In the next four years, Huang Chang has been preparing to worship the immortal gate. The pen %fun %pavilion www.biquge.info when the immortal chief asked him to practice climbing the mountain more, he did it to the letter. It's just that no matter how high he climbs the peak, looking at the immortal mountain in the sky is always extremely ethereal, and his heart is inevitably worried: although his mind is already an adult, but this body is only an eight or nine-year-old child after all, and he is only eleven years old when he is assessed.

Just think about it, since the immortal gate gave him a token, and the immortal chief said that it was not difficult for him to pass, it must not be a lie. There is no need for people to tease him as a child, anyway, he will do his best when the time comes, and show sincerity.

That token is also quite strange, since Huang Chang wore it on his body, he has never been harassed by mosquitoes in summer, and snakes and rats will also take the initiative to avoid him when climbing mountains. Once, he even encountered a vicious wolf on the mountain, and his green eyes were staring at him, but before he could get closer, he suddenly whimpered, and then ran away with his tail between his legs.

This made Huang Chang happy but also often worried, he was just a child, would someone come to snatch this treasure? His parents did not hide the news that he had won the favor of the Xianmen, if he only needed this token to obtain the qualification to worship the Xianmen, then he would have been in danger in the past few years.

However, when he told his family about this worry, he was laughed at by his father and mother.

"Ha, my family Chang'er is really young and old, but you think too much - the Xianmen token, how can it be useful by snatching. If someone really dares to do this, they are fighting against the Xianmen and looking for death purely by themselves. ”

"But by then, I'll be out of luck!"

Huang Chang is still very worried, but since his family does not approve, he can only hide this caution in his heart. And in the past three or four years it has turned out that he has indeed been too careful, and even if the neighbors know that he has this token, they will at most ask to show it and say something envious and flattering, but no one seems to have ever wanted to replace it.

Huang Chang can only sigh that this world is really simple and simple, or that mortals' reverence for Xianmen is really deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, if it is changed to the world where people want to run rampant before, even if there is a threat of killing the head in front of him, it is difficult to ensure that there is no recklessness.

In the past few years, Huang Chang's family has also undergone great changes because of this - originally his father was just a teacher, and the place where he lived was also a remote village, but since the news of Huang Chang being favored by Xianmen spread-even if he has not yet started, just got a chance to participate in the assessment, his father easily found a job as a clerk in the yamen of Fucheng, or the kind of fat poor with more money and less work, which is really the envy of many people.

Relatives who rarely interact with each other on weekdays have suddenly become closer, and Huang Chang's mother's maiden family was originally not very satisfied with this family affair - their family's situation is somewhat similar to the type of "rich daughter looks at poor scholars" in traditional dramas, but it is not as exaggerated as in the dramas. Although the rich Yue family was not very satisfied with this poor son-in-law, they did not deliberately suppress it, but they rarely interacted with each other.

But after Huang Chang obtained the qualification to worship immortals, all this immediately changed. Huang Chang's grandparents, who had hardly met before the age of seven, suddenly became extremely loving to their daughters and grandchildren, and while loudly praising their daughter's good vision, they also gave money and gifts, as if they wanted to make up for all the favors owed over the years. Almost everything that the Huang family settled in Fucheng was arranged by the Yue family, and the eldest uncle was still cautious when he sent the deed to the door, lest his brother-in-law still hold a grudge and refuse to accept it.

Huang's father was really a little resentful, but under the persuasion of his wife, he gradually softened, but Huang Chang himself was quite resistant to this - twenty-two years in his previous life and eight or nine years in this life, his psychological age is probably older than his parents in this life, and he knows the proverb that the higher he holds it, the heavier he falls. What if he fails to worship immortals? What kind of faces will these relatives have at that time?

It's just that since he has moved into a brick house in the city, it is unrealistic to ask his family to go back to live in the shabby grass house in the poor countryside, Huang Chang can only persuade his parents to accept only the financial support of relatives at most, and refuse all the things sent by irrelevant outsiders, so as not to owe too much human debt. At this point, his parents finally listened to him, and after the initial joy, they were no longer so high-profile, and only lived in peace in this city.

Even so, Huang Chang also felt a lot of pressure - this matter of worshipping the immortal sect must not fail, otherwise not to mention his future, the situation of his family will be greatly affected. Although he came to this world with the memories of his previous life, the love and care of his parents in this life is the same as that of his parents in his previous life, and he is accompanied by brothers and sisters every day. Huang Chang is not a ruthless person, and he also attaches great importance to this family affection.

He secretly made up his mind that no matter what, even if it was just for his family, he had to worship in the immortal gate!

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Time flies, four years have passed in a flash, and this day has finally arrived.

The eighth day of September in the seventeenth year of Jingyao of the Great Zhou Dynasty is the day of the opening ceremony of the Western Kunlun Dojo of the Great Zhou Dynasty. It is also the day that Huang Chang has been looking forward to for a long time and officially accepts the entrance assessment.

It was only then that Huang Chang truly appreciated the terrifying influence of the so-called "Xianmen" in this Great Zhou Kingdom - three months in advance, someone from the official palace came to inform them, and took their whole family to the capital of the Great Zhou Dynasty, where they arranged a very nice small courtyard to live and wait to participate in the opening ceremony of the mountain and the acceptance of disciples. And Huang Chang finally understood at this time that his previous worries were indeed groundless - his name and hometown and other information had already been reported to the government for record-keeping, and even Xianshan knew that it was impossible for someone to impersonate him.

During this time, there were many candidates who were sent to wait like their families, most of them were the whole family, and the food, housing, and accommodation for these three months were all borne by the government, and the cost was not small. However, what surprised Huang Chang even more was the attitude of the imperial court towards them - they waited for about two months, and after almost all the people who came to apply for the election from all over the country had arrived. In the current holy world, Emperor Jing Yao, the emperor of the Great Zhou Dynasty, actually summoned them all to the palace and personally feasted all the candidates and their elders - of course, only male elders.

Huang Chang didn't feel anything, in his previous life, thanks to the blessings of various media, he had seen a lot of news and even scandals about national leaders. However, he admired the emperor's scheming - the little ones who were candidates were not easily moved, after all, they were too young. Although the rule of the Immortal Sect to accept apprentices is that the maximum age cannot exceed fifteen years old, those who are really talented often come to the selection very early, so that if they fail this time, they will have a chance before the age of fifteen. Therefore, most of the children around me are about ten years old, or even eight or nine years old, who still don't know how to fear the imperial power. The few who reached thirteen, fourteen, and five were mostly frowning at the moment, obviously worrying about whether they could pass the test, and they didn't have the heart to thank the emperor.

However, their fathers and brothers all know what is at stake, and this immortal family really doesn't look at the background, many countrymen who are remote and have never entered the city a few times in their lives have actually entered the palace this time. And this kind of person is the most afraid of imperial power - so although Emperor Jing Yao only showed his face on the high platform at the beginning of the banquet, raised a bronze wine lord to his mouth and made a gesture of drinking it all, because there were sleeves to block the ghost to know whether he drank it or not, but everyone in the audience was still very excited, a mountain chanting the sound of saints, and even moved to cry bitterly and couldn't help themselves. It is believed that after this feast, the loyalty of these people to the imperial court will inevitably increase, and this thinking will inevitably affect the children of those who may become monasticians in the future.

With the attitude of the Son of Heaven as an example, many rich and noble families in the capital also competed to visit. Perhaps it was limited to some kind of order, and they did not dare to directly contact Huang Chang and other "Xianmen disciple candidates", but the family members of the candidates received invitations almost every day. These high-ranking officials and nobles who should have been high in their attitude were very polite to them. A teacher like Huang's father, who was originally an ordinary teacher in the countryside, although his status has improved slightly, is now just a small official of the yamen, and there are frequent high-ranking officials such as the county guard general to make friends, which really surprised the Huang family father and son.

Fortunately, Huang's father is still a relatively sober person, and Huang Chang keeps reminding him in the back, even if he doesn't go out to socialize with one or two, he also firmly remembers the words "neither humble nor arrogant", but he has always maintained a very good image, at least among the many parents of the children who should be selected this time, it is quite chic.

And Huang Chang has also met a lot of people during this time, all of whom are candidates for the Xianmen who hold the same West Kunlun token as him, and they can be regarded as characters in the same circle. With Huang Chang's personality and temper as an adult, those who are too young and still a childlike are of course difficult to communicate, but they are more reasonable with those fourteen or fifteen years old, young and old, but in Huang Chang's eyes, they are still difficult to get rid of naivety, and they often quarrel over trivial things, and sometimes even ask him, an eleven-year-old, to persuade and comment, which really makes him cry and laugh.

The West Kunlun Dojo opens its gate every five years, and the children gathered here are the most talented people who have been selected in the past five years, but about a third of them are repeaters who failed the last round of assessments and have not yet passed the fifteen-year-old limit - as long as they are tested to be talented, West Kunlun Mountain does not mind that they have participated in the assessment many times. But since there is an age limit of fifteen years here, the best plan for worshipping immortals is to try to send the child to the first time at the age of nine or ten, and if it does not pass, then at the age of fourteen or fifteen. The first four or five years old were too young, and they were too far behind in terms of physical strength and intelligence, and there was no hope of passing the assessment. It's a waste of time and energy, and even the government won't help.

However, this also has to be matched with the age and the days when Xianmen opened the mountain, like Huang Chang's situation, when talking to others, they all said that he was the most unlucky. At the age of eleven, I have to take the test, which is still a little younger, but if I have another five years, I will not have a chance - if I am older, I will be more sure, and if I am simply a year younger, even if I am ten years old, I can still wait for the next opportunity.

"Didn't your parents have a good life when they gave birth to you?

People who have a debt laugh at Huang Chang like this, if it was an ordinary hairy child, he would definitely fight early for this sentence, but Huang Chang is certainly not so shallow. And after understanding the situation, he found that this sentence really can't be regarded as a simple insult - many people in the Great Zhou Dynasty really have to count the time to have children, and every year corresponding to the opening of the West Kunlun Mountain, there are a lot of people who have children.

There are those who owe and those who are kind, and those who are older candidates often comfort him:

"It's okay, brother, worship the immortal gate to see the fate. Those who have a fate will enter once, and those who don't have a fate will run many times, and it is useless. There are not a few people who can worship at the age of 10 or so, and you always have an advantage over them. ”

Huang Chang sincerely expressed his gratitude to these well-wishers, and also tried his best to make friends with them. Try to find out more about those who have taken the test. Because this kind of assessment is not competitive, it doesn't mean that you will brush me down if you enter, so most people are still willing to say a few words, but the content of what they say is very different: some say that they will meet demons and monsters on the way, and some say that the road is full of beasts and poisonous insects...... But there is one thing they agree on, and that is to climb mountains, to climb very high mountains!

Nonsense, the mountains floating in the sky, can they not be high?

-- On the eighth day of the ninth lunar month, when Huang Chang and more than 300 candidates stood together in the square where the opening ceremony was held in Longshouyuan, a northern suburb of Beijing, and looked up at the heavenly mountain range that seemed to have been much closer, but was still shrouded in mist and unattainable, his heart was full of reverie.