According to Bai Xiaosheng's explanation, because there are many and complicated items in the Shanling Examination--the Confucian and Taoist Academy exams need to ask about strategies and essays, while the Immortal Academy exams need to observe each candidate's talent in spiritual power control. , the understanding of martial arts moves, etc., it is even more difficult to apply for in the martial arts academy, which requires refining elixirs, stargazing on the spot... various examinations, and there are a lot of people who sign up for the mausoleum examination. If we carefully evaluate it like this, I don’t know how much manpower, materials and time will be consumed. In order to solve this problem, Shanngling Academy gathered the efforts of all the formation masters in Nanxia to specially create a large formation "Shangling Dreamland".
After the formation is activated, everyone will be pulled by the power of the illusion and enter the Shanngling Dreamland. All exams in the Academy are held here, whether it is the Shanling Examination or the semi-annual assessment.
---This is actually a computer-based test.
Silas Lin's heart skipped a beat and he quickly turned to the next page.
The next page was the specific examination process of the Confucian and Taoist Academy in the Shanngling Examination. Silas Lin turned a few more pages and came to the part of the Immortal Academy.
The exam is divided into three parts and the explanations are very easy to understand.
The first test: The tree that hugs each other is born from the smallest millimeter; the platform that is a hundred feet from the base of the earth. To cultivate immortality, you must first nourish your Qi.
The students sat in meditation in the Shanling Dreamland and first circulated the qi movement throughout the 720 major acupoints around the body. Then the dreamland would designate any number of acupoints and they had to choose their own meridian paths and flow the qi movement throughout the body for a total of five attempts. Finally, dreams will add obstructions and obstacles in the meridians and acupuncture points. Students must choose whether to break through or bypass the obstacles, and how to make the Qi in the body flow as harmoniously as possible under these obstacles.
The second test: The Tao is not the Tao, nor is it not the Tao. To cultivate immortality, one must understand the Tao.
This test purely tests the level of understanding. The dream will select twenty essential sentences from various classics. The student will express his understanding of each sentence. Then, the dream will pull two people with opposite views into the same dream. People discuss Taoism in dreams.
The third test: the lower martial arts skills, the middle martial arts into the philosophy, the upper martial arts to achieve the Tao, Tao and martial arts are inseparable.
After entering the third trial, the dream world flows, and students choose their own weapons and practice martial arts in the twelve realms of morning, dusk, day, and night; spring, summer, autumn, and winter; cloudy, clear, rain, and snow. Bai Xiaosheng added an annotation here, saying that the level of martial arts is secondary, the key is the understanding of martial arts. Even if a person with high understanding can swing an axe, it will be different from that of a person with low understanding.
After talking about the three tests, Bai Xiaosheng continued to explain. The general meaning is that these three tests are very difficult, but the original intention of the academy is not to ask students to successfully complete these three tests, but to observe each student's talent and understanding. As long as The first test is basically smooth. If you excel in any part of the second two tests, you may pass the Shanling Test and enter the Academy.
In other words... the "talent" to be tested in the entire Shanngling Examination is metaphysical talent, not physical talent?
---That's right, they don't need to test their physical talent at all, because those who have stagnant meridians, no matter how many acupoint maps they have seen or how many times they have memorized the Qi Nourishing Sutra, they have no idea what the Qi machine is. What flows and gathers in the body cannot be done in reality, and naturally it cannot be imagined out of thin air in dreams.
Shanngling's dream is an illusion.
In other words, there, he would not be restricted by this body at all.
For other people, if they are born with blocked meridians, there is nothing they can do at the first try.
But what he said about the body's meridians in his previous life can no longer be described by the word "smooth". Day and night, Qi circulates tens of thousands of times among the 720 major acupuncture points. The Ren pulse is fast and the Du pulse is slow. , smooth pulse pulse, sharp pulse pulse, which meridians and how to use Qi to move, he has long been familiar with it, and all the contents of the first trial are as easy as drinking cold water for him.
The second test was very suffocating. It would be impossible to discuss Taoism with others, even if it is difficult to talk in daily life. However, according to Bai Xiaosheng, it shouldn't be difficult for him to enter Shanngling Academy - after all, he has the foundation from his previous life.
All in all, if you still want to make a ghost elixir, just choose Xiandaoyuan. Not only is the Shangling Examination not a problem, there is no need to worry about every assessment in the Academy.
The only problem is, how should he explain why he can pass the exam even though he can't gather even a shred of spiritual power and can't kill a chicken?
Tobias Li and Barnaby Li looked at Silas Lin. Seeing him looking at the cover of the book expressionlessly for a long time, they couldn't help but say, "Brother Lin?"
Silas Lin breathed out gently and said, "Let's go."
As the Shangling Examination is approaching, the bookstore owner's business has been very prosperous recently. Almost everyone who comes here will buy many instruction books to go back. When the boss saw that these three people only bought a thin book, he was very dissatisfied and watched them leave. When I was there, I was so angry that I blew my beard and stared: "Bah! You're a guy who won't be able to pass the exam!"
Silas Lin walked silently.
Failing to pass the exam is no longer a concern for him.
He was afraid that if he passed the exam, everyone in the academy would question how he passed the exam.
The books and pens that had been thrown to the floor in his previous life suddenly appeared in front of his eyes, making him want to vomit.
After returning, he did nothing else. He just tried his best to use his poor language to teach Tobias Li and Barnaby Li how to recognize acupuncture points and how to induce qi. He also taught them the most basic sword skills of point, thrust, chop, chop, etc. After knowing these five tricks, if you are really talented in cultivating immortals, you will naturally be selected by Shanngling Academy.
Because of this, both Tobias Li and Barnaby Li admired and trusted him very much, but Silas Lin became more and more uneasy.
That night, he had a very strange dream.
In the dream, he was still in the gloomy wilderness outside Minzhou City. He was walking aimlessly alone, and suddenly there was a rush of footsteps behind him. When I looked back, I saw that it was Elsie Ling whom I had met by chance before.
Elsie Ling grabbed the corner of his clothes, his face turned pale and his voice was extremely helpless.
"Senior Brother Lin," Elsie Ling cried, "the eldest lady was caught by the Corpse King, I escaped, I don't know what to do...Senior Brother Lin is the first place in the Shangling Examination, he must have advanced cultivation and martial arts Extremely high, I will definitely be able to rescue the eldest lady..."
He didn't know how to answer, so he was dragged all the way to the Corpse King's lair by Elsie Ling.
Elsie Ling pulled out the sword and gave it to him.
But he, with no spiritual power, drew his sword and looked around at a loss.
---Then he was slapped to death by the Corpse King.
The final scene shows the eldest lady being hung in mid-air by the Corpse King, looking coldly at his bloody body: "This useless thing should have been skinned by me long ago."
Silas Lin felt that fate was holding his throat. After a while of suffocation, he opened his eyes.
...
I can't live this day.
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