"Chongxuan Pavilion is going to send someone?"

Zhao Xiao was inspecting a batch of newly arrived spiritual materials when he heard the servant's message: "They have already arrived in the front hall, and the Hou Ye said to let the young master come over to discuss." ”

"Got it."

At present, the Jinding Division is an adjacent two courtyards, the east courtyard is the mandala stove for refining the magic pills, and the west courtyard is the ashram house for the monks to recuperate and rest. At present, the east courtyard is under construction, and the west courtyard has placed a number of monks.

Since the imperial court issued a document to recruit capable people to come to the Jinding Division, before the various pavilions responded, a group of monks from the sect came to serve first.

However, Zhao Xiao learned from the Marquis of Anyang that these people had actually taken refuge in his disciples very early and were enshrined as guests.

Since the War of the Five Kingdoms, many sects have suffered wars in the past, the inheritance has been severed, and the dojo has fallen, and only some disciples are left, either wandering the rivers and lakes, or taking refuge in the high-ranking families.

The Marquis of Anyang also enshrined some Xuanputang disciples, they were considered the same disciples and brothers of Zhao Xiao's mother, but these people were superficial in cultivation, at best, they could refine some pills and serve sesame grass, and they did not have very good skills. After learning Zhao Xiao's identity, he inevitably flattered him in various ways, hoping to get an official position in the Jinding Division.

Zhao Xiao was dissatisfied with this, he was still more accustomed to the atmosphere of the master in the Huaiying Pavilion as a teacher and the capable person doing things, this kind of monk who wants to climb up by relying on the old favor can be described as ugly.

But thinking that he came to the Hou Mansion of Anyang, he was greatly used in Jinding Division in a short period of time, so he was not blessed by human affection? Moreover, Jin Dingsi is the head of Anyang Hou, and it is not Zhao Xiao who has the final say.

However, Zhao Huang still put forward his own idea, after all, the Jin Ding Division is to refine the magic pill as the priority, it is impossible to support idle monks, but anyone who serves here, must have the corresponding magic skills, sacrifice and refining magic objects, calligraphy spells, Danding fire, at least one mastery, and Zhao Huang personally came forward to take the examination.

Judging from Zhao Xiao's experience in Xingluo County, among the various pavilions in Huaxu Country now, there are not a few monks who can serve in the Jinding Division, but the most suitable one is the Huaiying Pavilion.

So when Zhao Xiao learned that Chongxuan Pavilion was also going to send someone to Jinding Division, he couldn't help muttering in his heart.

"What does Chongxuanguan mean?" Zhao Xiao found An Yanghou and asked.

"Even if you don't mention that the affairs of the Jinding Division are related to weapons and armor, now the dispatch and use of spiritual materials in the country will be concentrated in the Jinding Division, and it is naturally impossible for the Chongxuan Pavilion to sit idly by." Anyang Hou said.

Zhao Xiao said: "Is Uncle Shi planning to turn away the Chongxuan Pavilion? ”

"Impossible." Anyang Hou said: "If we do this, we will be truthful, and it is not surprising that the other party will slander Jin Dingsi with this." Later, when you take the school exam in public, try to be as strict as possible. The threshold is high, and there are fewer people who can enter the Jinding Division. ”

"Yes."

When Zhao Xiao and An Yang Hou came to the front hall, they saw more than 20 Chongxuan Hall monks standing or sitting, most of them looking arrogant.

"It's you!"

Before Zhao Xiao could speak, he saw a Chongxuan Pavilion monk get up and shout: "I'm worried that I can't find you, a poor man in the countryside!" ”

"Are you...... Zheng Tunan? Zhao Xiao looked at the person in front of him, although he was dressed in brocade and jade and had a handsome appearance, his expression was ruthless.

Zhao Xiao suddenly became interested and said with a smile: "What? Took a kick and haven't learned enough lessons? ”

"Look for death!" Zheng Tunan pressed the handle of the knife with his hand, and was about to be ruthless, but was hurriedly held down by a man in Tsing Yi with a similar appearance behind him.

"Big brother, we got the first order, we are here to do business in Jinding Division, don't you ......"

The man in Tsing Yi tried his best to dissuade him, and Zheng Tunan said fiercely: "You are a servant and a child, and you deserve to stop me?" Let go! ”

But no matter how hard Zheng Tunan tried, he still couldn't break free from the man's clamps in Tsing Yi. The two immediately scuffled, Zheng Tunan still scolded non-stop, and the scene was quite ugly.

Zhao Xiao found that the other people in the Chongxuan Pavilion were just watching with their arms crossed, and they didn't stop it at all, and some people didn't hide their smiles. It seems that between the different families of Chongxuan Pavilion, there is no love for each other.

"Does the nephew know this Zheng Tunan?" An Yanghou asked in a low voice.

Zhao replied: "When my teacher and I went into the city on a boat, we encountered him fighting with others, and the ship stopped sailing. I stepped in to stop the fight and kicked him into the water. ”

Anyang Hou shook his head and laughed: "It's not surprising, this person is the eldest son of the Zheng family of Jiujiang, but his father died in the War of the Five Kingdoms, and the old people in the clan spoil him a lot, and he is spoiled." ”

Zhao Huang frowned and said, "Chongxuanguan sent this kind of person, and Liang Guoshi despised Jin Dingsi so much?" ”

"Not necessarily." Anyang Hou said: "Zheng Tunan's ugly state is complete, and Liang Guoshi expects that the Jin Ding Division will not accommodate such figures, and I am afraid that he is using the Jin Ding Division to squeeze out the Zheng family's children." ”

Zhao Xiao sneered: "Liang Guoshi is really 'well-intentioned'. ”

"Stop!"

In the end, it was a man with a slightly gloomy face who got up and shouted: "The faces of Chongxuanguan and Jiujiang Zheng have been lost to you, if you don't stop, you two will all go back to the old mansion of Jiujiang, and never come to Dongshengdu again!" ”

Hearing this, Zheng Tunan held back his anger, his shoulders rose and fell, and he stared at Zhao Huang viciously, eager to bite off a piece of meat from him. As for the other man in Tsing Yi, he was elbowed a few times by Zheng Tunan, but he was not injured at all, but his clothes were a little messy, and he lowered his head and retreated behind the others.

"Brother Dongyou!" Anyang Hou shook his sleeves and greeted the gloomy monk: "I haven't seen you for half a year, Brother Dongyou's body is fine?" ”

"Thanks to Anyang Hou's concern, everything is fine with Liang."

The Marquis of Anyang summoned Zhao Huang and said, "Brother Dongyou, this is Zhao Xiao, the deacon of the Jinding Division. You also know that I admire Xuan Xiu, but I have no immortal endowment, and I am a role in the division to usher in, and the specific affairs depend on this Deacon Zhao. ”

Zhao Xiao gave his hand, and Anyang Hou said to him: "This is Liang Dongyou, the coach of Chongxuan Pavilion, and he is also responsible for all the affairs of the lower hall. ”

Chongxuan Pavilion has upper and lower halls in the Lung Mountain, the upper hall is based on researching the void and keeping the truth, and the lower hall is based on alchemy and medicine. Some are similar to the previous immortal cultivation sects, which are divided into inner and outer doors, but Huaiying Pavilion is not prosperous.

Liang Dongyou said: "The first seat of my family said that the Jinding Division serves the country, and the Chongxuan Pavilion is in its prime, so how can you stay out of it?" So he selected a group of junior students to come, hoping to be appreciated by Anyang Hou. ”

"I see." An Yanghou nodded and said: "Chongxuan Pavilion is as handsome as a forest, the best of the best, and I think it is the dragon and phoenix among the people!" ”

When Zhao Xiao heard this, he almost didn't laugh. Even if you don't talk about Zheng Tunan, even if it is the Yongjia Liang family, there is no shortage of mediocre and incompetent people.

Liang Dongyou always had a gloomy face, and he was noncommittal to An Yanghou's words, but said: "Liang heard that if you want to be appointed to the Jinding Division, you must first go through the examination and verification?" ”

Anyang Hou looked back, and Zhao Xiao stepped forward and said: "Yes, the Jinding Division specializes in the creation of legal objects, the smelting of Danding, and the spelling of water. ”

After saying this, Zhao Xiao's gaze moved to Zheng Tunan, and the other party's face turned red, and he had to sigh, Liang Shuo's demeanor and cultivation of a noble son are really not possessed by everyone.

Liang Dongyou asked again: "Then I don't know how to take the school exam?" ”

Zhao Xiao waved his hand to the servants behind him, and immediately someone brought a few large tables, on which were displayed talisman paper cinnabar, all kinds of spiritual materials, and even a few alchemy tripods the size of incense burners.

"At present, the Jinding Division temporarily has three subjects: Fu, Dan, and Instrument, and generalists are all available." Zhao Xiao said: "The Fu Law Department takes the Qi Induction Book as the test, and Taoist friends who are interested in this can come forward and give it a try." ”

As soon as these words came out, Liang Dongyou frowned slightly, and the monks of Chongxuan Pavilion looked at each other, obviously the test set by Zhao Huang was unexpected.

Monks and sorcerers practice talismans, most of them rely on the Dharma runes passed down from generation to generation, depicting and writing, and at the same time thinking about the rhyme, the pen pushes the luck, so the years are immersed in a long time, the spirit is emotional, and the natural cultivation is profound, and the pen is like divine help.

And the qi induction book is a major threshold for the rune. Anyang Hou signaled Zhao Huang to embarrass Chongxuanguan, and he naturally did so, after all, people with real skills are not afraid of tests, and the incompetent Jin Dingsi is not welcome. If the people of Chongxuan Hall can't do it, there's no place to complain.

Just as Liang Dongyou was about to speak, a tall woman walked out from behind, wearing a black power suit, phoenix eyes and willow eyebrows, a cold expression, and a short sword at her waist, she came to Zhao Xiao and bowed:

"Chongxuan Pavilion, Jing Shi."

The cold woman didn't talk nonsense, she directly twisted up a piece of rune paper, and then the sword pointed out a wisp of sharp qi, swept the cinnabar ink on the table, outlined it in mid-air, and disappeared into the shape of a sword blade, hanging above her fingertips.

Seeing this, Zhao Xiao nodded secretly, Jing Shi's sword pointed at the void, the cinnabar ink sword fell on the paper and dyed, and the rune paper trembled like insect wings, but it calmed down in an instant, and a sword rune book was written, without the slightest delay.

"Please take a look at Deacon Zhao." Jing Shi handed over the sword talisman.

Zhao Huang glanced at it, and knew that this talisman was extraordinary, he could sense the sword qi hidden in it, this woman named Jing Shi, I am afraid that she also has good attainments in swordsmanship.

"Yes, Daoyou has passed the school examination." Zhao Huang also had to admit that there were still talents in Chongxuan Pavilion. And this woman named Jing Shi is not as arrogant as other Chongxuan Pavilion disciples, not to mention that she is not the fourth surname of the immortal lineage, Zhao Xiao has a much better impression of her.

"Are there any other Daoists who want to show a thing or two?" Zhao Xiao put down the sword talisman and raised his eyes to ask.

Liang Dongyou looked around, his face became even more gloomy, and he had no choice but to say, "Deacon Zhao, you might as well take the Danding subject first." ”

Zhao Xiao didn't refute either, he had already heard of the study of the Outer Dan of the Chongxuan Pavilion, so he motioned to the spiritual material Danding on the table: "The eighteen flavors of medicine here need to be refined into a furnace to disperse the veins." ”

At this time, more than half of the monks of the Chongxuan Pavilion breathed a sigh of relief, and the effect of dredging the pulse was as its name suggested, which was used to dredge the qi veins, and for these immortal disciples, it was far from being a miracle medicine.

"Plus, there's no charcoal here." Zhao Xiao added: "Please also ask you to make your own efforts." ”

As soon as these words came out, everyone who had just relaxed immediately changed color, and Liang Dongyou asked, "Deacon Zhao, is this too much?" Refining the Outer Pill Bait Medicine, how can there be a lack of charcoal salary? ”

"Smelting the elixir, exhaling the wind, concentrating on the fire, if the fire is pure, the emphasis is on the qi and the machine are not mixed, and the mind is pure." Zhao Xiao said: "Otherwise, when the alchemy is full of reverie and miscellaneous gas, I am not afraid of attracting ghosts and gods to steal the pill and blow up the Ding furnace?" If there is no such foundation, how can we refine the Nine Heavens Ascension Pill in the coming day? ”

Zhao Xiao's general truth pressed over, and Liang Dongyou had nothing to say, because it is said that Qingya Zhenjun refined the Nine Heavens Ascension Xia Pill, and after taking it, the descendants of the Yongjia Liang family were all proud of it. If you haven't even learned the ancestor's housekeeping skills, then don't talk about the Danding furnace.

But even if Zhao Huang moved out of this test, four Chongxuan Pavilion monks still stepped forward, each of them took the medicine pill furnace, looked at each other a few times, and then found an empty place to sit on the ground, vaguely forming a formation.

Zhao Xiao noticed that they were inducing each other, and each emitted a little subtle true fire, and as the qi and qi resonated with each other, the true fire became stronger and stronger, and then enveloped the Dan furnace in front of them.

"Can it still be like this?" Zhao Xiao really admired it now, and he still saw it for the first time in the formation of alchemy.

The four monks recited mantras and pinched their hands, and the wind was vigorous, and then they put in spiritual medicines, and the medicinal properties of the internal herbs were matched in turn, and the dregs and miscellaneous gases were dissipated by the furnace fire.

After a short time, the evacuation pulse had already been refined, and the four monks dispersed the furnace fire, and then cast a spell, pushing the remaining Dan furnace in front of Zhao Xiao, with no pride on their faces.

Zhao Xiao looked at the scattered veins like white fine sand, and understood that he was not going to regret it, so he smiled and said: "Okay, the four Taoist friends are ingenious, and they can be regarded as passing." ”

When Liang Dongyou heard this, his gloomy face eased slightly, so he asked, "Deacon Zhao, there is still one subject, I don't know what the school to examine?" ”

Zhao Xiao took out a bundle of arrows from the side: "It's not difficult, sacrifice the arrows to make them sharper and more able to penetrate the armor." ”

As he said this, a servant in the courtyard outside the hall lowered the stake dummy, which was draped in triple iron armor.

Liang Dongyou was silent, and Zheng Tunan on the side pulled out the treasure knife on his waist: "With this Hongming knife, I can divide gold and break stones!" ”

"You have a treasure sword, and ordinary soldiers only have mortal iron blades in their hands." Zhao Xiao's tone became cold: "Since you are confident that the treasure knife is sharp, why don't you go and cut the Qianjun Iron Warriors of the Bear Country?" ”

Qianjun iron figurines are the original creation of the bear country, shaped like terracotta figurines, but they are cast with fine iron, and they are urged by talismans, weighing more than Qianjun, and they are hard to destroy. Once this iron figurine appears on the battlefield, it will be invincible and invincible, and ordinary soldiers cannot stop it.

When Zheng Tunan heard this, he immediately became angry: "I understand, you are deliberately making things difficult for us and creating a bunch of examination schools that few people can pass!" I don't believe you can do it all! ”

Zhao Huang squinted and was silent, and Zheng Tunan was even more spirited: "Coach Liang, this Zhao Huang is relying on the support of Anyang Hou to turn us away from the Chongxuan Pavilion, do you want to sit idly by?!" ”

Liang Dongyou frowned, he didn't like Zheng Tunan, but he couldn't deny that this was reasonable, and even he felt a little harsh about the school given by Zhao Huang.

Just as Liang Dongyou was about to open his mouth to criticize, Zhao Xiao slapped the table case and said: "Vulgarity, let you open your eyes today!" ”

As soon as the words fell, Zhao Xiao's eyes were red, and with his eyes in the air, a red light and glowing talisman seal was made with a void book, and then the sword finger swept away, and the red talisman was double-divided.

Zhao Xiao took out the arrow in one hand, and the spell in his mouth was low, and half of the red talisman slowly burned into the arrow cluster. And half of the red talisman seal fell into the vacant Danding, the furnace was on fire, and Zhao Xiao's other hand was thrown into the furnace, and at the same time, the arrow that had been refined turned into a line of red light and shot out, directly penetrating the triple iron armor, shooting down the dummy in the courtyard.

When everyone was amazed, the furnace flame in the hall was vigorous, Zhao Huang drummed up the true qi, the bursts of medicinal fragrance rippled elegantly, and the veins were scattered in the use of Danding fire, and they turned into spices, and the medicinal power fumigated the remains, and everyone suddenly felt comfortable.

Looking at the hall, the smoke curls and floats like a fairy.

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