I studied abroad in modern times

Master Tongming is really confused.

Mrs. Xuanhua could forget it. After all, there was a lot of disturbance in the Xuanwei world, so it was normal for her to want to find a place to stay in the Jiushan Sect.

But starting from that money...

A foundation he had never heard of and could never take seriously.

How come you have such great abilities after entering the Nine Mountains Realm?

When it comes to cultivating new spiritual plants, even if he is not good at spiritual farming, he can still understand the value of this matter... There are many sects in the Hundred Immortals Alliance who are good at spiritual farming, but in the past 20,000 years, they have not seen many new varieties.

In other words, every successful new spiritual plant can support a small sect.

The doubt in his mind was probably - is someone playing the role of me?

He looked at the dishes in front of him, then raised his head and looked around at the people around him.

Master Yu seemed to still be doubtful, but he couldn't wait to pick up his chopsticks and try the dishes on the plate.

Even Master Chengkong was eating with great interest, nodding his head as he ate, not knowing what he was thinking.

Master Tongming also took a few bites.

Sect Master Yu spoke first: "The spiritual energy is weak, but there are some new ideas that many disciples should like."

Master Chengkong pointed to a plate, which was a plate of fried vegetables, but he pointed to the green peppers inside. He smiled and said: "I think this is the most interesting. It's just spicy, and a little numb."

Master Tongming also nodded.

Forget about the rest, it can only be said to be edible, but it is not considered delicious in terms of how delicious it is, at least for Nascent Souls like them, it is just mediocre.

Only this green pepper is very interesting - it is spicy and spicy, and it has a strange refreshing feeling when eating it.

Sun Daoyu also smiled and said: "This was grown recently. We call it thunder pepper. Even though it is spicy, it also contains the power of thunder and lightning. Anyone who eats it will feel numb in the mouth. Disciples are not used to it, but there are many in the sect." Senior brothers can’t do without this now.”

Master Tongming also knows that the power of this thunder and lightning is just right and has a unique flavor.

Many people are afraid that this bite is very good, especially as a side dish, and the market is huge.

Sect Master Yu shook his head slightly and sighed: "Just from these Qianhegu and Thunder Pepper, you can see that Jiushan's attainments in Lingnong are truly extraordinary."

His face was full of appreciation.

Sun Daoyu chuckled lightly, with a proud smile on his face.

"This was also cultivated by that money?"

Master Yu asked curiously.

"It should be because the master taught me well," Sun Daoyu thought for a while and said, "But Master Qian is very hardworking."

Sect Master Yu nodded lightly and suddenly sighed: "This Zheng Fa should enter my Baicao Sect."

The smile on Sun Daoyu's face froze, no, Zheng Fadu has become the leader, and there are still people coming to rob him?

I heard the sect leader say again: "The Jiushan Sect probably didn't have much accumulation in spiritual farming in the past, and the Qianhe Sect is no more than that... but you have only been in the Jiushan Realm for a long time..."

"You can tell the whole leopard by just looking at one spot." Sect Master Yu sighed, "Sect Master Zheng must have amazing skills in Ling Nong."

After hearing this, Master Chengkong slowly put down his chopsticks, and his expression became more thoughtful.

…

The next day, Zheng Fa did not come to entertain them, but Master Pang came over.

Master Chengkong didn't see Zheng Fa and asked directly: "Where is Zheng Fa?"

Master Pang replied cheerfully: "I hope you will forgive me, Zheng Fa has been busy these past two days."

"busy?"

"Exactly, he is busy taking the exam."

A group of people were even more puzzled.

"You don't know, but my students on Paradise Island in the Nine Mountains Realm are going to take the entrance examination in the past two days, and Zheng Fa's sister is also among them."

These two days were the entrance exam that Zheng Shan was worried about.

There are actually three reasons why the date is set at this time:

The first is that Zheng Shan and the others have been going to school for almost a year. Of course, one year is shorter, but there are actually many people on Paradise Island who went to school in Xuanwei. In one year, some of them are almost satisfied with Jiushan. Entry requirements for the sect.

Secondly, it was because of the Hundred Immortals Dharma Conference of the Hundred Immortals Alliance. There would be Dharma competitions at that time, and the Jingkai Island would also start doing business. It was probably quite lively, and he also wanted to let these students relax.

The third reason is actually the most important:

The rice fields on Paradise Island are ripe and need to be harvested. These students have all practiced martial arts and can help the family.

Zheng Fa also doesn’t want them to be indifferent to their four bodies and five grains...

Let's just take a big vacation and take a big test before the vacation. He plans to make this a regular practice in the future.

…

Master Pang naturally did not explain this, but just explained what the entrance exam was.

Unexpectedly, Master Tongming and the others were quite interested when they heard it.

"Then can I go and have a look?"

Master Tongming asked.

"This..." Uncle Pang looked puzzled, "They are just mortals."

"Anyway, I have nothing to do. Before the Hundred Immortals Dharma Assembly, let me appreciate your sect's talents and jade..." Master Tongming chuckled.

The Jiushan Sect will not participate in the Hundred Immortals Dharma Assembly this time. After all, they are not considered members of the Hundred Immortals Alliance.

"How can this compare?" Uncle Pang waved his hand, "The people who come to the Hundred Immortals Dharma Assembly are all elite disciples of each sect."

This is really not a level comparison:

The Hundred Immortals Alliance is already much larger than the Nine Mountains Sect.

Not to mention, the Hundred Immortals Dharma Assembly is a competition for outstanding disciples. Compared with the entrance examination, the quality of the disciples is naturally much higher.

It's like bullying in comparison.

"No comparison, no comparison, just a look."

Master Tongming insisted.

Uncle Pang had no choice but to agree after discussing with Zheng Fa.

…

Zheng Fa didn't care that they wanted to watch the entrance exam. He was at home, entertaining the seventh young master Zhao Jingfan and his sister Zhao Jinglan.

The seventh young master's temperament has changed a lot, and he actually seems a little silent.

Zheng Shan rummaged through the boxes and cabinets in her room, and finally took out a bag of broken candies from her pocket, and held them in front of the two distant guests.

Seeing her looking at him with bright eyes, the seventh young master couldn't help but laugh. He touched Zheng Shan's little head and asked her: "The exam is about to take place, are you afraid?"

Zheng Shan twitched her face and said nothing, obviously feeling hurt by this question.

"Hahahaha, I was so scary when I was little!" The seventh young master raised his head and laughed, "Every time my husband wants to take a test on me, it feels like the sky is falling."

"But I am a young master, so it doesn't matter if I fail in the exam."

"Your brother is the leader...don't be afraid!"

Zheng Shan wrinkled her nose and finally spoke: "My brother is the leader, so I'm afraid!"

"Um?"

At this time, the three people at the table were staring at her, and they heard Zheng Shan say very seriously: "If I fail the exam, my brother will be embarrassed."

The seventh young master was stunned, then laughed again, and kept saying:

"So good... so good!"

He looked at Zheng Fa, sighed suddenly, and said to Zheng Fa: "Your sister is so kind. She used to be... so good."

Zheng Fa looked at him deeply and felt that the seventh young master was full of worries.

…

Zheng's mother is a mortal after all. In her opinion, guests must eat when they come.

They also eat those kinds of spiritual plants, including thunder pepper.

When the meal was almost finished, Master Qi suddenly asked: "Do you have any wine?"

Zheng Fa glanced at him and looked at his mother.

Zheng's mother said, "I don't have any at home. I'll borrow some from next door."

When she walked out of the door, Zheng Fa looked at the seventh young master - he remembered that the seventh young master was not an alcoholic.

I don’t know why today, but I took the initiative to drink.

When Zheng's mother came back, she was holding a wine flask in her hand. She was a little embarrassed and said, "They brewed it at home. I don't know if the young master is used to drinking it."

"Pretty good!"

The seventh young master nodded, smiled and asked, "Do you have a wine glass?"

"Yes, how many do you want?"

Mother Zheng's eyes were also a little worried.

"Three."

Zhao Jinglan seemed to understand something, gently pulled Zheng's mother and Zheng Shan, and took them out.

There were only seven young masters and Zheng Fa in the room.

The seventh young master didn't say anything, just lowered his head, placed three wine glasses on the dinner table, and filled them up.

Zheng Fa felt something:

"plateau……"

"Dead."

The seventh young master drank the wine in front of him in one gulp.

Zheng Fa was silent for a moment, then picked up the wine glass and drank it.

The wine is a little muddy and a little bitter.

The seventh young master poured another glass of wine on the ground and poured three more glasses of wine.

The two of them drank three cups each and poured three cups before the seventh young master slowly said:

"I'm just a clerk... Why are you working so hard!"

"Idiot!"

"Tell him to come to Tongming Mountain early, but he insists on waiting...waiting to die!"

Zheng Fa listened to the seventh young master's complaints.

This person, who looked down on Gao Yuan before, kept scolding him.

Now that Gao Yuan is dead, he still scolds...

But I don't think Gao Yuan will be angry anymore.

After a while, he asked: "Where is the executive's family?"

"...I received the letter. I'm sick and lying down."

"Who killed him?"

Zheng Fa asked again.

"I don't know. It's a mess. I can't find out clearly. I just know that he died in Chen County. That place is now full of people from the Great Freedom Demon Sect."

Zheng Fa nodded and took note of this place.

"I used to think that I could do anything, and I could do anything..." The seventh young master added, "But only after I became the head of the family did I realize how difficult it is."

"The Zhao family who followed my mother to Qingmu Sect has more than 400 people and more than a thousand servants."

"Nowadays, there are many dead on the road. Over four hundred people have been kidnapped and killed by the Da Zi Zai Demon Cult these days...more than 400 people."

Zheng Fa said nothing, knowing that the seventh young master did not need him to speak.

"If it weren't for you... I might not even be able to protect these people."

...The seventh young master is like a bright mirror in his heart.

"When I was a kid, I felt like the sky was falling when my husband took the exam." The seventh young master seemed to have a lot to say, and the words he said were inconsistent with the beginning and the end. very nice……"

"At that time, there was still you and Gao Yuan..."

At this point, he stopped talking and just lowered his head.

After a long time, the seventh young master raised his head, looked at Zheng Fa, sniffed, with red eyes, pointed at the thunder pepper that was almost finished and said:

"This thing is not good..."

“Too spicy!”

…

After seeing off the seventh young master, Zheng Fa returned to his room.

He took out a storage bag. There was an envelope in the bag. When he opened the envelope, it was the letter Gao Yuan left for him before he left.

He touched the letter and couldn't help but think of the figure standing at the door of Zhao's house, carrying a book box and grinning at him.

Zheng Fa didn't need to read the last two sentences written by Gao Yuan on the letter paper to know what they were -

"So I want to go to college, continue my studies, and become a clerk to see what I can do for the world."

"If you really become a big shot in the Immortal Sect and haven't changed anything in this world, then I will laugh at you when I see you in the future."

He read and read the letter again and again until dawn.

…

The second day is the entrance exam for the Jiushan Sect.

Not only Master Tongming, but also many disciples who participated in the Hundred Immortals Dharma Assembly also came over.

"Testing on grammar and arithmetic in the morning, and martial arts and spiritual roots in the afternoon?"

Master Tongming asked Zheng Fa. It was obvious that he was really curious. In fact, what Zheng Fa didn't know was that Master Tongming had a lot of doubts in his heart. He wanted to understand why Qian Qi had changed.

When he came here, he also wanted to see what Zheng Fa was doing and how he recruited disciples.

"How many people took the exam in total?"

"Forty thousand people, less than 50,000 people."

There were both young and old taking the exam on Paradise Island this time. The younger one was probably three years younger than Zheng Shan, and the older one was already fifteen or sixteen years old - because it was the first time, there were actually many over-age candidates, and the situation was special. So there are relatively many candidates.

The number of candidates was too large to fit in one test center, so Zheng Fa set up more than a dozen test centers on Paradise Island.

Zheng Fa stood outside the little sister's test center.

Master Tongming and the others are also here.

"What's the standard?"

"Calculate the total score, of which spiritual roots and arithmetic account for the majority, martial arts and grammar account for the small portion."

Zheng Fa explained.

No matter how much he values ​​knowledge, spiritual roots cannot be avoided.

Numeracy is the basis of all sciences and is naturally important.

Martial arts and grammar... can only be regarded as additional points in fact. Zheng Fakao's two exams are mainly used by ordinary preparation teachers in the Nine Mountains.

Master Tongming used his own method to understand it - this calculation is equivalent to miscellaneous items such as the elixir array of their Ascension Society?

I just don’t know why Zheng Fa attaches so much importance to calculation.

Compared with modern times, this method is not fair, but compared with the Xuanwei world, it gives a way for those who are capable in scientific research.

Another gap is that the system of good deeds does not limit the internal and external aspects of the Jiushan Sect:

In other words, even if you don't join the Nine Mountains Sect, you can still accumulate good deeds, resources, and even skills for self-study or training younger generations - you just can't go to University Island to take classes or participate in experiments.

Cultivation of immortality by all people... is not realistic now, and it may not be realistic for a long time.

Zheng Fa still felt inadequate, but Master Tongming was horrified——

There are too many people!

The Immortal Society only recruits about a thousand disciples at one time!

There are so many people coming to take the exam on this small paradise island in Jiu Shan Realm?

Can Jiu Shan Realm...afford it?

He couldn't help but doubt.

Looking at the examination room again, he was even more shocked——

Not to mention other examination rooms, the candidates in this examination room are all literate.

The various questions on the math test paper ranged in difficulty. He even didn't know some of them, but there were also many candidates who succeeded with just a swipe of their pen.

In the afternoon, not to mention Master Tongming, the disciples of the Hundred Immortals Alliance who came to attend the Hundred Immortals Dharma Assembly were all a little disturbed——

In the whole examination room, everyone knows at least one set of martial arts!

This... is a treatment that these foundation builders and even golden elixirs don't have.

Entering Taoist martial arts has always been exclusive to those disciples of big families.

Who would have thought that in the Nine Mountains world, everyone could learn and practice?

As for measuring spiritual roots, there is nothing much to say.

…

The entrance exam is over and the results will come out soon:

Only 300 people can enter the Nine Mountains Sect this time - an admission rate of less than 1%.

The threshold for entry is roughly:

If you have a single spiritual root, you can naturally enter it at will.

If it has two spiritual roots, then the calculation must at least be good.

Three spiritual roots require excellence, that is, at least eight out of ten questions must be answered.

If the three spiritual roots go down - you will get almost a perfect score...

There were not many single spiritual roots this time. Counting the younger sister, there were only two people. Even if double spiritual roots were added, there were only dozens of people.

But there are quite a few outstanding ones - even more than Zheng Fa expected, but after thinking about it, I understand:

These people in Jiu Shan Realm are nothing else, but those who have been through Li Chao will always work harder.

Only then did more than two hundred people come together.

The younger sister Zheng Shan naturally entered the Jiushan Sect easily.

After the exam, Master Tongming asked Zheng Fa with some confusion: "Your Majesty, are you recruiting too many disciples?"

You know, the Jiu Shan Sect has only a thousand disciples for twenty thousand years, and this next move is three hundred...

The threshold is still lower than before.

And they recruit once a year?

Zheng Fa thought for a while and said with a smile: "Master Tongming, I am a monk from the Nine Mountains Sect, and I am probably different from the monks from the Xuanwei Realm..."

"different?"

Master Tongming was stunned for a moment, not knowing why.

Zheng Fa didn't say anything. There were some things that even Master and the others didn't understand at first:

If we look at the monks in the Xuanwei world, it is true that the fewer monks, the better...

Because the most important task of those monks is to fight. The stronger they are, the more resources they occupy and the higher they are.

To use a less accurate description, it is a finalist: eating up resources to support oneself, with little return to the world.

During a battle, ten thousand low-level monks are no match for one high-level monk.

Therefore, the Xuanwei world needs geniuses even more.

But Jiu Shan Realm does not want such monks:

This can be seen from Zheng Fa in "Golden Elixir Project" - if a monk is the producer, the conversion ratio will be different.

Through cooperation, simplifying the method and exploring the principles, dozens of monks under the golden elixir can produce an outer elixir that only Nascent Soul monks can create!

The resources needed to train dozens of foundation-building disciples are far less than that of a Yuanying, and the time required for training is also much faster than that of a Yuanying.

Very cost-effective...

Not to mention, Zheng Fa's brain-borrowing plan has more benefits when there are more people.

For Zheng Fa, the only problem has always been the decline of spiritual energy - but in other words, the more spiritual energy declines, the more advantages this set has:

With less spiritual energy, it is more difficult to produce high-level cultivators, but low-level cultivators are less affected.

Even various simplified projects and various principle explorations will definitely save more resources and produce more efficiently in the end.

It is precisely because of this that Master and Uncle Pang and others were convinced by him and almost opened the mountain gate.

Seeing him like this, Master Tongming no longer asked more questions, but there was deep confusion in his eyes.

He naturally didn't understand.

Zheng Fa looked at the new disciples who had just entered the door, but he thought of Gao Yuan's letter in his heart, and said silently in his heart:

The world I want is that cultivators are not only respected, but also appreciated.

It is right in front of us, in the future.

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