"Fifth Junior Brother, now that you have obtained the title of Wu Tongsheng, you must report to the county martial arts academy before March. You will study in the martial arts academy for three months. After passing the martial arts academy assessment, you will become a martial arts scholar!"
Not long after the county government servant left, third senior brother Xia Jiang also came to congratulate him.
The martial arts competitions of the Great Qian Dynasty were held three times a year.
The five levels of children's examination, college examination, provincial examination, general examination and palace examination are all held in the same year.
The children's examination is held in mid-February and is selected by the county.
The academy examination is in early June. The martial arts students who pass the child examination will enter the martial arts academy in the county to study for three months, and then be selected by the martial arts academy in the county.
The rural examination is held in September, and you have to go to Fucheng and be selected by the Fucheng.
If you pass the provincial examination, you will be a member of the martial arts examination.
The next examination will be in December, and you will have to go to the capital to participate.
The Ministry of Personnel, the Ministry of Rites and the Ministry of War jointly presided over the selection of Jinshi who passed the examination to participate in the final palace examination. The palace examination was also called the Imperial Examination and the Imperial Examination. The emperor personally set the questions and then divided the Jinshi into the top three.
There are only three people in the first place, namely Wu Zhuangyuan, Wu Zhuangyuan and Wu Tanhua.
The second Jia gave Wu a Jinshi background, and the third Jia was from the same Jinshi background.
"Thank you, senior brother, for reminding me, I won't miss the time."
Zhou Shan nodded.
With his strength, it would not be a big problem to pass the academy examination and become a martial arts scholar.
But if you want to pass the provincial examination to become a martial arts examiner, there is a quota limit. If you are lucky, the second-level bone-forging tiger bone level will be passed. If you are unlucky and geniuses appear in each county, you will be considered to have reached the second-level. A person who has perfected the realm of forging bones and cultivated Qi and Blood, may not be able to pass the provincial examination and become a martial arts examiner.
But it’s only mid-February, and there are still six and a half months before the provincial examination begins in September.
More than half a year was enough for Zhou Shan's strength to increase significantly.
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Yongchang four years, February 18th.
The night before a group of martial arts students from Baisha County agreed to go to the county town.
The spiritual link in Zhou Shan's mind radiated fluctuations. The crab demon and the red-scaled snake noticed something. He immediately went out and came to the newly built fishing pier, holding the awning boat and leaving slowly.
After a while, the red-scaled snake appeared and carried the awning boat forward in the water.
A few hours later.
Zhou Shan came to Shi Naituo, a complex underwater terrain.
After arriving at the destination, Zhou Shan followed the crab demon and the red-scaled snake into the water.
The water bottom here is more than seventy meters deep, and there is a large crack more than five meters wide at the bottom. This large crack is unfathomable. Zhou Shan released his mental power to investigate, and the depth of the large crack is also more than thirty meters. .
"This is……"
After conducting a mental investigation, Zhou Shan quickly discovered that there was a cave in the large crack.
The cave is surrounded by black vines.
On these black vines, there are fruits as big as blueberries.
Seeing these fruits, Zhou Shan seemed to smell an 'aroma'. This was not something smelled by the nose, but an 'aroma' perceived on a spiritual level.
This is the second-level precious plant soul-nourishing fruit, which has the effect of warming and nourishing the soul and improving the spirit.
At the same time, Zhou Shan went deep into the cave covered with black vines and discovered that there was a white skeleton and a loach demon that was more than three meters long.
"Zhizhi..."
Upon discovering that a monster had broken into its territory, the loach monster immediately made a high-pitched squeaking sound.
At the same time, there was an invisible force impacting Zhou Shan's spirit.
"This loach monster actually has mastered spiritual power!"
Zhou Shan is most familiar with feeling this invisible force.
This is the spiritual power he has always relied on.
It's just that this mental power is much weaker than him.
If we want to make a comparison, it should be equivalent to his mental attribute just breaking through 100 and reaching the level of 'spiritual mist'. Compared with this, his mental power is like an egg against a stone.
This loach demon should have eaten the soul-nourishing fruit, so that the soul spirit will be extremely powerful and spiritual power will be born. Moreover, this loach demon's use of mental power is very superficial. He only knows how to use his mental power in conjunction with screams to form Attacking in a way similar to sonic waves, without mastering the related spiritual arts.
To Zhou Shan, the mental attack unleashed by the loach demon was like drizzle on his face and water waves hitting the towering mountains. It posed no threat to him at all and could not shake his spirit in the slightest.
At the same time, Zhou Shan mobilized his mental power to start a counterattack.
Two different mental powers collided, and the loach demon's mental power was instantly defeated.
At the same time, Zhou Shan's spiritual power invaded the loach demon's spiritual sea of consciousness, and began to perform the soul-deterring technique, condensing spiritual talismans in the loach demon's spiritual sea of consciousness.
This loach monster has never eaten anyone and can be mentally controlled.
Time passed little by little.
Compared to controlling the crab demon and the red-scaled snake, Zhou Shan spent more time establishing a spiritual connection in the loach demon's spiritual sea of consciousness. It took half an hour for Zhou Shan to establish a spiritual link in the loach demon's spiritual sea of consciousness. The spiritual talisman was condensed, control was completed, and a spiritual link was established between the two.
After controlling the loach demon, Zhou Shan swam toward the cave in the big crack.
Pushing aside the black vines at the entrance of the cave, the cave is also covered with black vines, and deep inside the black vines is a crystal clear but white skeleton full of cracks.
"The bone density of this white-bone skeleton is even higher than mine."
Zhou Shan's mental power swept through and judged that the skeleton must have been a martial arts master during his lifetime.
Because even if he cultivated an iron bone, the hardness of the bones was not as good as that of this white-bone skeleton. However, the bones of this white-bone skeleton were covered with dense cracks, indicating that the other party died abnormally.
When Zhou Shan's mental power swept across, he also discovered a few lines of writing on the stone wall behind the skeleton.
"I am the true successor of the White Bone Dao... I am chasing Da Zhou... to the Canglan River. Unexpectedly, I am ambushed and my soul collapses... I am seriously injured... I will die soon, and I drift here."
"For those who are destined...this place can send my bones back..."
"Jingzheng...nian."
Zhou Shan’s spiritual power swept across the words on the stone wall.
But because it was so long ago, most of them are blurred and only a few can be identified.
"The reign name is Jingzheng, it's at least more than a hundred years old!"
Zhou Shan recalled the reign of Da Qian.
The current era name of Daqian is Yongchang, and it is the fourth year of Yongchang.
The last reign was Taishun, which lasted for fifty-five years.
The last reign name was Yuanqing, which lasted for sixty-six years, and the last reign name was Jingzheng.
Even from the last years of Jingzheng to the present, it has been more than 120 years.
More than a hundred years have passed, and the bones of the white-bone skeleton have not decayed, and the bone density is far higher than Zhou Shan's own bones. This shows that this white-bone skeleton has at least reached the level of four realms of blood exchange during its lifetime, and may even be higher.
(We are going to Sanjiang on Monday. I hope all readers can catch up on it tomorrow and the day after tomorrow.)
