It's really close to the day when the Beizong exam will start, and there are only a few days left to break the finger index.

Yuan Lai has already started to read the third volume of the "Five Complete Books", which cannot be said to be fast, but he is still not sure about the first round of written exams.

The first round is the written test and the first exam, the test is the content of the classic works of the reader and the many cultivation classics that can be found in the market, the practice has been more than a thousand years from the beginning to the present, and the works on cultivation are even more terrifying numbers, Yuan Lai has a headache and a little helpless, until this time he understands the importance of the test questions in the carriage that accompanied him from Shencheng to the capital.

"Therefore, the first step in the Northern Sect exam is to eliminate the children of the poor family and those who don't learn and don't know how to do it, which is really unfair. ”

Yuan Lai held a book of cultivation on the table in his room.

Yuan Li added a bowl of tea for him on the side, and said with a smile: "What is fairness?"

Yuan Lai glanced at him in surprise, nodded in agreement, and said, "Yes, what is fair." ”

As the largest sect in the world, the Northern Sect is extremely unfair in the matter of accepting disciples, there are people who go through the back door, but there are not many, so this injustice does not refer to this, but the first round of written exams stopped almost all the poor candidates.

The poor family is short of money, and where can they read so many cultivation classics? So those who can pass are undoubtedly those who have a good family and are diligent and studious, and Yuan Lai has to admit that this rule is very cruel but also very effective.

The problem is that now this initial exam has become the biggest obstacle in front of him, since he has made up his mind to take the exam seriously, he will not think about failing, and now it seems that it is difficult to even pass the first round of exams.

Especially after comparing with Xie Caiwei, Yuan Lai and Xie Caiwei have met a little frequently in the past few days, and the more they contact him, the more he feels ignorance, which is very bad.

Thinking of Xie Caiwei, he naturally thought of Xie Lingyun, this man passed a seemingly reasonable reason into the ears of his son Xie Shibai through Yuan Lai's mouth, it seems that this thing is a bit of a pants off fart, but some things are such a thin veil that he can't remove, and can only be done by others.

None of the people in the Xie family were fuel-efficient lamps, which made the young master of the Yuan family very unhappy, and when he was unhappy, there were always some troublesome things to catch up.

"Young master, someone is looking for you outside. ”

"Who. ”

"An old man surnamed Ding said that he had come to make amends. Yuan Li stated.

Yuan Lai raised his eyebrows, snorted noncommittally, and thought for a while picking up the fan and fanning the wind: "No." ”

It has been a few days since Shi Qinglin's sudden punch, and Yuan Lai is not angry in his heart, but he is too lazy to cause trouble for himself.

Yuan Li took the order to go out and go around, and came back and said, "Young master, there is another son-in-law surnamed Shi who wants to see you." ”

"Are you here? Yuan Lai pursed his lips and said willfully.

After all, Lao Ding and Shi Qinglin didn't see Yuan Lai, and Yuan Lai didn't pay attention to this matter, and now all his thoughts are on studying how to pass the first test, and he is not interested in other things.

After digging through the information about the preliminary examination, he finally gave up the naïve idea of passing the test normally, so he could only cast his eyes on the only breakthrough.

"The test paper for the first exam is very thick and thick, and there is very little chance that the children of the poor family and those who do not learn and have no skills will pass, but it is not completely sealed, after all, there are often some cultivation geniuses in this world whose talent far exceeds that of ordinary people, and Beizong does not want to miss it, so there will be an additional question at the end of the test question every year. ”

"The additional questions have nothing to do with the classics, have nothing to do with knowledge, only have to do with the perception of heaven and earth, it is said that the form of the additional questions is to give a picture, see the true meaning of the painting in the preliminary examination time and then write it out, it is considered to have passed the preliminary examination, it sounds simple, but in fact, this road is more difficult to answer the questions diligently!"

"The most important thing in cultivation is in the two words of understanding, there are practitioners who have sat on the flat ground for more than ten years just to feel the traces of the avenue, and there are practitioners who spend decades just to touch the ethereal rhyme, how difficult it is to perceive the avenue, and it is not possible for those who have great talent, great perseverance and great ingenuity, it is said that the additional questions of the Northern Sect are the marks of the avenue of the predecessors who have cultivated to the advanced in the door, how difficult it is to understand?

"So, the attempts to go down this path have basically failed. ”

Liu Wen concluded.

Yuan Lai said unrelentingly: "Aren't there still a few people in history who have succeeded?"

Liu Wen stared at his young master steadily, and said, "It has been five hundred years since this additional question appeared, and there have only been three people who have answered that question in the past five hundred years, and each of them has finally become an extremely powerful cultivator on the mainland, and the lowest achievement has reached the fourth realm. ”

The fourth realm is the grandmaster level.

"Well, then it seems that it is only left to fate. Yuan Lai sighed, a little weak.

Liu Wen comforted him and said: "There is always a reward for paying, by the way, according to the customs of the capital, every time the Northern Sect takes the exam the day before the exam, you will go to the Pantheon to pray for blessings, young master, you remember to go." ”

Pray for the Panthéon?

Yuan Lai inexplicably remembered the signature pen printed with the small characters of the Confucian Temple prayer in the stationery store every time in the college entrance examination in his previous life, he smiled heartily, nodded and said, "I will go." ”

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The registration procedures required for the opening of the examination in Beizong were completed very early, and Yuan Lai studied quietly at home to cultivate his vitality and stabilize his realm, and finally the time came to the last day before the exam.

It seems that with the arrival of the assessment, the entire capital has begun to be filled with a slightly excited and nervous atmosphere, and there is already a gambling game in the west of the city that is specifically for the assessment of the Northern Sect, and there are more rumors about the candidates this time.

Yuan Lai and Xie Caiwei have not appeared on the Xilin Wall in the past few days, and the two of them have not even gone to Qinhuai River anymore, and Yuan Lai, who is in two ears and does not know what is going on outside the window, of course he does not know that the story of the two of them is no longer the story of the two of them, but has become a legend of other people.

For the imperial capital at the foot of the Son of Heaven, cultivation has never been an unattainable thing, and the annual assessment is a grand event in the entire capital.

Today's weather is not beautiful, the wind began to rise outside the window in the middle of the night, and then the rain began to hit the window lattice, in the early morning, the rain still did not stop, Yuan Lai's big white fruit tree outside the window was like washing in the rain twisting its posture, Xie Caiwei's pond in the pond rose a lot.

After breakfast, Yuan Lai pushed open the door with a complicated mood, Yuan Li held a big umbrella, and there was a handful under his arm, and the huge umbrella surface shrouded their master and servant, like a big mushroom on a cloudy day.

"Young Master, where are we going?"

Yuan Lai took a deep breath and spit out word by word: "Panthéon!"