Chapter 33: The First Step
Several Aries Cave students ran quickly into the canyon.
Looking at the cheerful appearance of those students, Nangong Caishu became more and more annoyed.
She finally couldn't help but walk to Ding Ning's side with a calm face, and said in a deep voice with a tiger face: "Do you know what the entrance test of the Aries Cave is?"
Ding Ning shook his head and said softly, "I don't know." ”
Nangong Caishu was speechless for an instant, and her hands and feet were a little cold with anger.
"I know you're angry right now, and you've helped me say that, and it's all ruined by a few words from me, but don't worry, I should be able to get through it. However, Ding Ning smiled slightly and said to her softly.
"I really don't understand what you think, this kind of test has nothing to do with faith, and you should also understand that more is better than less. Nangong Caishu took a deep breath and tried her best to control her emotions and said.
"I just want to have more than one thing is better than less..."Ding Ning glanced at Su Qin, who was standing next to the stone tablet, and said softly: "A thing that makes me get started or doesn't let me get started, but it can make people win people's hearts." ”
Nangong Caishu was suddenly slightly stunned.
Following Ding Ning's gaze, she saw the different expressions of Su Qin and Zhang Yi.
One is absolutely cold and unbiased.
And the other is deep concern.
Almost all the students in the Aries Cave who gathered on the mountain road, even the direction in which they were standing, was obviously biased towards Su Qin's side.
"So even if you stand up for me, it will still be troublesome for me to enter the mountain gate. Ding Ning turned his head to look at her, smiled and whispered, "But I don't think Su Qin will stand taller than Zhang Yi in the future, because he was wrong at the beginning." The real high-ranking and powerful people are always on the side of the higher-ranking and powerful people, even if Li Lingjun has already managed such a reputation and won enough people's hearts, if he wants to return to the country, it is still decided to be in the hands of several real magnates of the Great Chu Dynasty. ”
Nangong Caishu frowned, she couldn't help but turn her head to look at Ding Ning, "I admit that your words sound very reasonable, and I also admit that your vision is indeed very clear and long-term, but the entry test of all sects is to test whether this person has the possibility of becoming a cultivator." As for insight and vision, it is the potential to be able to pass the test and be valued only after getting started. ”
"Thank you for your concern, but the more you care about me now, the more trouble I'm afraid will be after I get started. Ding Ning said softly and sincerely: "Although the White Aries Cave has returned to the Qingteng Sword Academy, the disciples who want to come here still practice here most of the time, and the more they think I am close to you, the more they will hate me." ”
Nangong Caishu's brows furrowed a little tighter, she could hear Ding Ning's gratitude, and she also understood that what Ding Ning said was indeed the truth, but Ding Ning was still talking about what happened after the entry, could he really be so sure that he could pass the entrance test that was impossible to trick in?
At this moment, in the mist behind the gate of the Aries Cave, more hurried footsteps sounded.
The two students at the front of each carefully carried two pine square wooden boxes, while behind them were at least forty or fifty students from the Aries Cave.
These students had also heard that there was an ordinary market boy who was exempted from the entrance examination today, and they were also a little dissatisfied in their hearts, just because their temperament was not as radical as Shen Bai and others, so they just waited for the results in the valley, and did not block the road like Shen Bai and others, but now they heard that the disputes on the mountain road have alarmed the senior brother and the second senior brother, and this market boy who was exempted from the entrance examination actually offered to try to enter the mountain, so these students couldn't hold it back, and all came out to see what was going on.
In fact, for these students who have already entered the school, the annual entrance test is a must-see and lively drama.
It is not because there may be a beautiful little sister, nor is it because there is any amazing talent in the door for the first time, but more because of the great satisfaction of one's own superiority.
Thinking about the scene when I passed the test with great difficulty under great psychological pressure, and looking at the picture of a large number of people who failed to be selected during the big test, the joy in my heart is indeed indescribable.
It's just that at this moment, looking at Ding Ning standing outside the mountain gate, all these Aries Cave students felt a big difference at a glance.
Ding Ning is very calm, it is the kind of absolute calm, not the kind of pretended calm, there is no trace of nervousness in his eyes.
Looking at his calmness, Su Qin's sharp eyes swelled with more awe-inspiring meaning.
"Don't think that the introductory test is a child's play. ”
Waving his hand to let the junior brother holding the two wooden boxes stop at his side, he looked at Ding Ning deeply, and said slowly: "Every year, more than 1,000 children of various clans from Changling and big cities from all over the country rush here to participate in the entrance examination, and these people are considered excellent in various places, otherwise they would not have rushed here to embarrass people." However, of all these people, only a few dozen have passed the test. So I want you to be serious and careful. ”
Nangong Caishu took a deep breath, and her face became a little ugly again.
Su Qin's words sounded like a reminder, but in this case, they bordered on a threat, and it was easy to make the test taker nervous.
According to her usual personality, she definitely couldn't help but say a few words at this time, but thinking of Ding Ning's words just now, she couldn't help it.
The worry on Zhang Yi's face was also even stronger, and he couldn't help but turn around and look at the temples in the Aries Cave behind him, thinking that this time the trouble was getting bigger and bigger, at this time, why didn't anyone from the master and uncle come out to stop it?
However, at this time, Ding Ning looked at Su Qin and smiled slightly, "Can you start?"
Su Qin's face did not change, but his dislike for Ding Ning in his heart became stronger and stronger.
His eyebrows raised slightly, and he said coldly: "Since you are so anxious, let's start immediately." ”
There was a crunch and two soft sounds, and the wooden box that had been some years old was opened.
The main drama has begun, and everyone is a little nervous.
Inside one of the wooden boxes is a flat ashlar plate.
In the ashlar plate, there are a circle of labyrinthine spiral grooves, in these spiral grooves, there are at least hundreds of gray fine stone beads, just because of the slight vibration, these unusually smooth fine gray stone beads, just in the stone plate like flowing water, forming many endless gray streams.
In another wooden box, it is a piece of flesh-colored jade, carved into a small terracotta warrior, the terracotta warrior holds a sword in his hand, stretching straight to the side, although the face of this terracotta warrior is not carved, but this posture of standing up and waving the sword, is unusual to have the charm of the sword master of the Great Qin Dynasty, straight and sharp, indomitable.
"This is a flowing stone plate, because the texture of the stone plate is a little like the annual ring, and the flow of the stone beads is like flowing water, so it is also called the annual ring flowing water plate, because the material of the stone plate and the stone beads is somewhat special, so a slight vibration can make these stone beads flow in it, but the speed of flow is not constant. ”
When the two wooden boxes were opened, as when he presided over some entrance exams in the past, Su Qin first reached out and clicked on the stone plate, and said slowly and coldly and clearly: "The first pass to become a cultivator is to calm your mind and settle down, and only then can you meditate and have no distracting thoughts, and then it is possible to enter the meditation and vipassana, and only then can you feel the five qi in your body." The first thing to pay attention to in this stone plate is meditation. Of all these beads, five beads are smaller than the rest, but this small... It's only a small difference, so only those who meditate can pick them out. According to the rules of our Aries Cave, you can pick out five beads, as long as three of them are indeed right, you can be considered qualified. ”
Hearing Su Qin's slow narration, many students in the audience couldn't help but remember that when they faced this stone plate, their breathing became a little rapid uncontrollably.
The difference between the five stone beads and the rest of the stone beads is indeed very small, even if they are placed on the flat white paper at the same time, they may not be able to distinguish it quickly, and in this kind of flow, if they try again, they may not be 100% sure that they will be able to pass.
In the big tests they have seen in the past, more than half of the candidates were eliminated directly in front of this stone plate.
......
When the wooden box is unfolded, it is a natural support.
This stone plate was placed on the stand and placed in front of Ding Ning.
Ding Ning ignored the strange eyes of everyone around him, he stared at the stone plate, and there was some hesitation in his eyes.
In fact, he was already a cultivator of the second realm, and as a cultivator of the second realm who could kill a cultivator like Song Shenshu, he was not an ordinary cultivator. So what he hesitated at this moment was naturally not the flowing stone beads themselves, but what way and what result to pass this introductory test in the Aries Cave.
Because today, it is the first step for him to officially appear in the eyes of many people in Changling.
This first step determines his future posture and what kind of way he will practice in the Aries Cave in the future.
He has been low-key and endured in the streets and alleys of Changling for many years.
His current true cultivation is still very low, and Eldest Sun Qianxue even expressed strong dissatisfaction with this matter, because in his and Eldest Sun Qianxue's plan, it would have been a long time before he had to get to this point.
It's just that the flowers on his wall are blooming more and more, and there are many people like Song Shenshu, who are enjoying a very comfortable life, but some people are living without people and ghosts, and some people are soaking in the dark sewage every day.
"I'm going to be a little more careful... Be careful not to let anyone find the Nine Dead Silkworms... Found the eldest grandson Qianxue... Be careful not to die..."
He took a deep breath and repeated the words again in his mind, and then all the hesitation in his eyes disappeared.
In a burst of disbelief as he inhaled and exclaimed, he held out his hand.
At this time, it was only a few dozen breaths from the end of the stone plate to the time he stretched out his hand.
His hand cut off the tiny gray stream of water and took five gray round stone beads from it.
(There's dinner in the evening, so this chapter will be updated now....)