Dengtian Road

There is only one piece of spiritual jade, and the advantage is that it is powerful. It only takes a few seconds to test whether you have a talent for cultivation. If you have a spiritual root, it will take a little longer, and it will not exceed 1 minute. After a while, everyone moved to the courtyard, only the parents were left looking forward to it.

"Unqualified, next."

"Unqualified, next."

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Su Ji was in charge of the roll call, and a series of failures came out of his mouth, disappointing those who were judged to be unqualified.

"Qualified, stay for re-selection, next one."

The few qualified people among them were overjoyed after hearing the notification, and resisted the envious eyes of those who failed the selection, and went to the designated place to gather excitedly. At the same time, their parents were also called into the other courtyard .

Ji Shiye secretly observed the situation in the test room, and he couldn't help sighing after seeing the sad passing rate.

This is all caused by the end of the Dharma period and the period of spiritual extinction. Not to mention that babies born during the extinction of spiritual energy are almost zero. Even before this, that is, children over the age of six, there were very few people with spiritual roots. It's a pity, but the older you are, the higher the pass rate.

Ji Shiye is not without regrets, he is in his teens or twenties, if he is over [-], judging from the living conditions of the candidates, it is difficult to achieve any more, so he has to reluctantly give up.

Ji Shiye's heart is not so soft yet, and he is not running a philanthropic hall, it is impossible to accept everyone, he still has to give up, no matter how regrettable he is, he will not accept all people with spiritual roots into the sect.

This kind of situation solved the troubles Ji Shiye had caused by the flock of people. There is nothing else, because the pass rate is less than one percent. , At the end of the day, only less than 30 people were accepted.

The Northern Desert is a large place, and Ji Shiye had ample time. The test lasted for half a month, plus the previous ten days, it was enough for the poor people in the most remote places to arrive early.

The most people came on the first day, and the living conditions were relatively good. After all, it was close to Huayang City, and the number of qualified people was the largest, and it was the same in the next few days. Afterwards, the number of candidates dropped sharply, and correspondingly, the number of people who passed the election continued to increase. reduce.

The test lasted for half a month, and only those who passed the test were in the early [-]s. It doesn't matter whether the aptitude is good or bad, but if everyone with spiritual roots is charged, if it is like the way of selecting disciples of the Xingjie sect, I'm afraid It would be good if one-third of them could be selected, no, I'm afraid they didn't even have this number, because many of them were already over the age limit.

Ji Shiye originally wanted to choose the good ones, but he didn't expect the pass rate to be so low, which left him no choice. The so-called re-selection became a cutscene to choose the direction of cultivation and determine his identity, rather than deciding whether to stay or not.

The Taoist temple has not been completed yet, and the small Taoist temple in the Shuoyun Mountain Bieyuan is not counted. It is just a place where Ji Shiye spends his time to practice, and it is impossible to open it to his disciples.

Therefore, the new disciples were temporarily arranged in a farm on the outskirts of the city, and the guards of Xiaowang Mansion taught them to practice martial arts and strengthen their bodies.

In order not to cause unnecessary trouble, Ji Shiye has always said the same thing as before, he wants to make alchemy in order to live forever.

Others might scoff when they heard this, but they would not doubt the authenticity of this statement.

Taoist alchemy seeks longevity, which has always been a tradition, but this alchemy is not the same alchemy, it is also alchemy, no matter the method or the result, they are quite different.

Since he wants to use Taoist temples to do convenient things, Ji Shiye must have carefully understood how Taoist temples in the ordinary world work.He discovered that Taoist alchemy was actually the embryonic form of chemical research in the previous life, and most of the so-called "elixir" refined were contaminated with mercury and other toxic elements. After taking these "elixir" for a long time, they could really "ascend to heaven".

Naturally, it is impossible for Ji Shiye to refine these poisonous elixirs. No matter whether he opened the Taoist temple or made alchemy, it was just a cover. Disaster.

No matter what, it is also made from non-flowing spiritual plants that contain spiritual energy. In the eyes of ordinary people, it is not a panacea that is better than a panacea. You can only take fake panacea like Body Tempering Ointment, no matter how much it is, it is likely to cause the qi veins to shatter, or even seriously, the body will explode and die.

Although Ji Shiye only accepted more than 200 people, he spent a huge amount of money in the past half month. The accountant looked at the large account book where the money was paid out, and felt very sorry.

If you are not in charge, you don't know how expensive Chai Mi is. Ji Shiye only needs to wave his hand, and the silver is at hand. He has grown so big, and he has never been short of silver envoys. Nothing was done, neither buying a field shop, nor entrusting someone to do something, all the money was spent on the full package of travel expenses for the candidates promised by the Taoist temple when recruiting people.

It's not that Ji Shiye doesn't eat other worldly things, he did it for his own purpose.The living conditions in Beimo were already worse than those in the hinterland of the Tianyuan Dynasty. Now that the winter has not yet passed, if the common people are not reimbursed for the travel fare, the result may be doomed when the door is opened to accept disciples.

Perhaps because of his status, he is not at the level of a bird at the door, but he is not far away, so he loses the original intention of recruiting people publicly. For the sake of so few people, why does he have to go to war so much and attract the whole Beimo?

King Xiao wants to teach disciples, and the matter of refining alchemy and making talismans to seek longevity soon spread like a virus to everyone, and within a month, everyone in the capital knew about it.

Chengenhou Mansion.

"Absurd, really absurd, but a ten-year-old child, what do you know? I'm afraid he was bewitched and instigated." Hearing the rumors about King Xiao, Cheng Enhou darkened his face and paced back and forth with his hands behind his back, in a rather delicate mood.

Back then, the eldest daughter, the current empress, was ill and almost died. The clan wanted to send another girl to the palace. After careful consideration, he agreed.Fat water does not flow into the field of outsiders, he has the final say on the candidate, and when the youngest daughter Shi Yao came into everyone's attention, maybe it was God's pity, but the matter did not work out in the end.

At that time, Cheng Enhou was still a little regretful, but today, this kind of thinking has long since disappeared, and some are just rejoicing.

It is impossible for a family to have two queens from the same emperor, and when Shi Yao entered the palace, she could become a noble concubine.At that time, there was no other way, Cheng Enhou's mansion was naturally on the queen's side, once the queen passed away, things would become extremely difficult.

There is no other, because the third prince is a direct prince, different from ordinary princes, if other princes come to power in the future, even if the third prince has never participated in the battle for the throne, life will be difficult in the future. The emperor's eyes are piercing.

The three princes are all like this, so what good will happen to the Shi family of Cheng Enhou's mansion as the third prince's surrogate family?You can't turn against the third prince in order to survive.

In an ordinary family, it's okay to do this, after all, it's just a foreign family, and it doesn't matter if it's a critical moment, there are not many families who do this, but there are also many.

The problem is that the third prince has a special status, and the Marquis Cheng's Mansion will either stay out of the whirlpool from the very beginning, and once it starts, there will be no turning back.

Even if Marquis Chengen really did this regardless of affection and reputation, and even stabbed the prince's grandson, he might only be able to protect him for a while, but not for a lifetime.It is very likely that the Cheng'enhou Mansion will be used by the new emperor for surgery. Who would dare to trust such a treacherous and rebellious person?

Since this road is blocked, it is natural to support it to the end, and the Chengenhou Mansion has no choice.

Mrs. Cheng Enhou said that she was reluctant to give up, she didn't want her younger daughter to suffer in the palace, and she didn't want her eldest daughter to sprinkle salt on the wound before she died.Cheng Enhou didn't believe a word, he wasn't stupid, on the contrary, he was very shrewd, even the old lady guessed about it, how could he be easily fooled?

What Mrs. Cheng Enhou said may be sincere, but the queen's disagreement must have taken the lead.It was also because of this that there was no further movement in the Marquis of Cheng'en's mansion, and no matter how many thoughts he had, at least he had to wait until the queen closed her eyes.

Unexpectedly, what was waiting was not the queen's great fortune, but her health was getting better day by day. Although this serious illness hurt the queen's foundation, and even handed over more than half of the palace affairs, but look at it like that, live ten years Eight years is not a problem at all,

At that time, regardless of whether the third prince or the fifth prince was already grown up, it didn't matter whether he had elders to take care of him or not, so the matter of sending Shi Yao into the palace was put on hold.

Marquis Cheng En has very low requirements for the fifth prince, as long as he lives in peace at any time and does not cause trouble for the third prince, unexpectedly, he has more thoughts than adults at such a young age, but he does not know whether he is doing this to attract the attention of the present, or to break the pot I fell, I am really ready to "get the Tao and live forever".

Throughout history, it is not that there have been princes who did not do their jobs properly. Seeking the Tao is just one of them. To be honest, it is not a big deal, but if political opponents want to make trouble by this, it can also cause headaches for the third prince.

Others may not know, but Cheng Enhou is well aware of the attitudes of the empress and the third prince towards the fifth prince, even if they say in private that he is not, it shows how important it is in the hearts of the two of them.I don't know what kind of elixir the fifth prince gave these two to make them protect him like this.

It's all right now, there is a disturbance for no reason, His Majesty is worried about the Tongze County issue, don't hit the gun, it will damage the impression of the fifth prince, and then affect the third prince, then things will be bad.

Cheng Enhou's prediction was correct. Emperor Jianyuan had a wide range of sources, and he had learned about this a few days earlier.In the past, he was only the fifth prince and played casually, so he just let him go, kid, interest comes and goes quickly, and if it is not complete, it will be forgotten in three or five months.

Who would have thought that the Fifth Prince was really serious and openly recruiting people in the whole Beimo to prepare for the establishment of Taoist temples. Does he think that life is so stable and he has nothing to do?

Looking at the stack of memorials on the table, Emperor Jianyuan had a terrible headache.

What wastes people and money, secretly hides traitors, and has unruly intentions...all of them are here, but it's just a small matter, which is worth laboring and mobilizing, and the memorials are flying like snowflakes?