The blue sea and silver sand, cloudless, the rising sun rises from the east, the sea surface is sparkling, the warm sea breeze blows through the skin, and the warmth is very comfortable. Pen Fun Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

Bai Cheng sat on a lonely boat, his hands were unhurried, slowly shaking the oars, and walked in the direction of Taiyin Island.

The boat seemed to be slow and fast, and it didn't take much effort to come to the vicinity of Taiyin Island.

Taiyin Island is different from Sun Island and Jidu Island, there is no beach around the island, either towering cliffs, or prominent reefs, plus lurking underwater reefs, if you are not familiar with waterways, you will not be able to go around the island even if you are afraid of death.

Bai Cheng drove a boat to the south of Taiyin Island, used his oars against the reef protruding from the sea, dived his internal qi, and shouted loudly: "Zhou Xin from Jidu Island has come to apply for going to the island!"

The sound was like thunder rolling, coming to the middle of the island, and although the sea breeze was strong and the waves were fast, it could not suppress his voice.

As Baicheng's voice came out, "poof" twice, two round heads emerged from under the sea, and then two fish crossbows came out of the water, and the tips of the arrows flashed coldly, pointing at Baicheng from afar.

These two people are all dressed in sea-blue sea snake skin, tightly wrapped from head to toe, leaving only the eyes embedded with transparent glass, revealing two black eyes, and their hands are not idle, one hand is holding a fish crossbow carved from whale bones, facing Bai Cheng steadily, holding a round shield made of sea snake skin tanning in the other hand, protecting the throat, carrying two large steel cylinders, two hoses sticking out of the mouth of the cylinders, connected to the nostrils, dressed exactly like the frogmen Bai Cheng had seen in his previous life.

Bai Cheng arched his hand and said, "The two of you have worked hard. ”

The two frogmen nodded slightly, signaling that they heard Bai Cheng's words, but the crossbow in their hands did not relax at all.

Bai Cheng said with a smile: "My person Zhou Xin, from Jidu Island, is here to apply for the assessment on the island." ”

The two frogmen glanced at each other, and one of them slowly swam to Bai Cheng's side, put down the round shield in his hand, stretched out his left hand from the water, and gestured to the shape of a token.

Bai Cheng smiled slightly, took out the ghost golden order from his arms, and handed it to this person.

The frogman took the ghost golden order, looked at it carefully, and tapped it lightly, listening to the crisp sound of the golden order.

Bai Cheng smiled on his face, and there was nothing abnormal.

Although this Ghost Golden Order is not genuine, it is also a fake refined by the Spirit Diagram Dao Master, how can it be so easy to be recognized?

According to the Lingtu Dao Chief, I am afraid that except for Chief Liang, there is no second person in the Jiuyao Islands who can find the difference, including Feng Nuo Dao Chief.

The frogman didn't see anything wrong with the golden order, nodded slightly, handed the golden order to Bai Cheng, turned around and swam along the waterway to Taiyin Island.

White City swung his oars and followed the frogman, while the other remained put, bowed his head and sank into the water, disappearing.

This waterway is extremely tortuous and very strange, sometimes the front is obviously calm water, but the frogman has to go far away, and sometimes there is a whole reef in front of him, but the frogman does not hesitate to swim to the reef. When Bai Cheng drove the boat to a close place, he found that two reefs were intertwined, and it was not clear from a distance, which caused the illusion.

In just one channel, Bai Cheng walked for half an hour, and finally came to a sheltered pier on Taiyin Island.

There were already island guards guarding the pier, and some people stepped forward quickly, tied the boat to the shore, and someone led the way in front of the head, leading Baicheng to the island.

Bai Cheng followed behind the guide guard, strolling towards the island, and kept looking around to see the scenery of the island.

Unlike several other islands, Taiyin Island is not planted with the usual species of trees on the seaside, but is planted with tall trees from the north, such as pines, cypresses, acacia and mulberry.

Between the layers of trees, there are many pavilions and pavilions, and there are constantly subdued reading voices coming from them, Bai Cheng is in a trance, and he thinks he has returned to the school in his previous life.

Compared with Sun Island, Sun Island does not have obvious landmarks, but is a little more popular.

The guards who led the way went around three times and two, and took Bai Cheng to the front of a bamboo pavilion, the pavilion was empty, only a stone table in the middle, and the top of the stone table was a wide square stone slab, which was more than five fingers thick, and the surface was carved with a chessboard of nineteen roads in length and width, and there were two boxes of chess pieces on the corners, and a stone jar was pressed under the stone slab, and there was no other figure.

The guard bowed to the empty bamboo pavilion, and said with a smile: "Scholar Qiqi Zhu, someone has come to apply for the assessment again." ”

Bai Cheng was stunned, not knowing where this Zhu scholar was.

"Okay, I know, you go quickly, don't disturb my sleep" A thick voice sounded steadily, and the shaking bamboo pavilion shook from side to side, constantly falling dust.

With the sound of speaking, the stone slab weighing more than 1,000 catties was lifted, and a middle-aged Confucian in shabby clothes held the stone slab with one hand and rubbed his eyes with the other, slowly stood up from the stone jar, yawning incessantly.

The escort who led the way said to Bai Cheng: "This is the examiner of the first examination, Scholar Zhu, and later his old man will assess his feet, and he will leave first." ”

Bai Cheng arched his hand at him, turned to face Scholar Zhu, and looked up and down.

Scholar Zhu was dressed in coarse cloth clothes, gray and covered with a lot of dust, his hair was oily and sticky into locks and scattered behind his head, his palms were thick and thick, grinding out many calluses, and a pair of cloth shoes under his feet were worn and old, and they were already full of holes.

Don't say that he is a scholar, even if he is an ordinary scholar, I am afraid that no one will believe him, but he is said to be an old farmer in the mountains, and I am afraid that there will be a little more.

Bai Cheng was secretly suspicious in his heart, not knowing whether the guards called him Scholar Zhu, whether it was an honorific title or a casual joke.

Scholar Zhu stepped out of the stone jar, put the stone slab on top of the stone jar with his backhand, pointed at Bai Cheng with one hand, covered his mouth with the other and yawned, and said, "Hurry up and come over and test, I will go to sleep after the test." ”

Bai Cheng nodded, walked slowly into the pavilion, and said, "Please also ask Scholar Zhu to give advice." ”

Scholar Zhu grabbed a chess piece casually, slapped it on the table casually and said, "Let's play a game of chess today, if you can win, you will pass." ”

Bai Cheng was stunned for a moment, and said with a wry smile: "Although the disciple has also learned to play chess, he is just not good at this way, are there any other assessment methods?"

Scholar Zhu frowned and said, "You are here to participate in the assessment, how can you be qualified to pick and choose?" Don't worry, my chess game is different from others. ”

As he spoke, he twisted several black chess pieces in succession and placed a special symbol on the board.

Bai Cheng looked down and couldn't help but look strange.

Scholar Zhu was not simply playing chess, but arranged in a similar rune shape, but it was a "fire" talisman.

Bai Cheng smiled slightly, and still twisted up a few white chess pieces, which were also arranged in the shape of runes, but they were a "water" talisman.

The five elements are mutually restrictive, and water can overcome fire.

Scholar Zhu smiled, and casually placed another rune next to the "fire" talisman, but it was a "wind" talisman.

The fire borrows the wind and burns the prairie for thousands of miles, but it is not the "water" charm that can be restrained.

Bai Cheng smiled without saying a word, gently twisted several chess pieces, and placed a "cloud" symbol below the "water" symbol.

The water is in the clouds, rising into rain, just enough to restrain the fires of the mountains.

Zhu University students did not hesitate, and quickly placed a "soil" charm, the fire is in the soil, even if it encounters heavy rain, it can leave the fire, and when the rain is over, the sky can be burned again.

Bai Cheng smiled, and casually put down a "soil" talisman, the water gathered in the soil, accumulated into a lake, even if it was a latent fire, it would eventually be submerged by the lake.

Seeing this, Scholar Zhu yawned greatly, stirred up the chessboard casually, and did not speak to Bai Cheng, stretched out his hand to hold up the stone slab, stepped into the stone jar, put down the stone slab again, and disappeared into the bamboo pavilion again.

Bai Cheng was dumbfounded, and was about to open his mouth to ask, when he heard Scholar Zhu say from the stone jar: "Walk three hundred steps up from here, shout three times Scrooge, naturally someone will continue to assess." ”

Before the words fell, a low snoring sound was heard from the stone jar.

Bai Cheng smiled bitterly, turned around and walked out of the bamboo pavilion, and continued to walk upward.

Scholar Zhu's assessment was half a joke, half serious, and the test was just Bai Cheng's familiarity with runes, such as rune recognition and mutual restraint. Bai Cheng has been familiar with these things for a long time in the past year, and he doesn't worry about any assessment, but this test method is unique.

Bai Cheng walked up the stairs along the mountain road, and after a short time, he walked three hundred steps above the bamboo pavilion, but saw a stone house standing there.

This stone house is more than two zhang high, the whole body is made of more than three feet long, more than one foot thick blue strip stone city, the green strip stone is also bonded with glutinous rice, it is a master of qi training, and it is difficult to break the stone wall for a while.

The stone house had no windows, only an iron door in the front, made of cold iron, about nine feet high and three feet wide, but the thickness could not be determined.

Bai Cheng stood in front of the door and shouted, "Scrooge, Scrooge, Scrooge!"

Before the words fell, I heard a "clang", and the iron door slid to the side, revealing a narrow slit half a foot wide.

Bai Cheng looked down the narrow slit and couldn't help but gasp, it turned out that this iron door was more than three feet thick, and it couldn't be seen as a door.

"Who's calling the old man?" said an old voice through the door.

"I am here to apply for the assessment on the island, and Scholar Zhu asked me to come to see your old man. Bai Cheng said loudly.

"Oh, it looks like he didn't stump you. ”

"Scholar Zhu is not embarrassed to take the lead. ”

"Hehe, you Mo Duo said, if you don't pass my level, wouldn't it seem that the old man is ruthless to his juniors?"

The old man was joking. ”

"How much are these beads worth?"

As he spoke, a thin and withered hand stretched out from the door, holding a string of prayer beads in his hand, and shook it in front of Bai Cheng's eyes.

Bai Cheng was about to reach out to pick it up, but saw his palm shrink back quickly.

"What are you going to do!"

"I want to take a closer look. ”

"It's the same in my hands!"

Bai Cheng smiled bitterly, and finally understood the origin of the word "miser" in his heart.

He took a closer look, and after a while, he said, "Old man, this string of beads is worth at least 1.8 million taels." ”

"Hehe, you don't know that this string of beads is so valuable?"

"Old man, there are twelve beads in this string, six of which are made of Heavenly Spirit Stone, each bead is worth at least ten thousand taels, the other three are carved from basalt, which are worthless, and two are carved from Beast Soul Agate, each at least twenty thousand taels..."

"This adds up to only 100,000 taels, and you give me the remaining 1.1 million taels for nothing?"

"Old man, these eleven are exposed, although they are also extremely valuable, they are nothing, but the most precious one of them is tightly held in your old man's hand, and the beads are smelted from star gold, and are worth at least one hundred thousand taels. ”

"You kid has a good eye!" said the old man's voice, "Let's see how much this dress is worth?"

As he spoke, the old man behind the door took back the bracelet and handed out a tattered old clothes.

Bai Cheng looked down, but it was an ordinary dress, and there was nothing unusual about it, so he couldn't help frowning.

After pondering for a moment, he raised his nose again and sniffed, then suddenly smiled and said, "Old man, the value of this garment is more than three times that of the bracelet just now. ”

"It's just a tattered garment, where is it worth three million taels, if you want it, I'll sell it to you!"

Although the old man said that he was going to sell, he unconsciously shrank his clothes back.

Bai Cheng smiled and said: "Old man, don't be joking, although this dress is not valuable, but the three buttons sewn on the clothes are priceless, if you guess correctly, it should be the legendary Sea Soul Agate." ”

"Sea Soul Agate? What is this, and how is it so valuable?"

"Sea soul agate is called agate, it really has nothing to do with agate, it is a secretion of a deep-sea cetacean in the sea, a crystal formed by thousands of years of sedimentation, as for why it is so valuable, I don't know it below, only know that Buddhism and Taoism are willing to spend a lot of money to collect this thing, for which at any cost, at any cost. ”

Nowadays, there are not many pragmatic young people like you, and those young people either think they are high and look down on the smell of copper, or they think they are unsightly, they can't look at things outside their bodies, they never want to work hard to study all kinds of materials in the world, and they don't know the truth between life and heaven and earth, heaven and earth and all things and people!"

Bai Cheng smiled slightly and said, "The old gentleman praised it falsely. ”

"Praise and praise, you can see how much my wooden hairpin is worth!" The old man behind the door took back his clothes and handed out a wooden hairpin, impartial, and happened to hand it to Bai Cheng.

Bai Cheng stretched out his hand to take the wooden hairpin, took a closer look, and said: "This is the most ordinary ebony hairpin, it is sold in the bazaar for ten tenths, and if it is placed in the shops of Jianye City, it can be bought for up to two dollars of silver." ”

"Young people just don't boast, you take a closer look. ”

Bai Cheng was stunned, looked at it carefully, knocked lightly again, sniffed, looked a little strange, and said, "I don't seem to be able to see anything below." ”

"Alas, young people nowadays, can't you even recognize the wood of the Beihai Salo Iron Tree? This wooden hairpin is worth at least 50,000 taels!"

"Old man, the Salo Iron Tree is rare in the world, if it is really made into a wooden hairpin, it is worth at least ten million taels or more, how can it be bought for fifty thousand taels?

"Alas, young man, if you admit your mistake and reflect back in time, the old man is still willing to let you qualify, if you insist on refusing to reflect, the old man can only count you as unqualified. ”

Bai Cheng stood for a long time and asked, "Old man, how can I be considered reflective?"

"If you are willing to spend 50,000 taels of silver to buy this wooden hairpin, it proves that you are willing to reflect and are very sincere..."

Before he finished speaking, Bai Cheng took out a ticket of 50,000 taels from his arms and stuffed it into the old man's thin hand.

The old man quickly took back the silver ticket, and said with a smile: "Then go up three hundred steps, and after passing the old turtle level, it will be completed!" (To be continued.) )