There is a soil embryo house next to the peach tree of Zhao Xifeng's refining body, which is a small temple built by the old monk in Mai, in addition to the daily use of bottles and pots in the temple, there is no side furnishings, even the place where the golden body of the Buddha is enshrined in the ordinary temple, only a futon is placed, and the old monk sits in the position of the Buddha on weekdays, and preaches the scriptures for the people who occasionally come to the small temple to repay their wishes or ask for medicine. There is a fence outside the house, enclosing the peach tree in a radius of eight feet and four feet, the fence is facing the city gate of the town and there is a building that has only been recognized, according to the old monk, this eight zhang and four feet is eighty-four thousand worlds, the fence is a fan fence of red dust, and the opening is the convenient door of Pudu sentient beings, Zhao Xifeng disdains this, but Zhao Wu cherishes it and writes it down.

Today, Zhao Xifeng stood at the door of the gate of the aspect, feeling very inconvenient, he had tried several times, as soon as he stepped out of this courtyard, he returned to the courtyard, it seemed that this small courtyard had become a cycle, Zhao Xifeng picked up a stone and threw it at the courtyard gate, the stone passed through the door, and did not fly back to the courtyard, it seems that he can't get out of it.

Zhao Xifeng stared at the big eyes, he didn't know what was going on, but he vaguely felt that this had something to do with the exam in the mouth of the gentleman in the morning school, so he stopped blindly breaking in, stood in front of the door and began to think about the solution.

The Gu family is one of the two major families in the town, and almost monopolizes the north-south trade route of the town. Panlong Town is located in the border pass, far away from the Central Plains, including salt and iron and many other necessities to be purchased from the south, so the Gu family is very influential in the local area, and the people in the town often say that the old Gu of Liushui Town guards the iron, which is not a lie. Seven years ago, the second room of the Gu family gave birth to a baby boy, named Qingyuan, was an ordinary child, but after the star tide suddenly opened his mind, spoke overnight, three years old knew 3,000 words, intelligent, the family regarded it as the treasure of Zhongxing, not only from the high price of the Beijing teacher invited the old gentleman, but also knocked on the side to hear that the teaching secretary who came to Panlong Town this time was actually from the noble and unspeakable Tianqing Division, attached great importance to the examination of this school, and left the door early in the morning to wait in the school, and after the registration was over, he began to prepare for the exam all the time。

At this time, Gu Qingyuan was copying this year's highly praised "Yunshan Recitation" among the teachers and scholars of Beijing, and the article that could definitely be copied in half an hour was still only copied to the middle section after an hour, and a large stack of rice paper had been used.

Gu Qingyuan closed his eyes and stared, thinking for a while, an extremely typical adult calm smile appeared on his face, and when nothing happened, he continued to copy.

The second fat of the Dong family shouted that he was hungry after returning home from school, in fact, he just wanted to go to Aunt Li's girl to play early after eating earlier, and his parents hurriedly prepared lunch for him, but when he really sat down at his table, he found that he couldn't finish today's rice, and his stomach was always full.

When Gou Yifang returned home, he looked at his father who had not yet woken up and sighed slightly, so he had to make his own fire to wash rice and cook. Gou Yifang's father is a showman who has failed to make the list, he was famous for his talent when he was young, but he failed to pass the imperial examination repeatedly, and he became addicted to alcohol from self-pity, and he lost his family property over the years and became more and more unmotivated.

Gou Yifang thought about his mother, who was almost impossible to see now, and turned the rope irritably to get the well water, but today's rope seemed to be infinitely long, and the barrel in the well never appeared.

This happened to all the twenty-three students in the town who signed up for the exam, doing something but not being able to finish it, as if they were trapped in a strange circle of infinite time and space.

Zhou Zhe and the four of them were still in the side hall of the school, and the four of them sat around an octagonal round table, on which twenty-three bronze mirrors were scattered, and the scene in the mirror was exactly what the candidates looked like at present.

"Reincarnation?" the old monk exclaimed, "Mr. Zhou learned such a profound Tianqing secret method at a young age, and his future life is terrifying. ”

Zhou Zhe shook his head and said: "Master praised, this round of kickbacks was originally set up in advance when my master left the town, and it was triggered by the spirit cards in the hands of these children, and it has nothing to do with me." ”

Guo You frowned and said: "The reincarnation kick is a very clever illusion technique of the Tianqing Division's cabinet, even cultivators are difficult to crack it in a while and a half, using it as an exam question, is it too harsh, and being trapped in the illusion for a long time will also have an impact on these children, Lord Li's layout is a little abrupt." ”

Zhou Zhe quickly browsed back and forth on the bronze mirror, and explained: "These illusions are all very simple primary illusions, if the complete reincarnation kickback creates a real world and makes people lose in it, then what the candidates have to face is nothing more than soapy bubbles, which will burst when poked." Therefore, as the first question of this preliminary examination, the first thing to examine is the hearts of these children. ”

As he spoke, he pointed to the seven bronze mirrors on the table, in which the children began to panic when they realized that they were abnormal, and then they cried and broke down emotionally.

Zhou Zhe calmly buckled the seven bronze mirrors downward, covered them on the table, and then said: "The path of cultivation is to go against the sky alone, and the hardships and difficulties encountered do not need to be said to all of you here, these children are weaker, and they do not have the courage and determination to face the problem, for them, it may be a better choice to be an ordinary person." ”

The old monk and Guo You nodded slightly, and the man surnamed Zheng was a little disapproving, and said: "Lord Zhou, all the children you gave the token this morning have the talent for cultivation, and in the small year when the star tide has not set, they can be called geniuses wherever they are placed, in my opinion, cutting off their cultivation path is a great waste to our dynasty, you must know that when these children grow up, they can all become an important combat force in the Northern Expedition to the White Sea." ”

Zhou Zhe glanced up at him and said: "The imperial court should put the interests of the people first, if we train people who are not suitable for conquest to go to the battlefield, then such a Zhou Dynasty will be destroyed." ”

The man surnamed Zheng snorted coldly and stopped talking.

The atmosphere of the scene was slightly embarrassing for a while, Guo You knew that these two people couldn't afford to provoke themselves, but the partial life would have a great impact on the future of Panlong Town, so he had to divert the topic, pointed to a bronze mirror and said: "Look, some candidates have broken their illusions." ”

"So fast?" Zhou Zhe said in surprise.

The three of them looked at the bronze mirror, the person who broke the illusion was Gou Yifang, he saw that the rope could not shake the barrel for a long time, so he threw down the rope, picked up a stone from the ground and threw it into the well, after confirming that there was a sound of water, he ran back to his house to take out another rope, and a clean sponge, he tied the rope to the sponge and sank into the well, after a while, pulled out the sponge, squeezed the water of the sponge into the basin of washing rice, and repeated it three or four times, the water in the basin slowly submerged the rice grains, and the illusion gradually dissipated, Gou Yifang walked away from the mirror with the rice basin.

Zhou Zhe said with a smile: "This kid is also smart, he discovered the crux of the illusion at the first time and came up with such a method." ”

Guo You echoed with a smile: "A gentleman is not different, and he is good at things." ”

Next, there were candidates who broke the illusion one after another, among which Dong Erfat relied on a plate of braised pork to eat up the "amount of food" provided by the illusion, which made people laugh.

There are fewer and fewer figures in the mirror, only a few people remain, seeing that the sun has set in the west, if you can't break the illusion before sunset, it means that although you have perseverance, you still lack some understanding and lose your qualification to practice.

At this moment, Gu Qingyuan broke his illusion, and saw the child in the mirror writing hard, writing with a good pen, and the manuscript copied next to him was already two inches high. The old monk nodded and said, "This son's wish power will not lose the law." ”

Fakong is a closed disciple accepted by the host of Gucha Temple in Kyoto three years ago, known as Little Maitreya, with the status of the old monk in the Liberation Gate, if this evaluation is spread, Gu Qingyuan is afraid that he will become famous overnight.

Finally, Yun Shan Chan turned the last page, Gu Qingyuan put down the pen in his hand, and let out a sigh of satisfaction, the illusion had been broken.

Just when everyone was about to look away, Guo You raised his eyebrows and said, "Strange, I have also read this Yunshan recitation, and it is indeed talented, but it is very different from the one copied by Gu Qingyuan." ”

Everyone looked at it carefully, only to find that Gu Qingyuan's way of breaking the illusion was actually to rewrite a new version of Yunshan Chanting with his own brushstrokes.

Gu Qingyuan is only eleven or twelve years old, he is trapped in a fantasy but he is not anxious, he is still dedicated to learning, and he can write a beautiful essay comparable to that of a scholar in the imperial examination, such talent, such a heart, such a talent, such a talent, it is really amazing.

The man surnamed Zheng was silent for a long time, and said, "This son's qualifications are the first, I don't know which is higher or lower compared with the little princess who has been touted like a god over the White Lake over the years." ”

Everyone knows that the first he said is the first in the entire Great Zhou Dynasty, and the implication is that he is the young daughter of the head of the Huangji Sect.

The next methods of breaking illusions also have their own wonderful, but compared with Gu Qingyuan, they still lost a few points of color, and in the end, only one bronze mirror still had a figure flickering.

Guo You looked at the person in the mirror and frowned and said: "I know this child, it is the daughter of Aunt Li's family in the wine shop, her parents died early, only she is left to live with her aunt, she has no cultivation talent, and she should not have signed up for this preliminary examination." ”

The little girl of the Li family is named Li Xuan, and the illusion she faces is wearing shoes, at this time she is sitting on her own small bed, and wants to see the Zhao family brother next door, so she wears the shoes of the left foot, and then when she wears the shoes of the right foot, she finds that the one on the left foot is still on the ground originally, and so on and so on, repeating for an afternoon, seeing that the dusk is approaching, and the night is approaching, there is still no progress, and I can't help but deflat, and I am about to cry.

Zhou Zhe and the four of them knew that as long as she cried, this exam would be considered a failure. And just when the little girl was about to cry, she suddenly remembered something, so she collected her tears, walked barefoot to the ground, closed her eyes and read very reverently: "Roll on the ground three times, Xifeng will come to the rescue." Then on the ground, I rolled three times in earnest.

Zhou Zhe and the man surnamed Zheng looked at each other, not knowing what the significance of this move was, and the old monk and Guo You had been in the town for a long time, and they both knew that this was a prank made by a certain little demon king of the mixed world, and they looked at each other.

At this time, the sunset at dusk was about to put away the last touch of afterglow, and the entire school hall was stained with golden, Zhou Zhe had already stretched out his hand and pressed it on the bronze mirror representing the girl of the Li family to buckle it, and suddenly saw the door of the room in the mirror open, and Zhao Xifeng stood at the door with a frown.

"When did he come out of the illusion?!" The man surnamed Zheng frowned and stood up, he had never been optimistic about Zhao Xifeng, because Zhao Xifeng's body was depleted of essence and blood, and the most fundamental thing to break the illusion was the consumption of essence and blood. Dong Erfat swallowed twelve large bowls of rice, and Gu Qingyuan sat down all day long to write splendid articles, which was the most relaxed, but he also took water for half an hour with the body of a child. Reincarnation deducts the examination of children's hearts and talents, but also the examination of essence and blood heritage, whether people cannot. He thought that Zhao Xifeng had already cried and eliminated at the beginning of the exam, but he never thought that he had already escaped from the illusion.

Zhou Zhe said with a strange face: "He was the first to break the illusion, and he got out of trouble before the bronze mirror was even set, so I don't know how to do it." ”

At this time, the old monk, who had been silent for a long time, suddenly said: "This kid, seeing that he couldn't get out, kicked down my fence and broke out of the wall. ”

Everyone was silent for a long time, all of them had strange faces, unable to speak, it turned out that Zhou Zhe before taking over the position of deputy director of the cabinet of Tianqing Division, he often went in and out of the wall in Tianqing Division, and later it was rumored that he climbed over the wall and entered, and casually pointed out the correct place for Li Chunhao, who had been looking for the stars for a long time, and it was passed on as a good story.

The man surnamed Zheng sneered and said: "Opportunistic, unruly, no road." "I don't know if it's Zhou Zhe or Zhao Xifeng.

The old monk in Mai retorted rarely: "If there is no fence in the heart, there is no fence in the world." ”

Zhou Zhe exhaled a long breath, shook his head with a smile: "I just went over the wall back then, this kid directly kicked the wall down, and he also kicked the master's temple wall, and the future is terrifying." ”

The crowd continued to look into the bronze mirror.

Zhao Xifeng was crossing his hands on his waist and asked Li Xuan in a milky voice: "Sister Li, didn't you say yesterday that you would come to my house for dinner tonight, why don't you come over?"

The girl said timidly, "Brother Sect Master, I can't wear shoes." ”

Zhao Xifeng shook his head, walked to the side of the bed with an expression that he couldn't help you, and reached out to pull the girl's feet, the girl didn't know whether she was a little scared or shy, curled her legs to dodge, and saw Zhao Xifeng raise her head and glare, and finally gave in and slowly stretched out a foot.

The illusion is shattered.