reflection of the sun, but their serious appearance was particularly charming.

In the cultivation world, female aura is already in the minority, and there are even fewer female aura as gentle as water like this, and it is inevitable that those who should be in the eyes of male disciples will be attracted by this female aura.

Shang Lu and Lu Beichen were both arranged to the examination room in the southeast direction, the rooms were different, but the location was similar.

It was the first time he took this kind of exam, he couldn't help but be a little nervous, and it was rare that he felt a little relaxed after listening to Shang Lu's funny words, and he didn't have time to pay attention to what happened in the venue, just looking at the questions.

Most of the questions at the front of the exam paper are fill-in-the-blank questions and answers, as required in the syllabus, mainly focusing on some common sense of practice. Those core questions are naturally tested in different styles, which seem to be different, but they are the same test points after careful analysis.

Occasionally, there will be some out-of-the-box morality, and some experienced candidates will often choose to ignore these when they see this, after all, the overall score is the most important thing. Some of the more persistent candidates have difficulty distinguishing whether the questions are partial or common sense, so they will waste time on them intentionally or unintentionally, and when they realize it, they will quickly grasp the pen and continue to write profusely.

For Lu Beichen, there seems to be no distinction between practicing common sense and practicing morality, after all, he remembers everything.

In less than a month, he had almost read all the books in the library, and there was still a part of the classics in the corner that was placed in the highest position.

According to common sense, a normal teenager needs to prepare well for more than half a year to participate in the national examination.

If some of the literary clergy hidden in the Holy Capital knew that a young man who had only succeeded in building a foundation a few days ago had only read books for a month, I wonder if it would be like a treasure grab?

Of course, if they knew that Lu Beichen's real preparation for the literary examination was only three days, they would have shown a more shocking and exaggerated appearance compared to it, and they would definitely unconsciously spread this kind of miracle throughout the Holy Capital.

The books I read have consciously turned into fragments in the ocean of memory. The fragments were printed with many words, which came from his ability to remember - the eyes looked like ink was sprinkled, and with a slight adjustment, each character was printed on the fragments.

For today's exam, he picked up a fragment as if he was in the study. The question of the test paper naturally did not exceed the scope recorded on the fragments, and Lu Beichen had the answer when he saw it.

After completing the previous questions at a very fast pace, the next step is to hand in the paper and then get the final essay topic.

The last part is three essay questions, which are the part of the paper that accounts for the most marks, and candidates raise their hands to hand in after answering one question and then get a new question.

This is a somewhat strange setting, and it is said to prevent candidates from cheating.

Lu Beichen handed in the paper softly, and got the new question from one of the proctoring priests, and then threw himself into the answer again, not noticing the invigilator's expression at all.

The invigilator accepted Lu Beichen's test paper, and then looked at the disciples around him who were still sweating profusely to answer, and couldn't help but glance at him, and stopped in place for a few seconds before slowly leaving.

The title of the first question is only four very simple characters: lotus seed attributes.