Lin Xi pushed open the thick curtain and walked into the tent where seven college elders were staying. What he saw at first sight surprised him.
There are various things placed on a long carved table that is as tall as half a person, including fine iron of various colors, various parchment rolls, some strange-looking plants, hay, and all kinds of
Silver vessels, various styles of weapons, including daggers, spears, swords, strange-shaped weapons like Emei thorns, and bows and arrows.
But the most frightening thing is the internal organs and eyes soaked in the transparent bottles.
There were more than a dozen large and small transparent bottles filled with dark red potion, filled with various strange internal organs and large and small bulging eyes, which looked very scary.
Sitting behind these medicine bottles was a middle-aged fat woman with a kind face. Her friendly demeanor formed a strong contrast with these transparent bottles.
Next to the fat middle-aged woman was an elderly man with brown pupils and a large gray beard. His face was expressionless and he looked very serious.
Next to the gray-bearded elder was a handsome and tall man with jet-black hair tied up with an ancient hairpin. The description immediately reminded Lin Xi of Fei Xiang who sang "A Fire in Winter". But Lin Xi felt very strange.
Yes, age seems to be a puzzle for this handsome, tall, black-haired man. This handsome, tall man looks very young, but Lin Xi has an intuition that this black-haired man is very old, and this black-haired man is very old.
The man's eyes were cold and empty, making people think of two dark tunnels.
The moment Lin Xi's eyes met the eyes of this black-haired man, Lin Xi's eyes stung slightly.
When he unconsciously turned his head to avoid the black-haired man's gaze, he saw the one-armed old man sitting in the corner and seemed to be listening. He also noticed that although the one-armed old man was also wearing the same college black robe,
There are also distinctive unicorn and mandarin duck-shaped markings on his chest and cuffs.
"Your name is Lin Xi? Have you ever cultivated soul power?" At this moment, Lin Xi had not had time to look at the other three people behind the long case, except for the middle-aged fat woman, the gray bearded elder and the black-haired man.
Trial has begun.
The first person to speak was the indescribably cold black-haired man.
His voice was only slightly higher than a whisper, and he didn't seem to want to waste any time. While saying that, he solemnly nodded at the pile of various weapons in front of him, "Come up and take a look at these.
Of the weapons, which one feels most handy?"
"I am Lin Xi, and I have never cultivated soul power."
Lin Xi calmed down and stopped looking at the other college elders. She took a few steps forward and walked to the long table. She began to focus on looking at the weapon in front of the black-haired man.
The peculiarity of the college, the legendary Dean Zhang who made him feel strange, and the bet with the golden spoon boy made Lin Xi, who originally only planned to come to see the outside world, already have a deep feeling in his heart.
I have made up my mind that I must enter Qingluan College.
These are all soul soldiers... This was the first thought that came to Lin Xi's mind.
Like Zhang Ping's dagger, these dozen or so weapons, including the body of the black longbow, are also made of a kind of black fine iron, with a layer of wonderful texture carved on the surface.
"Hurry up, pick one right away!" the black-haired man suddenly said.
Lin Xi's brows jumped and she immediately chose the sword among the pile of weapons.
This sword is over six feet long, and the blade is very thin. It is only as thick as a few bamboo leaves stacked on top of each other. However, it feels surprisingly tough. In addition to the wonderful textures on the sword, there are also layers of
The forged cloud patterns are fine and dense.
The black-haired man nodded sternly, "Okay, put down the sword."
Lin Xi put down the sword she just held in her hand without knowing why. The sword was not too heavy, weighing only about ten kilograms.
"Look at these pieces and the textures on these rolls. Which roll do you intuitively match the textures of these pieces with? Put the ones you think match together." At this time,
Suddenly someone spoke up, his voice was hoarse, but equally serious.
Lin Xi immediately turned around.
The person who made the sound was one of the three people he had not had time to look at just now. She was an old woman in black robe, with messy gray-white hair, and the ends of her hair were all burnt yellow. She was thin and small, and her face was full of stains.
She had wrinkles, a pair of small triangular eyes, a slight sunken look, and her face was a little burnt. Most importantly, her nails were a little black, which gave Lin Xi the first feeling that she looked like an old witch.
She was talking about four pieces of fine iron and four small open parchment rolls.
The four pieces of fine iron are all square, half the size of a fist, two are black, one is red gold, and one is silver. The textures painted on the four unfolded sheepskin rolls are also different, and two of them are different.
One looks like twisted vines, one looks like the tail feathers of a phoenix, and the other looks like water patterns.
"These should be the textures used to create soul weapons. Each type of fine iron has the most suitable texture, right? Do you want to see if I have such intuition to choose the most suitable texture for these materials?" He pondered for a moment.
, Lin Xi did not immediately start the matching process, but first looked at the old lady in black robe who looked like an old witch and asked this question seriously.
The old lady in black robe frowned slightly, as if she was displeased, but there was something strange in her eyes when she looked at Lin Xi, "You are right, the exclusive talisman and the exclusive
Only with the combination of fine iron can we create a soul weapon."
"Rule pattern...this is the same way, but I don't know if it's the original name or the name of Dean Zhang." Lin Xi also had a hint of playfulness in the corner of his mouth, thinking in his heart, before anyone said nonsense to him,
He immediately looked at the old lady in black robe and said, "This should be regarded as a test of talent. If I get all the wrong answers, can you tell me the most correct answer? I came from Lulin Town and traveled a lot.
One month... Even if I lose the election, I can at least learn something from you, so I won't have too many regrets."
"Okay." The old lady in black robe glanced at Lin Xi and nodded, "I can tell you the most suitable answer later. Now, you start right away."
Lin Xi smiled warmly. It was obvious that the old lady in black robe did not want her appearance to be so scary at heart. Without any hesitation, she directly placed two small sheepskin scrolls with twisted vine-like runes on two black
Next to the square fine iron, the small sheepskin scroll with the phoenix tail feather-like runes was placed next to the red gold fine iron, and the remaining small sheepskin scroll with the water-like runes was placed next to the silver fine iron.
"It's all nonsense." The old lady in black robe immediately yelled angrily. She seemed to have a good impression of Lin Xi, but Lin Xi's actions seemed to make her extremely dissatisfied. "This is black water gold, only water cloud patterns can
To match it. This is the black king iron, which needs to be matched with the golden phoenix pattern, the hematite is matched with the evergreen pattern, and the silver gold is matched with the ancient vine pattern."
She pointed out the correct answers one by one and looked at Lin Xi angrily, "Even if you are blind, you can at least get one or two right. I didn't expect you to get them all wrong... It seems that you don't have even a hint of talent."
, not suitable for ‘Tiangong’ at all.”
"None of them are correct?" Lin Xi scratched his head in embarrassment. This was indeed too bad.
Before he could respond, the fat middle-aged woman with many transparent bottles and some plants and hay piled in front of her opened her mouth and said, "Look over here."
"Do you see clearly?"
Lin Xi's eyes had just turned to her for a moment when the kind-faced middle-aged fat woman stretched out her hand, and a big white cloth covered all the bottles, pots, plants, and hay in front of her.
"Except for those bottles and jars, tell me how many herbs there are, what they look like, and where they are located on my table." Then, the middle-aged fat woman looked at Lin Xi and asked.
Lin Xi was startled. Is this a test of memory? His attention just now was on the fat middle-aged woman and the bottles and jars, but he didn't pay much attention to the herbs placed on the table.
After being stunned for a moment, Lin Xi simply shook her head, "I don't remember any of them."
The fat middle-aged woman's face changed slightly and she opened her mouth hesitantly, but after taking a deep breath, she finally said nothing and just shook her head in secret annoyance.
In fact, she was somewhat satisfied with Lin Xi's performance at the beginning. Among the many candidates who entered before, only Lin Xi looked the calmest when faced with the internal organs, eyeballs and other objects she deliberately placed. But at this moment, Lin Xi's performance was...
She was extremely disappointed.
An old voice rang: "Only one of these five eggs is alive and can be hatched. See if you can pick it out."
The person who made the sound this time was one of the two elders of the college whom Lin Xi had not looked at carefully. He was a skinny old man with braids. He was short in stature and had wrinkles on his face, but his braided hair was golden.
It looks spotless and smooth.
Five eggs of different sizes were placed in front of him. The largest one was the size of an ostrich egg, with a blue-black egg shell, and the smallest one was only the size of a sparrow egg, with a gray-brown egg shell.
"It seems that you are in charge of the entrance examination for the Spiritual Sacrifice Department." Lin Xi showed an innocent smile, "If I get the answer wrong, can you tell me the correct answer?"
The thin old man with blond hair glanced at Lin Xi and nodded without any nonsense.
"I guess it's this." Lin Xi clicked on one of the red-shelled eggs.
The skinny old man glanced at Lin Xi expressionlessly, "That egg is an ordinary egg...it has been cooked. It is the only hard-boiled egg inside."
"Ahem..." In the extremely serious atmosphere, only one person did not laugh at the words of the skinny old man.
The only one who didn't laugh was the old-fashioned middle-aged man wearing a gray leather hat who had never made any sound. He had a rectangular flat face and was pale. He always had an expressionless and old-fashioned look.
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"You can still laugh." The skinny old man looked at Lin Xi, who couldn't help but smile, and shook his head, "The biggest egg is the live egg that can be hatched."
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(There are still some manuscripts saved, lying obscenely in a corner of my computer desktop... Let’s see if everyone can force it out? Tomorrow, how about popping one or two chrysanthemums off the ones at the top of the red ticket list? Pop off one.