"How presumptuous!" A shout came from the high platform, and the boy's cry stopped abruptly.
Just listen to Geng Changce say: "You have low qualifications, you think you can be accommodating by crying a few times? Ridiculous!"
"Our Yunxiao Sect is not a charity hall, and not just any crooked melon or jujube can come in. What do you think of a guy like this who is just like a mortal? Do you still expect him to cultivate the Zifu Golden Pill to protect you?" Do I want the country to be safe? You are just playing the piano randomly!"
"Give me this guy from the Roaring Hall who disturbed my spiritual root detection——"
"Fork out!"
A secretary in the crowd took a step forward and accepted the order. Walking up to the boy, he picked him up with one hand like a chicken and strode toward the palace gate.
The boy didn't dare to beg or struggle anymore, he just cried loudly. When he arrived at the palace gate, he heard a sound of "ah" and was thrown outside.
"Qiuxian County's teachings were not strict enough, which led to confusion and interference in the detection. 50% of the rewards for this selection will be deducted. All rewards will be deducted for the disciples who recommend this child to the hometown!"
The group led by Qiuxian was Group Five, and the leader was a middle-aged monk. Hearing this, his face turned pale.
Qiuxian County is located in a remote area. Grandma has always been unloving and unlovable to her uncle, and she cannot earn a few spiritual stones throughout the year. All the monks in the county hall were counting on the rewards from this fairy boy selection, but now they were mostly disappointed.
After this incident, the atmosphere in the hall suddenly became much more serious, and the secretaries responsible for inspections became more rigorous and careful.
Not long after, another girl was found to have unqualified spiritual roots. The girl didn't whine and beg, she just sobbed all the way away.
The uneasiness in Yang Zhen's heart became even stronger.
In front of him was the big man who looked a little silly, whose name he had learned from the previous chat was Zhao Yuzhu. His lips were trembling, and he whispered to comfort himself from time to time. He looked quite nervous.
At this time, Zhao Yuer, who was ranked first in the Geng group, turned around and looked at Yang Zhen with dark eyes.
Yang Zhen felt a little uncomfortable when she looked at her. She touched her head and looked at the little girl doubtfully.
The little girl smiled and suddenly raised her hand to greet Zhao Yuzhu:
"Brother Yuzhu, I'll change number plates with you."
Zhao Yuzhu stared blankly as the little girl came over, put the number plate into his hand, and then took away his number plate.
He suddenly reacted: "I, I don't..."
Before he could say the last word, he saw the little girl's almond-shaped eyes glaring. He immediately hesitated and did not dare to speak, and obediently moved to the front position.
These number plates are all issued by the Seventeenth Elder, and exchanging them will not affect the detection of spiritual roots.
However, his smoothness can be seen from the distribution of number plates. Zhao Yue'er is ranked number one, Zhao Ying is number two, and Yang Zhen is the last. This ranking is probably what he sees as the order in which everyone is born.
At this moment, the little girl had arrived in front of Yang Zhen and handed him Zhao Yuzhu's original number plate.
"Brother Shitou, come in front of me."
Yang Zhen took the number plate and looked at her intently. He knew that the little girl was worried about him.
"What are you doing in a daze?" The little girl smiled brightly, revealing a pair of crystal teeth.
She was not as tall as Yang Zhen, and she lowered her head slightly at this moment, her long eyelashes blinking gently, and her white jade face that could be broken by a blow showed a blush, with the shyness of a girl.
Yang Zhen's heart skipped a beat. Of course he knew that the little girl was pretty, but after spending so much time together, he turned a blind eye to her. It was only now that she seemed to rediscover her astonishing beauty.
When she grew up, she was no longer the fierce and pretty little girl who struggled and bitten with him.
He sighed in his heart, nodded solemnly, and gave her his number plate.
Finally it’s the Geng group’s turn.
The five people in front of the Zhao family, including Zhao Yuzhu, all passed the test successfully and went to the back hall with the records given by the secretary.
Next is Yang Zhen.
He took a deep breath and came to the Ouija board.
This is a square jade stone five inches wide and two feet high, smooth and white. The upper part of the jade is inlaid with five rice-sized beads of blue, green, yellow, white and red.
Yang Zhen put her hand on the lower part of the jade stone and relaxed her mind.
After a moment, the green beads flashed with light, and a ray of green light slowly rose. After rising to about the height of a broad bean, it stopped running and remained motionless.
The secretary in charge of recording put his head over and stared at the Ouija board in a daze for a while.
"No? Just a little bit?" He scratched his head with a look of disbelief on his face.
He waited for another moment, but the Ouija board was still the same, except for the green light, there was no other movement.
He hesitantly recorded the results on paper, and then shouted:
"Ge No. 6, the spiritual root is about an inch long! This..."
The word "unqualified" has not been exported for a long time.
The strange behavior here quickly attracted Geng Changce's attention.
He frowned slightly. As the newly appointed Supervisor of the Academy, he had just established this rule to eliminate those with unqualified spiritual roots, just to establish his authority in the academy to speak for himself.
However, the two children who were kicked out just now looked pitiful and crying. Although the secretaries below did not say it, they would not inevitably think that he was a bit harsh.
Otherwise, when the extremely poor qualification of one inch in length appeared, why did the secretary still hesitate and refuse to declare "unqualified"?
He was angry in his heart, and his tone was very bad: "Such qualifications are extremely inferior! Why don't you kick him out!"
"This..." The secretary was startled, but he spoke sharply: "This is a single spiritual root, no, a heavenly spiritual root!"
The so-called heavenly spiritual roots refer to spiritual roots of a certain attribute accounting for more than 99%. From this aspect, 100% of Yang Zhen's wood-type spiritual roots are indeed heavenly spiritual roots.
"Absurd!" Geng Changce was really angry now. You are kidding me about the one-inch long Tianling Root!
I didn’t expect that the folk customs in Shuyang County are so cunning, and a small Qi practitioner would dare to play tricks on me!
However, he had just arrived, and the relationship between the upper and lower levels of the county was not clear yet. It was not convenient for the secretary to deal with it for the time being, and we would talk about it some time later.
"Get out!" he yelled again.
"Yes!" Secretary Shu did not dare to say anything more and obeyed the order solemnly.
He patted Yang Zhen on the shoulder and pointed at the palace door, saying that you should go out by yourself.
Yang Zhen nodded, turned around and left without saying a word.
Zhao Yue'er's eyes widened and she took one step forward to speak.
Yang Zhen shook her head and signaled to be patient.
He did not go to the palace door, but came to the center of the hall, faced the prison courtyard above, cupped his hands, and asked loudly:
"Excuse me, Lord Prisoner, what is an inferior spiritual root?"
Geng Changce's face looked very ugly. A small child actually dared to question him in public.
He is really not looked down upon by anyone in this prison!
He suppressed the boredom in his heart and explained calmly:
"If the total length of the spiritual roots is less than five inches, and no spiritual root exceeds one inch, it is considered an inferior spiritual root."
"Sir, if none of the spiritual roots exceeds one inch, then the total length of the spiritual roots must be less than five inches. Why is there a requirement that the total length of the spiritual roots be less than five inches? Isn't it unnecessary?" Yang Zhen continued to ask.
"Huh?" Geng Changce was not a fool, and he immediately discovered the contradiction.
However, how could he be asked by a child? He couldn't help but said angrily:
"So what if it's unnecessary? You, a kid with a one-inch spiritual root, do you think you have outstanding qualifications? It's just a waste of the sect's resources!"
After finishing speaking, without waiting for Yang Zhen's reply, he spoke sternly again: "You child, don't stop talking nonsense here and disrupting order. Someone comes and kills him——"
"Fork out!"
