Before the lights were dimmed and the lights were still on, footsteps could be heard frequently in the inn. From time to time, creaking sounds could be heard from the wooden floor, causing the sleeping people to become agitated.
The dark clouds have not dispersed and the moonlight is dim. The anxious people wake up earlier than the birds and beasts.
I don’t know how many people stayed up all night, but this has become the norm for talent tests every year, and it is also the characteristic scenery of these slum inns.
Unable to bear the noise outside the house, Yiran and Yudie also got up early to wash up, only to find that Gu was still sleeping soundly, as if they were isolated from the noise outside and had no influence on his sweet dreams.
Yiran and Yudie did not bother Goode, but looked through the books they carried with them. They were not in a hurry.
The noisy sounds outside the house gradually disappeared, and many guests of the inn had already checked out and left.
If their children could become magicians, they might never come to such a cheap inn again.
If the child fails to become a magician, perhaps ten or twenty years later they will bring their grandchildren, or the current children will bring their own children to come all the way, eating and sleeping in the open, just for an unknown person. I don’t know when or if hope will come.
The dark clouds dispersed, the red sun rose, the chirping of birds and the chirping of insects gradually began to sound, and the shouts of vendors also appeared on the streets.
There were many breakfast guests sitting in the lobby of the inn. They had nothing to do with the talent test. At most, they were just watching the fun. So they were in no rush to get to the central square.
Old Man Good finally woke up from his sleep, and Old Man Good seemed to be different today.
Seeing the two people who had already woken up and were reading books nodding silently, they took out their robes from the space ring.
I saw the robe floating lightly in the air, every stitch and thread visible. The four cyan leaves on the left chest and the nine silver stars on the collar made Yiran instantly speechless. No wonder the old man was able to control everything in his own hands when he encountered the green-eyed poisonous python.
On the right chest of the robe, there is one more plant than the robe Yiran saw yesterday. This is a seven-leaf Qingling grass. Qingling grass is the most common herbal medicine on the mainland. Even ordinary people will crush Qingling grass and apply it externally even if they suffer from trauma. The value is extremely low.
It’s just that it is recorded in the books that the Green Spirit Grass grows one leaf every ten years, and a creature with five leaves will be complete with ten leaves. The five-leaf Green Lingzhi is already considered an elixir, while the ten-leaf Green Lingzhi is even more powerful than the century-old Ganoderma lucidum. It is an herb that has more amazing effects the longer it grows.
Yiran didn't know the meaning of this seven-leaf green spiritual grass. The old man told the two of them that he was not very strong but that he was pretty good at refining medicine. This sentence has already hit Yiran quite a bit. This is second only to the strength of the heads of the top ten families.
If this kind of cultivation is not good enough, then what kind of terrifying state has the alchemy skill that the old man said is pretty good reached!
Gude didn't move at all. The robe passed through the old man in an instant and covered the old man, like magic and more like a phantom. But after this phantom covered the whole body, it materialized instantly and adjusted to the most comfortable size according to the shape of the body. This was the second time Yi Ran saw Gude wearing a robe. The four green leaves were shocking, and the seven-leaf green grass was even more mysterious.
The aura exuding from Goode, who was wearing a robe, once again surprised Yi Ran.
From the nearest distance, Yi Ran looked at the old man's robe that could not be described in words of praise, and his eyes were full of envy.
Goode walked out of the room first and headed to the lobby, followed closely by Yiran, Yudie and others.
The lobby, which was noisy just a moment ago, fell silent. No one thought that a magician lived in such a low-quality inn!
When everyone saw the four-leaf star on Good's chest, their eyes fell to the ground, and they were shocked and dared not say anything.
They are not like the group of civilians who only know the high status of magicians. They have seen countless magicians in the capital for a long time, and they also know the mountains of corpses and seas of blood that a fourth-level magician needs to walk through. This kind of strength, second only to the heads of the top ten families, can be said to be able to lay a corpse thousands of miles away with a single anger!
There were a few people who knew more. When they saw the green spirit grass, they were so frightened that they immediately fell to the ground and did not dare to lift it up. It seems that if you take one more look, you will face the coming of death.
There is such a description in folk paintings: the city lord of a city with a population of 100,000 and the Six-leaf Medicine Master competed for the fifth-level elixir and became enemies, and constantly sent their own soldiers to pursue him. The city lord is already a fifth-level magician, while the pharmacist is only a mere fourth-level martial artist.
It is clearly recorded in the painting that the pharmacist not only obtained the medicinal materials with the various potions refined in advance, but also lured the monsters to kill many of the third-level magicians or martial artists' soldiers. In the end, he could not bear it anymore and took the stolen medicine. A fifth-level elixir was refined into poisonous powder.
Taking advantage of the high moon and the wind blowing, sprinkle the poisonous powder all over the city lord's palace with the wind. When someone visited the City Lord's Mansion the next day, they were shocked to find that there was nothing in the City Lord's Mansion. All human bodies, including animals, were left dead, and all plants rotted and collapsed.
It was this kind of poetry and painting that made common people aware of the horror of pharmacists. Many peasant women would say that if their child cries again, the pharmacist will take you away to test the poison on him.
It can be seen that the name of the medicine master is more terrifying in the eyes of the people than the monster that has never seen its true appearance.
But what they didn't know was that the person who made the medicine for them was also a pharmacist, just an ordinary alchemist.
And every potion prepared with the emblem of Qingling Grass can provide great help to magicians or martial arts practitioners.
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The waiter, who lowered his head to his crotch, served the simplest steamed tea buns. After the three of them finished eating, they slowly walked out of the inn. It seemed that Goode had already expected the abnormality in the inn and ignored them, but Yiran and Yudie found it a little funny.
Until all three people walked out of the inn, the group of people in the inn still did not dare to move, and the clear sound of countless cold sweat dripping into the wine cups could be clearly heard.
For them, it is an honor and a source of bragging to say that it is an honor to share an inn with a magician. So living with a medicine man is like sleeping with the devil. The moment you close your eyes normally, you will say goodbye to the world forever.
On the street, Goode strode towards the central square with his two children. Yiran and Yudie were no less impressive than those of the family members.
Yiran, Yudie and the two followed Gude out of the street, but they did not notice that the people in the market all lowered their heads and did not dare to move after seeing Gude's robe. The scene seemed to be still at that moment.
Only a few family members dared to lower their heads and whisper softly, and they were also afraid of disturbing the Goode trio.
In the eyes of the common people, the pharmacist is a devil, but he is someone that the cultivating family needs to fawn over and is even out of reach.
Yiran ignored the changes behind him, feeling in his heart that he was extremely powerful. Yudie didn't understand the fear in the eyes of the people, so she lowered her head and slowly followed Goode.
Just when Goode and the other two arrived at the central square, the heads of the ten major families, leading the family core and the children participating in the test, were already standing at the front of the test platform.
King Tang Yu of the Wind and Fire Principality, who was sitting on the tens of meters high city wall, also stood up at this moment. King Tang Yu was wearing a golden armor but not a robe. The middle-aged man was of the same era as the ten family heads, and even more so He left them behind and took the lead in entering Wuzong and moving towards better things.
An order was given: "The test begins."
At this moment, ten royal second-level fire mages chanted the "Fire Wall Technique" to the sky, and saw ten thick flame walls appearing more than ten meters above the test bench, covering the entire test bench, emitting bursts of scorching heat. . The scorching heat that could be felt even from dozens of meters away made everyone in the central square feel a little oppressive.
At this moment, another ten second-level thunder mages chanted the "Thunder Explosion Technique" spell at the place where the fire wall was. Ten lightning beams appeared from nowhere, emitting dazzling white light and hitting the fire wall. After a brief "bang" sound, the sound of "bang bang bang" explosions was heard endlessly. The lightning came and went quickly, disappearing in the blink of an eye, but its power was even more frightening. The thick wall of fire was shattered by the thunder technique, and sparks flew towards every corner of the central square.
Many people who came to take the test for the first time were immediately frightened to death. It seemed that a small flame was enough to burn an ordinary person into charcoal.
The mages who knew about this opening said in their hearts, "The fire wall is indeed the most effective among the first-level defensive magics. Even if it is not good at defense, the flame splash after breaking through the fire wall is extremely effective."
"Some people also think that the most effective way to destroy fire defense magic is water magic."
At this moment, the "Water Curtain" sounded with the sound of spells, and ten water mages waved their wands. The blue water elements gathered in the air, like a mirror. There was no ripple on the water curtain, and under the sunlight The bottom is glittering and translucent.
The extremely soft water elements gather into the water curtain, making every passionate spark dissipate invisible. At this moment, a mage next to King Tang Yu took a step forward and saw four white leaves on his chest and two silver stars on his collar. His robe was blown by the wind on the city wall.
He raised his wand and roared softly.
"Healing!" A ray of light visible to the naked eye condensed above the water wall, and then slowly integrated into the water curtain. Another word of "dispersion", under the influence of the powerful light element, the water curtain that can block the flames is cut into raindrops and slowly falls.
As the water drops hit everyone's body, their minds feel at peace, and the anxious crowd in the audience also becomes soothed. Those with small wounds on their bodies are recovering at a speed visible to the naked eye.
This is the third level healing technique! Heal the body and soothe the soul.
The successive spells lasted only a short time, but they brought great shock to most people present. The suppression of the wall of fire, the explosion of thunder and lightning, the softness of the water curtain and the sanctity of the healing technique. In particular, the healing effect of healing is like a miracle in the eyes of ordinary people who have never been exposed to magic.
It's just that magical opening acts like this actually happen once a year.
After the water curtain cleared, Director Zhang Xuan on the test platform began to preside over the test.
"In the more than 560 years since the founding of the Wind and Fire Principality, talent tests have been held for more than 560 years. Even though the wave of monsters more than 30 years ago almost caused our country to be destroyed, the talent tests were still held!"
"That wave of Warcraft lasted for more than three months. It was during that wave of Warcraft that countless seniors in our Principality of Wind and Fire were killed. Similarly, the first spiritual-level great magician in the history of our Principality was in that battle. Born in."
"A spiritual-level great magician, that's a spiritual level! This makes our Wind and Fire Principality the strongest among dozens of principalities within tens of thousands of miles."
"Every inch of land in these mountains and rivers was defended by our ancestors from the destruction of the monsters with magic and martial arts. But if we want to go further, expanding the territory of the human race is as difficult as reaching the sky."
"Today, some of you will inherit the will of magic and martial arts and continue to guard this land. I also hope that one day, you can rely on your own strength to protect your own family, your own town, and your own country!"
"Don't think that a magician has a high status or a symbol of power! It is obtained with the merits obtained in battles with monsters time and time again. Those statuses and power are what the strong men who defend their homeland despite death time and time again deserve the most. "
The passionate words contained the pressure that a third-level magician could release with all his strength. That pressure contained the killing power tempered by the cruelty of blood and tears, and also contained the incomparable love for this homeland. This coercion made the practitioners present feel solemn, but made many ordinary people feel fear.
Whether they are children from a large family or a small family, every one of them has high morale. They have long been aware of the world they face and the efforts of their predecessors in guarding this land. Only by cultivating and only the strong can hold on to what they have now, otherwise what is the purpose of a country if there is no family!
Those civilian children behaved completely differently. They were only trained by their parents to become magicians with a noble status and a lot of wealth, but they did not see that these required fighting at the cost of their lives.
Only a few of them could still stand, but their faces were pale and shaky, and many more stood there dumbfounded with tears streaming down their faces. Although the elders of these children have also come to take part in the test, they have never encountered a third-level magician like Henry Zhang who unleashed all his pressure.
Precisely because Henry Zhang was born in an ordinary family, he knew even more how lucky he was to become a third-level magician along the way. Therefore, when he is responsible for presiding over this test, he will choose this more harsh method.
When everyone pursues Henry Zhang, a man of the same birth, the greatest kindness he can give everyone is to tell everyone that this is not an easy path. When seniors carry heavy burdens and move forward, no one will be spared as long as they enter the practice.
The closer he got to the test stand, the stronger the aura and pressure became. Even Yudie and a group of family members were already on the verge of collapse after a few words. Xuedie clenched her fists tightly and gritted her teeth. Big beads of sweat dripped from her forehead, and her hair was even wet with sweat, which made people feel distressed. It's just that even if the children of the family have become magicians, they are no better than Xue Die. Among the many children, only Yi Ran and the girl in green with twin tails remained motionless.
A snow dish made each family head feel surprised, and seeing Yiran's stress-free posture was even more shocking.
When he saw Good standing in front of the two children, who was also wearing a robe and had four leaves and nine stars, it suddenly dawned on him. As a disciple of a top magician, it was not surprising that he was a genius.
But when they saw the seven-leaf green spiritual grass, their hearts instantly surged with turmoil, spiritual level pharmacist!
Although spirit-level pharmacists are not as good as spiritual-level experts, the medicines they refine can play a very strong supporting role in spiritual-level experts.
There was only one spiritual level alchemist in the history of the Principality of Wind and Fire. At this moment, all the family heads had a desire to make friends. However, in such an important occasion as a talent test, they could not be too rude. They just wanted to find out where Old Man Gude lived and visit him later.
The elders of each family did not stop Henry Zhang's behavior, and even expressed their approval in their hearts. Although they also hope that all kinds of geniuses can emerge among the children of common people, they cannot bear to have children devote their lives to endless training and fighting.
Who doesn’t want their children to have a childhood full of laughter?
At this moment, the family heads, who are fifth-level major cultivators, also have a look of respect for Henry Zhang, a junior who was born as a commoner on the test platform.
