When, when, when!

Three melodious bells rang from the top of the Heavenly Sword Peak, facing the rising sun in the sky, spreading in all directions.

As soon as I heard this bell, the back mountain suddenly turned from quiet to noisy, but I saw a figure walking through the tree-lined paths and slope narrow paths of the back mountain from time to time, and there were many discussions, and they all went towards the direction of the peak.

Yuan Yi was also mixed in the crowd, walking and talking with the children next to him.

Because several batches of assessments have ended yesterday, according to the notice of the sect, it is necessary to gather at the martial arts training ground today in order to make arrangements for the new sect people.

In the blink of an eye, everyone has reached their destination.

At this time, the personnel arranged in the door have not yet arrived.

Afterwards, the children gathered in groups and talked in the square, and a loud noise filled it.

Yuan Yi stopped talking at this time, and his eyes rolled, looking around.

He calculated slightly, there were nearly 100 people in the square, and these were the disciples who passed the assessment this time. Among them, Yuan Yi saw the girl Ling Hanfang, she was talking to her, when she noticed Yuan Yi's gaze, she smiled slightly, Yuan Yi also nodded, and then turned her head to look at it.

After a while, Yuan Yi finished watching, then retracted his gaze and stood silently in a corner of the square, waiting for the arrival of the resettlement personnel.

After about half an hour, when the noise was getting louder and louder, and the children were getting impatient, the five figures came belatedly, and in a burst of powerful footsteps, they walked in the direction of everyone.

Yuan Yi followed the sound and saw that among the five people, three men and two women.

The person at the head is a middle-aged man wearing a blue coat, a silver belt around his waist, and a square face, which is the same person who issued the token to Yuan Yi a few days ago.

As soon as he saw this person, Yuan Yi suddenly remembered the past, and his face couldn't help but change!

However, after seeing that he didn't notice him, Yuan Yi breathed a sigh of relief in his heart.

After middle age, there were four young men and women, also dressed in blue, but with an orange belt around their waists.

One of the young women was beautiful and plump, and it was the senior sister Jiang Yan that Yuan Yi had seen.

The other three were strangers.

As soon as the five of them stepped into the square, they walked towards the platform in front of them.

At this time, although the noise on the field did not stop, with the arrival of the five people, it was much smaller than before.

When the five of them arrived near the high platform, they did not immediately go to the stage to preach, but exchanged heads and whispered to each other.

With the ear power of the recent Dajin, and the distance from the platform is only a few dozen feet, Yuan Yi can hear their conversation clearly.

After seeing that the man on the side stood up, he turned his head to Senior Sister Jiang Yan and said, "Senior Sister Jiang, how is the assessment going this time?"

Beside them, when the three of them heard this, they also looked at Senior Sister Jiang Yan, and two of the men were even more scorching.

Hearing this, she immediately opened the booklet in her hand, and then said slowly: "According to statistics, there are ten batches of people who participated in the assessment this time, a total of 1,072 people, and 96 people are included in the door wall, including 35 beginner disciples and 61 registered disciples. In addition, during the assessment, 67 people died, of which 15 committed suicide!"

Hearing this, not only the middle-aged four people were surprised, but Yuan Yi in the distance couldn't help but be shocked.

But he didn't expect that there would be a child who committed suicide!

Three hundred silver taels for a living life!

The children in the mountain village are so cheap!

Thinking about this, a burst of grief and indignation immediately surged into Yuan Yi's heart. He was sad about the loss of those little lives, and angry at God's injustice to all beings. With this thought, his original joy of entering the house suddenly calmed down.

If I hadn't had that adventure, I wouldn't have been able to pass the test, and at that time, would I have chosen that path?

While his mind was rolling, Yuan Yi suddenly flashed such a thought.

At this moment, after a few breaths of silence, the sound of distant conversation sounded again.

Yuan Yi hurriedly calmed down, calmed his fluctuating mind, looked at the five people with two eyes, and continued to listen.

I only heard the middle-aged man say in surprise: "Oh! There is a child who committed suicide? This is a strange thing that has never been seen in the assessment in previous years!"

When the woman surnamed Jiang heard this, she stroked her hair slightly and said, "Not bad." Senior Brother Wang, you see, for those children who die, especially those who commit suicide, can the sect increase the pension for their families?"

"No! Rules are rules! Since the amount of rewards has been set before, it cannot be changed at will. Moreover, since they have come to participate in this examination, they should bear the risks and misfortunes themselves, whether those risks and misfortunes are self-generated by providence or self-created. If it is because of this that the sect arbitrarily increases the pension funds, then what do you think about the rules of the sect. Besides, the wealth of this sect is not blown by the wind!" Hearing this, the middle-aged man's face suddenly sank, and he flatly refused.

Seeing this, the woman surnamed Jiang sighed slightly, looked at the resolute expression of the middle-aged man, and knew that she could not change her decision, so she stepped aside and said no more.

While the two were talking, the three people standing next to them did not say a word.

Immediately afterwards, the middle-aged man continued to ask the other three about something.

After the meal, the five of them finished their discussions.

The middle-aged man immediately walked up to the high platform and waved his hand to signal everyone to be quiet.

After a while, the crowd stopped!

The middle-aged man then said aloud: "You guys listen to me! Before you officially practice martial arts, you will have a one-year academic career. After a year, Master Yan will conduct a unified test for you. Among them, those who perform well, whether they are beginner disciples or registered disciples, can obtain the qualification of high-class martial arts and enjoy the first-class disciple salary; those who pass or above do not include excellence, whether they are beginner disciples or registered disciples, they can obtain the qualification of lower and intermediate martial arts and enjoy the second-class disciple income; as for those who are not qualified, the beginner disciples will not be qualified to enter the stream of martial arts and enjoy the third-class disciple income, as for the registered disciples, they will be expelled from the mountain and repatriated to their hometown. Do you understand everything?"

Hearing this, everyone was shaken and replied in unison: "I understand!"

Then, the middle-aged man continued: "Okay! Next, we will divide the personnel. ”

After speaking, he stepped off the platform and instructed the woman surnamed Jiang to divide the ninety-six children into three groups, divided into three classes: A, B, and C, with more than 30 people in each class.

A quarter of an hour later, the shift was completed. Yuan Yi and the girl Ling Hanfang were in Class A.

Subsequently, after saying a few words to everyone, the middle-aged man announced the adjournment of the meeting.

After a while, the square suddenly disappeared!

......

Early the next morning, Longyin Academy.

In an acre-sized attic, Yuan Yi sat on a wooden bench, flipping through the ten newly received books on his desk, his eyes flashing, and he watched curiously.

It's a pity that no matter what, he didn't understand, and in the distress on his face, he turned his head to watch.

On the left side of her hand, the girl Ling Hanfang was gently rubbing the new book with her slender hand, sniffing the fragrance of the book with her little nose from time to time, and her face was full of joy.

Seeing Yuan Yi's distressed look, she smiled slightly, and said, "Hehe, what, don't you understand? You don't have to worry, Mr. will naturally teach him when he comes." ”

"It's a pity that Mr. hasn't ...... yet"

Yuan Yi complained, casually looking in the direction of the door, and before he finished speaking, he saw a figure push open the half-hidden door and walk in slowly.

The figure was the appearance of an old man, dressed in gray, with a white beard, with one hand on his back and a book in the other.

Seeing the old man coming in, Yuan Yi hurriedly reminded the girl: "Mr. is here!"

The girl immediately stopped what she was doing, looked up, and looked ahead.

When the other children saw the old man coming in, they also closed their mouths and turned their eyes to look ahead.

The old man stood in front of the lectern, saw this scene, nodded with satisfaction, and then said:

"For the next year, your studies will be mainly in charge of the old man. My surname is Nie, you can call me Nie Lao or Mr. Nie. Now, there are five kinds of books in your hands, namely "Three Character Classic", "Hundred Family Names", "Thousand Character Text", "Catalogue of Human Body Meridians" and "Martial Arts Foundation"; Therefore, you must be very careful about this, because it will be related to your test results in one year's time. This kind of writing will be taught to you by Old Master Feng Tai. During this period, you can ask him for advice about the problems of this kind of writing, and as for other academic problems, the old man can solve them. ”

Immediately afterward, he stopped talking nonsense, but went straight to the point and began to lecture.

In this way, Yuan Yi and others began a one-year school career.

Time flies, and three months have passed in a blink of an eye.

In the past three months, perhaps because of that washing of tendons and marrows, Yuan Yi found that he could read much faster than other children, and now, he was no longer unfamiliar with the current writing of the Wei Guo in the five volumes.

Under such circumstances, when he once heard Senior Sister Shen say that he could enter the first floor of the Martial Arts Pavilion with a token, he stepped into it out of curiosity.

Although there is no martial arts cheats that he longs for in his heart, the books in it such as "Martial Arts Chronicle", "Wei History", "Romance of the Founding of the People's Republic of China", "Wulin Yiren Biography", "Thirty-six Prefecture Chronicles", etc., are eye-opening for him, and at the same time, it makes him book flourish!

So, he threw himself into it with hunger and thirst, and let his thoughts wander in the sea of books like forgetting to sleep and food, and his knowledge gradually expanded in the process, gradually turning away the ignorance and confusion of the children in the mountain village step by step, and replacing it with the appearance of a student full of energy and confidence.

Of course, an important reason why he was so keen to read was to know the details of the gray stone that had been integrated into him.

It's a pity that he rummaged through some books such as "Strange Things in the Rivers and Lakes", "Miscellaneous Stories of Martial Arts", "Guangnan Strange Records" and other strange stories, but he never found the answer he wanted.

Although this disappointed him, it was during this time that he developed the habit of self-study without supervision, and this habit has benefited him for the rest of his life!