Volume 1, Young as Zhiyun Chapter 5, The Academy and the Maiden
The four courtyards of Tianqi are different, but the same thing is that admission requires an exam, or a trial.
These trials are difficult and easy, and the most difficult is the first Heavenly Chosen Academy. As the first academy in the Ming face of the Dayu Imperial Court, there are countless strong people in the imperial court cultivated every year, and it is naturally much more difficult to enter the hospital.
I heard that I had to climb a high mountain, cross a big river, and finally have a long literature paper.
The former is based on your physique, which is naturally much easier for cultivators, and the latter is your accumulation, even if you practice, you may not be able to pass.
The examination patterns of other colleges may change, but what remains unchanged is the test of spiritual practice.
There are three thousand avenues, hundreds of schools, and cultivation is the key.
However, Seifuin Temple is different, and the difference is that Seifuin Temple does not require cultivation.
Seifuin's entrance exam is notoriously monotonous, but it's also notoriously unusual.
In the hundreds of years since the establishment of the institute, the mode of examination has been randomly selected, either written or composed in Linxing. And what about the questions of the exam? What's even more interesting is that many people have forgotten what the previous topic was, only the most recent one, what do you think your previous life was?
Is this a problem? Everyone was thinking in their hearts. But I have to write it, so I write it head-on. The most incomprehensible thing is that such an exam is also scored first and second, and the person who ranks high has to publish his answers on the list.
So you can see all kinds of strange answers: I'm a fly, I'm a shark, I'm a mountain, I'm a river...... The first place of the year was written that I thought my past life was a burning stick.
People see this answer and think to themselves, you're so hard, you can get the first place.
Isn't Seifuin trying to recruit a few cooks from this?
Therefore, the entrance examination every year is the most lively time in Qingfeng Temple, and people don't care who is the first place, what are the highlights of scholars? What people care about is what kind of exam it is and what the topic is. This is very interesting.
After registering with one of the young men in blue clothes, Bai Jiu continued to walk inside with the crowd.
There was an open space in front of him, and close to him he could see an old man, who was supposed to be a gentleman, sitting reclining in a chair, holding a teapot in his right hand and a book in his left. Next to him was a stone, black and dotted with white stripes.
Bai Jiu looked at the black and white stone and was stunned for a moment.
The young man in the lead spoke, and he said that if anyone had practiced, they could go there and try it.
This sentence confirmed Bai Jiu's conjecture, it was an induction stone, and Bai Jiu had seen it, because the Chen family had many pieces.
Xu Fuzi, a famous landscape traveler in Dayu, once wrote a book that recorded his life's travels and descriptions of strange things in various places. That book was called The Book of Mountains and Seas, and Bai Jiu had seen it in the Chen family's collection, so he knew that this strange stone produced in the South China Sea had a very strange function.
There is naturally something similar to divine consciousness in this kind of stone, as long as it encounters the human body, it can separate a wisp into the human body, just like fishing, and bring out a part of the true qi in the human body into the stone. The more abundant the true qi of the person holding the stone, the stronger the divine sense, the brighter the stone will be. Over time, people have analyzed a set of rules that can judge the strength of a person from the brightness of the stone.
Seifu-in Temple does not focus on cultivation, but it does not mean that there are no people who do not practice. The old gentleman sat very far to the side, and the young man in the lead also said that he could try it, but he did not say that he had to go.
So most people chose not to go, and only a small number walked over.
A young man held the stone and did not react. The other stepped forward, the stone leaking a faint glow. From time to time someone stretched out his hand, the stones were bright or dark, but none of them were enough to attract the old gentleman, who just raised his head from time to time and took a sip of tea.
It's not that this old gentleman doesn't care, it's that these are too ordinary, Qingfeng Academy was originally a literary academy, there are very few cultivators, and those young cultivation geniuses are even rarer, compared to other academies, there is a world of difference. It's all those things that come and go, and there's nothing new.
These things are not as real as reading books.
Human cultivation focuses on enlightenment and enlightenment, from the most basic feeling of the breath of heaven and earth, to the future of self-cultivation into true qi, which requires not hard work, but enlightenment and talent.
The most basic expression of enlightenment is that the breath of heaven and earth travels throughout the body, just like taking a bath, but this is the washing of the body, happiness and wisdom, and the sea of condensation, and finally turns into the true qi and guards the dantian, which is the first step of cultivation - condensing qi.
Qingfeng Temple does not pay attention to cultivation, for new students, cultivation is dispensable, and for old students, the academy encourages cultivation, at least you have to pass the first level of cultivation, which is condensation.
Because condensing qi is not only physical strengthening, but also the most important thing is the opening of the mind. Enlightenment and enlightenment, greatly improving memory and analytical skills, so that the ten lines at a glance is not just a joke.
In this world, the number of books is more than 10,000 years, and Seifuin has the largest book building in Yong'an City. The avenue is three thousand, and the pen and ink books are also a kind of inheritance avenue, to gallop in this sea of literature, without a firm mind, it is easy to get lost in it, and the mind is broken by the waves of literature and ink, and finally becomes a nerd, useless.
From these aspects, there is a certain amount of truth in the requirements of Seifuin, the success of condensing qi is a great help for reading, and most importantly, isn't it just a breath of learning?
Bai Jiu has been studying for more than ten years, but he has not practiced, that is to say, he has not had the most basic condensation, so he did not try.
One after another, people tried it, and until Bai Jiu was about to get away from the old gentleman, the stone did not shine particularly brightly.
It can be seen that the young man in the lead is a little lost. No less than a hundred people had held the stone from early morning to this time, but the light was too faint. Can Seifuin only be some scholars?
Just as everyone thought so, a bright light suddenly rose from behind them.
The half-lost maple tree in the courtyard suddenly turned an unusually fiery red. The surface of the Qishui River is imprinted with this light, and it is as beautiful as a picture. The yellowish grass stood upright, like golden pins, and the cicada on the tree did not dare to make a sound.
It's late autumn now, and the autumn sun is as warm as a hard-boiled egg. How dazzling is that kind of sunlight, people subconsciously cover the light with their hands, but find that it is not from the sun.
Where is this light? The dazzling eyes of good life, the bright brightness of good life.
The brightness faded, and the eyes became a little more adapted, and people lowered the hand covering their eyes, and saw that it was the old gentleman's hand that was raised in the air and stalemate, and a look of astonishment. At the same time, people also saw where the brightness came from - it was a girl in white.
The black-and-white sensing stone was shining like a volcanic rock, and countless rays of light shot out from the woman's hand, as if it were burning.
"Into the Spirit...... It's already in the spirit! ”
The exclamation came from the leading young man, his voice trembling. The old gentleman couldn't help but take a heavy sip of tea, slapped the table and stood up, and said, "Who are you?" ”
The girl's face still looked childish, obviously not more than sixteen years old, but she was already in the spirit.
What does this mean? That's genius.
"What is your origin?"
The girl did not answer, but replied to an indifferent gentleman behind him. "The genius girl of the Ouyang family, Ouyang Luo. Since it is Ouyang Luo, then it is nothing. ”
"Ouyang Luo? I didn't expect it to be Ouyang Luo! Hearing this name, people's exclamations were even higher, and someone said: "Ouyang Luo of the Ouyang family, she actually left the Ouyang family and reported to Qingfeng Courtyard?" Could it be for next year's hidden dragon test? But her ability to choose the academy is not a problem, why did she come to the academy here? ”
Someone explained: "Ouyang Luo's personality is very cold, very similar to the girl Qiao in Luoxue Building, the position of Miss Qiao on the flower list has always been in front of her, this time it is estimated that she is here for this." Moreover, Ouyang Luo doesn't like lively places, compared to other colleges, Qingfeng Courtyard is a quiet place. ”
Speaking of Miss Qiao, many people's eyes were hot, but their gaze at Ouyang Luo did not show any coldness. Both of them are beautiful women, and naturally admiration will arise in the hearts of these young scholars. Someone said: "I heard that the Tianyu of the Daomen will also go down the mountain this time, I don't know if I can meet the night of the West Gate, if I can meet it, this time the hidden dragon test should be extraordinarily lively." ”
Someone answered: "Probably not, Daomen pays attention to tranquility and does not compete with the world, Tianyu is a representative of the younger generation, and his mood is naturally indifferent." ”
Someone retorted: "Isn't the first place in the Qianlong test a few years ago also a member of the Daomen, who can say anything about worldly things." ”
Everyone was talking, and suddenly someone remembered the previous voice, and everyone looked at it, only to see that it was Vice President Mo of Qingfeng Academy, and they couldn't help but be stunned, and hurriedly saluted.
Talented? Overmatch? The top few characters on the Tanhua list, such a person, is a treasure in any college. Seifu-in Temple is a matter of course. Soon, someone took the girl away and entered the building in the depths of Seifu-in.