Chapter 277: The Prelude to the Military Examination
However, when his cultivation reached a certain level, Yang Ji felt that the wood energy there was not enough.︾As the wood officials said, the most powerful treasure of Gou Mang Palace is underground and sealed in the formation.
Unless Yang Ji can dig out that wood treasure and absorb the purest essence of Yi wood.
Otherwise, the wood energy in the puppet room alone would not be enough to make Yang Ji's rapid progress happen again.
Moreover, every time Yang Ji finished inhaling, the wood energy in the puppet room would become thinner, and it would take a long time to recover. This made Yang Ji no longer as "unruly" as before.
But even so, the Puppet Room is still a good place to collect wood-type spiritual energy. Once the days of the martial arts examination passed, the Puppet Room received much less attention, almost to the point of being forgotten.
Moreover, with the wooden puppets guarding the place, no one had to worry about it. Coupled with the "Oolong" on the first day, even the people in Gou Mang Palace no longer paid attention to this matter, and even if there was any movement, they did not take it seriously.
This invisibly facilitated Yang Ji, and the "false alarm" like the first day never happened again.
Yang Ji went in at night and came out during the day, constantly absorbing the wood energy. With each passing day, Yang Ji's "Heart of the Wood Emperor" became stronger.
In the remaining time, Yang Ji will go to the young prince Jiuding to report.
Such a peaceful life!
According to the rules of the imperial court, it took half a month from registration to the formal start of the martial arts examination, and then the competition would officially begin. And within fifteen days, time in the entire Taiyuanzhou Mansion seemed to have stopped.
Everyone is waiting, ordinary people are waiting, court officials are waiting, and the candidates taking the martial arts examination are also waiting, one by one, gearing up for the three-year civil service examination!
The entire Taiyuan Continent was peaceful. Even the unknown killings in the darkness were reduced.
Unknowingly, the most important time in the three years of Zhoufu has finally arrived!
"clang!"
With the loud and ancient bells ringing melodiously in Taiyuanzhou Mansion, a huge steel building suddenly opened in Taiyuanzhou Mansion.
From the twelve gates that opened with a bang, torrents of steel rumbled out. Countless powerful warriors, majestic and high-spirited, poured out from the hall and dispersed in all directions, guarding them tightly.
The sun shines down from the clouds and falls on this ancient building with a history of more than a thousand years, giving people an indescribable sense of history.
After an absence of three years, the most prestigious martial arts hall in Taiyuanzhou Mansion has been opened to the public again!
"It finally begins!"
On the high mountains outside Taiyuanzhou Mansion, the strong wind was blowing. Yang Ji stood on the top of the highest tree on the top of the mountain, looking down from a high position, and his heart was filled with emotions.
The martial arts examination has finally begun, and the martial arts examination that I have been waiting for for a long time officially begins on this day.
Yang Ji stood on the undulating treetops, looking at Taiyuan City from a distance.
The mountains surrounding Taiyuan City are very high. Standing on the top of the mountain, you can easily have a panoramic view of the entire Taiyuanzhou City. Looking down from the top of the mountain, Taiyuanzhou Mansion seems to have shrunk countless times. The bustling crowds are lined up in rows.
The buildings, the soldiers patrolling around, and the structure of the entire city in the southeast, northwest and northwest... can all be seen.
Red lanterns were hung everywhere in Taiyuanzhou Mansion, creating a festive atmosphere.
But for Yang Ji, at this moment, all he could see was a magnificent black ancient building in the center of the city to the north, and the dense crowd of scholars around it.
Even though they were far apart, Yang Ji could feel the thousands of years of vicissitudes of the martial arts palace and its rich cultural heritage. No building in the entire continent could compare with it, including the Taiyuan Palace!
"Boom!"
Yang Ji raised his head and slowly looked at the top of the Thousand-Year Martial Palace. In a dimension invisible to the naked eye, Yang Ji saw streams of energy that changed the color of the heaven and earth, so vast and dazzling that they soared into the sky.
These essences are as dense as a forest, and each one contains terrifyingly huge spirits and thoughts. Even the eighth-level martial arts master will be eclipsed in front of these essence thoughts, let alone the seventh-level martial arts master.
"This is the essence of the Hundred Saints!"
Yang Ji looked at the dazzling rays of energy rising into the sky and murmured to himself. When he was studying in Jin'an City, he had heard about the martial arts halls in all the continental mansions, and they had experienced hundreds of thousands of years ago.
Holy blessing!
One hundred powerful founding martial saints of the Han Dynasty poured their essence and thoughts into the martial palaces to protect these ancient halls in a special way.
The "Martial Palaces" in various continents of the Han Dynasty were renovated, and their predecessors were the ruins of the more ancient Wen Palaces that had been lost.
The previous dynasty excavated them and built military palaces on their ruins, integrating civil and military affairs. The Han Dynasty inherited this tradition.
This is a spirit that lasts for thousands of years!
The thoughts of those powerful martial saints are concentrated in the Martial Palace in a special way. This kind of thought will not affect the scholars taking the exam, but it can strengthen the Martial Palace itself, making them able to withstand extremely powerful impacts and damage.
From this point of view, the martial arts palace in Zhou Mansion is almost indestructible. At least, no candidate in the martial arts examination at the Juren level has the ability to destroy this martial arts palace even a little bit!
For example, in Pingchuan City, it is almost impossible for the leader of the Black Wind Pirates to split open the roof of the palace with one strike.
"...The essence of the Hundred Saints will appear when the Martial Palace is opened. When I read it before, I thought it was a legend. I didn't expect it to be true!"
Yang Ji stood on the top of the mountain, muttering to himself, feeling extremely excited in his heart.
The martial arts examination has begun. The bells are ringing in the distance. In the distance, you can see several majestic examiners standing on the tower, seeming to be reading something.
This is not the first time that Yang Ji has experienced such scenes, such as the Tongsheng test, the scholar test... However, this time he had a different feeling.
In the past, every time he took the martial arts examination, Yang Ji was still thinking about how to stand out from the crowd of students who had to fight hard. He didn't even know whether he could win the first round of the competition, let alone the future.
However, at this moment, the peak strength of Wu Zong was enough to make Yang Ji look down on most scholars and scholars. The excitement on the first day of the martial arts examination had nothing to do with him.
For Yang Ji, there are no opponents among the crowd of scholars outside the Martial Palace. The only ones who can really threaten him are a few opponents.
Once upon a time, I had become a strong enemy in the eyes of the other party, and was the target of defeat!
clang!
The melodious bells echoed in Taiyuan Continent, and countless scholars from afar filed in, rushing towards the Martial Palace like a tide. Yang Ji took a deep look, then turned around, his robes swayed in the wind.
, floated down from the top of the tree as lightly as nothing, and walked in the other direction.
The forest was quiet except for the pleasant chirping of birds. There were dead leaves deep under the feet, and it seemed as if Yang Ji was the only one in the entire forest.
In the depths of the mountain forest, where no one noticed, Yang Ji stepped on his foot, and bang! This foot passed through the dead leaves and silt, and stepped deeply into the ground.
Invisible to the naked eye, a faint greenish-green woody air swelled and rippled. The woody air sank into the ground one by one, seeping into those who were buried deep in the ground during the last cold winter and seemed to be sleeping.
in the seeds.
"Crack!"
A crisp sound like snapping bamboos came from deep underground. In just a short period of time, with a boom, a green plant broke through the soil and rose into the sky from the ground.
These plants are not normal creatures, but give people a feeling of living creatures. In just a few breaths, this green plant has grown beyond a ten-year-old tree, and it is still growing at a speed visible to the naked eye.
Winding and stretching into the void.
The huge tree crown is like a big open umbrella, blocking the sky.
Clicking, crunching sounds came one after another. As soon as there was the first plant, there was the second one, and soon the third plant, the fourth plant, the fifth plant..., with Yang Ji as the center, there were huge and vibrant plants in the surrounding strata.
Green plants spring up one after another like bamboo shoots after a rain, roaring out.
As these green plants grow, their huge stems become tangled and twisted like human fingers, twisting together into a giant twist that covers the sky.
Between these plants, a radius of more than ten feet naturally formed a nest like a flower bed, surrounding Yang Ji.
This is a natural nest!
Yang Ji's strength has increased, and the Wood Emperor's Divine Skill Huohou has become deeper and deeper. He can now control the natural growth of plants, unleash their potential, and let them grow naturally according to his own will and twist into various shapes.
I just want to use this ability freely for attacks, but the original wooden puppet still has some shortcomings.
"Buzz!"
Yang Ji sat down cross-legged in this new green lair, stimulating the Wood Emperor's Heart in his body. There was a hissing sound all around, and streams of light green mist floated from all directions.
After possessing the Heart of the Wood Emperor, Yang Ji absorbed the wood spiritual energy between heaven and earth and immediately rose to several realms. Even those wood-type experts with advanced fire lords could not compare with Yang Ji in this aspect.
The Heart of the Wooden Emperor naturally possesses the ability to be in harmony with nature and all plants in the world, which is not comparable to ordinary techniques.
"Buzz!"
Traces of light green mist continued to pour into Yang Ji's body, and were constantly eaten away by the Wood Emperor's Heart, becoming nutrients for the Wood Emperor's Heart to continue to grow and grow.
The more wood spiritual energy pours in, the stronger Yang Ji's Wood Emperor's Heart becomes. The more powerful the Wood Emperor's Heart is, the greater the scope and speed of attracting wood spiritual energy. This is a virtuous cycle.
The wood spiritual energy in the forest is much richer than that in the city where people gather, but it is still incomparable to the high-grade wood spiritual energy naturally exuded from the Gou Mang Palace Puppet Room.
Yang Ji wanted to absorb the wood spiritual energy in the puppet room day and night, but unfortunately, the wood spiritual energy in the puppet room was not enough. (To be continued...)