After discussing with Li Xiran, Ji Lai and others about the things that might happen during this assessment, Liang Yan sent the two of them away. In the following days, he hardly left the house and only meditated in his room.
Recuperate.
The monks participating in the selection and assessment this time are either outstanding disciples in large sects or direct descendants of the cultivation family. Even casual cultivators are the outstanding ones.
Under the aura of these people, Liang Yan can only be regarded as a nobody, so his cave is deserted and no other candidates will visit him.
Not to mention that they came to him to form a team, there was not even one person who was trying to figure out what was going on. Everyone's eyes were almost focused on the most popular peak Golden Core cultivators, and no one would notice him at all.
Fang Liren and Buwen Jushi came here several times, but they didn't have much hope for Liang Yan. Fang Liren also gave Liang Yan a magic weapon called "Five Clouds Locking Heart Ring", which can be attacked
It can be defended, especially against soul-type spell attacks, and can play a great restraining role.
Fang Liren did this mainly because he was afraid that Liang Yan would suffer in this assessment.
Logically speaking, every monk who participates in the selection and assessment will receive a teleportation jade pendant. If he encounters a danger that he cannot handle, he can just crush the jade pendant and be teleported out of the examination room immediately.
But the few accidents that occurred in the past were all because the monks who participated in the examination were attacked by spirits and completely lost their self-awareness. As a result, they had no time to crush the jade pendant and eventually fell into the examination room.
Fang Liren has worked in Wushuang City for many years and has witnessed some assessments over the years. He knows that the most important thing in the examination room is to keep his mind awake. Even if he fails to pass the assessment, at least he will not die.
"This magic weapon was specially bought from Tianbao Pavilion by Master Buwen and I. Among the magic weapons of Jindan realm monks, the quality is absolutely superior. It may be able to save your life at a critical moment. Remember, if you encounter a situation that you cannot handle,
, don’t show off, you must crush the jade pendant in time!”
This is what Fang Liren said when he handed the "Five Clouds Heart Lock Ring" to Liang Yan.
Liang Yan naturally thanked him for this. Although he had a flying sword in his hand, he could not easily take it out of its sheath. This "Five Clouds Locking Heart Ring" could pass off as his own magic weapon.
Moreover, for him, these two people actually went to Tianbao Pavilion to exchange for a suitable magic weapon. The cost was naturally not small, and Liang Yan was quite grateful.
It's just that Fang Li and Buwen Jushi are only in the Golden Core realm and belong to the city disciple level in Wushuang City. They don't know much about the content of this assessment, and they don't even know who the four examiners are.
In the end, they could only give Liang Yan a few words and then left.
For the next twenty days or so, Liang Yan meditated in his room.
Time passes day by day, and the closer the day of the assessment is, the more frequently the monks come to take part in the assessment. Some of these people form gangs, some spy on information, and some trade magic weapons and elixirs in the city.
, making final preparations for this assessment.
Just when these candidates were extremely busy, on a certain fairy mountain in Wushuang City.
The white clouds here are long, the birds are singing and the flowers are fragrant, it feels like a fairyland on earth.
Under an old locust tree that is as thick as ten people can hug each other, there is a bluestone chessboard with nineteen vertical and horizontal strokes on it, and more than half of the stones have been moved.
There is a person on each side of the chessboard. The person on the left is an old man with a white beard. He has white hair and a childish face. He has an immortal spirit and is wearing a star-and-moon Taoist robe and a purple-gold hibiscus crown.
He held a fly whisk in his left hand and a sunspot in his right hand. He pondered for a while in mid-air, and the next moment the stone landed on the chessboard.
And as this stone fell, the situation on the chessboard gradually became clear. Black stones were chasing the Central Plains, and white stones were trapped in the hinterland. It was basically a one-sided trend.
On the right side of the bluestone chessboard, sits a boy of twelve or thirteen years old. He has thick eyebrows, big eyes, a bright forehead, and is wearing a set of coarse linen clothes, just like a child in a secular countryside.
He was holding a white coin at the moment, his brows were furrowed, and he seemed a little hesitant.
When the white-bearded old man saw this, he didn't rush him. He just glanced at the chessboard slowly, and then said: "Master, this time's selection assessment is a little different from previous years."
"Um"
The Maid boy responded absently, his eyes still fixed on the chessboard.
"The Hao family, the Tong family, the Situ family, the Guiyi sect, the Wuwei Taoist sect, and other forces have almost all sent out their close disciples. This was rare in previous years." The white-bearded old man said softly.
"Hmph! Who can these deer-headed and rat-eyed people hide their inner thoughts from Xiao Jiujiu? They are all doing it for the remains of fellow Taoist Six Fingers. 'Tianji Box', hey, what a calculation, just this name alone will make them
It’s quite a lie!”
While Maidongzi was speaking, his eyes suddenly lit up, he spotted a flaw in his opponent's chess position, and he quickly dropped his white piece.
"You can't say that"
The white-bearded old man glanced at the chessboard, his expression unchanged at all, and he did not seem to be surprised by his opponent's move.
"Back then, Feng Yulan was determined by his master that he would never be able to enter the realm of transformation in this life. If he hadn't found the Heavenly Machine Box and used one of the opportunities to divine for himself, how could he have found that one-in-a-million opportunity?
Not only did you successfully break through to the realm of disaster, but you also safely survived the first disaster ahead?"
While he was speaking, he raised his hand and tapped lightly, and a black stone fell directly on the chessboard.
As the sunspot fell, the situation that was originally solved by Mai Douji instantly fell to the side of the sunspot.
"What nonsense are you bragging about? Feng Yulan is so powerful, but he didn't survive the fifth difficulty in the end? The Tianji Box is really that magical, and he won't let his master die without even three souls and seven souls left, right?"
Maidongzi said, and also dropped a piece on the chessboard, but this piece did not change the situation much, but had a tendency to sink deeper and deeper.
The white-bearded old man chuckled. He didn't think much about it this time. He stretched out his hand and immediately placed a piece on the chessboard.
"What Master said makes some sense, but we think so, and others don't. Nowadays, there are so many people spying on the 'Six Finger Remains', not only the cultivation forces within our Wushuang City territory, but also others.
There are also people sneaking in."
"oh?"
The Maid boy raised his brows and asked absentmindedly: "What other forces have come to take a dip in this muddy water?"
"Xuanyuan City and Gu King Mountain!"
The white-bearded old man said calmly: "Each of these two places sent a disciple at the peak of the Golden Core to mix among the candidates participating in the assessment. Both of them are geniuses who are one in a hundred, although they have only half a foot to enter the pass.
Xuan Realm, but the real strength is enough to compete with the casual cultivators of Tong Xuan Realm. If nothing goes wrong in this selection and assessment, one of them should win the championship!"
"snort!"
The boy in sackcloth snorted coldly and said: "The person coming from Gu King Mountain! He must be her disciple, right? That witch always thinks she is right and thinks she can hide it from us. It is not surprising that she would send her disciples to sneak into the assessment! As for this person from Xuanyuan City
Whose disciple is this person?"
"I don't know!" The white-bearded old man shook his head and said: "This person is indeed very good at hiding his identity. If the 'Questioning Mirror' hadn't given me a warning, I wouldn't have been able to find his flaw. But no matter how I investigated, I could only
We can find out that he comes from Xuanyuan City, but we can't find out which sect he comes from."
"This is strange. Xuanyuan City is far away from our Wushuang City, and there has been no contact in the past few thousand years. Who is this immortal who is thinking about this 'Tianji Box'?" Mai Yitongzi said.
He stared at the chessboard and said with a frown.
"Master, although this matter is small, it has wide implications. Do you want to report it to the city lord and let him make a decision?" The white-bearded old man said hesitantly.
"City Lord?"
The boy in sackcloth glanced at him and suddenly said with a smile: "My good disciple, I'm afraid you don't know that the city lord has not shown up for three hundred years. Even I have never seen him!"
"What?!"
The white-bearded old man who had been calm and composed before changed his expression at this moment and couldn't help shouting: "The city lord has disappeared for three hundred years? I thought he went to retreat! I didn't expect that even Master you didn't see me.
Passing the city lord?"
While the white-bearded old man's expression changed drastically, the boy in sackcloth knocked his right hand on the bluestone chessboard without leaving a trace.
"My good disciple, why are you panicking? The city lord is a man of great merit. How many people in this Antarctic Continent are his rivals? Are you afraid that he will encounter any danger?"
"That's not what you said!" The white-bearded old man waved his hand and said with a serious face: "A group of dragons cannot be without a leader, and a city cannot be without an owner for a day! In these troubled times, if others know that the lord of our Wushuang City is missing, what will happen?
Don’t we all take advantage of the situation?”
What he said was extremely serious, but after hearing this, Boy Mai just laughed and said: "My silly disciple, don't worry! Although the city lord is not in the city, he has been paying attention to the current situation of Wushuang City. Not long ago I
I just received a message from him, saying that the thing he was waiting for has arrived in Wushuang City and may be coming back soon."
Hearing the boy in sackcloth say that the city lord is about to return, the white-bearded old man finally breathed a sigh of relief, stroked the long beard under his forehead, and said with a smile: "It will be good if the city lord comes back, it will be good if the city lord comes back? No! Master, you are welcome."
Cheating again!”
While he was speaking, his eyes were already looking at the bluestone chessboard, and he saw that the situation on it had changed drastically, and black and white were reversed. Now the black piece was defeated and the white piece was making great progress. It seemed that it was a dead end that could not be saved.
"Master, you are so shameless. You actually took advantage of me being distracted by the city lord's affairs and secretly tampered with the chessboard!"
"That's not what you said!"
Maidongzi rolled his eyes and imitated the opponent's previous tone and said: "It's said that to catch a thief, you have to catch the stolen goods. When did you see me cheating? Don't talk nonsense without evidence. It's obvious that you made the wrong move this time.
I won the bet again for my master, please hand over the bet obediently!"
"you!"
The white-bearded old man was furious. Looking at the other party's triumphant expression, he couldn't help but cursed in his heart: "You are disrespectful to me!"
But the next moment, he reluctantly put his hands into his sleeves.
Time flies by so fast, more than twenty days have passed in the blink of an eye, and the day for the selection and assessment of Wushuang City has finally arrived.
In the early morning of this day, Liang Yan was still in retreat in his room, when a ray of light flew through the sky outside the yard.
This escaping light fell in the courtyard, revealing the figure inside. She was a young woman wearing a dragon and tiger Taoist uniform, with a touch of red sand dotted between her eyebrows.
"Brother Liang, Brother Ji, the selection and assessment are about to begin, shall we set off now?"
A crisp voice sounded in the courtyard. Liang Yan smiled slightly, stood up and opened the door.
I saw Li Xiran standing in the courtyard with a long knife on his back, his long hair tied high on the back of his head, giving him a rather dashing appearance.
If you take a closer look, you will find that her cheeks are much rounder than before, but she does not look fat. Instead, she is more charming and cute in her sassy appearance.
"It is said that women have undergone a major transformation. Now that a hundred years have passed, Li Xiran has become more and more handsome as she grows older."
Liang Yan secretly praised him in his heart, then stepped out of the door, cupped his hands and said with a smile: "Fellow Daoist Li came on time. Seeing how energetic you are, have you made some preparations in advance during this time?"
"That's necessary." Li Xiran said with a smile: "There are so many experts in this year's assessment, I have to make some preparations in advance. By the way, why don't you see fellow Taoist Ji?" As she spoke, she looked towards the other side.
View from the attic.
"Why isn't he inside? It's already this time."
Before Li Xiran finished speaking, he suddenly heard a voice shouting: "Ji is back!"
Liang Yan and Li Xiran turned to look at the same time and saw Ji Lai, dressed in white, flying from outside the hospital and landing lightly on the ground.
"Sorry, sorry!" Ji Lai said apologetically: "Ji met an old friend by chance, so he arrived a step late. It's already late now, let's set off now."
"It doesn't matter, let's go!"
Liang Yan waved his hand and turned into a gray escaping light first, flying straight to the "Fanghu Immortal Valley". Seeing this, Ji Lai and Li Xiran also made the same gesture and flew away, following closely behind him.
An hour later, Liang Yan and others arrived at the entrance of the assessment.
The three people fell down and looked up, only to see two towering fairy mountains in front of them.
The shapes of these two fairy mountains are strange, like two stone pillars reaching into the sky, reaching straight into the clouds. However, there are not many flowers, plants, birds and animals in the mountains. They look bare, just like two doorposts.
In the middle of the two fairy mountains, there was the entrance to a quiet canyon. Near the entrance was a pink peach blossom forest. Liang Yan looked up and could vaguely see various rare and exotic plants and birds and animals inside. But no matter how he
Even if you release your spiritual consciousness, you can only see the tip of the iceberg at the entrance of the canyon. If you want to peek inside, you will be blocked by an invisible force.
At this moment, there are already a dozen monks waiting here in the peach forest.
These people were sitting or standing, some were whispering to each other, and seemed extremely excited; some were expressionless, looking calm and calm, and some even showed a dismissive expression.
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