Spring has not yet emerged, and the weather in the early morning is still a little cold, but in today's inner city of Shenjing, it is warm and warm.

Because there are 30,000 candidates, many people want to travel at a staggered peak to avoid delays.

Before the hour came, outside the Gongyuan in the eastern corner of the inner city, there was already a crowd of people queuing up, stretching for miles to fill the streets.

The serious spring shirts and Confucian clothes they wore were very thin, but they didn't feel the slightest coldness.

The old man has long known the inside story and is accustomed to it, and the newcomers who participated in the Spring Festival for the first time in other states looked up at the sky under the guidance of the "seniors".

It was not for them to see the starry sky and waning moon, but the dome light film that covered the entire inner city, the looming mystical runes, and the spiritual power Dao light that scurried like meteors from time to time, bringing everyone a strong sense of security.

In order to smoothly carry out the test, the entire inner city will open the whole process of the city protection circle, which will last for three days.

This is not a semi-dormant state like usual, although there are many defense and warning functions, but the consumption and power are not as good as the hair at this time.

During these three days, the Great Array of Protectors was running at full power.

Maintaining a constant temperature under the cover of the formation is just an incidental function that can not be smaller.

However, there is a rumor among the people that there is a concubine in Daxu Taizong who is very afraid of the cold, and the concubine likes to wander around the inner city in civilian clothes, so this function is specially designed for Bo Hongyan to smile.

There is a Yang God True Monarch from the top ten sects in the world, who has seen the city protection array in its heyday, and bluntly said that his own mountain protection array can't compare to this array.

As long as there are treasury spirit stones, in ordinary terms, Shenjing City can be said to never fall.

Zhou Bai also finished freshening up at this time, and joined the queue under the urging of Si Jie and the three of them, along with Qi Hua.

In fact, Zhou Bai was also strange, why did he come for a few days, Dingzhou raised few people, and Sun Yucheng didn't meet either.

As everyone knows, Sun Yucheng was at the front of a certain long dragon at this time, secretly scolding and scolding.

After the once-in-a-century dragon god debriefing, there will be an opportunity.

This is the general news of the Sun family's inheritance as a veteran county, although he doesn't know what the specific opportunity is, but he knows that at this time, every point must be fought for.

Bu Yuanzi calculated that in one to three years, his latent dragon qi would grow.

If you can get into the top three this time, you will definitely be able to take the lead with this position, and it is not easy to do things just by virtue of a person's identity.

Tongjinshi started as a county or even a county order, and even if there is an official position to make up for the relationship, it is also a minor official.

But Sun Yucheng never expected that he would give up the face of the Sun family and pull a few Dingzhou sons to chant poems by the Ningjiang River for half a month, but he did not attract the Dragon King of Ningjiang.

In the end, he broke up unhappily, and before he arrived in Shenjing City, he received news from Bu Yuanzi from home.

Zhou Bai may be an obstacle to his rise in Bei'an County, giving him a chance to press him.

Specifically, they still have to meet, so that Bu Yuanzi can have a chance to judge the possibility that the other party is a hidden dragon.

When the hidden dragon is in the abyss, it is difficult to show any traces.

Even a person like Bu Yuanzi, who specializes in easy counting, has to inherit the legacy of his master in order to be sure that Sun Yucheng is a hidden dragon.

It stands to reason that in the middle of the Yangtze River, there can be several hidden dragons in one state.

Dingzhou, which has only been included in the Central Plains Dynasty for a hundred years and has a population of less than 10 million, can have two or three dragon veins, which can be regarded as Dingzhou's good development and can generate latent dragon energy.

There is Sun Yucheng in Bei'an County, and there is also Zhou Bai who is suspected of being a hidden dragon, which is something that Bu Yuanzi can't understand.

In any case, since getting Bu Yuanzi Fuzuo, many of his suggestions have played a substantive role.

So Sun Yucheng was very trusting, so he decided to cut off Zhou Bai's luck.

According to his thoughts, Zhou Bai was born in a rural family, and no matter how talented he is, his luck is also a shortcoming.

It should be impossible to get the top three in the highly competitive Spring Exam.

Just in case, Sun Yucheng wanted to block Zhou Bai's place to get luck.

For example, from Dadu to Shenjing, there are many famous literati relics along the way, and it is possible to obtain relics in these places.

Another example is the city emperor temple and the land temple with more manifestations...... These temples are also places where it is possible to receive gifts from the gods.

Sun Yucheng himself may not be able to obtain these mysterious luck, but he can interfere with Zhou Bai's acquisition.

As long as Zhou Bai is really a hidden dragon, and he happens to appear, the hidden dragon sees the hidden dragon, and the qi machine will inevitably collide and entangle.

In this way, in the eyes of those sensitive gods, or "remnant souls", the Hidden Dragon Destiny can no longer be concealed.

In front of a hidden dragon, investing in another hidden dragon, this kind of risky thing that no god wants to do.

After all, the gift of luck, the legacy of ownerless luck, etc., are all investments, layouts, and the recipient is involved in cause and effect.

For example, Zhou Bai, accepting the luck of the Tingshan Mountain God, he wants to save the Canglan Water God.

As long as Zhou Bai and Sun Yucheng are together, the general luck will not be obtained by either of them.

Of course, if Zhou Bai was not a hidden dragon, Sun Yucheng would not be worried at all.

Not only will it not be hostile, but it will spend energy and resources to apologize and make friends.

Sun Yucheng relied on the large number of people he brought with him and the advantage of setting off in advance, while going to each location to run a lap first, and sending people to the ferry to squat.

As a result, when all his luck points were finished, Zhou Bai still did not appear, and at this time, he was only a month away from the exam, and Sun Yucheng could only continue to go to Shenjing.

He wasn't too depressed, after all, he didn't run a lap in vain, he had accumulated a lot of gift luck, and he had more confidence to get the top three.

As for those conditions, he didn't pay attention to them at all, and if he could take advantage of the situation and become the master of one party, he could easily end this cause and effect.

But if you fail and turn into dry bones in the grave, then why worry about the debts of your life.

finally arrived in Shenjing City in the last few days, and Sun Yucheng finally learned why he didn't wait for Zhou Bai, because he showed off his style in the Dragon Palace and won the first place in the chance competition.

With the support of the dragon clan, there must be no shortage of luck in the title of the gold list, which made Sun Yucheng's thoughts uncertain, and he couldn't read a few pages of the book.

So much so that for today's exam, he was almost the first group of people to come to the Gongyuan to wait for the exam.

Hidden dragons can fail, and there have even been hidden dragons in history who have been defeated and fought repeatedly, and finally become real dragons.

But when the hidden dragon rises, it must not fail, and if it fails, there is nothing.

Zhou Bai didn't know that Sun Yucheng and him were actually in the same team, otherwise he would have to say hello and see how it was going.

In his previous life, Sun Yucheng didn't know if he was invited by the Dragon King of Ningjiang, anyway, the ranking of Chunqiu was only worthy of the middle of the top three.

Although he was in the same jinshi, he did not become a celestial, so that he was restricted by the governor of the imperial court for a long time, delaying the opportunity to sweep Dingdong.

The sky is getting brighter, and the candidates in the queue around seem to have adjusted their minds and began to discuss the exam in a relaxed manner.

"You see, those Fanbangju people don't know why they are here to participate, and they are crowding out our quota."

"Non-yes, non-yes, Brother Ren should be generous, just look at the number of people admitted in the past, they won't want to stay in Daxu as an official with Jinshi, but Jinshi is difficult to produce in a hundred years."

Zhou Bai listened to the conversation and glanced at the Fanbang candidates who were mixed in the crowd from time to time, and each of them had almost a heavy face.

Also, for more than 300 years in Daxu, there are really not a few celestial quotas that have been lost.

"I heard that the chief examiner this time is the idiot king, and the deputy examiner is the university scholar and the six books."

"The Prince Rui of the previous generation?"

"This is not a discord between etiquette, how can there be a reason for the royal family to invigilate."

"Shhhh

The topic mentioned was too sensitive, causing the surroundings to be silent for an instant, and Zhou Bai could even see a few people who spoke just now, with a look of fear on their faces.

However, Zhou Bai really didn't pay attention to who the examiner was, but he didn't expect it to be Prince Rui.

This is the youngest brother of the current emperor, when Emperor Xiangxing was not the crown prince, Prince Rui was favored by both his parents and his elder brother.

Originally, Emperor Xiangxing was a well-deserved prince, but the previous emperor and queen favored Prince Rui too much, and actually wanted to make him the crown prince.

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The Son of Heaven rules the world, and after death, he can still enter the Dragon Court as the emperor and sit on a dragon chair.

Faced with this temptation, Prince Rui not only did not want it, but sternly refused, telling his parents that his brother was the most suitable.

After Emperor Xiangxing ascended the throne, Prince Rui naturally became his right-hand man, not only did not live in idleness or go out like other brothers, but stayed in the court to deal with government affairs.

There is even a joke among the people, calling him "Vice Emperor".

After a few years, the "vice emperor" gradually lived up to its name, and all civil and military officials bowed down to him.

Later, I don't know if Emperor Xiangxing felt that the imperial power was threatened, or if Prince Rui suddenly became stupid.

In short, in a very peaceful day, this crazy king never appeared in the court again, nor did he appear in the outside world's field of vision.

There is only one official announcement, Prince Rui suddenly fell ill.

In this way, he has been staying in the Ruiwang Mansion under the roots of the imperial city, and he has been closed for decades.

Unexpectedly, to this day, Emperor Xiangxing is seriously ill, and Prince Rui instead returns to the Daxu Dynasty with the position of the chief examiner.

Maybe it's to grasp the last batch of talents before the troubled times? Or do you want this person to go out of the mountain to stabilize the overall situation?

Zhou Bai put aside these things at the overall level, and asked Qi Hua who was standing in front with a smile, "Brother Qi is confident?" ”

Qi Hua first nodded, then shook his head again, and said: "If I get the opportunity of Tingshan in the last session, I may be sure enough to win, but I really dare not say this time." ”

"Then if you can win, will you choose Jinshi or Tongjinshi?" Zhou Bai asked again, and he suddenly realized that he had never talked about this with his friends.

Qi Hua said as a matter of course: "Jinshi is a scholar who pays tribute to the heavenly court, for the imperial court, Tongjinshi is the real talent that can be used, of course I choose the latter." ”

Zhou Bai was stunned, because in this era of transcendence, heaven and man can be expected, and Tongjinshi is often a secondary choice who cannot pass the top two grades.

Perhaps seeing his friend's incomprehension, the corners of Qi Hua's mouth curved into an arc: "My Qi family has been blessed by Daxu since the time of the ancestor Wu Weibo, and I have been the official of Daxu for generations, until now I am the lord of Xiao Cavalry, how can I not repay it as a descendant of the Qi family." ”

"Zijian doesn't need to worry about me, everyone yearns for the way of heaven and man, you should take it."

"There is a heavenly brother, and my Qi Hua also has face!"

Zhou Bai's expression was complicated, and he said slowly: "As you wish." ”

It is no wonder that in the previous life, Daxu was obviously fragmented, and the princes divided the place, but he still maintained a considerable part of the territory for a long time.

There are many careerists in the last days of the dynasty, such as the Qi family, and there are many loyal fans who stand with the imperial court.

Zhou Bai was even already thinking that in the future, if he sought to take the county town, he had to pay attention to Qi Hua's feelings, maybe the Qi family could no longer be used as the internal response he envisioned.

With the gradual convergence of 30,000 candidates, the surrounding area of the Gongyuan has fallen into a sea of people.

However, fortunately, the imperial court had already planned that all the main roads of the Gongyuan had been turned into controlled areas, and the guards wearing pitch-black armor stood on the wall to prevent accidents.

The sky was completely bright, and the first rays of sunlight in the early morning shone directly on the Mingyuan Building in the center of the Gongyuan, and the glazed red tiles were shining.

Mingyuan Building is the central building of Shenjing Gongyuan, and it is also the tallest building, with nine floors high, the lower eaves are out of the eaves, there are windows on all sides, and the view is extremely broad.

Needless to say, this is where the inspectors and inspectors stay in the Mingyuan Building, and they can see any corner of the examination area of the Gongyuan Academy.

It is said that on the upper floor of Mingyuan, there is also a special monitoring instrument, so that it is no problem to see the words on the candidates' test papers.

"The time has come, open the dragon gate!"

The dragon gate of the Gongyuan, which is comparable to the width of the gate of Shenjing City, squeaks,

"Candidates enter!"

The majestic and deep voice of the gatekeeper was transmitted to the ears of each candidate through the amplification method, and they understood that they could wait for the examination in the Tribute Academy.

All of a sudden, five long lines of people advanced rapidly, seemingly without any stop.

When it was Zhou Bai's turn to the front, he knew what was going on, it turned out that there was no gatekeeping inspection process at all in this test, and there was no form.

Even at the door, there is no Taoist official holding a magic weapon to search, as long as you enter the Gongyuan, you can find the examination shed hall you want to go to on the panel marked with the examination area.

This is to believe that people don't even check the test number plate?

In fact, there are gods in the first three feet, and many great gods gather here, so there is no need to worry about cheating, and someone will sneak into the examination room.

Because there is no license plate, even the dragon gate can't enter.

As soon as Zhou Bai stepped into the Dragon Gate, his soul sensed that an invisible barrier had been crossed, and a small formation had been opened separately in the entire Tribute Courtyard.

The outer city is half-open, the inner city is fully open, and the tribute courtyard has another layer and three layers of protection, which is really extremely safe.

On the wooden panel around the siege, Zhou Bai found his own non-character examination room, and then shuttled through the tribute courtyard.

"A few people go first, good luck." At this point, all too many words are useless, and it depends on the next three days.

There are no guards, and there are no ubiquitous Taoist officials, some are just scattered clerical petty officials, who will be responsible for guiding candidates and subsequent examination work.

It is certain that there is no danger in the Gongwon.

Not to mention that the gods of the Heavenly Court and the Qingyi-level Kyoto City Emperor must be staring, let's just say that the few old men who were talking and laughing on the Mingyuan Tower, any one of them was a big man at the Yang God True Monarch level.

The Yin God is respected as a real person, and his lifespan is three hundred, and he can start a sect.

And only by surviving the thunder tribulation can he achieve the true monarch of the yang god, and his lifespan will reach eight hundred, and he will not be bound by entering and leaving the green underworld from then on.

It is often said in the Taoist scriptures that only the yang god is qualified to see the demeanor of the thirty-three days.

It wasn't until Zhou Bai sat at the luxurious examination table made of South China Sea mahogany that he figured out the layout of the Shenjing Gongyuan.

With the Mingyuan Building and the Zhongtai Hall as the core, hundreds of palaces and pavilions are arranged around, forming a "feng shui" pattern, no, to be precise, it is a pattern of luck.

Zhou Bai was full of energy, and he didn't understand that this was intentional.

As long as you sit in the surrounding examination room to take the exam, then your luck will not have any dissipation, and all of it will be drawn to the middle of the bureau, and finally to the heavenly court.

Heavenly Court watched, how long would it take for 30,000 high-quality candidates to enter?

The answer is very fast, no one tried to cheat and was caught, and no one made a fuss in front of the dragon gate.

Before Zhou Bai lit a circle of awakening sandalwood burned, the familiar shout came again.

"The dragon gate is locked, and all laws are forbidden!"

Suddenly, Zhou Bai only felt a sinking body, and he couldn't even try to use his divine sense.

In the Zhongtai Palace, Prince Rui, who is wearing a four-clawed dragon robe, is majestic, although there are white silk on his sideburns on both sides, his eyes are sharp and sharp, and his every move is the demeanor of the superior.

Several university scholars may have their own ideas in their hearts, but when they heard the order to lock the dragon gate, they immediately bowed down in unison: "Please take the exam!" ”

I saw that Prince Rui did not procrastinate, stood up straight, lifted his sleeves, and took out a large seal wrapped in dragon pattern yellow cloth from his arms.

Dragon pattern yellow cloth?!

The deputy examiners were horrified, and just as they were about to return to their normal posture, they bent down again, and did not dare to raise their heads.

Sure enough, when the yellow cloth was lifted, there was actually a jade seal inside.

This is one of the six seals of the Son of Heaven, the letter seal of the Son of Heaven, which was originally used to do things with heaven and earth, ghosts and gods, but I didn't expect it to be brought by Prince Rui today.

Then Prince Rui held it in both hands, and very solemnly placed the letter seal of the Son of Heaven in the middle of the eucalyptus table, where there was a circle of golden formations, which was the center point of the entire tribute courtyard.

Airplanes~

A pressure that was heavier than the previous prohibition of the laws came, and all the candidates in the audience, including Zhou Bai, were almost pressed on the table.

I am worried that the luck of the 30,000 candidates this time is too large, and the previous Wang Yin can't hold it down, so I specially invite the letter seal of the Son of Heaven?

Prince Rui's mouth opened slightly, as if spitting out a dragon's groan, sweeping the audience.

Town Luck!