There were more than a hundred young people, originally standing in a line on the river bank. At this time, the test began, and the young people rushed to distinguish themselves. Leading the way were the proud and elegant young people just now, followed by
Several teenagers in coarse cloth, and then a large group of people crowded together, and finally there were a few teenagers hanging like turtles crawling, and occasionally falling down. As for Yin Xiuxuan, he was among the second group of teenagers in coarse cloth.
Firstly, due to the strong current of the river, and secondly, because of the heavy loads, as soon as the teenagers entered the water, they saw people falling down in the river. The strong ones climbed up on the bottom of the river, while the weaker ones were hit by the current as soon as they were washed away.
Floating downstream. After initial adaptation, most of the teenagers figured out a suitable way to cross the river and slowly walked towards the other side of the river. Naturally, Yin Xiuxuan was among them.
Nearly half an hour later, the first boy successfully landed, followed immediately by the second and third. Yin Xiuxuan also spent a little more than half an hour, landing in the tenth place. Just one day
When they got ashore, a man wearing black water gate guard clothes walked out of the darkness. He handed Yin Xiuxuan a map and showed Yin Xiuxuan how to take the designated route. Finally, he reminded that there was only an hour and a half before Taiyang set.
Yin Xiuxuan looked at the map while walking and carefully looked at the designated route. He found that he needed to pass through a forest to reach the foot of the hill, and this road was still nearly ten miles long. Originally based on Yin Xiuxuan's footsteps, if he used his full strength, the distance would be ten miles long.
It doesn't take an hour to reach it, but the weight is about fifty kilograms, and Yin Xiuxuan also needs an hour. But it's hard to say whether there are any other obstacles when going up the mountain.
Thinking of this, Yin Xiuxuan touched his arms. Although his baggage was still in the black water gate, he kept the magic talisman close to his body. After all, it was a thing that could save his life. At this moment, Yin Xiuxuan remembered that he could use it
This magical talisman came to take this path. Soon Henry Zhang thought that for this kind of test, how many people might have been secretly monitored by Heishuimen. Once the magical talisman is used, it is equivalent to cheating. It is a small thing to be kicked out. If you mess with it,
The deputy hall masters were not happy and thought that if the sword fell from their hand, it would not be as simple as bleeding.
Thinking of Sima Mingwu's flash of sword light during the test, Yin Xiuxuan felt a chill on his neck and immediately gave up the plan. He wrote down the route, put away the map, and continued to run with concentration.
Sure enough, as expected, when Yin Xiuxuan arrived at the foot of the mountain, another person appeared, telling Yin Xiuxuan the route up the mountain and the time.
What puzzles Yin Xiuxuan is that this last hill is really a hill, just a hillside tens of meters high. Compared with the river wading and weight-bearing running just now, it is extremely simple. Yin Xiuxuan still left some
The strength is of no use.
Yin Xiuxuan suppressed the doubts in his mind and walked to the top of the mountain, only to find that his destination turned out to be a large mansion. Although the mansion was not as spacious as the Heishuimen residence, it still occupied a large area. It was estimated that there were dozens or nearly a hundred houses in it.
I saw a Black Water Gate deacon standing in front of the gate holding a book. When he saw Zhang Xuan coming, he said, "Tell me your name."
"Yin Xiuxuan."
After the deacon made a few thanks on the book, he pointed to the door and said to Yin Xiuxuan: "You can go in."
After cupping his hands, Yin Xiuxuan walked straight into the door.
After entering the gate, a waiter came forward and Yin Xiuxuan asked: "Is this test over?"
"This little brother, the four deputy hall masters have ordered that you don't have to worry about anything else for the time being. After you have eaten, you will know the result tomorrow."
Now that he had the order, Yin Xiuxuan naturally had no objections, so he followed the waiter to a private room. The waiter brought food. After Yin Xiuxuan had eaten it, he felt really tired from the day and fell asleep quickly.
The next day, the same waiter came to ask Yin Xiuxuan to see the four deputy hall masters. Yin Xiuxuan followed the waiter to a lobby in the house. By this time, there were dozens of young people waiting there. After a while,
About ten more young men came, and a few people came out from the back of the hall. They were Shen Quan, Shangguan Haoyun and several deacons among the four deputy hall masters.
It was Shen Quan who still spoke: "It seems that you are all here, so everyone who passed the second test yesterday is also here, so~, let's take the third test!"
When the teenagers heard that they had passed the second test, they all looked happy, but when they heard that the third test was about to begin, they became serious again. Yin Xiuxuan counted the number of people and found that there were more than a hundred teenagers present.
There are only about sixty people, and nearly half of them have been eliminated. Although I don’t know where the half of them are, they can only become peripheral disciples at most. It can be seen that the elimination rate of the inner disciples of the Black Water Sect is indeed not low.
Then Shen Quan explained the content of the third test. Everyone had already experienced how powerful Shen Quan was, and they were afraid that if they misheard a word and the tone of his voice, they would be disgraced.
The content of the third test is actually very simple, that is, treasure identification.
Whether in the world or officially, ores, weapons, medicinal materials, elixirs, etc. are divided into three levels: ordinary products, fine products, and treasures.
Black Water Gate has prepared a treasure room for every young man, which contains nearly a hundred items of various kinds, including ores, medicinal materials, weapons, elixirs, etc., but most of them are ordinary items and are naturally mixed.
There are exquisite and even treasures among them, about twenty pieces.
The teenagers need to select ten items from these things, and the number of exquisite items minus the number of ordinary items must be at least four to pass the level.
At the beginning of this level, the few remaining children from rich families and the young men in golden clothes all looked very proud, but they did not say anything. They just turned aside the children from ordinary families, showing their arrogance without any concealment.
Yin Xiuxuan has long been trained to have this kind of look from a rich family, and he has his own ideas, so he doesn't pay attention to it at all.
He was taken to a treasure room. At a glance, he saw that the shelves in front of him were filled with things, either in boxes or bottles. There were also more than a dozen weapons, swords, guns, and swords on the weapons rack on the side.
There are one or two common weapons such as halberds, axes, hooks and forks, and there are also some weapons that Yin Xiuxuan cannot recognize hanging on the shelves.
Yin Xiuxuan has never seen many weapons since he was born, so he naturally excluded weapons from his choice.
Walking to the shelf, Yin Xiuxuan opened a nearby box and saw a piece of dark ore placed in it.
"It turned out to be Xuan Iron Mine!" Yin Xiuxuan recalled the thumb-sized stone his father once showed him and what he said at that time.
This black iron ore is a rare ore for training weapons. Generally, adding a finger-sized piece to a sword can increase the toughness and wear resistance of the weapon. At that time, Yin's father later added the piece of black iron he got by chance to Yin Xiuxuan's long iron drill.
Among them, Yin Xiuxuan's long iron drill is very strong and durable. It does not need to be exercised every few days like ordinary iron drills. It has not been exercised for two years.
Yin Xiuxuan put the box containing black iron ore aside, and then opened the boxes next to it again, and found that they were all ores. He simply opened all the boxes, and found that nearly half of them contained various types of stones, and the other half contained
Various medicinal materials.
Yin Xiuxuan first looked at all kinds of stones, but the difference is that most of these ores are ordinary iron ore, copper ore, and even a large bluestone, and a piece of calcite that only looks transparent and good-looking but has no use. However,
Among this pair of stones of various colors, Yin Xiuxuan really found several treasures.
A small finger-sized stone that feels warm to the touch, a white jade stone that feels a little cold to the touch, and a stone that is soft when pinched, like a tiger's eyeball.
With two years of experience in quarrying and working with various types of ores, as well as Yin's father's teachings, Yin Xiuxuan was 90% sure that these three items must be of extraordinary quality. With the addition of the talented black iron ore, Yin Xiuxuan had finally found four items.
Then Yin Xiuxuan looked at the medicinal materials placed in the box.