Spring in the Western Continent is warm and pleasant.

The endless snow and ice of the north, under the light of spring, melt into clear rivers and water the fertile soil of the gray plains. In this vast plain, there are enough grain fields to feed hundreds of millions of people.

To the south along the grey plains, you will find the famous laterite hills, a gently undulating hilly area and the surrounding forest valleys that form the heart of the Western Continent.

The capital of the Great Qin Empire, White Night City, the port connecting the eastern and western continents, and Hongshan City, the capital of the former Lu Dynasty, are all surrounded by this red clay hill. Several bustling cities, together with the surrounding starry villages and farms, are like fine cobwebs, connecting the vast land.

Every spring, the sea of hope brings abundant rain to the land with a moist sea breeze, and the rainy season in the laterite hills has always been a source of inspiration for the literati.

Bai Xiao walked on the road soaked in the spring rain, feeling the weakness of this land that was completely different from the north, his steps became more and more firm and powerful, and the rough animal skin boots were covered with mud, and they dried quickly with his swift steps like the wind, turning into a thick layer of armor.

Bai Xiao is like a soldier in armor, under the bright sun after the rain, he still maintains the coldness of gold and iron, the poetry and painting around him cannot infect him, and the southerners who cast curious eyes on him on the roadside also do not attract him. His gaze was firmly fixed on the towering white spire in front of him, like a hunter about to throw a bone spear.

Red Mountain College is already close at hand.

At this time, only seven days had passed since he left the Snow Mountain Tribe. In just seven days, Bai Xiao walked over the snow-capped mountain barrier, crossed the endless gray plain, and stepped through the swamps and dense forests outside the laterite hills, completing this distant journey. For southerners, it takes up to a month to pair even the lightest carriage with the most powerful galloping horses.

Bai Xiao was very grateful to Lan Ye for his atlas at this time, relying on those precise and meticulous lines, he was able to avoid those meaningless exchanges along the way, and reach Hongshan City in the shortest distance - this was the goal he had locked on when he set off.

The Southern Continent was incomparably vast, and Bai Xiao had no way of knowing where Qing Yue was. But he remembered very well that the man named Zhu Junshen once said one word, Hongshan Academy. Hongshan Academy, on the other hand, is a landmark building that is individually marked in the atlas, located in the northeast corner of Hongshan City, the thousand-year-old capital, and is one of the most prestigious magic academies in the Western Continent.

Qingyue must be here, as long as he enters the Red Mountain Academy, he will be able to meet the girl who haunts his dreams.

As the journey approached the end, Bai Xiao's heart like ice began to melt, and his mind involuntarily became active, as if he was about to start a warm-up hunt. Before leaving, Bai Wuya's teachings clearly came to mind.

"First, you have to put aside your past for a while and learn to start over. For a person with amnesia, a person who is about to suddenly start a beautiful new life in the southern continent, and a boyfriend who runs down from a snowy mountain suddenly appears in front of him, this is definitely not a good thing to be happy about. So if you greet her with her ex-boyfriend's sign, the first impression is ruined. I met such an unfortunate amnesiac woman back then, there was a particularly pestering ex-boyfriend around me, they had a good relationship before the amnesia, but unfortunately the man couldn't bear the temperament, always aggressive, and finally the woman naturally became my confidante. ”

"Second, put your position down and lower your posture. Objectively speaking, having lost the identity of your ex-boyfriend, you are not particularly attractive to Qingyue now. Qingyue likes you because you are the most worthy man in the entire tribe, but in the south, there are as many young talents as stray dogs who are good at dancing and writing, and maybe Qingyue likes that...... Don't stare at me, I'm just making an assumption, no matter what, you must not think that if you can make Qingyue fall in love with you once, you can easily make her fall in love with you a second time. It's a tough battle, and what's the most important thing about it?"

It's the distance.

This point was unforgettable when Bai Xiao followed Bai Wuya into the hunting ground for the first time. If you want to hunt that kind of monster with extraordinary strength, you must close the distance between the two sides, stick to each other like a plaster, and see its every movement to find the slightest flaw......

"It's the same thing with chasing a woman, you have to be close to her, blend into her life circle, get along with her day and night, face to face, and then it is possible to capture her and get her. Southerners have a saying that distance produces beauty, and I also have a saying that friction produces love. I went south for three years, and there are many people who like to talk about the beauty of distance, and the women they like have all become confidants who rub against each other with me. ”

The knowledge of scumbags is also knowledge, Bai Xiao has deeply understood this truth since he can remember, so although he wants to stab Bai Wuya to death, he attaches great importance to what he says.

After Qingyue lost her memory, the situation she faced was indeed very bad, what she could do was to get as close to Qingyue as possible, where she was, I would too.

And the biggest possibility for her now is in Red Mountain Academy, so I am going to Red Mountain Academy as well.

With such a firm belief, Bai Xiao approached Hongshan City step by step, and saw the dark red majestic city wall, like the northern snow-capped mountains becoming a barrier to cover the horizon. At the same time, I also saw the endless flow of people at the city gate.

Long before leaving, Bai Xiao knew that the southern continent had a large population, and along the way, he happened to pass by some southern villages and towns along the way, and he really saw the population advantage of the south, but compared with the grand occasion in front of the Hongshan City Gate, it was not worth mentioning.

From a distance, Bai Xiao can clearly see that there are a total of three gates on the north wall of Hongshan City, and the gate in front of him is small, but there are thousands of people coming and going in front of the door, and there are thousands of people at a glance, and a wide white road behind the gate leads directly to the city, and there are countless pedestrians on the road!

Bai Xiao's breathing was slightly short.

On the snow-capped mountains, the white-clothed tribes, which have been inherited for thousands of years, did not exceed 10,000 in their most prosperous period, and they were scattered in three different gathering areas, so as to evenly occupy the resources on the snowy mountains.

And the southern continent, at this small city gate, gathers the entire population of the tribe!?

The next moment, Bai Xiao's heart suddenly became nervous again.

Although he is not smart, he is not stupid, so he knows very well a truth that applies to both the north and the south: people are not born out of thin air.

The hundreds of millions of people in the south are all married to men, and the woman conceived in October and gave birth with hard work. The number of people in the south means at least how many unions between men and women there are, and after countless unions between men and women, the attainments of southerners in this way are probably much higher than those in the north!

Thinking of Bai Wuya's stallion road, it was officially opened after the southbound journey, and Bai Xiao's sense of crisis was even stronger.

Qingyue, what kind of Longtan tiger's den did you run to?

With a hint of worry, Bai Xiao walked to the end of the crowd, although there were many crowds at the city gate, they were in order, they all walked on the right side of the entrance, and there was an empty lane for vehicles to travel in the center, so the speed of travel was not slow.

Bai Xiao soon entered the city with the crowd, and when he crossed the city gate, a neat and orderly building complex came into view, with houses, shops, wine shops, and the signboards and flags waving in the wind, like a colorful rainbow, which was enough to reflect the eyes of any newcomer.

Bai Xiao was indeed a little distracted, but as a top tribal hunter, his eyes were always keen and calm, and in the gorgeous and colorful cityscape, he could see a key point at a glance.

Not far from the city gate, in front of a tall building with obviously different specifications, there was a colorful banner stretched horizontally, on which was written in pitch-black ink: The 13th Registration Office of the 877th Admissions Examination of Hongshan College.

"Admissions exams?"

Looking at the surging crowd in front of the registration office, Bai Xiao looked confused, what is the situation?

Bai Xiao's expression fell very vividly into the eyes of some people in front of the door, this tall foreigner with a huge bag on his back was already particularly conspicuous.

A middle-aged aunt with slightly gray hair immediately approached with a smile on her face.

"Young man, you are also here to take the entrance exam? Let me tell you, there are a lot of new situations in this exam this year, and the exam questions and procedures have changed, I suggest you buy this exam guide and take a look. This is our examination institute invited the retired tutor of Hongshan College to participate in the compilation, there are a lot of exclusive content, you can be one step ahead of others if you learn it, at least 50,000 people who took the exam this time, one step ahead, you can be ahead of thousands of people. I see that you have an extraordinary face and strange bones, and I will give you a special discount, the original price of this book is 200 yuan, and I will charge you 150, how about it?"

The aunt took Bai Xiao's hand affectionately, and then mercilessly added two more zeros to the pricing of the exam guide.

Bai Xiao didn't know why, thinking that he didn't know anything about the entrance exam of Hongshan Academy, if he could buy this guide, he also knew a little bit about the currency unit in the south, and 150 Great Qin Silver Dollars was nothing. However, just as he was about to nod, his other hand was grabbed again.

This time it was a young round-faced girl, not as beautiful as a flower, but also kind and cute, she said while smiling: "This big brother, come to buy the exam guide? Look at my book, it is the active tutor who participated in the compilation, only 120 yuan." ”

The kind aunt next to her suddenly changed her face, a row of yellowed teeth squeezed out her lips, and at the same time brought out a sharp voice: "Active tutor? With your small workshop, you can also invite active tutors, I'm afraid that the chefs in the academy will also be used as tutors to publicize!"

The round-faced girl's face also changed: "That's also working within the academy, it's better than you pulling someone who has been retired for fifty years to write a preface and claim to be involved in the compilation!"

"What's wrong with fifty years of retirement, Hongshan Academy has been established for almost 1,800 years, what is fifty years? And you think it's easy to ask someone to write a preface? If it's easy, why can't you invite a genuine demon Taoist to write a preface!"

"Three of the students of our examination institute were in the top 1,000 last year, what about you?"

"What is your examination institute? have people recognized your affiliated workshop?"

The two salesmen with heavy performance pressure were about to fight, and Bai Xiao next to him also had a headache when he heard it, but fortunately he still remembered the tricks that Bai Wuya taught him.

When he doesn't know what to do, he has no brains to throw money.

There must be no mistake.

"Buy both, it's book money. ”

In Bai Xiao's hand, there were two more golden ingots, which sucked all the salesman's mind in an instant, and the fierce mouth fight came to an abrupt end, and the eyes of the two were as if they were mentally retarded.

In the Great Qin Dynasty, where the Demon Dao was flourishing, the value of precious metals such as gold and silver was not as good as before, after all, a clever Demon Daoist could turn stones into gold. But even so, the value of the two palm-sized gold nuggets in Bai Xiao's hands far exceeded the exam guide printed by the small workshop.

Of course, Bai Xiao also knew that his book was expensive, but he didn't care, how could it be called money if he didn't waste it? Not to mention that Bai Wuya said that when people from the tribe go to the south, they will inevitably suffer losses and be fooled in the matter of goods, and the first few transactions will be regarded as tuition fees. And as tuition, two gold ingots are considered very cheap. What's more, these two books are beautifully printed and have thick pages, and no matter how you look at them, they are much more valuable than Lan Ye hiding in the White Bone Altar, while the latter is a tribal forbidden item that cannot be exchanged.

Thinking about it like this, Bai Xiao felt even more at ease.

And he really needed those two books too. When he first arrived in Hongshan City, he really needed someone to explain everything here to him, and Bai Xiao was more inclined to read books than to communicate with people, even if it was not a serious book.

In fact, these two guides are really serious books, and they are not worth much not because the content is wrong, but because the contents of the books are almost well known in Red Mountain City.

Since 1800 years ago, Lu Hao, the overlord of the Western Continent, established the Red Mountain Demon Dao Academy, which has opened its doors to all school-age teenagers in the Eastern and Western Continents. As long as you can pass the entrance exam, you can become a full student, and only by passing the exam can you become a full student, no one is exempt.

To date, 877 admissions exams have been organized, and in recent decades they have been held once a year, without exception, and locals have long been accustomed to the rules of this exam, even if they are street sellers.

The time of the exam is at the beginning of spring every year, and every time at this time, hundreds of thousands of people will pour into Hongshan City, of which there will be no less than 30,000 candidates of appropriate age to apply for the exam, and this year it has hit a new high, as of yesterday it has exceeded 50,000.

50,000 teenagers between the ages of 12 and 18 had to complete the examination process designed by Hongshan College in the next half a month, and only about 100 people were able to successfully pass the examination. The difficulty of the exam is high enough to make a rational person give up hope in the first place, so why do tens of thousands of people still run to take the exam every year?

Because the examination of the Red Mountain Academy is recognized as the most authoritative method of measuring the potential of the Demon Dao in the Eastern and Western Continents. Even if you can't get into Red Mountain College, as long as your grades are good enough, you can find a suitable way out. Every year, during the exam season, a large number of people gather in Red Mountain City are Demon Daoists from other academies, and the students that Red Mountain Academy does not look down upon are likely to be rare geniuses in other places, and generally speaking, being able to get in the top 1,000 is enough to make many academies fight for their heads.

As for the content of the exam, it should theoretically be top secret, but no matter how secret it is, it will become common knowledge that everyone knows if it has been passed down for 1,400 years. In the two manuals that Bai Xiao bought, there are records of the past ten years, as well as this year's theoretical question simulation.

This part of the content is quite valuable, but Bai Xiao skipped it after watching it for a while - he couldn't understand it at all. According to the guide, except for a very few people with special talents, most of the students who are admitted to Hongshan College have gone through at least three years of preparation in advance. Of course, it is impossible for Bai Xiao to prepare for the exam for three years, in fact, he can't even afford to wait for three days, since he has come to Hongshan City, the next step is to find Qingyue.

Bai Xiao soon saw Qingyue.

On the instruction manual.

At the end of the handbook worth 150 yuan, it records the most high-profile group of the 50,000 candidates who applied for the exam, and Qingyue is the first in the list.

On the color-printed manual, Qingyue's smiling face is sincere and sunny, and after not seeing her for a month, she seems to have completely gotten rid of the sickness and weakness of the snow-capped mountain period and become full of vitality.

Bai Xiao was very pleased to see it, and under the large portrait, her personal information was listed.

"Qingyue, female, 16 years old, by the dean of the Red Mountain Academy, the great master Zhu Junshen accepted as a closed disciple, called it 'has the talent of the apocalypse', the affinity of magic energy is rumored to be unprecedented, and the talent is extremely intelligent, in this exam, there is a high probability that it will take the first place, and it is expected to break the record of the entrance exam score that has been maintained for 3 years, interested friends can go to the following places to bet......"

Bai Xiao took a breath and continued to read.

"Qingyue is gifted with a mysterious origin, and is rumored to be a genius discovered by the Great Grandmaster from the wilderness villages of the Gray Plains in the north, but the exact situation is still difficult to verify. But Qingyue has no relatives and no reason in Hongshan City, and lives alone. Considering her demonic talent and personal relationship with the Grand Master, she undoubtedly has a very high emotional investment value, and interested friends can try to go to her current temporary residence, Xinhu Restaurant, at the address of ......"

Seeing this, Bai Xiao suddenly closed the manual, and then clenched his fist hard.

Although Bai Wuya is a scumbag, what he teaches is undoubtedly the truth.

Throwing money is simply omnipotent in the Southern Continent!