The biennial entrance examination attracted a large number of candidates, and the official roads outside the city were full of scholars who went to the exam.

Along the way, Yang Xiu saw people stopping to rest on the side of the road from time to time, and there were also rich sons and ladies in Shanyin City who drove carriages and horses and galloped all the way.

With yesterday's unexpected cultivation, coupled with the evening study, Yang Xiu's physical condition has reached its best. Although he only slept for less than an hour, the whole person was full of vitality, and he didn't need to rest all the way, and his body was much stronger than the sick seedling a few days ago.

The quenching period is the basic stage of cultivating immortals, during which the cultivator uses a special breathing method to introduce spiritual energy into the body, slowly changing the physique, and the ultimate goal is to increase the lifespan. The road to cultivating immortals is long, and there is no healthy body, and many people have reached the end of their lives before entering the Qi Sea period, let alone cultivating immortals.

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Following the crowd all the way west, bypassing the endless green hills, after more than an hour, the golden gate of Tianshu Pavilion finally appeared in view.

This is one of the entrances to the Tianshu Pavilion sect, and as a temporary examination room, all the scholars from hundreds of miles around it have to gather here to take the entrance examination.

Ordinary people can only see a large attic, boxy, splendid, as dazzling as the sun in the darkness before dawn, plus the towering stone pillars, the rolling clouds and mist between the attics, very imposing.

The black pressure around the gate was full of people going to the exam, men, women and children, tall, short, fat and thin, all looking up at the gate of this Tongzhou Immortal Cultivation Holy Land.

In fact, there is a barrier formation set up by immortal cultivators, and behind the gate is a steep mountain range that stretches for dozens of miles, and the Tianshu Pavilion that everyone longs for is among them. It was rumored by word of mouth that the masters of the Heavenly Book Pavilion were guarding it, so although there was no guard in the field of vision, no one dared to make a mistake here.

"It's really a bit of a fairy~" Yang Xiu, who saw the Immortal Cultivation Sect for the first time, was surprised and curious, and couldn't help but sigh.

At the entrance of the attic stood two boys in their early teens, wearing thick cyan cotton jackets, without saying a word, with an expression that no one should approach, and the scholars did not dare to come forward to talk, and gathered around the gate.

Fortunately, many businessmen have set up tea shops here early, adding a bit of liveliness to the vast snowfield. Yang Xiu also asked for a cup of hot tea, sat with three or five familiar scholars, and waited for the literary examination to officially begin.

Some candidates with high perception and a high chance of getting good results gathered together, and it was difficult to hide the expression of confidence and self-satisfaction on their faces. The rest of the "poor students" like Yang Xiu are another circle, and most of them are worried, or simply have an expression of a dead pig who is not afraid of boiling water.

Yang Xiu, who had experienced the student days, looked at the scene in front of him, and couldn't help but laugh dumbly, and said in his heart that this atmosphere is really kind~

At this moment, a tall carriage came from far and near, and the candidates on the road avoided one after another, and Sun Wu, who had met him yesterday, actually sat in the front of the car. Seeing Yang Xiu, Sun Wu was stunned for a moment, then laughed evilly, turned his head and whispered a few words into the carriage.

There was a sound of "Huh?" in the carriage, and then the curtain was lifted, revealing half of the body of a young man, wearing a brocade robe, a cloth crown on his head, and a delicate bronze hand stove in his hand, with fair skin and a proud face.

"Yang Xiu, you have come to disgrace our Yang clan again. ”

The young man was expressionless, squinting at Yang Xiu in the cold wind, and said without a trace of emotion: "Hurry up and go back to your kennel, you can't recognize all three words, do you make people laugh when you run?"

Yang Xiu's thick eyebrows frowned slightly, and he immediately remembered who this person was.

The eldest grandson of the Yang family, named Yang Shaotian, has been talented and intelligent since he was a child, and he has memorized the thousand-character text in just half a year, and he has integrated the spiritual introduction chapter and began to cultivate. And because of his talent, Yang Shaowen is brilliant, and there are several Chinese character poems that circulate among immortal cultivators, which are very famous.

It is said that Yang Shaotian has been admitted to Tianshu Pavilion in advance, and this year he will worship a certain elder as a teacher, and this time he came to participate in the examination just to take a situation, and many people are sure that Yang Shaotian will almost definitely rank among the top three candidates in Shanyin City.

But in the original memory of Yang Xiu, Yang Shaotian was a vicious villain.

Previously, the Yang clan came to find trouble many times, and it was this Yang Shaotian who took the lead, there was no friendship between words and actions, Yang Xiu was ridiculed and humiliated by him, and even asked Yang Xiu to kneel down and beg for mercy in public, and did his best to insult him, the ultimate goal was to test Yang Xiu's pressure and let Yang Xiu hand over the title deed.

However, the current Yang Xiu is not the cowardly scholar who was bullied by others before, but could only say "insulting Sven".

"Master, my face is on my head, your,"

Yang Xiu raised his chin and grinned: "If your score in this exam is not as good as mine, are you going to find a pit and stuff your head into it?"

"Presumptuous!"

Sun Wu, who was sitting in front of the carriage, suddenly shouted, and at the same time, the horse whip in his hand was whipped at Yang Xiu. Yang Xiu is a weak scholar after all, Sun Wu has been practicing martial arts since he was a child, and he didn't have time to dodge at all, and he was swept away by the whip with a "pop!" sound, and the shabby cotton clothes were immediately pulled out of a crack, and there was a heart-piercing pain in his left shoulder.

Yang Xiu snorted, subconsciously retreated to avoid Sun Wu's second whip, covered his shoulder that was oozing blood, frowned together, glared at Sun Wu, and then stared at Yang Shaotian with a face.

Sun Wu is just a dog, and his master is this guy in the carriage! When Yang Xiu's parents died early, no one from the Yang clan came to visit, let alone help each other, and he watched Yang Xiu himself wander away and suffer all the hardships.

Yang Xiu, who inherited this memory, also had a bad impression of these guys.

Today's Yang Xiu made Yang Shaotian in the carriage feel very weird, although he still didn't have the strength to fight back, but the people who looked at him were very uncomfortable. Glancing at Yang Xiu's bleeding shoulder, Yang Shaotian waved his hand impatiently at Sun Wu and said, "Okay, don't attract the attention of the guards, let's go." ”

"Hmph, look at your shabby appearance like a wild dog, it's a shame for us" Sun Wu glared at Yang Xiu fiercely, and snorted disdainfully, only then did he shake the horsewhip and drive the carriage away.

Yang Xiu was extremely angry in his heart, his fists clenched, but he knew that he was not the opponent of the strong Sun Wu at all, not to mention that there were two other guards on the carriage, so he could only bury his anger in the bottom of his heart and watch the carriage go away.

He is just a little scholar with no background, not to mention being whipped, even if he is beaten half to death today, Tianshu Pavilion, or the official mansion of Shanyin City, at most, he will only say a few words without pain. If you dare to fight back, maybe a few children from Tianshu Pavilion at the door will teach themselves a lesson!

If it weren't for the scruples of the public, how could Yang Shaotian give up so easily.

Yang Xiu forcibly suppressed his anger, and said in his heart that he must work hard in this examination, as long as he enters the Heavenly Book Pavilion, he will not dare to be so blatant.

It wasn't until the carriage went away that some scholars who were familiar with Yang Xiu came over to comfort them.

"Are you alright, alas...... Bear with them, you can't compete with them. ”

"The Yang family has dominated Sanyin City for so many years, which time is not like this, don't affect the entrance examination. ”

Others who were closer to the Yang clan were sarcastic.

"I can't do anything, I can't eat enough to eat and take the immortal exam, it's better to go to the Eight Immortals Building to be a buddy if I have time. ”

"Young Master Yang Shaotian, how can you say anything disrespectful casually? ”

Yang Xiu thanked the people he knew one by one, and disdained those who made sarcastic remarks and tried to curry favor with Yang Shaotian. Respect is earned by yourself, and there is no need to reason with these people now.

Yang Xiuqiang endured the severe pain in his shoulder and returned to the seat of the tea stall, closed his eyes and stared, and warned himself that he must be calm, if this kind of trivial matter affects the entrance examination, then he really fell for Yang Shaotian's trick, these villains don't know how happy they should be!

"Brother Yang, let's bandage it. ”

Yang Xiu closed his eyes and recuperated, heard someone call his name, turned his head to look over, and it was a round-faced young man in gorgeous clothes who spoke. This man has a slightly fat body, with an emerald green jade pendant tied to his waist, extravagant, and two short and thick eyebrows on his smiling round face, as if he was born to feel kind.

"Ah, thank you, Brother Liu. Seeing this, Yang Xiu quickly stood up and hugged his fists and thanked him.

The one in front of him is Liu Xian, the second son of the Liu family in Shanyin.

To say that among the clans in Shanyin City, the Yang family has the most power, but the Liu family has the most money. The Liu family's business is all over Tongzhou, and it has a good foundation in the aristocracy of Ningguo, and it is commendable that this family is very low-key.

Liu Xian focused most of his energy on studying and gaining fame, and he was good at making friends, so he had a very good reputation in Shanyin City, and he was one of the few scholars who had a little intersection with Yang Xiu.

Liu Xian smiled and waved his hand, and said, "It's okay, it's okay, let's deal with it quickly." ”

The housekeeper on the side came over with a wooden box, skillfully sprinkled medicinal powder on Yang Xiu's shoulder wound and tied the bandage, while Liu Xian stood aside and stared at Yang Xiu curiously.

Yang Xiu's performance just now surprised Liu Xian. You must know that Yang Xiu is notoriously pedantic and rigid among the scholars, and he is very hateful to the rich of the official family, and even Liu Xian himself is a little unbearable of his character.

But just now someone in the crowd made a mockery, but Yang Xiu's face was indifferent, as if he was not angry at all;

The current Yang Xiu is more like a young man with a proud backbone and a young man, just like a different person. But even so, Liu Xian didn't think that Yang Xiu had a chance to pass the Xianwen Examination, and the gap in strength could not be made up in a day or two.

Yang Xiu naturally couldn't think of what Liu Xian was pondering, so after briefly treating the wound, he got up and bowed to Liu Xian for the second time to thank him.

"Haha, it's okay, they're all literati in the same city. Yang Xiu, don't let these things affect the exam, the opportunity to take the exam is rare~" Liu Xian kindly reminded him, looked Yang Xiu up and down a few times, and then turned around and left the teahouse and got into his carriage.

Yang Xiu naturally nodded yes, touched his shoulder, and kept this rich man with a bold personality in mind, then turned around and sat down on the seat, and began to close his eyes and adjust his breathing.

The main purpose of the spiritual introduction chapter is to guide cultivators to feel the aura of heaven and earth and initially improve their physique. Yang Xiu felt the warm aura enter his body, and after half a quarter of an hour, the pain of the wound slowly eased, and Yang Xiu breathed a sigh of relief.

A moment later, the sun rose in the east, and a distant gong sounded in the smoke, and the door decorated with red lacquered copper nails slowly opened, and the little boys at the door lazily turned around and led everyone into the gate.

Yang Xiu took a deep breath and walked in with all the scholars.

As soon as he stepped through the gate, Yang Xiu immediately felt a warm breath coming to his face, inside the door was a huge space where the border could not be seen, and all kinds of flowers were blooming on the white marble paved square, and the mist was filled, like a fairyland.

Looking into the middle, there is a low wooden table and a futon every six feet in the square. The pen, ink, paper, and inkstone on the wooden table are complete, and the flat rice paper is laid on it. The scholars quickly found a good place to sit down and began to study the ink and moisten the pen.

At the same time as the candidates sat down, a pale white light curtain lit up three feet around the wooden table. Candidates can see each other, but they cannot move freely through the light curtain so as not to interfere with others' test-taking.

At this time, the white light in the air flashed slightly, and a young man in a cyan scholar's robe appeared out of thin air, suspended in the air with his hands behind his back, and a deep voice spread throughout the clearing.

"I'm Liu Wenzhong, and I'm in charge of this invigilation. The preliminary examination of this Xianwen will start now, please try your best to answer the questions, and it is limited to four hours. I hope you will answer the questions seriously, join Tianshu Pavilion as soon as possible, and call me a senior brother. ”

The young man said with a smile on his face, and then with a wave of his big sleeves, the golden light flashed in the air, and his figure disappeared in the blink of an eye.

Yang Xiu calmly studied the ink slowly, and at the same time lowered his head to observe the test questions. In the original world, Yang Xiu took not one thousand but eight hundred, and his mentality was stable and calm, needless to say.

At the same time.

In an antique building, white smoke curls from the incense burner in the house, and the incense is fragrant, which is refreshing. An old man with white hair was meditating with his eyes closed on the futon in the center, it was the old man Zhuji, the master of the Tianshu Pavilion!

The young man standing next to him was the young man in the scholarly robe who appeared in the square before.

"Master, I think the level of the scholars this time is average, most of them are impetuous, and it is not easy to break through the cognitive barrier. The young man frowned slightly with a mature temperament that did not match his age.

The old man Zhuji's face was flat, and he closed his eyes and said: "Most of them are teenagers under the age of twenty, do you think they are all as young and old as you, but those who are over forty years old have not even passed this first step, I am afraid that the chances are slim......"

The young scholar nodded slightly, but then said with some concern: "Now that the immortal cultivators are withering, the Heavenly Book Pavilion is far behind the other immortal cultivation sects, if it continues like this, I'm afraid it will ......."

"This matter cannot be forced, it must not be urgent, there are many talented and intelligent people among the students who will be examined this time, and they must be able to gain something. The old man said indifferently.

"Yes. ”

The young scholar bowed and said yes, standing silent. But after a while, the old man suddenly opened his eyes, and there was a flash of light in his vicissitudes of life, with a faint hint of surprise.

"Good! good words! good talents!"

The old man chuckled twice, stroked his long beard and said happily: "I didn't expect there to be such a talent in Shanyin City, haha~"