Chapter 12: A Strange Appraisal (I)
Po Yuanzong's audition test lasted for three days, and Song Pingcun came to see it for three days, there were children and teenagers from a few years old to more than ten years old, and some of them had been in previous years, and they always felt that they were not good enough.
Song Pingcun relied on his own judgment and saw that the so-called test, in addition to what Liu Yiyi said, still depends on the body's instinctive reaction.
The information that Mu Ling didn't know in the observation of the Broken Yuan Sect was how to assess, and the sect did not record or discuss it, which seemed to be a daily activity of the Broken Yuan Sect.
The deacon hall of the sect is responsible for arranging personnel, the outer gate of the deacon hall is responsible for the audition, and the disciples of the deacon hall are responsible for the final assessment, and not even an elder has come forward, which is somewhat unrigorous.
There is not much difference between the Broken Yuan Sect and the ordinary cultivation sects, the middle of the sect master peak is the main place for the Broken Yuan Sect, and the halfway of the peak is the Tibetan Scripture Pavilion, which preserves the cultivation exercises in the Broken Yuan Sect.
Under the mountain is the main hall of the sect for ordinary affairs, the left and right sides of the main hall are the hall of transmission of merit and the hall of the deacon, and the Jiang workshop is behind the sect master's peak, there are two peaks on the left and right, which are Longteng Peak, Tiger Roaring Peak, Fengqi Peak, and Heming Peak, but the medicine garden is located in the depths of Fengchi Mountain, and only one deacon and real person are cultivators.
Mu Ling observed for a long time, but he didn't notice that other cultivators appeared in the medicine garden, and the place where the soul grass was planted was actually in the depths of the cave where the real person lived, not somewhere in the medicine garden.
A special point is that under the mountain gate of the Broken Yuan Sect, there is a Yuan Stone vein until the Sect Master Peak. For ordinary people, it was a priceless treasure, but for the cultivation sect, it was just a refining material. Moreover, this Yuanshi vein has begun to appear in a state of refinement, but the people who break the Yuan Sect don't seem to know what impact the refinement state will bring.
The formation of the Yuan Stone Mine and then the refinement of the Spirit Stone, the Yuan Stone Mine in this process is a bloodsucking worm, of course, if these small changes are not well known to the cause, they really don't know, and the impact is not very obvious. Because the process of refining the Yuan Stone into the Spirit Stone is often measured in 10,000 years, no one on the Blue Star can record this change.
I don't know how many tens of thousands of years later, this Yuan Stone Mine may be the largest spirit stone vein on the Blue Star, how deep and wide the vein is, Mu Ling did not go to check.
Because that wasn't his concern, he just wanted to know how to make Childe smoothly control the cultivation of the soul grass in his hands.
After the end of the third day of the test, those who passed the test and were notified to participate in the second stage of the assessment were to wait outside the city gate early in the morning of the fourth day, and a disciple of the Broken Yuan Sect came to lead them.
The children who came from Songji Town with Luo Mengkai did not pass the test unexpectedly, it was more of a novelty for them, and it could be regarded as a bit of knowledge, and Luo Mengkai temporarily settled in the southern capital city and waited.
In the morning, after Liu Yiyi waited for Song Pingcun to get up, she put on a small coat for him, as a "maid", she was no longer as shy as when she first came to Lanxing, almost every day twelve hours by Song Pingcun's side, it turned out that the maid at home in Song Jizhen was basically fine.
"Why do you have an extra little coat?"
"Childe, you are different from those who participated in the assessment, judging from the test site, Po Yuanzong should have other means to test, and you must wear this gown close to your body in the future to prevent accidents." Liu Yiyi called Gongzi in her mouth, but she didn't dare to be sloppy at all.
This gown was originally refined for her by the elders of the fox clan when her cultivation was still low, and it was useless for a long time, but she never thought that it would be useful at this time.
If Song Pingcun didn't have the memory of sealing, he might not agree. At this time, Liu Yiyi can be regarded as "violating" the requirements set by the Emperor of Heaven, but Liu Yiyi doesn't care, life safety is the first.
"Well, it smells so good!" As soon as he put it on, Song Pingcun's nose moved, and he noticed a faint fragrance.
"Childe!" Originally, everything was normal, but this sentence suddenly made Liu Yiyi blush, maybe she was used to her body odor, and she didn't notice it at all.
Song Pingcun's sudden words reminded Liu Yiyi that the gown was originally worn by her, and it had been contaminated with her body odor over the years. The girl's shyness was provoked at once.
"Well, I like the smell very much, it seems familiar!" Song Pingcun didn't seem to notice it at all, and still muttered to himself. Although memories are sealed, some instinctive perceptions and reactions are not in memory, but accumulated over time.
Liu Xiaoqing, the patriarch of the fox clan, is his beloved concubine, and he has been with him for hundreds of thousands of years, and these do not need to be remembered at all.
When Liu Yiyi heard this, she almost softened, her hands stopped on Song Pingcun's chest, and she forgot that she was still serving her son and dressing.
It wasn't until Song Pingcun noticed the abnormality and asked, "Yiyi, your face is so red?" ”
"That's there."
Liu Yiyi was shocked to realize her gaffe, her hand was actually on the body of the Emperor of Heaven, and the deer in her heart couldn't be suppressed at all.
Luo Kun and Luo Mengkai got up early and accompanied their grandsons Luo Tuowei and Song Pingcun, as well as a child of the Luo family who passed the test, to go out of the city in a carriage.
There were already hundreds of people waiting outside the city gate, most of them family members, and more than 100 people actually passed the test.
At midnight, several figures swept in from a distance, and all the waiting carriages, carts, horses, and donkeys jumped out of the carriages, and stood beside the carriages without moving.
When he approached, he didn't see the summons, nor did he see the check, and one of the disciples of the Broken Yuan Sect who was in the lead only shouted: "All the candidates who participated in the entrance assessment can set off and run to the front of the sect gate to check the list." ”
Those who already had experience in the past session said goodbye to their relatives and set off directly, and ran away with a disciple of the Broken Yuan Sect who took the lead. Luo Kun also told Song Pingcun to take care of Luo Tuowei on the way, after all, it is one thing for a little fat man to eat, but this fat body is also a burden.
This run is not a race, and there is no speed required, but everyone is worried that they will fall behind and lose their impression points in the eyes of the examiners, so it is not a race but it is like a race.
The distance of nearly 20 miles was less than half an hour, and the slow one took nearly two hours.
This includes Song Pingcun and Luo Tuowei, who almost dragged the little fat man in the second half of the journey. This is also due to the fact that he is already at the peak of his forging body, and if he changes to other assessors, he may not be able to drag the little fat man to the front of the Broken Yuan Sect.
No one complained, the real assessment was only after 20 miles, and some were even glad that there was a delay in this "dry rice king" this year to recover their physical strength.
In front of the sect, there were disciples who were registering to check their identities, and Song Pingcun and Luo Tuowei received the number plates of 112 and 113 respectively.
When everyone arrived, the disciples who presided over the assessment called everyone to gather in the order of the number plates, Song Pingcun's eyes swept around, and there were a few faces that were relatively unfamiliar, and they should be candidates who were exempted from the audition and directly participated in the second stage of the assessment like him. Among the 113 candidates, more than a dozen candidates were women.
Standing in line, the disciple who presided over the assessment announced loudly: "Everyone, listen, enter the sect archway and go two miles ahead, and there is a swamp on the right. You need to pass through the swamp, swim past a waterhole, and then walk out of the bamboo forest on the other side, and climb the cliff behind the bamboo forest. ”
"There will be sect disciples along the way, watching you, if you want to quit, just raise your hand."
In addition to the route of travel, there are no rules, no ranking, such an assessment has to be said to be very unexpected.
Luo Tuowei, who was walking at the end, pulled Song Pingcun's sleeve and whispered: "Brother, you don't have to worry about me later." Grandpa said that I would be selected by the Foreign Affairs Hall, and that being able to participate in the assessment was my limit, and there was no need to drag you down. ”
Song Pingcun nodded, and the deacon named Zhang Kuo had already made it very clear when he came to the first day banquet in the southern capital, and the head of the Luo family also meant this at the time, because it was not an assessment before, he didn't care about pulling the little fat man forward.
Now that the assessment has really begun, and he is not sure what the evaluation criteria are, he himself has to be careful to deal with it, nodded and said, "Then you are careful." ”
Song Pingcun and the more than 100 children and teenagers who participated in the assessment followed the disciples of the Broken Yuan Sect into the mountain gate, and walked two miles, and sure enough, they saw a strange swamp on the right hand.
It looks too calm, like a farmland starved of water, with weeds and splendent beings.
With the start of the presiding disciple, more than 100 people rushed in, and when they entered the swamp, they realized that the muscosity of the mud in this swamp was extremely high, and it was difficult to pull it out with one foot, of course, this was also for children, and some taller teenagers were much easier.
Song Pingcun glanced at Luo Tuowei behind him, it was estimated that it would be very difficult for this fat man to cross the swamp, and if he moved forward step by step, his physical strength would be directly exhausted before he finished walking through the swamp. Whispered, "Fatty, get out." ”