Volume 1 The Sword Between the Eyebrows Chapter 4 Examination
The cold comes and the summer comes and goes, the wind blows off the leaves, and it's another year.
Zhou Yang felt the coolness, put down the scroll, pushed open the small window, and looked outside, his thoughts uneven.
It has been three years since he entered the academy, and Zhou Yang has long been used to it. At the beginning, the child has jumped a lot higher in three years. The face has changed from immature to delicate, and the years have passed, not a child, but a teenager.
"Three years have passed in a blink of an eye, and today is the day of the entrance examination! What happens in the future, it depends on today!" Zhou Yang sighed in a tone.
After studying and learning words in the school for three years, he worked very hard, not only to drill through the basic textbooks in the school such as "Dictionary", "Cihai" and "Zihua Tongjian". He also worked hard to learn the basic knowledge of martial arts such as "Martial Arts Basics", "Bone Distribution" and "Acupoint Diagram".
In the past three years of study, he already knows that after the success of the entrance examination, the hall will be divided.
Wentang and Wutang are two development directions.
One is internally; the main thing is to learn to govern the world and state politics, which is broad and profound, and a word in the court has more than thousands of influences. The other is self-cultivation, slaying demons, mainly killing demons, and it is external.
Although there are two directions of development, he always remembers his belief and becomes a monk to slay demons. Except for Wutang, he doesn't think about it, so he is the most prepared for the exam of Wutang.
"Whether I can become a monk or not, it depends on today, when I was young, I could only watch my sister and parents being killed by monsters and becoming the cultivation blood food of the tree demon. A few years have passed, and I don't know how many people in my human race have been eaten by monsters, and how many human tragedies there are! The Flame Tree Demon doesn't know if it's still there......" As he spoke, Zhou Yang's eyes became sharper, and after three years of study, he read a lot of classics, and his vision didn't know how much he had risen. He knew that the transformation of a beast into a demon was actually equivalent to the transformation of an ordinary person into a monk. From this, it is not only to gain status, but also to gain strength! Especially the special demon race of the Flame Dryad, which is equivalent to the generation of heaven and earth, is no longer viviparous, egg-like existence. The status of the special demon clan is much higher among them! The strength is naturally stronger! As long as the Flame Dryad does not dissipate its luck and encounters any catastrophe, it will never fall in just three years, and this demon is his mortal enemy.
"People eat beasts, demons eat people, there have been countless years, and no one can tell the rights and wrongs inside. However, people can't not distinguish between grievances and grievances, and revenge will be avenged! If you meet a demon, you still have to kill it. Thinking of this, Zhou Yang's eyes looked to the side.
That was the direction of Wutang.
After studying in the academy for three years, Zhou Yang could only come into contact with some basic martial arts classics, and he was not discouraged and spent these few years laying a solid foundation.
To become a monk, to obtain transcendence, and from now on to have supernatural powers in his hands, flying to the heavens and the earth, he can't understand the truth now.
When the three of Qingxia Mountain rescued him, they flew all the way from the border to Gucheng, and they also fought with the clone of the Flame Dryad in the middle, no matter from which point of view, ordinary people couldn't do it.
Just like ordinary people fighting tigers and lions, they are already peerless murderers, but when they meet a demon, they are also ants, and they can be destroyed at will, and the gap is too big.
Bump! Bump! Bump!
While Zhou Yang was pondering, a knock on the door interrupted his thoughts.
"Come in. Zhou Yang said.
As soon as the voice fell, a teenager walked in from the door, he was wearing a strong suit, about fourteen or five years old, and he was imposing and heroic. Zhou Yang knew this person, who was a student of the same class as him, called Wu Ling.
"Zhou Yang, you're still studying, today is the day of the branch hall!Why don't you want to go to Wutang, are you going to Wentang?!" Wu Ling shouted, but there were mostly jokes in his words. He is a friend of Zhou Yang, so he naturally knows him very well, and everyone has the same goal. Besides, the literary examination has long been over, and he came here to tell Zhou Yang the results of this literary examination.
Zhou Yang didn't answer immediately when he heard this, he glanced at Wu Ling, and frowned slightly.
Mr. Su has told us many times that we should not be busy practicing martial arts first, but to study more to lay a good foundation for the future. If you don't listen now, you'll be given a book of martial arts secrets in the future, and you won't know how to practice!"
The closer the day is to the branch hall, the more restless the students in the academy become, and the students in the Wentang are better, such as the students who aim for the martial arts hall can't stay still. As early as half a year ago, this group of people set up several study groups.
The people who joined the study club began to practice martial arts, and all kinds of martial arts classics, regardless of the origin, were just a messy practice.
Everyone is at the age of strong blood, and after practicing martial arts, they form gangs and fights, and the atmosphere is very bad.
This Wu Ling is Zhou Yang's friend, and he also joined a martial arts study club, at first Zhou Yang was quite excited to join a martial arts study club and practice some martial arts. However, once in class, Mr. Su took out a picture, which showed a drawing of a human body and many lines, for them to understand. It wasn't until an hour or two had passed, and no one had gained anything, that Mr. Su told them that the picture was a diagram of using human qi and blood, and it was one of the secret books of martial arts. Painstakingly warned them that now their task is to read more, and only by accumulating enough knowledge can they go further, otherwise even if there are martial arts cheats in front of them, they will not be able to cultivate, so he will lose his mind, close the door and read wholeheartedly, figure out the classics, and carefully study martial arts theory.
"I know, I know, I haven't left behind in the matter of studying, I only went to practice martial arts when I had time to study. Don't talk about that, Wentang has just finished the exam, do you know how many people have gone on to higher education?" Wu Ling said with a mysterious expression.
"There must be quite a few. Zhou Yang thought for a while and said: "Everyone is still working hard when they usually study, all kinds of classics, scriptures and meanings are already familiar with it, and they can still recite it, and the top ten talents are even more ......."
"Haha! Come on! I am also a top ten talent, but I have studied two years longer than you and me, and I am a talent! Let me tell you, none of these top ten talents have succeeded in going on to higher education! I don't know how many people see their jokes now!" Wu Ling laughed, his tone full of schadenfreude.
"How could it be!" Zhou Yang was shocked.
Generally speaking, the branch hall is once every five years, no matter how often you enter the school, as soon as the time comes, the entrance examination will begin. If you have the strength, you can successfully go on to higher education even if you enter the school for one day, otherwise you will have to wait until the next five years.
Zhou Yang only entered the school three years ago, and in order to catch up with the footsteps of his classmates, he has been studying hard in the morning and evening, so there is not much difference.
These top ten talents have been studying for five years!
How much more can I learn in two extra years?!
In addition, these ten talents are not the kind of people who mess around, these ten people are all talented in Zhou Yang's eyes, and occasionally ten people will hold poetry meetings to meet friends with poems, and one or two sentences that circulate also give people an amazing feeling.
Such characters also fail in all!?
"The Ten Talents, although they are nicknames among our classmates, are naturally not worth mentioning in the eyes of outsiders! Their knowledge is one of the best among us. None of them were admitted to Wentang, so who else succeeded? It can't be that none of them succeeded, right?" Zhou Yang asked.
If it is really a person who has not been promoted to the Wentang, then no matter how many people are admitted to the Wutang, it will be a failure for the students of their current class.
He looked up the entrance exams over the years, but that had never happened.
"How is it possible! There are still five people who have succeeded, but I don't know who these five people are. This school is also doing a very good job of secrecy. Wu Ling said with some pity, everyone really wants to know which five people have surpassed the top ten talents.
"The academy is doing the right thing, after being promoted to the literary hall, it has a great relationship with political affairs! Political affairs are complicated! The academy is protecting these five people. Zhou Yang understands the reason.
"Don't talk about it!The entrance exam of the martial arts hall will start in an hour, let's go over and wait now!" Wu Ling said.
"Okay, let's go!" Zhou Yang responded.
I've been waiting for this day for a long time, and everything that should be prepared is ready, so naturally there is no extra cumbersomeness, and the two of them set off after saying yes.
Walking on the road, Zhou Yang found that there were many classmates with ugly faces, pale, and some lost their souls, howling and crying, what kind of situation, what kind of performance, he knew that these were all students who failed the exam.
If you fail, you have to leave! I don't know how many people, how many families, sleepless tonight! The careful planning of the future time, the ambition of the future, are all in smoke!
"If you fail the literary examination and can't go on to higher education, you won't be able to study in the academy anymore, and you have to make way for the backwards! After these people leave, it is impossible for them to come into contact with any governing world and state politics! If you want to be reused, it is even more impossible, and in the end you can only become ordinary! If you mix well, you can also achieve some literary names, poems, calligraphy and paintings, and some people are willing to pursue them, but for the imperial court, it is useless! If I fail the martial arts examination! If I want to become a monk, I can only become a casual cultivator! Casual cultivation becomes a monk, and the difficulties involved are ...... No! I must succeed! In this world, the weak eat the strong! Weak beasts can only be eaten by other wild beasts and people! They don't even have the strength to resist! They can only run away! Ordinary people are the same in the eyes of demons! There is no difference between people and livestock! They can only be used as blood food! Since I have not become blood food, I must become a monk! Slay demons!"
Looking at the scene of failure along the way, Zhou Yang's heart also became violent, and he made an oath that he must succeed!
I don't know how many nights Zhou Yang was awakened by a nightmare. Monsters chase and kill, beasts bite! The original scene is constantly staged!
Three years ago, a group of people, because of the invasion of the demon clan and the war on the border of Qi Yueguo, they couldn't survive anymore, so they could only leave their hometown and go to live in a safer hinterland. However, on the way, they were attacked, and nearly 100 people could protect themselves in the fight with wild beasts, but as soon as the demon attacked, only about 20 people died! How cruel! Later, he was rescued by a monk from Qingxia Mountain, and although his family was gone, he met a monk, and Zhou Yang was also saved! Some people died because of the fight on the way. Zhou Yang saw these in his eyes, fought and died, fled and died, and he endured these experiences.
It's just that the six bright spots that burned and extinguished in the air at the end were so terrible to the children at that time!
Weakness is the original sin!