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Chapter 67 County Examination

The night passed.

Early in the morning, when Su Daoshan woke up at Pingting's call, he found that the Tao seed in his sea of ​​consciousness had returned to its original state.

Because he went to bed early last night and specifically told Pingting to wake him up later, Su Daoshan slept for nearly five hours. Converted into spiritual time, it is fifteen hours.

"Young master, the county examination starts at 9:00 p.m., so you can't be late." When Pingting, who was only wearing a small dress, sat on the bed, holding Su Daoshan's head and rubbing his temples with her slender and soft fingers, his mouth was still curled with a smile and his expression was confused.

After leaving the Ancient Banyan Tribe, he visited four more orchards under Ao Jiu's guidance. These orchards were all along the spiritual veins outside the domain. Some were large and some were small. The large villages had hundreds of spirit monsters and more than thirty guards. The small villages were similar to the Ancient Banyan Tribe.

Su Daoshan was not polite at all and swept them all away. Even though one of the orchards had just been harvested outside and only one Lingyun fruit was snatched from the other orchard, the total Lingyun income for the night still soared to 460 coins!
This was after Ao Jiu was rewarded with thirty coins of spiritual essence!
The first time he entered the spiritual realm, he had such a harvest. Add to that the twelfth-grade Dao Seed and a slave that came to his doorstep. When Su Daoshan woke up, he almost thought he had just had a beautiful dream.

"Did you have a good dream, young master?" Pingting asked curiously when she saw his expression.

"I dreamed that a saint taught me that food and sex are human nature. He also said that a gentleman would marry a beautiful lady. He also said that there are three types of unfilial behavior, and the worst is to have no descendants."

Su Daoshan was just speaking casually and jokingly.

Perhaps because he had been in the spiritual realm for too long, his consciousness had not yet switched back to reality. Unconsciously, his hands subconsciously wrapped around Pingting's soft and slender waist. With just a slight pull, he embraced her soft and fragrant arms.

Su Daoshan was so dazed that he could not help but kiss the girl on the mouth. The girl's lips were fragrant and soft, just like jelly.

Pingting was stunned as if struck by lightning. She stood there frozen, not daring to move.

Is this the silly young master in our family who doesn’t understand romance?

She had been Su Daoshan's personal maid since she was young, and she had known long ago that she would become his concubine in the future, so physical intimacy was a matter of course.

But this was the first time that Su Daoshan hugged and kissed her.

Pingting's mind went blank for a moment. She felt embarrassed, happy, and flustered, and her mind was full of random thoughts. She thought that the young master had been enlightened by some saintly master, and finally he had become wise. But she must not let Zhao Xing'er, that vixen, know about this...

The room was silent, with only a beautiful and ambiguous scent flowing slowly.

Just as Su Daoshan looked down at Pingting in his arms, seeing that she had her eyes closed, her eyelashes trembling rapidly, her breathing rapid, her face flushed, and she was hesitating whether to have another kiss, the sound of Huamei opening the door suddenly came from outside.

Pingting's body trembled, and she quickly broke free from Su Daoshan's arms, jumped off the bed, turned her back to the direction where Huamei came in, and pretended to prepare the clothes for Su Daoshan to wear.

But from Su Daoshan's perspective, even her ears were red.

Su Daoshan found it a little funny. Just as he was about to stand up, he realized that his body seemed to be hollowed out and he felt weak.

This is the aftermath of entering the spiritual realm.

Su Daoshan did not hesitate. He entered his sea of ​​consciousness and directly picked a Lingyun Fruit from the hanging on the Dao Seed.

With the urging of divine thoughts, in just a moment, ten coins of spiritual essence turned into a warm current and spread into his limbs and bones. His originally weak body quickly recovered. He felt as if he had just woken up from a good sleep after several days and nights of hard work.

Su Daoshan was secretly alert in his heart: "No wonder some people die in the spiritual realm. After staying in the spiritual realm for a long time, the consciousness will gradually become confused, and thus forget the real world. However, the body in the real world is constantly consuming vitality..."

Thinking of this, Su Daoshan suddenly frowned. He remembered a piece of news that Ao Jiu told him last night.

The You tribe invades!

He got up and washed up with a heavy heart. An hour later, Su Daoshan had already boarded the carriage and headed to the City Lord's Mansion with other members of the Su family.

The county examination will be held in the large martial arts training ground of Zhujiabao.

For any family, the county exam is a big deal, and the Su family is no exception. However, the atmosphere today seemed a little strange. When they set out, apart from Su Xianwen saying a few words of encouragement to the Su family members, there was no other movement.

It's like everyone has forgotten about it.

Especially in the Su family's inner house, no one mentioned whether Su Daoshan paid his respects to his mother in the morning or took Xixi to have breakfast with his parents. Until the caravan set off, the master and servants in the family were all busy.

Su Daoshan sat in the carriage, swaying along the way. Perhaps because of nervousness, the children of the Su family who went to take the exam this time seemed a little restless. In addition to being nervous, some people looked at Su Daoshan from time to time and whispered.

Soon, the Su family's carriage arrived at the City Lord's Mansion.

After getting off the car at the martial arts field in the center of Zhujiabao, Su Daoshan saw the children of several other major families at a glance. The more familiar ones were Zhu Xuekang and Zhu Xuecong from the Zhu family. Yue Shifeng and Yue Zhen from the Yue family. Lin Xuan, Lin Xian, and Lin Yu from the Lin family. Wang Minghui and Wang Mingzhe from the Wang family...

Of the original six great families, the Mi family was naturally finished, and the Zhou family was under control. During the control period, all the family's rights were stripped away.

This means that the Zhou family members will have to wait at least three years for a grand gathering to agree to lift the restrictions before they are eligible to apply to join the sect.

In addition to the children of the local noble families in Yishan City, there were also children of the noble families in Huoniu and Xisai cities, as well as other independent warriors who took the exam on their own. The total number exceeded 300. Together with the elders from various families and the people who came to watch the excitement, it was a sea of ​​people at a glance. When the Su family convoy arrived, it attracted a lot of attention. When Su Daoshan got off the car, he naturally became the focus of people's attention.

"This guy is really here!" People were whispering and pointing.

Whether it is the locals of Yishan City or the outsiders who have heard the rumors, no one can figure out what is wrong with this kid that he would come to take part in the county examination.

The children of the noble families in Yishan City were not surprised at all. This pretentious idiot had made a fool of himself more than once or twice. At the Mid-Autumn Poetry Festival, he dared to act pretentiously. Facing the mad puppet, he dared to go up to him alone...

You never know what's going on in his head. It's not surprising that he does anything.

"I heard that Mr. Xie and Fairy Fan have been staying at the Su family these past two days?" Wang Mingzhe looked at Su Daoshan, sneered, and turned to look at Yue Shifeng, "I don't know what kind of shit luck the Su family has. They actually got in touch with Han Gu by accident."

"It's just a temporary stay." Yue Shifeng snorted, "I guess they saved Su Daoshan, and the Su family took advantage of the opportunity to climb up, making it hard for them to refuse their kindness."

Just then, the crowd suddenly became agitated.

"I'm coming!"

As the crowd dispersed, a row of carriages drove into Zhujiabao and stopped at the side of the martial arts field. The examiners sent by the major sects got off the carriages one after another.

In addition, Xie Xunbai also came.

City Lord Zhu Ziming and a number of family heads and elders came forward to greet them. After a brief exchange of greetings, everyone walked into the arena together and sat down in the stands that had been built.

"In the northern county of Xiazhou, the county examination of the 115th year of the new era begins." Zhu Ziming said some rules and words of encouragement, and then announced the start.

The county examination was a long-standing tradition, and the procedures were familiar to everyone. At that moment, the city guard officer in charge of the field put the number plates in a bamboo basket with a fish mouth, and let the candidates draw them one by one.

Su Daoshan drew number 72. According to the rules of groups of ten, he was ranked in the seventh group among more than 300 candidates.

The exam is divided into three levels.

The first step is to test your spiritual roots.

As warriors, everyone naturally has spiritual roots. Therefore, this level is not to test whether one has spiritual roots, but to test the level of spiritual roots that the warrior has reached after practicing so far.

The characteristics of the five types of spiritual roots, namely, scholar, farmer, merchant, soldier, determine the different styles and advantages of warriors.

This quality will continue to improve as their experience and attainments in their respective industries increase, and will be transformed into a deeper understanding of their respective martial arts, stronger intuition and combat effectiveness.

Therefore, for candidates who are all selected to join the sect, their different spiritual root levels will determine their different starting points. The higher the spiritual root level, the higher the martial arts talent in the eyes of the teachers, the faster the future progress and the greater the achievement.

At this moment, a magic array for testing spiritual roots had already been set up in the center of the venue.

The core of the magic circle is a large, snow-white, slightly transparent stone. There is an eye naturally growing on the stone.

This kind of stone is called the Heart-illuminating Stone, and it was produced in the middle of the world in the early days of the Lanzhuo continent.

It is a huge river island, formed by the erosion of a mighty river, and naturally presents the shape of an eye. It is said that it is the eye of the God of Creation, hence the name Three-foot Island. The implication is to remind people that there is a God three feet above their heads.

Later, when people were building a temple on the island and digging the foundation, they discovered this strange stone with special powers.

Just like intelligent animals like horses and dolphins, which can always rely on their intuition to get close to people with pure and kind hearts, the Heart-Lighting Stone only gets close to people with high spiritual roots.

When a child has not yet revealed his spiritual roots, the Heart-Lighting Stone will not react at all. But once the child grows up, and as his character takes shape and his knowledge increases, his spiritual roots begin to show and improve, then it will become close to him.

Moreover, the higher the spiritual root, the stronger its reaction.

It is rumored that when grand masters of various sects set foot on the Three-foot Island, thousands of stones will glow and ring at the same time in salute.

It is based on this that, with the development of martial arts, ancient sages created magic arrays to test spiritual roots.

People's spiritual roots are not good or bad, but they will gradually show differences in the process of growth. With the same spiritual root of craftsmanship, some people focus on their skills and hone their skills, while others are half-hearted and even try to get involved in business, which they are not good at, wasting their talents.

Over time, the difference between the two becomes apparent.

A warrior starts practicing martial arts at the age of six, and by the time he reaches the ninth level at the age of twelve, his natural spiritual roots have already been formed. From the age of twelve to the county examination, the spiritual roots and talents of the warriors start to differ. This is why the sect does not recruit young children.

To put it bluntly, whether your spiritual roots are good or not needs to be proven by your progress.

(End of this chapter)