Dragon Continent June 11th, 4799!
In Yushui City, inside the Xia Family Mansion, thousands of people gathered densely on the huge square. Most of these people are the direct and collateral descendants of the Xia family, and a small number are representatives from famous scholars in Yushui City and the other two big families in Yushui City who are as famous as the Xia family.
Today is the day when the Xia family selects outstanding children of the family every three years. The selection of outstanding children once every three years is very similar to the system of recruiting students of Ziye College. Not only the Xia family, but the other two big families in Yushui City, the Wang family and the Xi family, also selected outstanding children in the family in June this year.
The reason for this is naturally for the entrance examination of Ziye College. Only the most outstanding family children selected within the family can pass the entrance examination of Ziye College.
Purple Leaf College is a first-class college on the Dragon Continent, located in Purple Leaf City, which is one of the fifty-four main cities in the Dragon Continent. The highest authority in Ziye City is the holy hall. There is one hall master and twelve hall masters in the holy hall, who rule over thirty-three counties including Yushui City. There are thirty-three hall masters in these thirty-three counties, but only twelve can enter the temple of Purple Leaf City.
The hall masters who can enter the temple naturally have more power, and the county they control is also stronger. However, the head of the temple in Yushui City did not enter the temple of Ziye City.
Purple Leaf Academy is the first-rate academy on the Dragon Continent other than the three super academies. During the entrance examination every three years, so many people want to enter Purple Leaf Academy to study and practice. Because, as long as you enter Ziye College, it means that you will be able to obtain a relatively high social status after graduation in the future. There is a strict age limit for the students enrolled by Ziye Academy, and only young people between the ages of eight and fifteen are recruited.
Excellent graduates of Ziye College can directly enter the temples of various county towns, and even enter the temples of Ziye City! Who wouldn't want such an honor? Of course, the key reason why Ziye Academy is so famous is its own strength. Many famous and powerful people in the mainland come from Ziye Academy.
It was three poles high in the sun, and there were a lot of people around Xiajia Square. On the high platform are Xia Feilong, the patriarch of the Xia family, and nine powerful elders of the Xia family. Sitting above the guest seats were celebrities from Yushui City, as well as representatives from the other two major families, the Xi Family and the Wang Family.
Although the three major families fight openly and secretly for their own interests, they will still sit together in harmony on the day when the family selects outstanding children, observe and learn from each other, and at the same time can understand the strength of the opponent's younger generation.
Every three years in Yushui City, there are only 20 places to participate in the entrance examination of Ziye College, and there are only five places for the three major families. The other fifteen places were selected from other famous families in Yushui City and dozens of towns under the jurisdiction of Yushui City. The ability of the three major families to firmly occupy the five places is inseparable from their rights in the temple. The patriarchs of the three major families are all church deacons!
The three major families naturally hope that their families can get more places among the five places. The more children of the family that enter the Purple Leaf Academy, the brighter the family's future prospects will be.
"Boom boom boom..."
After the three-way drum sounded, the young children of the direct descendants of the Xia family who participated in the selection from the age of eight to fifteen walked into the center of the square step by step under the leadership of Xia Guqiu, the deacon of the Xia family. Every young student's face is shining with pride. Today is the day for them to prove their strength.
If he can stand out from the crowd in today's selection, he will surely rise to prominence in the future, and his status in the Xia family will also rise accordingly.
As soon as these dozens of young people came out, thousands of direct and collateral children of the family all around the square raised their arms and shouted. Because these dozens of young people standing in the center of the square at this time are the hope for the Xia family to continue to prosper in the future.
The focus of the Xia family's training is also the dozens of direct children who are standing in the center of the square at this time.
One prospers all, one loses all, as long as the Xia family is strong, then even those collateral descendants can also be honored. Therefore, most of the collateral descendants of the Xia family sincerely hope that these direct descendants of the Xia family can lead the Xia family to become stronger in the future.
Of course, no one else knows what the thoughts of the dozens of Yushui city celebrities and representatives of the other two major families sitting at the guest seats are. The Wang family and the Xi family certainly did not want the Xia family to have particularly outstanding children.
Xia Guqiu led all his disciples to the center of the square, stopped the disciples behind him, and then he walked fifty steps towards the high platform alone.
"Xia Guqiu, I have met the patriarch, all the elders, and all the famous people in Yushui City. There are forty-three direct descendants of the Xia family from eight to fifteen years old. Forty-two people participated in the selection today. Mo Fei was unable to attend the scene because of his illness." Xia Guqiu bowed deeply to the high platform, with a dignified face, and said in a sonorous and forceful voice.
"Well, very good!" Great Elder Xia Lai stood up and waved his hands, then looked at the patriarch and continued: "Patriarch, it's getting late, how about starting now?!"
In the square, there is a huge boulder with a groove under it. The first thing to be tested in the selection is internal strength, and this round stone is used to test the practitioner's internal strength. Cultivators only need to press their hands on the boulder, and then slowly push forward. The further you go to the back, the stronger the power you need. That is to say, the farther the boulder can be pushed, the stronger the person's inner strength will be. In the groove, there is a corresponding level scale. According to the position of the boulder, it is very clear how many martial arts meridians this disciple has opened up.
"Hmm..." Patriarch Xia Feilong raised his eyes and looked at the more than forty children in the center of the square.
"Xia Guqiu!" Just as Xia Feilong was about to nod to signal the start, the third elder Xia Changhe stood up and shouted angrily.
"What orders does the third elder have?!" Xia Guqiu clasped his fists together, looking at Xia Changhe.
Although Xia Changhe is the third elder of the family, Xia Guqiu doesn't respect Xia Changhe very much, and it can even be said that he respects Xia Changhe. There are two reasons. First, Xia Changhe's own strength is not strong, because Xia Changhe mainly focuses on literature and not martial arts; At the meeting, he opposed the decision of his father, the elder Xia Lai.
In Xia Yan's matter, Xia Changhe has always been more concerned about Xia Yan, which makes Xia Guqiu resent the third elder Xia Changhe. In addition, his father is Xia Lai, the great elder of the family, so Xia Changhe can't help him.
"There are forty-four direct descendants of the Xia family from eight to fifteen years old, why do you say forty-three?!" Xia Changhe pointed at Xia Guqiu with a livid face and asked.
The representatives of the other two major families at the guest table looked at Xia Guqiu and Xia Changhe with great interest? How is this going? Xia Guqiu is the deacon of the Xia family, and he is in charge of teaching the outstanding younger generations of the Xia family in the martial arts hall of the important place. Could it be that this matter is even wrong
"Back to the third elder, there are indeed forty-three people, there never was a forty-fourth person!" Xia Guqiu sneered, his eyes flashed, and he responded.
A surge of anger rose in Xia Changhe's heart, Xia Guqiu obviously did not count Xia Yan on purpose.