Like every morning for the past fourteen years, Chen Changsheng woke up at five o'clock, opened his eyes immediately, spent five breaths of meditation, turned over and got up, put on his overshoes, made the bed and folded the quilt, and began to wash. In the front hall of the inn, I ate a bowl of duck congee and four steamed meat buns from the first basket. After returning to the guest room, I rinsed my mouth again with last night’s old tea, straightened my clothes in front of the bronze mirror, and then walked to the small courtyard.
— Now he is not in the small temple in Xining Town, and he does not need to chop wood and carry water. He closes his eyes and begins to meditate in front of the early morning mist and the distant sky light, and silently reads the Taoist scriptures in his mind until he is refreshed Cool, it is considered to have completed homework, walked from the side door to the gradually bustling streets of Kyoto, merged into the crowd very inconspicuously, and started a day's life.
He had a list in his hand with the names of several colleges in Kyoto. After asking Fangshi steward for the address of the first college, he quickened his pace. He didn't notice that there was a carriage following him behind him, and he didn't notice that the horse had the blood of a unicorn, let alone the somewhat hidden blood phoenix logo on the shaft.
Countless years ago, the heavenly book came to the world, the wisdom of the people was opened, and countless schools of mathematics were developed, but all changes remained the same, and their origins were all included in Taoist classics, agriculture, business and science, and the criteria for judging these , now recognized as the most authoritative, is the Great Zhou Dynasty's annual Great Court Examination.
The Great Court Examination was created by Emperor Taizu of the Great Zhou Dynasty. Whether you enter the court as an official, join the army as a general, or enter the state religion as a priest, the results of the Great Court Examination are the most important criteria. The most important thing is that the Emperor Taizu made it clear that only those who entered the top three in the Great Court Examination are eligible to enter the Mausoleum of Heavenly Books to view the Books of Heaven. Because of this regulation, many powerful people in the world will come to Kyoto at the beginning of each year. During the Great Court Examination, Emperor Taizu stood on the city wall, watching the geniuses from various sects in the mainland rush in like crucian carp, smiled and said a very famous sentence, which established the status of the Great Court Examination.
The southern countries, especially the Changshengzong and other sects outside the world, are naturally extremely dissatisfied with this rule. In their view, although the Mausoleum of Heavenly Books is located in the capital of the Great Zhou Dynasty, the Book of Heavens is a sacred stone descended into the world, and of course it is the common wealth of the whole continent. For this reason, the south has boycotted the Great Court Trial several times, and the relationship between the two sides has become extremely stalemate.
It's just that the Tianshu Mausoleum is too important to practitioners. Although the Great Zhou Dynasty is strong, it has no way to risk the world's disgrace and monopolize it. The southern forces have no way to resist the temptation to enter the Tianshu Mausoleum to view the stele. Even after the demons are repelled During the years when the two sides drifted apart, the South publicly resisted, and there were still many powerful southern sects who participated in the Great Court Examination in their own names.
After the supreme sage came to power, the Great Zhou Dynasty finally reached an agreement with the southern powers. The sects of the southern countries can send missions to participate in the Great Zhou Dynasty's Great Court Examination. The officials of the Great Zhou Dynasty were awarded titles, while the rest were treated equally. Furthermore, the Great Dynasty Trial has a brand new name in this new agreement.
For countless years, the Great Court Examination has selected countless strong men. It is said that the most powerful men on the mainland have all had the experience of coming to the capital of the Zhou Dynasty to participate in the Great Court Examination. The more well-known fact is: the contemporary state religion Pope, the Southern Saint The elders of Nvfeng used to be the best in the imperial examination, not to mention some geniuses of the Western Monster Race once incarnated as humans to participate in the imperial examination. The acting Pope saw through Xingzang, and directly suppressed it into green smoke with great magic.
That was a story many years ago. Now people are more concerned about next year's imperial examination, whether Qiushan Jun of the Changshengzong will participate, how many of the Seven Laws of the Divine Kingdom will be able to enter the first class, and whether Xu Yourong will make a breakthrough ahead of time, leave the Saintess Peak and return to Kyoto, who In the wilderness of the demons, will the powerful genius who is known for his coldness and mystery appear in front of the world for the first time, or will he continue to chase each other bloodily with the powerful demons? Apart from these, the people in Kyoto are most concerned about which talents will appear in the Kyoto Academy.
Yes, there are many academies in Kyoto. The Holy Empress is in power, the government is strict, the officials are clear, and the people's lives are getting better. In the past few decades, Haiyan and Heqing have been called prosperous times. All kinds of academies have sprung up like mushrooms after the spring rain. Even a few years ago, there were many private academies specially aimed at the imperial examinations and secretly taught by the strong state religion. Of course, the most famous and powerful academies are the ones with the longest history, and two of them have a history even longer than that of the Great Zhou Dynasty.
There were six academies on Chen Changsheng's list, and the Tiandao Academy he went to at this time ranked first. In fact, in the entire continent, Tiandaoyuan is qualified to be ranked in the top position. In the past two hundred years, the students of Tiandaoyuan have won the first place 24 times in the grand imperial examination. The students who study here Without exception, they are all talented. This academy has sent many important priests to the state religion, and has dedicated countless spiritual talents to various sects. The most important thing is that the contemporary pope of the state religion was once a student of this academy.
Tiandaoyuan has the best score in the history of the Great Court Examination, and naturally it is also the most difficult to enter, but the number of applicants is still the largest. Chen Changsheng walked to the entrance of Tiandaoyuan, looked at the majestic and majestic black jade courtyard gate, and looked at the name of the courtyard inscribed by Emperor Taizu himself. Dispelled by the bustling environment of the courtyard like a vegetable market and the pungent smell of sweat and ink, he lowered his head subconsciously.
When he left Xining, he had already calculated the time correctly. When he arrived in Kyoto, it was the spring enrollment date of the various colleges. He could also imagine that the number of applicants for the Tiandao Academy would inevitably be extremely large, but he did not expect that the number would be so terrifying. . Especially the group of young people at the gate of the courtyard who looked tired, stood crookedly, and pointed at the crowd, which made him a little uncomfortable.
The clothes worn by those youths were similar in style, generally black, with a gold belt around their waists, which should be the uniforms of the Heavenly Dao Academy. Chen Changsheng knew that these people should be old-year students who did not pass the imperial examination at the beginning of the year. These people are arrogant, but they are also frustrated because they failed the exam. They will definitely not have a good look at the freshmen who came to apply for the Tiandao Academy today , listening to those harsh words, seeing the ridicule in the eyes of those young people, he lowered his head subconsciously.
He bowed his head not because he was afraid of anything, but because he had some mild cleanliness, whether physical or psychological, so he didn't want to smell the smell of sweat from the crowd, and he didn't want to hear those words.
"Look at that idiot, who looks like a pig, with a few pockmarks on his face, but still wants to stick a fan in his neck, thinking that he is a moulting son? Don't even think about it, the thousand layers of meat on the girl's neck , almost broke the fan!"
"That's right. Seeing that his footsteps are flimsy, he has only just washed his marrow within two months at most. I'm afraid his muscles and bones have not been beaten, yet he dares to apply for my Heavenly Dao Academy? Where does he think we are here? Orthodox Academy? Haha... I don’t even understand what these idiots are thinking, do they think they can understand Daozang with their weak and pitiful spiritual consciousness?”
"Tongzhi Daozang? Gou Hanshi, who is an idiot, would not dare to say such a thing, right? You sympathize with that idiot's experience for a while, but I sympathize with his parents. The humiliation for a while is second. The money spent before, but There is no way to take it back. If I were the parents of that idiot and fat man, I might as well use the money to go to the altar to ask for some pills to eat, lose some fat, and at least marry a wife."
"So what if you marry a wife? Even Han Meidan only cares about himself. In the future, he will give birth to seventeen or eight sons and daughters, and they will all be obese and stupid like him. Is it a good thing to raise a pig and a litter?"
Those students laughed and talked about those applicants unscrupulously. Their words were extremely ugly, and they didn't control the volume at all. They might even deliberately want the people being talked about to listen. It was extremely hateful. The fat boy who was being discussed was blushing, but he didn't dare to resist at all, because those students were telling the truth, he had just washed his marrow more than ten days ago, and it was basically impossible for him to be admitted to the Heavenly Dao Academy. The most important thing is that even if he is lucky enough to enter the academy, he cannot offend these seniors.
Chen Changsheng walked through the crowd, listening to those obscenities, raised his brows slightly, thinking that if he was the one being talked about, he wondered if he could hold it back. Fortunately, he lowered his head, and his breath was too ordinary, so inconspicuous in the crowd, it was difficult to be noticed, so he was lucky to avoid being ridiculed, passed through the gate of Moyu courtyard smoothly, and left go in.
Because he was thinking about these things and lowered his head, he didn't notice that there were two huge stone walls on both sides of the stone path leading to the entrance of Tiandaoyuan, with strange flowers and gods carved on them, and hundreds of names densely written in the middle , it seems to be some kind of list, many eyes fall on those names, and they are passionate and admiring.
The family servants who came with the freshmen who applied for the examination were not allowed to enter the Tiandao Temple, so the environment suddenly became quieter after entering the courtyard. Chen Changsheng took out a clean white handkerchief from his sleeve, wiped off the fine beads of sweat on his forehead, and exhaled, feeling a little more relaxed. Follow the student in front to the back of the long queue.
There are a lot of people applying for the Tiandao Temple, and the queue is very long. It looks like the legendary Baizhang Qi snake in the Western Demon Realm. It extends from the distant building to the grassland, and even passes a clear stream in the middle. The freshmen who applied for the exam were all standing on the wooden bridge on the river, blown by the cold wind in early spring, their faces turned livid.
Soon, some people came out of that building. They were all teenagers and girls. Their faces were as pale as their companions on the bridge. They were very ugly. Since they were not frozen, it must be that the exam was not going well. The people who were still queuing saw their distraught appearance, and suddenly became nervous, and they were no longer in the mood to chat.
Chen Changsheng didn't know anyone, so naturally he didn't chat. He looked at the building in the distance, and seemed a little curious. He only cared about the entrance examination of Tiandaoyuan now, whether it was the same method as mentioned in the book, and why did those who failed pass so quickly? Lost? Or is it true that the exams at the Heavenly Dao Academy have changed
The crowd kept moving forward, crossing the grass and the river, before approaching the building, they came under a row of bamboo sheds. Looking at the stern-faced Tiandaoyuan teacher behind the stone table, and at the black volcanic block on the table, Chen Changsheng recognized what it was, and remembered an old year's pile he had seen in the Dao scroll. Litigation, slightly startled.