Volume 1 Asking the Tao Chapter 8 Opening the Mountain Gate
The Lingyun Mountain Range stretches for thousands of miles, and the main peak is steep and steep, reaching straight into the sky, so it is named Lingyun Peak.
Lingyun Peak is located in the territory of a country called Xuanyuan in the middle of Dongzhou, and has been the residence of the Lingyun faction for more than 3,000 years. There are two ways to enter Lingyun Peak, one of which can go straight to the peak, but it is closed all year round, and it is only activated during emergencies or important events. The other is open to the outside world, you need to pass through a mountain gate first, called Dengxian Gate, after Dengxian Gate, it is like a city of Dengxian Town.
This Dengxian Town is not under the jurisdiction of the Xuanyuan Kingdom, the administrator is appointed by the Lingyun faction, and the taxes are also collected by the Lingyun faction, which is the main source of income in the Lingyun faction. Dengxian Town is famous for its absolute robbery, and the money village is also very private, and the security is extremely high.
When Su Hao and his entourage arrived at the foot of Lingyun Peak, it was the third day of the ten-day entrance test, and they saw a long queue in front of the mountain gate, in an orderly manner.
When the disciples of the Lingyun Sect who maintained order saw everyone setting up the carriage, they hurriedly ran over and politely asked the passengers to get off the carriage and dismount, and put the carriage and horses in the designated position. Teng Chong invited Tang Ke and Tang Huan down, and then ordered the guards to act according to the requirements, and the guards completed the storage procedures, rushed back, and waited in line for the test.
Everyone has the opportunity to seek immortals, and it is also the biggest benefit of accompanying the young lady out this time.
The team moved slowly, and announcements of the rules for the entry test could be seen everywhere around, and there were special people at intervals to preach them.
The Lingyun Sect opens a mountain gate every ten years to recruit disciples, and no matter what the identity of the person who comes, they can come to the test, and as long as they meet the conditions, they have the opportunity to be selected.
Of course, as a first-class sect, the Lingyun faction is not uneducated, and the testing conditions are very relaxed, but it is extremely difficult to be selected.
Children under the age of fifteen, single linggen is an inner disciple, the fairy road can be expected, double linggen is an outer disciple, the yuan baby is in sight, the three linggen can enter the outer door hall to learn, and Jindan has a play. However, although propaganda is like this, whether it can really get what it wants depends on the luck, and there are very few who really have luck.
As for the four spirit roots and the five spirit roots, they are treated the same as ordinary people without spirit roots, it's not that they can't cultivate, it's just that it's extremely difficult to become a material, and it's rare to be able to refine qi to get started, if you are lucky enough to build a foundation, it is really a heaven and earth creation, so according to the regulations, please go out and turn right, and get the coil to go home.
If you are over fifteen years old, you will only accept single spirit root and double spirit root, single spirit root is an outer disciple, and the double spirit root will enter the outer door hall to study, and during the cultivation period, you will face a very strict test to eliminate foreign spies.
There is no upper age limit for the disciples recruited by the rules, but the examiner is principled, and the assessment can be passed, and the examiner's opinion may not be able to pass, after all, there are still certain restrictions on the number and standard of recruiting disciples, but this kind of restriction Lingyun faction thinks that it is not appropriate to announce it to the public, so as not to let someone take the opportunity to make trouble.
The inner disciples practiced the exercises more advanced, the outer disciples followed, and the outer disciples learned again.
After three years of study, you can become an outer disciple after successful assessment, and if you fail, you can choose to return to your hometown or join the miscellaneous labor.
After the assessment every year, the outer disciples can be promoted to the inner disciples in one or two places, and they will return to their hometowns or join the miscellaneous service for three consecutive years.
Although the inner disciples are also assessed, they are no longer promoted, and only the allocation of resources is assessed, but the head or elder selects the personal disciples from the inner disciples from time to time, and if they become a personal disciple, they will ascend to the sky in one step and truly become the core of the Lingyun faction. However, if you fail to pass the assessment for three consecutive years, you will be demoted to an outer disciple or become an outer deacon.
The deacons of the outer gate are the general term for the positions that deal with secular affairs, and are responsible for managing the properties of the Lingyun Sect in various places. Of course, in normal times, the sect will also issue short-term tasks to the disciples with normal assessments to fill the gaps in their positions.
The management model of other first-class or top-notch schools is also roughly the same, so these contents are not classified and preached thoroughly.
Many of the people in the queue are parents with their children, and some large families bring a group of children by a special person. There were also twelve or thirteen-year-old children lining up on their own, all with panicked faces, and some trying to pretend to be resolute, but it looked like someone had robbed him of his baked cakes. A little girl was too nervous and hiccuped, and she was so anxious that she couldn't do it, but the more she was in a hurry, the more severe it became, causing the people around her to snicker.
Young people like Su Hao, and even middle-aged and elderly testers, have the largest number of them, and in the eyes of the disciples of the Lingyun Sect, they belong to the type of people who focus on participation.
The queue was very long, during which it was necessary to spend the night in the open air, and Lingyun Pai had all the food and drink, and also arranged a mobile toilet to make the whole process not too difficult.
All the way to noon the next day, Su Hao and the others approached the test area, and saw a huge high platform standing in the center of the square in front of them from a distance, and three Taoists were sitting on the high platform, as if they were closing their eyes and recuperating. In front of the three of them was a thick stone door, and the inner wall of the stone door was inlaid with five transparent crystals, and the subject only needed to stand still in the stone door for a moment and accept the light of the crystal to measure the spiritual root attributes.
Most subjects enter the door expectantly and then exit the door with a depressed expression, with some wailing out of disappointment, invariably causing a cry and then being quickly driven away. It's okay if you directly measure the no spirit root, after all, 99% of people are like this, but there are also relatively lucky people who will light up the crystal, just about to celebrate excitedly, but the crystal is all bright one after another, it is the worst five spirit root, the huge gap is even worse than the one without the spirit root, and the heart wants to die.
Occasionally, someone measures the three spirit roots, which will always attract the envy of the people around them, if there are two spirit roots or even a single spirit root, the exclamation will be like a tide rushing around, for a long time.
Finally it was Su Hao and the others' turn, Teng Chong was the first to test, but it was no spirit root, he let out a long breath, very disappointed, and then laughed at himself, under the guidance of the Lingyun faction's miscellaneous servants, he went outside.
If nothing else, waiting for the end of the mountain gate, Teng Chong will return to the family with other colleagues, and the next time he sees Miss Tang Ke, he doesn't know what year and month it is, and it may be a farewell this time.
Tang Ke then walked into the stone gate. Although she has confirmed that she has a spiritual root, she doesn't know how many spiritual roots it is, so she is very nervous, rubbing the corners of her clothes nervously, and then she heard a huge exclamation, and looked up, the crystal depicting the logo of the water spirit root is flashing with blue light, and the other crystals are not lit.
Tang Huan couldn't stop clapping his hands and shouting, "Miss, it's amazing." ”
Tang Ke's delicate face was also flushed with excitement, and he waved his hand at Tang Huan again and again, the three Taoists next to him did not urge, they all had a reserved smile on their faces, and their eyes looking at Tang Ke were full of kindness, and even allowed her not to register after the test, and stood in place and waited.
Next is Tang Huan, this little girl's expectations for seeking immortals are extremely high, before entering the stone gate, the whole person is trembling, buzzing, when the crystals representing the three systems of gold, wood and fire flickered, and the other two crystals did not move, she was stunned for a long time, until Tang Ke screamed and pounced on her and jumped and jumped, she did not react, she was the third system of spiritual roots, the test passed, the door of the fairy yuan was half open to her, she had the hope of entering the outer door hall to learn, under the excitement, tears flowed for a long time.
Tang Ke and Tang Huan held hands, and under the guidance of the deacon of the outer gate, they entered the main hall in the depths of the square, and the three Taoists returned to the state of closing their eyes and recuperating their minds.
The guards tested in turn, except for one that was found to be four spirit roots, the rest were all no spirit roots, and they were all guided out.
Then, Su Hao stood in front of the stone gate.