The journey was the same, no matter how hard he went, he returned to the inn room late at night.
Lock the door, seemingly turn off the lights and go to bed to lie down and rest, but in reality your mind is immersed in the Dantian.
At four o'clock in the morning, it was time to update the daily dos and don'ts. He had read it in advance on the way back, and the do's and don'ts happened to contain the word "competition."
Still not at ease, he immediately started divination based on his participation in the competition.
The results came out smoothly after a quarter of an hour, lucky!
Suddenly he breathed a sigh of relief and immediately told the God in the Shizhu Pearl about the news.
Without waiting for a response, the tense spirit of the night relaxed slightly, and soon some sleepiness came over me, leaving only a little vigilance, and fell asleep lightly.
A peaceful night.
In the early morning, He Gu got up early, washed his face briefly, woke up, and went to the Imperial College with his participation certificate.
The sun is rising and the breeze is blowing.
Because the recruitment competition officially started today, the streets were even more noisy, crowded, and there was an endless stream of people watching the fun.
The atmosphere was comparable to the grand trial of the Dao Domain Sons in Tianji Pavilion three years ago, which made people feel emotional.
The first day is still the screening stage, which is held on the broad street in front of the Imperial Academy, which is also the location of the previous registration office.
As the distance got closer, the streets became increasingly crowded and congested. After a while, He Gucai arrived at the street where the Imperial College was located.
Looking through the gap in the crowd, I saw a simple chair at the door of the mansion on the five-step stone platform.
In front of the door, with the stone lions on both sides of the entrance of the government office as the starting line, there are nine rows in one row. The nine long rows of antique table cases that can't be seen to the end extend from the positions where the left and right stone lions are aligned, and extend back to both ends. End of the street.
Between the stone lions, in the center of the small open space in front of the entrance of the Zhongfu, there is only a gilt Eight Immortals table with carved dragons and phoenixes.
The surface is faintly exuding pure magic weapon fluctuations, and you can tell at a glance that it is something extraordinary.
The layout of the entire assessment site is like two dragons on the left and right competing for a bead in the center.
The imperial flag fluttered in the wind, the scene was regular and orderly, and the simplicity revealed a royal atmosphere.
According to what He Gu heard about on the day he signed up, in the past, the Imperial College did not hold open large-scale competitions for recruiting talents. Instead, potential candidates visited on their own, and then conducted internal closed-door assessments.
After all, the number of Tianji people is very small, and those who are interested may come to you at any time, so the recruitment opportunity cannot be delayed.
Moreover, there is no special reward for recruiting talents, and anyone who is not interested will not come to any large-scale competition held by the dynasty.
It would be impossible for the Dawu Dynasty to pay such a generous bonus all the time.
As for how to actually take the test in the past, only those who have personally experienced the secrets know it. Without connections, it is impossible to find out in a short time.
After squeezing through the dense crowd of onlookers on the street, He Gu, after carefully verifying his registration qualifications, was immediately led to one of the antique desks.
The location is relatively remote, a short distance away from the main entrance of the Imperial College where everyone’s eyes are focused.
After taking a look around, I found that there were only about a thousand competitors, far from the huge scale of nearly 300,000 applicants in the first audition of the Son of the Dao Domain Trial.
In contrast, this event was dominated by spectators and not many participants.
The reason is very simple.
Firstly, this is a competition for Tianji practitioners. Originally, the proportion of cultivators who know the art of Tianji is very small; secondly, it was held this time because the Dawu Dynasty did not release the news for a long time and did not provide conveniences such as cross-border teleportation arrays. , except for this area, the others who can come are basically from the background of big sects and big families.
Among the contestants who have already arrived at the scene, there are many different servers from different regions.
In addition to the local Tianji people in Zhonghuangzhou, most of them are dressed in the East Dao domain, especially those from Tianji Pavilion.
A little surprised, he saw He Lian's figure, and was a little confused.
According to his previous understanding, the He family was suspected to be under house arrest in Tianji Pavilion. It was very rare to leave the sect. Leaving the East Dao Domain should basically not be allowed.
His intuition was strange, and he didn't dare to look any further.
Naturally, He Gu quickly withdrew his gaze and saw several young disciples from Wuzong Tianji Hall nearby.
When you see things and think about people, your mood will inevitably have some fluctuations in thoughts and thoughts, a slight reminder of the spirit.
Stand patiently and wait.
At about 6 o'clock, a white-haired old man wearing strange and obscure patterns, leaning on a cane, and surrounded by officials and students of the Imperial College, slowly walked out of the yamen of the Imperial College, trembling and frail like the wind.
Immediately, many people, including onlookers on the street, paid homage respectfully.
What surprised He Gu was that among the people behind the old man stood an "acquaintance" who he had just met last night. It was the tall woman in Tsing Yi who was responsible for delivering the participation certificate and had a somewhat cold attitude.
She obviously runs a small pharmacy in a remote place, but her cultivation is not simple. At the moment, she can't help but wonder about her identity in the Imperial College.
Did he take on another dynasty mission part-time?
Facing the crowd saluting in the audience, the old man smiled and nodded in response.
Then his expression became solemn.
The first one stood on the stone platform, and then the gods went about their own business and performed a complicated ceremony of burning incense and worshiping the sky.
There seemed to be a solemn aura, and for a moment, everyone present did not dare to make a sound, and outsiders all bowed their heads consciously.
I had heard a little about it before, and thought that this must be the so-called old national teacher, and He Gu also imitated it.
As if a very important ceremony was being carried out, the people of the imperial dynasty on both sides of the street and the imperial guards responsible for maintaining order knelt down on one knee.
The solemn look and pious eyes are like an innate tacit understanding.
I don't know if it was an illusion, but at this moment He Gu suddenly felt a vague sense of some kind of invisible and colorless energy emanating from these people of the dynasty.
Gradually, there was a pressure that could not be ignored, which actually made him slightly out of breath.
It feels quite strange.
Just after the ceremony was over, the old man tapped the cane on the ground hard, instantly attracting everyone's attention, and those who were kneeling stood up one after another.
At this moment, the feeling suddenly disappeared, and He Gu felt a light on his shoulder.
Is this the so-called dynasty luck that can improve the efficiency of cultivation and enhance the combat power of the cultivators at their current level...
His eyes flickered slightly, He was thoughtful.
Now that he has the Tianji Guapan that provides a steady stream of Tianji Qi to nourish his spiritual roots, sooner or later his spiritual roots will naturally evolve to the highest quality, and he doesn't care much about improving his cultivation efficiency.
According to rumors, cultivators who serve the dynasty basically go for this benefit. It seems that this effect is the most important.
As for the effect of enhancing the cultivator's combat power, he doesn't know the specific effect without in-depth understanding of it, and the degree of motivation is not high for the time being.
The old Imperial Master coughed and raised his hands toward the palace.
His voice was a little hoarse, and Lang Lang introduced himself: "I am the Imperial Academy's sacrificial wine, and by the order of the Holy Emperor, I am here today to be in charge of presiding over the first round of the recruitment competition and determining the qualifications for the imperial examination.
You have taken the trouble to come all the way, and I would like to express my sincere welcome to you on behalf of the Dawu Dynasty! "
Then there was another eloquent speech about the awe of heaven and the mighty grace of the emperor.
After a moment of speaking, he finally got to the point, unhurriedly announcing the assessment rules for this first round of auditions, and he was very angry.
"The assessment lasts for one hour. The assessment content is random and will be different for everyone. As a Tianji practitioner, luck is also a very important part.
The specific question paper will fly out from the Eight Immortals table below after the timer starts and hover above you. You can each choose the next one based on your feeling. Only after you have made your choice can you see the content inside the test table.
To hand in the paper, you only need to put your hands on the test table in front of you and input the judged results with your mind. Once you hand in the paper, it cannot be changed!
There were 1,279 candidates, and only ten were selected for today's assessment.
Among the five, the one who divines the most approximate answer the fastest will be the winner and will qualify in advance. The remaining five, the one who divines the answer most accurately will be the winner and will be revealed at the end! "
After finishing the paragraph, the old master reminded in a deep voice: "Remember, you can only choose one in the end. Once you return to the position, you cannot change it!"
After hearing this somewhat special assessment rule, all the candidates present looked attentive and fell into rapid thinking.
Obviously, there are two ways to qualify.
One is to take risks and strive for speed, and take the risk to hand in the paper after judging that the results are almost the same; the other is to play steadily and give the safest answer before the end of the assessment time.
In contrast, the former is more like a risky shortcut.
It is naturally much easier to divine a rough answer than to divine the most appropriate answer.
There are only five early qualifying spots. Once they are all taken, unless a lot of people are eliminated by mistake during the period, the remaining people will definitely focus on the competition for the latter, resulting in fierce competition for the last five qualifying spots.
That is to say, if you choose not to take the risk to win the top five, the difficulty of qualifying will suddenly increase by a big step.
It somewhat disturbs the participants' mentality and encourages them to take risks.
He Gu's mind turned slightly and he soon calmed down.
After exploring and researching in the realm of nothingness and asking God for advice in the past few days, he roughly understood the process of divination by the celestial being.
Ordinary divination practitioners use a certain amount of their own lifespan to perform divination on a certain matter. Depending on the strength of the divination technique they have mastered, they will get wordless hexagrams with varying degrees of clarity when they receive natural benefits.
In theory, this process can be repeated little by little to make up the detailed and clear wordless hexagrams, but it will be very time-consuming and expensive.
After that, the Tianji user needs to subjectively judge the metaphorical meaning of the hexagram based on his or her own vision and experience, and then combine it with other aspects of intelligence information to finally deduce a literal conclusion.
That is to say, it is not that the divination is an objective and direct answer, but the first layer of fuzzy hexagram meaning. In the end, the results deduced by each diviner have subjective judgment elements in it, and errors are inevitable.
The so-called secret technique is profound or not. The key lies in how big the error is in the conclusion derived and how small the deviation is.
In contrast, with the Tianji hexagram disk, he not only does not have to spend his lifespan, but also skips the step of understanding the meaning of the wordless hexagram and directly obtains the meaning of the hexagram.
The speed of this section is definitely faster than other ordinary Tianji users present.
The rest is similar to ordinary fortune tellers. They need to combine other aspects of intelligence information to subjectively speculate on the final conclusion of divination.
For example, among the three hexagrams he had divined when he was trapped in the Phoenix Secret Realm, one hexagram meant "trap", one hexagram meant "north", and one hexagram meant "fire".
He immediately understood the meaning of "trapped" and "north". The former was obtained by divination of whether one could get out smoothly, and the latter was obtained by divination of how to get out.
Undoubtedly it refers to being trapped and the hope of escape from the north.
The same principle applies to the "good luck" derived from last night's hexagram. You can understand the meaning of the hexagram at a glance.
When he was trapped in the secret realm, the last "fire" involved too many possibilities, and it was difficult for him to understand it at the time. After studying it with the demon rat for a while, he finally got the right direction.
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In short, he will need to get the test paper and divine the first layer of vague hexagrams before he can comprehensively weigh whether to take the risk or not.
Because he can directly derive the first level of hexagram meaning, in terms of time, he will definitely have more room for consideration than others, giving him a natural lead.
As long as the hexagram meaning is not too ambiguous, he will naturally be more inclined to compete for the top five qualifications.
When He Gu was deciding on his strategy, the old Imperial Master on the high platform at the mansion gate paused and waited for a while, then gave an order to announce the start of the assessment.
"I hereby announce that this recruitment competition has officially begun. It will last for one hour. People outside the venue are not allowed to interfere!"
After finishing speaking, he raised his crutch in his hand and injected a stream of pure black and yellow spiritual power into the gilded Eight Immortals table on the street below.
In an instant, the Eight Immortals Table's colorful brilliance exploded, and the light on the table fluctuated sharply, like a gush of spring water. Scrolls of different colors continued to fly out of it.
Not long after, examination scrolls of different brilliant colors were flying all over the street, like a sea of stars.
All participants immediately entered the competition state, staring upwards with their eyes fixed on the sky, concentrating on catching potential patterns or tricks that might exist.
Within ten breaths, a few test participants immediately flew up and reached out to grab the nearest scroll that flew in front of them.
After getting a test scroll, he immediately returned to the test table and quickly started to perform divination.
For a time, some were fiddling with formations, some were making seals with bare hands, or some were using magic weapons. Different methods of deduction and divination emerged one after another, dazzling the viewers and feasting their eyes.
These people were obviously counting on every second, and were focused on qualifying for the top five. Seeing that they couldn't see the way out, they decisively abandoned the process of careful selection.
With others taking the lead, people began to join in one after another, unable to bear it anymore and gritting their teeth.
Figures were flying and landing all over the sky, and the scene gradually became a bit chaotic.
He Gu was not in a hurry, but no matter how he looked at it with his naked eyes or detected it with his spiritual power, the feeling given to him by those scrolls of different colors was always the same.
Unaffected by his surroundings, he flew up and grabbed one of the spiritual energy to sense it, but he still had no clue.
Let go of the scroll in your hand and fall back to the ground, simply using your intuition.
He tried to calm down and kept looking up at a spot in the sky, but for a while he still didn't feel anything at all, as if all the scrolls had no difference at all.
Just when He Gu was wondering if he would be tricked, he curiously glanced at the scattered people in Tianji Pavilion from the corner of his eye, and suddenly found that many of them were no longer looking at the sky, but at the surroundings.
I suddenly felt that there was a way around it, and quickly followed it to observe.
Gradually, he finally discovered a pattern.
Among the scrolls of five different colors: gold, brown, cyan, blue, and red, it seems that everyone who got the gold and red scrolls looked obviously ugly after reading the test questions inside.
Once his thoughts were clear, he decided to only focus on those Tianji Pavilion disciples.
It wasn't until nearly half an hour later that I caught sight of their coincident but identical choice, any of the most inconspicuous brown scrolls!
He Gu immediately flew over and grabbed the next volume.
When I returned to the exam desk, I opened it and saw a few vertical ink letters on it.
Title: [Principal of Human Beings, Marquis of Zhenxi, Whereabouts]
What follows is a long list of past information about the so-called Zhenxi Marquis, including changes in official positions and titles, with a drop of his blood at the end.
Judging from the information, this person had great military exploits and was very brave and good at fighting. Unfortunately, three years ago, he was fighting against demons at a dangerous location called Yin Valley on the western border of Zhonghuangzhou. He was attacked at night and then disappeared.
According to the status of the life jade preserved by the dynasty, it proves that the person is still alive.
After a few glances and a moment of thought, He Gu immediately understood something.
Naturally, the Dawu Dynasty valued such a person very highly.
Obviously, a divination has been done for this person, and it is very likely that he knows at least the approximate location of his whereabouts, and the answers he gives later need to correspond to it.
He immediately meditated on the spot, touched the drop of blood on the surface of the scroll with his fingers, closed his eyes and concentrated, and began to divine.
A quarter of an hour later, he opened his eyes with a strange expression.
He used the blood stains to divine where the person was now. When his spiritual consciousness touched the mysterious hexagrams divined from the Tianji hexagram plate, the word "Gui" with a slightly ominous black aura emerged from his mind.
I am particularly confused. If I came back safely today, why is there a hint of ominous blackness?
Is this also part of the assessment content?
Or is it that this "return" is not the other "return" and refers to a specific place?
…
On the high platform of the palace gate, after activating the gilded Eight Immortals table, the old Imperial Master retreated back to his simple wooden chair with a serious look on his face.
The old eyes seemed to be looking around casually, but in fact they were secretly paying attention to a thin young man in the far corner on the left.
I was very concerned about it, until I saw the ordinary-looking young man finally selected a brown examination scroll, and then I felt a little more relaxed.
Although the test scrolls of the five colors are generally of similar difficulty, the brown scrolls are more focused on the daily divination of the divination practitioners, and the content is relatively not tricky.
As an insurance method to ensure that the young master will definitely qualify, whether he is among the top five or the bottom five, he can operate it secretly, and there will be no accidents at all.
It's just that as a minister of the Imperial Academy, he has lived an upright life, and he wants to see that young man able to qualify based on his real ability.
Before he took over the post of Jijiu, he was just the director of the Imperial College. The original leader of the Imperial College was the head of the He family, who was well-known at that time and whose one-man magic skills supported the entire family's status in the dynasty.
At that time, the He family was not a Tianjishu family in the strict sense. The real ability was only passed down to the patriarch. Most of the others were ordinary cultivators who only knew some simple deduction methods of seeking advantages and avoiding disadvantages.
The Heavenly Secret Technique he taught was so powerful that if it hadn't been for something that happened to the He family later, he would never have been able to take up the post of ministering wine in the Imperial Academy.
He has always been very interested in understanding his son's magical talents.
Among the people behind the old man, Yun Ying's clear eyes were calm.
There was no hint of worry at all, but rather a hint of curiosity.
Did she know that the young master now has the strength of the Six Paths Realm, and his performance in cultivation can be considered outstanding based on his bone age.
Generally speaking, practitioners who practice Tianji Shu need to spend a considerable proportion of their time practicing Tianji Shu, which will inevitably affect the speed of their cultivation to a certain extent.
She was quite curious about how well the young master mastered the art of magic now, and whether it was as extraordinary as his training performance.
