The lifespan of ordinary people is generally only seventy or eighty years, and there are very few who can live to the age of 100 years, and after the martial artist enters the realm of life, the life span will be extended accordingly, if it is not an accidental death, he can generally live to be 100 years old, and a very few can even live to about 150 years old, of course, like the Xuanzhi Heavenly Ancestor, who lives to more than two hundred years old, it can be said that it is a unique outlier.

The Northern Heavenly Kingdom Duke is already more than one hundred and forty years old, and the Northern Heavenly Sword Saint is also more than one hundred and thirty years old, and the second elder can really be said to be on the verge of death, and no one will be surprised if he dies at any time.

People can die, the sect can't be destroyed, the hearts of the Northern Heavenly Kingdom Duke and the Northern Heavenly Sword Saint have always been unable to let go of one thing, that is, the choice of the next sect master of the Northern Heaven Sword Sect, the original best candidate was Yao Qiyuan, but unfortunately Yao Qiyuan died because of the Four Souls Qin Song.

After Yao Qiyuan's death, Yu Xiaosheng gradually grew into a top master, and he had the strength to sit in the sect, but unfortunately Yu Xiaosheng had a loose temperament, liked to travel all over the world, and was not restrained.

The two elders have already entered the coffin with half of their bodies, and what they worry about day and night is the selection of the sect master, although there are many excellent disciples in the Northern Heaven Sword Sect who can take charge of themselves, but they are not enough to support the entire Northern Heaven Sword Sect, such a big behemoth.

So, after the two elders discussed, they decided to take advantage of Yao Xiang's marriage selection to recruit a son-in-law with both ability and political integrity, join the Beitian Sword Sect, inherit the unification in the future, and take charge of the Beitian lineage, the two elders knew that Yao Xiang had a sweetheart, and hoped that he could pass the test and become the person they expected, but if Yao Xiang was not human, the two elders could only sacrifice Yao Xiang's relationship. The survival of the millions of disciples of the Northern Heavenly Sword Sect is the most important.

Xiao Lanyu had seven tricks in his heart, and he guessed the thoughts of the second elder of the Northern Heaven at once, and the hundreds of thousands of young talents attending the meeting, and even the millions of disciples of the Northern Heaven Sword Sect, did not completely guess the true intentions of the second elder, and simply thought that they were just recruiting and choosing a son-in-law.

After listening to Xiao Lanyu's analysis, Shi Sheng also felt very reasonable, nodded, and said, "Then these three tests will inevitably be sad one by one." The first test is already difficult to do. I don't know what the next two are?"

Xiao Lanyu glanced at Shi Sheng and said, "Ah Sheng, you really think it's the first test." Just write a word and you're done?"

Shi Sheng was stunned. "Didn't the host say it?" As long as you write this word within a stick of incense, will it be considered a pass?"

Xiao Lanyu shook her head slightly and said, "It's not that simple. What is the name of the first test?'The real purpose of the first test is to test the spirit of the participants and test the hearts of the participants. ”

Speaking of this, Xiao Lanyu sighed lightly and said, "The Second Elder of Beitian must have put a lot of thought into these three tests, and he really had good intentions. After a pause, he said: "This first test, in fact, is divided into two parts, the external test is the writing test that everyone knows, the test is the mind and understanding, the external test of the word '囗' is a hidden trap, and in terms of the internal test, the word 'heart' is also a trap." ”

"Everyone focused on external testing, and they didn't realize that they had fallen into the trap of the word 'heart', so they ignored the existence of internal testing, which is both the backbone and the human heart. Saying that, Xiao Lanyu put the strange words written by Shi Sheng and the strange words written by himself together, and said: "Ah Sheng, you see, although the two of us write the same word, only the strokes are the same, and the glyphs, pen power, structure, etc., are almost completely different. ”

Shi Sheng said: "This is normal, people's handwriting is originally different." Xiao Lanyu said: "Calligraphy, there has always been a saying, called 'looking at people's eyebrows is not as good as knowing people's pen and ink', that is, the words written by a person can reflect a person's character to a large extent, such as a person with a strong personality, most of the words he writes are strong and powerful, horizontal and vertical, and the words written by a person with a weak personality are mostly more vain and weak. ”

Shi Sheng will be suspicious: "Isn't it just to write a word? How can it be so mysterious? What do you say about copying and depicting red?" Xiao Lanyu smiled slightly, and said: "Can copying and depicting red be exactly the same? People have hearts, words have word souls, only calligraphy to the advanced realm, can understand what is the soul of words, as far as I know, the Northern Heavenly Kingdom is a generation of calligraphy saints, for him, 'one word to see people's hearts' is not a difficult thing, not to mention, we wrote this strange word, it was written with 'heart'. ”

Shi Sheng was puzzled: "Write with 'heart'?" Xiao Lanyu nodded and said, "Yes, when we wrote the word 'heart', we were deeply immersed in memories, and when we woke up, we had already burned half a pillar of incense." ”

"Ah Sheng, have you noticed? When we woke up, the ink was still wet at the end of the stroke of the word 'heart', indicating that we wrote the word 'heart' and wrote half a pillar of incense, that is, half an hour!"

Shi Sheng's heart sank, as Xiao Lanyu said, when he came back to his senses, he did see that the ink was slightly wet, and he originally thought it was wet with tears, but he didn't think it was because the ink was not dry.

Xiao Lanyu continued: "A simple 'heart' word, we wrote it for half an hour, because the force comes out of the heart, we are writing this word with our hearts, our hearts are all engraved in this painting, we write this word when a shudder, a fast and a slow, a light and a heavy, all contain our emotions, truly reflect our hearts, so the important thing is not this word, but the process of writing this word, just like we have experienced such things, the important thing is not the result, but the process." ”

Speaking of this, Xiao Lanyu sighed lightly and said: "The power of the glyph-shaped pen, the wind and bones, the history of one word, which shows the hearts of the people, this is the internal test of this test, 'the pen falls out of the wind and bones, and the words look at the hearts of the people'." ”

Shi Sheng completely understood now, looked at the strange words on the paper, and said, "I finally know now, why are you so sure, the Northern Heaven Sword Sect must want to choose the next sect master." ”

Xiao Lanyu smiled slightly and said, "In my guess, the external test of the word '囗' is the real first test, and the internal test of the word 'heart' should actually be the third test." ”

Shi Sheng was taken aback and said, "How do you say this?" Xiao Lanyu said: "The first test, as long as we can write this word, it will be considered a pass, this is just the content of the '囗' word test, and it has nothing to do with the word 'heart', so I guess that the Northern Heaven Sword Saint and the Northern Heaven Kingdom Duke should be able to browse the strange words we wrote, identify the wind and bones, and then make a selection, after all, the stakes are very high, and the two elders of the Northern Heaven will definitely not allow any mistakes." (To be continued......)