Time flies, Xue Peng played with Jiang Xuan for a few days, and finally the palace test began.

On this day, a total of 27 lay people from the eight main cities plus the royal city went to the royal city.

In the crowd, Xue Peng suddenly found a familiar figure, it was Jiang Xuan.

Xue Peng suddenly wondered, "Brother Jiang, why are you here?"

Jiang Xuan's little face was extremely embarrassed, and he was about to speak, when the official on the side scolded, "You are about to enter the palace, don't make noise." ”

Jiang Xuan had to hurriedly whisper back, "Brother Dud, I'll explain to you after the palace test." ”

Xue Peng also suppressed the doubts in his heart and didn't ask any more.

A group of twenty-seven people, stepping on leaves, kept floating upward.

After about an hour of floating, an enchantment appeared in front of everyone's eyes, and the official made a seal, and a hole appeared in the enchantment, and everyone floated in.

As soon as you enter it, you can't see the branches of the sacred tree, but it is open.

In the eyes is a magnificent palace, jewels, shining with golden light under the sun's rays, solemn atmosphere.

Bands of gold-clad guards patrolled with spears and occasionally glanced at the crowd.

Seeing this scene, Xue Peng immediately thought of the mountains and rivers, but he was afraid that the top of this divine tree should be a similar place.

The official led everyone over the wide martial arts arena, walked through the palaces, the more inside, the more majestic the palace was built, and a famous palace maid put her hands in front of her, lowered her head, and walked quickly past everyone.

From time to time, there are bold and playful palace maids who secretly raise their heads and glance at everyone, and they all know in their hearts that these people are the ones who participated in the palace examination, and the champion of this year's immortal examination is among these people.

After walking through a long corridor again, his eyes suddenly opened up again, and there was a long staircase in front of him, Xue Peng couldn't help but look up, this staircase actually went straight into the sky.

At that moment, the officials began to climb with everyone, and after climbing about a pillar of incense, there was a large hall in front of everyone, with three big characters on the plaque, "Xuanzheng Palace".

In front of the Xuanzheng Palace, two guards wearing gold armor and armor blocked everyone's way and raised their voices, "All spiritual weapons, spiritual treasures, Qiankun bags, etc. are handed over." ”

The officials had previously told about the etiquette in this regard, and when they met the king, they could only wear ordinary clothes and not bring any weapons.

At that moment, everyone untied everything from the storage bag on their bodies and handed it to Jin Jiawei.

Jin Jiawei searched carefully several more times, and after confirming that there was no dangerous thing hidden privately, he said, "Wait!"

After a while, the door of the main hall opened, and a fat white old man walked out, and a very shrill voice sounded at the same time, "Xuan, the laymen from all cities participating in the palace examination are here." ”

When the official heard this, he hurriedly turned back to the crowd and said, "Remember, the etiquette I told you before." ”

Saying that, the official straightened his hat and shirt and led twenty-seven people over.

When passing by the gate of the hall, Xue Peng saw the white fat old man, and his pupils shrank at the moment, and this white fat old man was actually the person who saved him that day.

At this time, Xue Peng's heart was full of doubts, and his heart was surging, how could this old man be here?

Without allowing him to think about it, the group had already entered the Xuanzheng Palace.

I saw the official flick his sleeves and salute, "My king is a thousand years old, a thousand years old." ”

Xue Peng and the others also saluted, "My king is a thousand years old, a thousand years old." ”

"Don't be polite, get up!"

When everyone heard this, they all straightened up, and they all looked in the direction where the voice came from at the same time, these laymen, basically they had never seen the king of Da Cao, and this time they were fortunate to see the face of the sky, so they naturally took a closer look.

But see, opposite everyone, more than a dozen zhang away, in the center of the Xuanzheng Palace, the king of Da Cao was dressed in a golden dragon robe, with a solemn expression, sitting on the golden throne, a pair of bright eyes like stars swept over the people below, and everyone only felt that for a moment, they were seen through.

At that moment, everyone's hearts were dark, and they didn't want this king's cultivation to be so profound.

However, at this time, the shock in Xue Peng's heart far exceeded that of everyone present, and he couldn't help but be stunned in place, looking directly at the king with a pair of eyes.

At this moment, Xue Peng's heart set off a storm, he couldn't believe that the old man who had a clean mouth, a small mouth, and played chess a few days ago turned out to be the current king.

In this way, Jiang Xuan, isn't he the crown prince?

For a while, Xue Peng felt that his mind was a little messed up.

On both sides of the main hall, an official saw Xue Peng looking directly at the emperor like this, and was very rude, and immediately shouted softly, "Bold, how dare you look at the king so directly." ”

Xue Peng woke up like a dream, and hurriedly said, "Weichen saw Tianyan for the first time, and he was photographed by the king's heavenly face, and I hope that the king will forgive his sins." ”

On the throne, King Da Cao looked at Xue Peng, and felt funny in his heart, this little vertical man was only afraid that he would be shocked, but his reaction was quite flexible.

At this moment, sitting on this dragon throne is Jiang Kongxuan, also known as King Wen.

King Wen Jiang Kongxuan looked solemn, and said slowly, "Waiter of the Ministry of Rites, don't make a fuss, don't you just look at this king twice, this king is not a demon or a monster, who wants to see it, just raise your head and see it clearly." ”

The waiter of the Ministry of Rites has long been accustomed to the character of the king, and he can only bite the bullet and say, "Your Majesty, etiquette is the foundation of the country's security, and the courtiers must have the courtiers' etiquette." ”

King Wen saw that this waiter of the Ministry of Rites was going to talk at length again, and he felt a headache, if he could, he would first pull out these bastards who only knew how to catch trivial things every day and hit a hundred big boards, but he couldn't do this.

After listening to the chatter of the Ministry of Rites, King Wen held back a yawn and said vaguely, "Okay, what Aiqing said is reasonable, and this king has written it down." ”

King Wen listened to his left ear and his right ear bubbled, he didn't take it seriously at all, straightened his body, his eyes swept from the civil and military officials below, and finally stayed on the body of the twenty-seven candidates and lay people and said, "This king has always disliked boasting, so the topic of this palace test, the strategy is excluded, and this king is not aggressive, so this fighting method is also excluded, today the queen of this king is not in good health, can not eat, and is getting thinner and thinner, if anyone can please the queen to eat, this king will handpick him as the champion of this immortal examination." ”

As soon as these words came out, the officials were in an uproar.

"How can this be done? This selection of champions is a major event in the royal court, how can it be so absurd. ”

"The king has always been wise and martial, how can he come up with such a ridiculous exam question, if this is spread, wouldn't it be ridiculous to the world. ”

The civil and military officials whispered, and at the same time moved their eyes to the head of the civil and military forces.

The first of the civil officials was Tian Feng, the prime minister of the dynasty, and all the civil officials looked at Tian Feng and waited for Tian Feng to speak out to stop him.

The head of the military attaches was Jiang Lie, the great general of Wutinghou, the eldest prince, and all the military attaches looked at Jiang Lie at the same time.

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