On How the Phoenix Hanged on the Crooked Neck Tree

Yixuan smiled wryly: "Of course it's not too late, but Junior Brother, why did you bring this Golden Crow from the Spiritual Bird Garden?"

"What do you think?" Qiao Yitong asked back.

"I know," said Yi You, who was about the same age as Qiao Yitong, "How can you show your demeanor, Senior Brother Yitong, otherwise."

"Show a ghost!" Realizing that thousands of people are looking at him at this moment, Qiao Yitong looks as graceful as reciting sage scriptures even when he utters swear words, "I have an idea for this selection meeting, but I need your support. "

"What do you think? Is it related to this Golden Crow?" Yixuan asked.

"It will start right away, and I will tell you in detail later."

With the beating of the big drum, five hundred disciples lined up in seven lines and stood next to the seven testers on the edge of Tai Chi Square. Each of the seven testers had a piece of jade of the same height, shining with white light.Here, the disciples will accept their first test, to test their talents, because theoretically, to become an inner sect disciple, one must have the potential to cultivate to the Golden Core.

The disciples put their hands on the jade one by one, and the testers learned about their talents from the jade. Those who passed were let go, and the information was recorded in the book, and those who failed were not even given a chance to be recorded. Get off stage.

This process is quite boring, and maybe only the person being tested will be nervous.At the moment on the judges' platform, the three true disciples were whispering something.The Golden Crow nestled obediently beside Qiao Yitong, while many of the other disciples watching the fun were staring at Qiao Yitong obsessively.

About an hour later, the talent test was finally over, and the original 540 qualified disciples suddenly became 420.

Qiao Yitong looked up and saw that Xiao Qin was indeed in the Tai Chi Plaza and was not screened out, so he continued to doze off while sitting upright.

Next was a martial arts competition, in which the disciples fought in pairs, and the loser was eliminated.This test is the physical fitness of the disciples - after all, in the outer sect, most of the disciples are still in the stage of refining qi or building a foundation, and they can't actually learn any combat techniques and skills.

Qiao Yitong boredly watched a group of youths fighting like gangsters in the ring to prevent them from cheating.Seeing a person looking at him frequently, I thought that I was watching too closely and made the disciple nervous, so I smiled at him apologetically.

"Ah!" The disciple was stunned for a moment, unable to dodge the opponent's punches and feet, lost all his advantage, and was crushed to the ground and screamed incessantly.

Qiao Yitong: "..."

In this way, another 210 disciples were eliminated.

On the way of cultivation, it is not only your talent that determines how far you can go, but more importantly, your xinxing.Therefore, the third round of competition is the most important.Disciples who have always performed well in the third round of competitions may be accepted as core disciples.

The drums were booming, and 210 disciples stood in a circle next to the circular magic circle in the center of Tai Chi Square.At the same time, the person in charge of the formation entered the spiritual energy into the spirit stone and activated the formation. A white aura flashed around the square, and the circular stone platform in the center of the square suddenly rose, divided into three parts from top to bottom. The circular stone platform floats in mid-air.

The stone platforms become smaller from bottom to top. The lowest stone platform can stand the 210 people who have just been selected. The middle floor can only stand about 100 people, and the top floor can only stand about 30 people. people.

On the three-story stone platform stood a true disciple, who held a scripture in their hands, and was responsible for asking questions and judging the correctness of the answers.

The distance between each stone platform is three feet high.If you want to have a chance to answer, you must first be able to jump on the stone platform.

The disciples were eager to try, Xiao Qin clenched his fists, and his eyes flashed the light of what he must win.

He was lucky in his dantian, leaped and became the first person to reach the stone platform on the first floor.

Yiyou was waiting for him with a book.At the same time, he turned his palm slightly, and fixed all the people who came up later in place, one by one behind Xiao Qin.

"Really, why am I on the first floor? How did so many people come here?" Yiyou complained.Sure enough, the elder brother favored Qiao Yitong, letting him be assessed at the top, the most leisurely.

All the disciples who were immobilized: "..."

"Okay. The first one, let me ask you first," Yiyou flipped through the book, "Tell me what 'three gates and three fields' are?"

After taking the test of the content he had memorized, Xiao Qin was very calm and said calmly: "The tail, Jiaji, and jade pillow at the back are called the three passes, which belong to the governor channel and are Yang; the upper dantian, middle dantian, and lower dantian in the front are called The third field belongs to the Ren meridian, which is Yin. The ascending and descending path of yin and yang, coming up from the Du meridian at the back, belongs to the Zi, and descending from the Ren meridian in the front, it belongs to the Wu, and Zi Wu draws and adds, which is the so-called Zhoutian Huohou. one)

"That's very good." Yi You said, "But you talked too much and answered my second question. Should I judge you or not?"

The scene on the stone platform was watched by the elder with a water mirror in mid-air, so everyone laughed when they saw Yiyou's troubled face.

"It has been heard for a long time that the true disciples have different personalities, and now it seems that they are indeed." A disciple said.

"Yes, I can't wait to see Uncle Yixuan and Uncle Yitong!"

"Hey, don't any of you pay attention to the disciple who was asked?"

Xiao Qin said calmly: "Since the previous question is answered correctly, it will be counted."

"Okay," Yi You Dadu said, "Then it's your pass, but whether you can get on the stone platform on the second floor depends on your ability."

"Thank you, uncle." Xiao Qin thanked him, and jumped to the second floor again with luck.

Yiyou couldn't help but looked at him with admiration, untied the second person's body, and asked, "What's Zhou Tianhuo?"

"Fire, fire..." The man hesitated and couldn't speak.

Yiyou sneered: "Didn't the first person say it just now? You won't know how to say it again, so go on down, don't be ashamed here."

With a wave of his hand, the man fell off the stone platform.

The audience let out a sigh of relief.

There are also those who answered the question correctly, but because of the increasingly powerful formation between the stone platforms, those who could not get over the stone platform were also thrown off.

Xiao Qin came to the stone platform on the second floor and stood with Xuan's hands behind his back, looking at him with serious and coercive eyes.

"What is Tao?" He only had such a simple sentence, but Xiao Qin couldn't breathe.

"The disciple is dull, please allow the disciple to think for a while, Master Uncle." Xiao Qin said.

"Yes." Yixuan nodded.

In a short time, the second disciple also came up and saluted Yixuan respectfully.

"What is Tao?" Yixuan still said the same thing.

"This..." The disciple thought for a while, then opened his mouth and recited: "Tao can be said, very Tao..."

"Stupid." As soon as Yixuan's words fell, the disciple fell off the stone platform.People didn't even see him move.

"It's scary!" the audience said.

"With Uncle Xuan's cultivation, since he is already so strong?"

"Then I don't know how powerful Master Yi Tong is, the strongest among the true disciples?"

Qiao Yitong also noticed it above, and said with a smile: "It seems that senior brother retreated last time, and his cultivation has improved again."

I don't know how many people were thrown down from the second floor, and the rest of the people didn't dare to answer, seeing that none of their answers were correct.

I don't know how long it took, the time was almost frozen, and only one person stood up and said: "Tao is everything."

It was Xiao Qin.

Yixuan was not moved, and asked, "What are you?"

"I am all things, I am the Tao." Xiao Qin said.

"It's okay." Yixuan teleported him behind him.

Above that is the last stone platform, passing Qiao Yitong's level is considered to have passed the selection meeting.Thinking of Qiao Yitong, Xiao Qin's eyes were complicated.

The rest of the people also wanted to learn from Xiao Qin's answer, but Yixuan changed the question: "How to distinguish the truth?"

The disciples in the audience were still discussing: "I'm going to faint, it's too difficult for Uncle Xuan. I can't even understand it."

"It doesn't matter, someone will always get the answer right."

"Didn't the disciple surnamed Xiao from Lingzhi Garden go up to the third floor? I really want to see the situation on the third floor."

"Yes, I want to see my immortal monarch Yitong Yitong, Tong, ah, ah! Why has the elder who has not projected the third floor yet?"

"That Xiao is really amazing. I didn't know him all the time, I just thought he was an unknown person."

While everyone was chattering and discussing, Xiao Qin had already arrived at the third stone platform.

The stone platform was very small, and Qiao Yitong was standing only twenty steps away from him.

Xiao Qin didn't speak, but Qiao Yitong took the initiative to speak: "Little nephew is very powerful, it really didn't disappoint me."

"I don't dare." Although he really wanted to ask Qiao Yitong why he intentionally damaged the anode grass, or simply beat the person in front of him, but thinking of today's selection meeting, Xiao Qin held back his anger and asked respectfully: "Master, please?" Uncle informs the students about the test questions."

Qiao Yitong said: "With the relationship between the two of us, is there still a need for the exam?"

Everyone can see all the matches live. Xiao Qin has already imagined the scene where many people are talking about him, and he can't help but be wary: "What do you mean?"

Qiao Yitong asked doubtfully, "Aren't we best friends?"

Xiao Qin snorted coldly, "I can't afford the honor of being a good friend of my uncle, so please ask my uncle to strictly test my disciples, and don't let other disciples of Fengyundu misunderstand me, saying that my grades are based on my friendship with you, my uncle." Got it by cheating."

"Don't worry, the elder didn't show the content of the stone platform on the third floor." Qiao Yitong said.

Xiao Qin was unmoved: "Master, please tell me the test questions."

Qiao Yitong was silent for a while, then said: "There are no test questions."

"What?!" Xiao Qin looked suspicious.

"I didn't think about the test questions at all." Qiao Yitong waved his fan and said, "Brother dragged me to be a judge, so why bother? Anyway, I'll count you as a passer."

"What the hell are you doing? Qiao Yitong," Xiao Qin frowned so much that he could crush a fly to death, "Could it be that you, as one of Fengyundu's true disciples, are so irresponsible?"

"You also said that I am one of Fengyundu's true disciples, and the final choice is in my hands." Qiao Yitong also became serious, "Even if the test questions are asked, I have the final say on whether they are correct or not. Since The decision is up to me, so is it necessary to come up with specific test questions? As long as I decide who can be an inner disciple and who can be a core disciple, wouldn't that be enough? Xiao Qin, I know your strength very well, and I can do it completely Inner disciples and core disciples may not be impossible, why do you insist on fighting with me and asking for trouble?"

Xiao Qin's mind skipped a beat, feeling that Qiao Yitong's voice was very far away and very close at one time.It made him dizzy all over.

"But what about fairness?"

"There is no fairness. Strength is fairness in the realm of comprehension." Qiao Yitong said: "Yiyou and Yixuan sentenced you, isn't it based on their mood?"

Xiao Qin wanted to refute, but after thinking about it carefully, what Qiao Yitong said seemed to be correct.

"Then I'll pass your sentence? You don't have to be a hard-working outer disciple anymore, and you can get a lot of cultivation resources in the future." Qiao Yitong's tone carried some temptation.

"..." Xiao Qin was silent for a while, and then said loudly, "I don't want to!"

"I don't know what's good or bad." Qiao Yitong sneered, "Then, we have no choice but to turn jade into weapons!"

He chopped down the fan in his hand, and there was a sound of tearing the air. Knowing that he was definitely not his opponent, Xiao Qin closed his eyes.

The author has something to say: Note [-]: From "Qiu Zu's Secret Biography of Great Dan Zhizhi"