Illusory Face Insect climbed down from Qin Tiexin's face, slipped along his arm into the grass on the roadside, and disappeared in the blink of an eye. This is a spiritual insect cultivated by Chen Xi. After completing its mission, it will return to its owner on its own, so there is no need to worry.
Qin Tiexin touched his face, and his facial features had returned to the appearance of Mingjue. He stood there and moved his left shoulder, took out the iron rod from Storage Bag, held it in his hand, turned around and walked towards the north gate.
The flow of people on the official road was much denser than in the morning. The closer to the city gate, the more people gathered, and you could see a long queue in front of the city gate from a distance. Qin Tiexin walked closer and took a look. The queue stretched from the city gate entrance to the outside of the official road. There were at least 300 people outside.
The monks queuing up are basically young faces, in their early twenties to early thirties, with the Foundation Establishment Realm and Qi and Blood Realm accounting for the majority, and occasionally a few Peak of Qi Refining can be seen mixed in. Wearing robes of various colors, some carry swords on their backs, some hold knives, some carry Pill Furnace on their shoulders, and some have spiritual beasts squatting on their shoulders. Their accents are also mixed, some have the smooth accent of the local Ten Thousand Stars City, and some have accents that are obviously from other places.
Qin Tiexin stood at the end of the queue and looked forward, all he could see were rows of backs of heads.
These people may not all live in Ten Thousand Stars City. He had just seen the price of the inn in the city in the morning. The price of the inn in the city had risen to thirty Spirit Stone a night, and the price of the twelve Spirit Stone in the local hotel was still unavailable. Many monks were afraid that they would not be able to get it at all. If you can't afford to stay in an inn in the city, you have to make do in the temporary sheds outside the north gate, or find a place to stay in the surrounding towns. But the registration agency of Star Selection is located in Ten Thousand Stars City. If you want to register, you have to go into the city, and if you want to enter the city, you have to queue up.
He could go around to the east gate. There are fewer people at the east gate of Purple Jade Ward, and he can enter directly as a guest of Lin Household. However, the inspection of the other three city gates is only stricter than that of the north gate. His Zhaoming Temple It's hard to say whether Mingjue's identity jade plaque can withstand scrutiny. Besides, it would take more than half an hour to go around the east gate, so it would be better to wait in line at the north gate.
Not long after he stood still, a dozen more people lined up behind him.
Although the queue was long, it was moving forward at a not too slow pace. Four guards in the city gate were checking the identity tags at the same time, two were responsible for checking the appearance, and two were responsible for registering the information for entering the city. It was an assembly line-like operation. Qin Tiexin estimated that at this speed, it would take about an hour for him to queue up.
The quality of the monks who came to participate in Star Selection is not bad. In the long queue of more than 300 people, no one jumped in the queue, no one quarreled, everyone stood there honestly, and occasionally whispered a few words to their companions. In front of Qin Tiexin was a The sword cultivator of Foundation Establishment Early Stage carried a broad sword on his back. The hemp rope wrapped around the sword's hilt had been frayed and looked like it had been used for a long time. The sword cultivator noticed someone behind him, looked back at Qin Tiexin, nodded in greeting, and then turned back.
Qin Tiexin raised his hand with one hand and returned the Buddha's salute, then took out the Jade Slip given by Chen Xi from his arms, Divine Sense put it in, and looked at it while moving.
Before, he and Chen Xi only had time to go through the structure of the five levels in the tea shed, and did not bother to look at the specific details. Now they can make up for it while queuing.
The opening chapter of Jade Slip is not the content of the five levels, but a record about the origin of Star Selection.
The Star Selection system originated five hundred years after the Myriad Stars Dynasty was established. Before that, the dynasty's Cultivation Resources and all levels of positions were all tilted towards the Aristocratic Clan family. Aristocratic Clan children have been sitting on the Spirit Vein, elixir, and Cultivation Method inheritance since birth, and civilian monks can only rely on it. Only by attaching yourself to major Aristocratic Clan can you obtain Cultivation Resources. The gap between the Aristocratic Clan and civilians is getting wider and wider. At its worst, it is difficult to obtain even Spirit Stone for Rogue Cultivator. You can only earn Cultivation Resources by working as a guard or doing handymen for the Aristocratic Clan.
The conflict had been backlogged for hundreds of years and finally broke out. Robbery of spirit stone shops and riots occurred in various parts of the Wanxing Dynasty. Many casual cultivators took the risk and robbed the family's spirit stone transportation team. Waves of suppression occurred one after another, and the dynasty was tired of coping.
Chenshu, the fourth prince at that time, wrote a letter to the then emperor, proposing to reform the selection system and propose a plan to select talents through examinations and allocate resources according to ability. However, the emperor of the dynasty, together with the major families, rejected the plan on the grounds that "the ancestral system cannot be abolished."
Chenshu did not give up, nor did he continue to write. He left the capital with a few personal followers and went to the border. During the sixty years of serving at the border, he practiced all the way from Golden Core to Nascent Soul and became Myriad Stars Dynasty was recognized as the strongest. Sixty years later, he returned to the capital and ascended the throne of emperor directly. The first thing he did was to forcefully promote the Star Selection system. All Aristocratic Clan who disagreed were suppressed.
"Those who do not participate in Star Selection will not be allowed to serve as officials in the court. Those who do not open up resources will lose the mining rights of Spirit Restoration." These are the original words of Chenshu.
Chenshu has been in office for one hundred and twenty years. He gave up promotion to Central Heaven Great Region and used Nascent Soul Realm's cultivation and iron fist to firmly nail the Star Selection system. On the basis of the Myriad Stars Dynasty. During his reign, no Aristocratic Clan dared to openly oppose Star Selection. Those who made trouble secretly were cleaned up one by one by him.
It has been eight hundred years now.
Star Selection attracted the entire Heavenly South Domain monks, and even people from the Great Brahma Dynasty and Jade Firmament Dynasty came to participate. The monks of the Myriad Stars Dynasty became stronger and stronger, and the influence of the dynasty also gradually expanded, and now it is firmly at the top of the three dynasties.
When Qin Tiexin saw this, he raised his head and glanced at the people queuing up in front and back, and then at the stone plaque at the city gate with the three characters "Ten Thousand Stars City" engraved on it.
This Chenshu is a ruthless person.
He lowered his head and continued to look down.
The initial form of Star Selection was very simple, only competition in the ring. A large ring was set up, and the registered monks went up to fight one by one, and the last few who fought were the selected ones. The people selected in this way can indeed fight, Root Bone is good and strong. But after a few years of use, problems emerged.
Some people took the resources and ran away without even saying hello. Some people who were assigned to local yamen did not understand governance at all, could not understand official documents, could not calculate accounts clearly, and made a mess of the Spirit Stone taxation of a county. Others had poor character, and when they arrived, They fled on the battlefield, leaving their colleagues on the front line and running away. What's more serious, a few candidates took advantage of their positions to embezzle Spirit Stone, and when they were found out, they had already embroiled hundreds of thousands of Spirit Stone and disappeared.
During that time, Star Selection had a very bad reputation.
Chenshu After a decree, the Star Selection system began to reform.
First, I added a Temperament Trial. Illusion array was used to test whether the monk's Daoist heart was firm and whether he would be deceived by fame and fortune and frightened by fear. After this level was added, a large number of people who had sufficient strength but not enough character were screened out.
Later, it was discovered that being able to fight and having a good character is not enough. Some people have strong strength and a stable Daoist mind, but they know nothing about the battle method. When they encounter the restrictions of the High Antiquity ruins, they can only forcefully break through, and they lose their hands in vain. Some people cannot recognize spirit medicine, and they encounter poisonous weeds in the wild and use them as tonics, and there are several cases of poisoning and death.
So I added Written Examination Trial, the basics of test formations, spirit medicine identification, Demon Beast illustrations, dynasty laws and regulations, geographical mineral veins and other necessary knowledge for monks. Later, I added them one after another. Secret Realm Trial and Skills Trial. Secret Realm Trial simulates wilderness survival and teamwork, and Skills Trial tests professional skills such as alchemy, weapon refining, talismans, formations, etc.
In the past three hundred years, the structure of the five levels has been basically solidified, and there have been no major changes.
Of course, after Chenshu, later emperors also made some compromises to the Aristocratic Clan.
The result of the compromise is the recommended quota. Aristocratic Clan can recommend his children to skip Written Examination Trial and Temperament Trial directly and start participating from any of the first three levels Guanzhong. But it is recommended The number of recommended places is strictly limited, and the number of places for each Aristocratic Clan is determined based on the level of the title and contribution to the dynasty. Moreover, for those who recommend children who skip the first two levels, an additional weight will be deducted from the scores of the last three levels, which is equivalent to going into battle with baggage.
This system continues to this day.
Qin Tiexin put down Jade Slip and sorted it out silently in his mind. Star Selection For eight hundred years, it has slowly evolved from a simple competition in the ring to the current five-level system. Every step of reform is forced by real problems. Chenshu nailed the system down with his fists, and the later emperors used compromises to keep the system alive. In any case, this system did what it was supposed to do - let people like Lin Boyuan, who had no background and earned titles based on strength, have a way to move up.