Morning Star Training Ground is ten miles east of Ten Thousand Stars City and was specially built for Star Selection.
Qin Tiexin left the city from the east gate of Purple Jade Ward and walked along the official road for less than a stick of incense before he saw the outline of Morning Star Training Ground. The entire school grounds It occupies a large area, and the outer wall is built with blue-gray spiritual sand strips, about five feet high. On the top of the wall, there is a patterned stone pillar at every other section. The Spirit Rune on the pillar glows with light blue light in the morning light.
Even from such a distance, one could sense the large formation covering the school grounds, and the air was filled with the subtle hum of spiritual energy.
The school grounds are divided into two parts, the inner and outer parts. The inner hall is a huge main hall and eight auxiliary halls. The main hall is in the middle and the eight auxiliary halls are arranged around it according to the Bagua directions - Qian, Kun, Zhen, Xun, Kan, Li, Gen and Dui. The written examination and Temperament Trial are held in this.
The outer field is an open martial arts field, with dozens of stone arenas standing densely packed, with defensive formations embedded on the edge of the arena. It is the venue for the last level Arena Trial.
When Qin Tiexin arrived, hundreds of monks had gathered outside the school. Some were standing on the roadside in twos and threes, talking in low voices, some were leaning against the wall with their eyes closed, and some were still seizing the last moment to memorize the topics. Young faces wearing various robes came and went in the morning light. The atmosphere was not tense, but no one was talking loudly.
A huge aura display board stood at the main entrance of the school grounds, which assigned candidates to various auxiliary halls according to numbers. Soon, Qin Tiexin found the location he was going to - Li Hall - from the number above.
He checked his identity jade badge at the gate of the school grounds, passed through the main gate, and walked along the stone road towards Li Palace. Li Palace is a three-story blue-grey stone palace in the southeast direction. Above the palace door is carved a Flame Rune road with Spirit Rune, which corresponds to the Li hexagram in the Eight Diagrams. There are two queues in front of the palace gate, each with about thirty or forty people, and they are being inspected one after another.
Qin Tiexin stood at the end of the line and glanced at the four deacon disciples standing on both sides of the hall door. Each of them held a bronze mirror Law Artifact in his hand. Candidates must stand in front of the bronze mirror for a breath when passing by. The bronze mirror will light up green before entering the hall. This is the last security check to confirm that there are no prohibited Law Artifact or test stand-ins.
After queuing for about a cup of tea, it was his turn. Qin Tiexin walked to the bronze mirror, the bronze mirror lit up with green light, and the deacon disciple waved to let him go.
The hall was more spacious than he imagined. Three hundred examination seats were neatly arranged, and each examination seat was equipped with a stone table and a stone chair. The examination seats were separated by three feet, and a palm-sized aura disk was embedded on the table. Four huge ancient bronze mirrors hung on the four walls of the hall, with pale golden auras flowing on the mirrors. They were surveillance Law Artifact, which could have a panoramic view of the actions of all candidates in the hall.
There is an examination table in front of the hall, and there is a person sitting on the table. The person is wearing a dark golden python robe, with a dragon-patterned jade on his waist. His face looks like he is only in his early forties, but his cultivation aura is as deep as the abyss. Golden Core Late Stage, maybe even Golden Core Peak. He sat there motionless, but the spiritual pressure emanating from his body made the air in the entire hall sink a bit.
This is a member of the royal family of the current dynasty, a prince. Letting a prince named Golden Core Realm be the examiner of the written examination shows how much the royal family attaches great importance to Centennial Grand Star Selection.
Qin Tiexin found his examination seat and sat down. The stone chair was cold, and as soon as his butt touched it, he felt a refreshing Spiritual Qi seep into his body from the seat, which made him feel refreshed. He glanced at the aura array on the table, and then glanced diagonally in front of him.
His eyes paused for a moment.
Not far ahead, a female cultivator lowered her head and arranged the items on the table. She wore a plain light cyan dress, her hair was only pulled into a simple bun, she did not wear any accessories, and she did not put any makeup on her face. She was dressed extremely low-key. But the natural charm could not be suppressed. Even though her face was bare, several young monks around her still glanced at her from time to time.
Ling Shuyao.
Imperial Dao Arts Workshop That naturally charming female cultivator, the one who sold Qin Tiexin three basic martial arts books. Qin Tiexin withdrew his gaze and did not look over there.
There were more and more people in the hall, and most of the 300 examination seats were quickly filled. The hall door was closed on time, Spirit Rune on the four walls lit up at the same time, Spirit-Locking Grand Array was activated, and a light gray light curtain lowered from the ceiling, covering the entire hall.
The moment the light curtain touched the ground, Qin Tiexin felt that the spiritual power in his body was pressed, as if an invisible big hand pressed on his Dantian, slowing down the flow of spiritual power in his meridians by three minutes. He wanted to try to stimulate a trace of spiritual power to be released, but as soon as it reached his fingertips, he was pressed back by the formation to Dantian.
Spirit-Locking Grand Array has isolated the leakage of spiritual power from all candidates, fundamentally eliminating the possibility of cheating with spiritual power. However, the small formations on each examination position have left a hole, and Divine Sense is not restricted.
Candidates can use Divine Sense to browse the answer jade freely in their own examination seats, but Divine Sense is restricted within the scope of the examination seats and cannot peek out of the examination seats to peek at other people's answers.
The palm-sized spiritual light array disk on the stone table in front of Qin Tiexin lit up at this moment, and a pale white Jade Slip appeared in the center of the array disk, which was the answer jade for this written test.
The prince on the examination table did not stand up, nor did he make a long opening statement. He only said one sentence, "The exam lasts for one hour. Correct answers will be scored, and wrong answers will be deducted." His voice was not loud, but every word was clearly heard in the ears of the three hundred candidates, "Begin."
Qin Tiexin Divine Sense penetrates into the answer jade.
At a glance, three thousand questions are densely arranged in the spiritual jade, and the order of the questions is completely random.
Divine Sense As soon as I scanned it, the first question was "Comparison of the attenuation rate of medicinal properties of purple jade mushroom and red blood mushroom in dry environment", identification of spiritual herbs.
The second question jumped out immediately, "Myriad Stars Dynasty Spiritual Mine Mining Tax Sharing Ratio, What percentage does the court and local governments each share?", Dynasty Law.
The third question is about the geographical Spirit Vein direction, asking about the location of the Spirit Vein watershed at the junction of the Myriad Stars Dynasty and Jade Firmament Dynasty.
It's all random.
Qin Tiexin split Divine Sense into ten strands and scanned the ten questions at the same time. The ten lines of characters appeared independently in his sea of consciousness. The left side was identifying the spiritual grass, the right side was checking the laws, and the middle was the Deduction formation. It was like ten lines were opened at the same time in his mind, and each line was running at high speed.
In the first round of ten questions, seven were certain and three needed to be confirmed. He stamped the answers to the seven questions on the jade with Divine Sense. The remaining three were put aside for the time being and continued to scan. In the second round of ten, six were certain and four were uncertain. In the third round, eight were certain and two were uncertain.
For him, questions about refining weapons and spiritual materials were basically free points. The knowledge reserve brought by "Illustrated Catalog of Ten Thousand Artifacts" came into play at this moment. No matter how the questions changed, they asked about the melting point of spiritual materials, the quenching temperature, and what Spirit Rune described. Accuracy required, and he knew the answer at a glance at the question. The basics of formations and military strategies were not a problem. Great Xuan's military experience and Wind and Snow Pass's actual combat accumulation were more than enough for this kind of multiple-choice question on paper.
Heavenly South Domain For questions about local customs, alchemy and talismans, he chose the answers he had memorized and confirmed. If he was not sure, he would skip them. The rule of deducting points for wrong answers was too harsh. One point was added for a correct answer, one point was deducted for a wrong answer, and the difference between inside and outside was two points. He could calculate this kind of calculation.
Time passed quickly, and there was silence in the hall. All three hundred candidates were immersed in answering questions.