Chapter 43: Infernal Affairs

On the third day of February, Qinghe Garden was crowded with people, and the flying flags and noisy gongs and drums dispelled the chill of early spring.

The venue of the Soul Measurement Conference is similar to the Lantern Festival Martial Arts Conference, there are two crystal clear ice platforms on the lake, and the three spirit measurement platforms on the central ice platform are placed in the shape of a zigzag, and there are more inspectors and representatives of various sects on the stands than the Lantern Festival Martial Arts Association, and thousands of energetic children around the ice platform are neatly listed according to their respective numbers, and Jing Fei's height of more than seven feet seems to stand out from the crowd.

When the morning sun dyed the whole lake red, a young man in a brocade dress with delicate eyebrows stood up from the stands, the silver moire on the dark green brocade was scattered at will, and a silver background gold belt on the waist faintly had a faint streamer flickering, obviously a high-grade magic weapon, there was a white jade plate tied on one side of the belt, and the word "supervision" was written in gold, and the book in the lower right corner of the jade plate was "Hanyuan" and "Guangyuan".

Jing Fei had seen this person at the yamen the night before yesterday, and he felt that his breath was restrained and his appearance was extraordinary, and when he asked Cui Yi, he knew that this person was the supervisor of this year's Soul Measuring Conference.

At this moment, the breath of the monitoring room was completely released, and the air between his gestures was slightly twisted, he was a third-order monk, judging by his age of only his early twenties, the monk did not show his age, even if he was a second-order monk Shou Yuan, he had a hundred and five years, Jing Fei speculated that his real age should not exceed forty, so it was no wonder that he was entrusted with the important task of supervising such a young cultivator.

The small Chengping County has only a handful of third-order monks, and a supervisor in the county town has a third-order cultivator, so how many fourth-order and fifth-order monks there are.

What kind of scene should the Hanyuan City, which has a history of 10,000 years, be the scene that everyone yearns for? Just when Jing Fei was stunned, the Supervision Envoy had finished preaching the opening of the conference, and the spirit measurement conference had officially begun.

The first to come to the stage were Shi Minrou, Geng Le and Li Zhe, the spiritual testing platform was running, and in an instant, three white lights rose from the ice platform, and the morning light was particularly sacred and solemn, the three of them were all students of the spiritual seminary, Shi Minrou was a second-grade spiritual quality, Geng Le and Li Zhe were third-grade spiritual qualities, which was a good opening!

When the inspector announced the results of the spiritual test, the applause from the audience resounded throughout Chengping County.

Shi Minrou walked down the spiritual testing platform and came to the supervision envoy, who looked at the little girl in front of him who was a little restrained and praised with a smile:

"What a beautiful girl. ”

When Shi Minrou heard this, the hand that grabbed the corner of her skirt clenched tighter.

The inspector noticed Shi Minrou's actions and felt slightly embarrassed, handed over the roster in his hand, touched Shi Minrou's head, and then turned back to the stands.

A woman with a quiet face and a plain dress sat down and said with a smile:

"Supervising the envoy, the concubine looks at the little girl's quiet personality and practices feminine exercises, which is a good embryo for practicing the trick of asking the heart, so it would be better to let it be to lock the heart palace with me. ”

The position of the Inspector is not only to supervise the Soul Measuring Conference, but also to have an important duty to recruit potential cultivation seeds for the Kaiyang School Palace, which is located at the pass of Jiannan Road, and is one of the ten university palaces under the jurisdiction of Hanyuan City, and its profound heritage is far from being comparable to the Lock Heart Palace with a history of only 10,000 years. In addition to the ancient sects with a long history, such as Tianyun Sect, Songtao Temple, Xuanguan Island, and Qingyang Palace, other sects really had to discuss with the Academy Palace if they wanted to find high-quality cultivation seeds.

The Lock Heart Palace is the only sect among the thirteen sects that only accepts women, and if you want to be promoted to the inner door disciple, you must have a third-order cultivation, and this woman wears the clothes of the inner door disciple of the Lock Heart Palace, but she only has a second-order cultivation, and she wants to come to this woman is a descendant of which elder deacon of the sect.

The overseer paused the teacup in his hand slightly, and chuckled:

"The lock heart palace has been established for 10,000 years, and the patriarch of the sect, Su Xin Fairy, joined forces with the Four Elephant Sect Qi Yuan Zhenren and the Red Dragon Monarch of Chiyun Cave to repel the demon plague in Fengyang Pass 10,000 years ago, and tens of millions of human races have been preserved, which is a model and pride for my generation of cultivators, and the contributions made by the people of your sect under the jurisdiction of Hanyuan City over the past ten thousand years are obvious to all, but the governor has sent a task before the envoy came. With that, he picked up the teacup and took a sip.

The woman of the Lock Heart Palace bowed to the inspector from afar, and said lightly:

"What the Inspector said is that I hope this Soul Measurement Conference will surprise everyone. ”

Although he is polite on the surface, in fact, he has already been heartfelt in his heart, and no one who can serve as a supervisor is easy to match.

Several other sect representatives originally planned to open their mouths to fight for it, but when they heard the words of the two of them, they could only swallow the words into their stomachs, and they all knew in their hearts that if there were no other cultivation seeds above the second grade this time, the little girl who was the master of ceremonies would be the focus of this competition.

At this time, Gao Jin, the county commander in the middle of the stands, whispered something to the supervision envoy beside him, and the inspector's face changed slightly, and he glanced at the woman of the lock heart palace quietly, and then turned his gaze to a certain place in the venue.

The people in the stands who can come to recruit people on behalf of the sect are all human spirits, although they didn't hear what the county order said to the supervision envoy, but of course the supervision envoy's actions could not be hidden from everyone, so they all ran away from their eyes.

Jing Fei's location was far away from the spiritual platform, almost on the edge of the venue, but there were still strange eyes constantly sweeping over him, which was the embarrassment that Jing Fei had always been a student of the spiritual seminary.

Jing Fei was paying attention to a middle-aged man in the crowd on the left at this time, the man was in his early thirties, his hair was fluffy, his face was dark with a slight abnormal yellow, the hem of the gray shirt was tied around his waist, perhaps because of the slight hunchback, the shoulders were open, the man's eyes were firmly fixed on the spiritual platform in the center of the lake, his hands were unconsciously clenched together, and his mouth kept muttering something. Jing Fei looked along the man's gaze, and a skinny boy on one of the spirit measuring platforms had a facial face that was five or six points similar to the man, thinking that he was the man's son.

At this time, the spirit measuring platform was activated, and the faint white light flashed away, Jing Fei looked back, and at this time, the man's eyes were blank and his hands were hanging weakly, as if his strength was drained in an instant......

Jing Fei stared at the man's gray eyes, as if he wanted to see through the soul, the soul of the dream realm, the more the image of the dream, the more real the dream could be.

Jing Fei was looking at it intently, and suddenly found that several different eyes were cast on him, these gazes were undisguised, and there was a pinprick-like sting pain on his body, Jing Fei understood that this was because his sense of perception was too keen. Turning his head to look, he saw that the supervision envoy and several sect representatives in the stands were looking at him with interest.

"What a keen sense!"

The speaker is a representative of Songtao Temple, and the Taoist is dressed up, which does have a bit of the meaning of the Taoist fairy wind.

The essence of the Songtao view of the fundamental exercise of longevity is said to be the enlightenment of the real person of the opening school of Songhai, the recipe for longevity is the most authentic Taoist mind, the first to cultivate the mind, quiet as the cliff is not old and loose like the waves of the pine sea, the disciples in the view are generally much stronger than ordinary monks.

According to Jing Fei's reaction just now, it was comparable to an ordinary second-order disciple in the Guannei, and if he looked carefully, Jing Fei had a faint aura around him, and he should still be in the first-order quenching stage, obviously he had cultivation qualifications, but at such an age, he was still in the quenching realm, and it could be seen that his spiritual quality level would not be too high. Thinking of this, the man's mind came alive.

"Dare to ask who this is?"

The first to ask was the representative of Zixiao Mansion.

The representatives of the various sects, including the Supervision Envoy, turned their heads to look at Gao Jin, obviously interested in Jing Fei.

The conversation of everyone in the stands was not covered up with mana, of course, Jing Fei's sense of knowledge could be heard clearly, he didn't know why the representatives of the sect paid attention to him, so he set his eyes on Zhang Jingchang, Zhang Jingchang noticed Jing Fei's gaze and shook his head with a smile to say that it was okay.

The county magistrate Gao Jin glanced at Jing Fei and said:

"This person's name is Jing Fei, he went to the spiritual institute to practice two years ago, and he is the son and nephew of Mr. Zhang in this county. ”

As he spoke, he turned his head slightly to Zhang Jingchang.

When everyone heard this, their eyes lit up, and they were another second-grade spiritual quality, full of qi and blood, and their sense of awareness was strong, which was not a problem at all for the age of such talents. They all started to think about it, and even looked at Zhang Jingchang's eyes eagerly, and the polite words continued for a while.

Zhang Jingchang's face was full of red light at this time, he had already regarded Jing Fei as half a relative, Jing Fei had a bright future, of course he was happy, in addition to this, he always felt that Jing Fei had something to hide from the matter of the Sacrifice Palace, the thirteen sects all had a deep heritage, and if they could join, they would also have one more layer of protection.

Jing Fei pricked up his ears and listened for a while, knowing in his heart, Guo'er had decided to worship the Iron Fist Club Jing Fei also had his own choice, but due to the limited vision, there was still too little information about the sect after all, and if the sect had something that Jing Fei needed, it was not impossible to consider.

Most of the content of the following conversations was the exchange of anecdotes and cultivation experiences of the sect, such as which elder of a certain sect was promoted to the camera not long ago; the younger generation of disciples of a certain sect went to another sect for exchange visits, and when he led the disciples to fight and exchange methods, he frequently made heavy moves, causing serious injuries to many opponents; and it was reported that the Tiangong Battalion was developing a new generation of flying boats, which greatly improved both the flight speed and the concealment effect......

In the afternoon, except for the three students of the spiritual institute at the beginning, there was no more spiritual person, Shi Minrou, who served as the master of ceremonies, read Ren Ran's name according to the explanation of the master of the institute.

On the first day, nearly 1,000 people were tested, and only one child was tested for his cultivation qualifications except for the four people in the spiritual seminary, and it was still the same on the second and third days.

In ordinary counties, there are usually five to ten monastic seeds in each spiritual testing conference, while in Chengping County, there are between ten and fifteen, and this time there are twelve in the spiritual monastery alone, so the results will not disappoint.

The spiritual quality test was carried out until the evening of the fifth day, and the results were unexpectedly good, eighteen cultivation seeds, one first-grade spiritual quality, two grades and three people, the eyes of the sect representatives were shining, even the supervision envoy also raised the spirit of twelve, for fear that the first-grade spiritual child who was not careful would be taken by the sect.

The second stage of the Soul Measurement Conference is the Xuanbing Pavilion Iron Fist Society and other martial arts sects to select and practice embryos, martial arts cultivation roots, understanding, and perseverance are indispensable, although the test process is complicated, but the sect has its own set of perfect regulations.

Eighteen cultivation seeds, thirty martial arts embryos, this is the final result of this spiritual testing conference in Chengping County.

The Martial Arts Embryo Xuanbing Pavilion and the Iron Fist Society each selected 5 people, and the remaining 20 people would follow the supervision envoy to the Kaiyang School Palace.

Of course, Guo'er was selected by the Iron Fist Club without any suspense, to be precise, Guo'er chose the Iron Fist Club, Guo'er did not participate in the test that seemed to her to be bells and whistles, but only stood on the spirit detection ice platform and stepped five steps in a row to punch five times, leaving five spreading cracks on the solid ice platform after the five waves.

Shi Minrou's ancestor is a disciple of the outer gate of the Lock Heart Palace, and his last wish is to hope that the descendants can become disciples of the inner door of the Lock Heart Palace, plus the practice method of Shi Min Rou is originally from the Lock Heart Palace, and he has a choice very early like Guo'er.

Wang Shu, who was also a second-order spiritual quality, was recruited by Songtaoguan, and the child of that first-order spiritual quality naturally chose to supervise the envoy.

As for Jing Fei, after many twists and turns, he finally went directly to the Divine Protector Mansion to become a walker, a result that even Jing Fei himself was surprised.

On one side are the members of the Sacrifice Palace, and on the other side are the gods who are walking in the Guardian Mansion, and they are free in the dark.