Chapter 33 Fortune and Misfortune Come Together
Since helping Xiaoqian achieve the throne, Chang Jin has not gone out much and often studied at home. However, his reputation has spread throughout Qingshan Town and even reached the ears of classmates who entered the school in Mingyang Academy. Some people praised his courage, while others said that Chang Jin was sensational. Although everyone praised this, no matter what, it was considered to be a fame in one fell swoop. Especially his sentence in front of the Heshen Temple, "If it is poisonous, Jin will die; if it is not poisonous, the people in Qingshan Town will be blessed", which was praised by Mr. Li, saying that he has the courage of the people in his heart and has the courage of thousands of people who have gone there.
Chang Jin is now in a stable mind and has long been at the point of not being surprised by favors and disgraces. He doesn't care about any praise or slander from the outside world. He reads and practices at home all day long to deal with next year's county examination, hoping to win the case head by then.
In this world, scholars are much more difficult to get into than undergraduate universities on Earth in their previous lives. First of all, there are very large quotas. Generally speaking, there are 40 large counties, 30 middle counties, 20 small counties, and even four or five.
Moreover, the procedures are more tormenting than the college entrance examination. You must pass three levels in a row, from the county examination where the magistrate is the chief examination, then the prefectural examination where the magistrate is the chief examination, and then the college examination where the provincial school officials are the chief examination. Only by passing all three levels can you achieve the fame of a scholar.
A scholar who has not passed the exam for scholars, even if an 80-year-old man and a family of children and grandchildren, can only be called "children's life".
Chang Jin was called Xiucai Gong, but he was just a villager who shouted and shouted. If he were really a scholar, Liu Zhisheng would not dare to be so arrogant at the beginning.
However, there is another unspeakable rule among them, that is, the case head selected by the magistrate during the county examination. Generally, as long as there is no accident, it will definitely not be eliminated in the government examination and the college examination. That is to say, as long as the case head is won, the scholar will get the fame and reputation.
During this period, Wang Qinian once came to Changjia Village with gifts to express his gratitude. After lying in bed for more than a month, his health has finally returned to normal.
After seeing off Wang Qinian, Chang Jin continued to study behind closed doors.
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Although the river god melon has not yet begun to be harvested, the river god temple has become more and more effective in word-of-mouthed by the people in Qingshan Town.
Almost every day, some people come to burn incense and have good children or have good children early. Not only are they from Qingshan Town, but also some wealthy families in nearby villages and towns come to worship with tributes, praying for a good year. In just over a month, the stone incense burner on the incense table was covered with incense ash.
If another practitioner passes here, he will find that the statue of the god is covered with red and green light energy, which is more than three feet away. The black demonic energy that originally spreads in the red light has also weakened a lot, leaving only a few strands. Perhaps it won't take long before the demonic energy will completely dissolve.
At the River God Water Mansion, Xiaoqian was sitting cross-legged there at the moment, practicing the river-Zhengchen Monument.
As soon as I felt something moving in my heart, I felt that the spiritual energy in the river area within a radius of more than ten miles was swarming towards me. Then the red air flow above my head suddenly surged out, like smoke, fog, and clouds, forming a red silkworm cocoon in a moment, completely surrounding her body.
In the Nirvana Palace, after a month of nourishment, the Zhenhe Monument has turned from the original earthy gray to white as jade. At this moment, the runes behind the Zhenhe Monument suddenly became fresh, like twisted little snakes, constantly squirming on the surface of the monument. Every time they wriggled, the spring water below the Zhenhe Monument increased a little. Soon, the spring water rose to one-third of the monument.
At this time, the stone tablet suddenly shook. The twisted little snakes broke free from the bondage and flew out of the monument, twisted and rotated in Nirvana Palace, and they were like living creatures.
About another stick of incense passed, and these living creatures formed a rune again and drilled into the spring with a whoosh. The spring water suddenly surged, with only one pool, but it kept rolling with waves. When you look carefully, there was a hint of green air mixed in it, emitting a certain indescribable aura.
"Well, the spiritual spring will rise by two-thirds and it will completely cover the Zhenhe Monument. Only then will I truly refine the imperial talisman and control the entire Baitiao River for dozens of miles of water."
Thinking of this, Xiaoqian's spiritual consciousness moved slightly, and the spiritual springs in the Nizhan Palace surging, causing waves four or five feet high to emerge from the water above the River God Mansion, covering the sky and rushing downstream.
This wave has the consciousness of the river god, which can be used to patrol the waters.
As the wave had just run out of half a mile, Xiaoqian suddenly exclaimed. When she just released her spiritual sense, she felt an indescribable pressure deep in the ground of Laolongtan suddenly burst out, instantly cutting off her spiritual sense.
Before she could react, blood was already gushing out of her mouth.
Because Xiaoqian recognized Chang Jin as the main one, Chang Jin immediately sensed the sudden change in the River God Water Palace.
Knowing that the situation had changed, he hurriedly put down his bowl and chopsticks and said to his sister, "I have something to do and go out..."
After saying that, he didn't explain the reason and left in a hurry.
After leaving the village, he ran all the way and rushed to Laolongtan. Xiaoqian quickly surfaced to meet him.
Seeing that her luck on her head was not too much depleted, Chang Jin felt relieved and asked, "What happened?"
"Young Master, I'll explain it to you later when you enter the water house."
When Chang Jin entered the Shui Mansion, Xiaoqian immediately brought out a porcelain plate, which contained seven or eight red fruits. The fruits were fragrant, which really made people jealous.
"Xiaoqian, what kind of fruit is this?" Chang Jin looked at it strangely and asked.
"Young Master, this was accidentally discovered in an underground stone cave when I was patrolling the Baitiao River a few days ago. I don't know its name, but this fruit is born in a cold pond and is full of yang energy. So I named it Huoyang Fruit. There was only one plant in the stone cave, but there were not many, with more than a dozen. I ate a few of them earlier, and the taste was good, but now there are only so many left. Because I don't know if it is harmful to ordinary people, I didn't dare to give it to the lady."
Chang Jin nodded, picked up one and put it next to his mouth. It tasted good. He felt a hot stream flowing down his stomach and lungs when he entered his mouth. After eating a fire Yang fruit, he looked around and asked: "You have now occupied the position of the River God, why don't you find some water demons to listen to it under your hands. This River God's Mansion is too deserted..."
"Young Master, I have this plan, and I plan to recruit sailors when I enter the realm of ghosts and gods."
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After chatting for a few gossips, Chang Jin asked: "What happened just now? I also felt abnormal at home, as if an old monster was peeping at it."
"Young Master, I don't know." Xiaoqian smiled bitterly and shook her head, pointing to the water mansion and said, "I had already noticed something strange here a month ago. Every time I sacrificed the imperial edicts, I felt an inexplicable aura coming, which made people shudder. I carefully investigated, but I couldn't sense anything. I had no choice but to ignore it for the time being, who knew that today was so strong."
"Oh" Hearing what she said strangely, Chang Jin hurriedly released his spiritual sense.
Seeing him like this, Xiaoqian stopped him and said, "It's useless, young master..."
Before she finished speaking, she suddenly opened her eyes wide.
In front of her, the red and blue air flow above the young master's head was like boiling boiling water, constantly surging.
This was the first time Chang Jin encountered this strange situation. As soon as he released his spiritual sense, he felt a pulling force coming from deep underground. His spiritual sense seemed to be dragged tightly by a rope, and he kept descending deep underground.
Where? Wherever the spiritual consciousness reaches, it is pitch black.
Chang Jin was panicked and hurriedly wanted to pull his spiritual consciousness back. Unfortunately, there was no effect at all. The underground gravity was extremely strong, making the spiritual consciousness unable to escape.
I don’t know how long it took, but my spiritual sense suddenly felt countless fluorescence, spreading into a jade belt, extending along the Baitiao River.
A illusory dragon that was more than two feet suddenly rushed out of the jade belt. The dragon opened its bloody mouth, as if it was about to bite at his spiritual sense.
Chang Jin's spiritual consciousness was uncontrollable and could only watch the dragon approaching. The situation in the next second was even more than expected. He thought the dragon would swallow the spiritual consciousness in one mouthful, but he knew that the other party quickly turned into a trace of purple aura, merged into the spiritual consciousness and disappeared.
At the moment when the purple air merged, Chang Jin's spiritual consciousness seemed to become vast and boundless. He saw a narrow jade belt underground with several forks in the middle, winding and winding, like a big dragon hidden underground.
Before I could see clearly, the scene had completely disappeared, the spiritual consciousness returned to normal, and then returned to the body.
Chang Jin opened his eyes and carefully sensed the situation in his body. There was no purple qi in his internal organs. Everything just now seemed more like a dream.
"Young Master, what happened?" Xiaoqian asked this time.
"I can't explain it clearly," Chang Jin smiled bitterly and replied in the language Xiaoqian had just answered.
He really didn't know what the situation just now meant, but he just felt that the purple aura did not disappear, but was hidden somewhere in his body.
And I vaguely feel that purple qi is of great benefit to me, but I can't explain where it comes from.
If you can't figure it out, Chang Jin simply doesn't want to.
Tonight is destined to be a turbulent autumn. Seeing that Xiaoqian is safe and sound, Chang Jin originally planned to leave and return home. But he had just jumped out of the water and heard the rumbling sound of water coming from the upstream.
Looking carefully at the distance, I saw a few miles away filled with water mist, mixed with a hint of black air.
Xiaoqian was originally the God of Baishuihe, and her senses were clearer in her divine realm. With a casual move, an illusory water area appeared in front of her.
The water waves were surging seven or eight miles upstream. At the front of the waves, two water monsters stood on their heads. The water monster on the left was pitch black, with fangs exposed, and a big knife in his hand. Three feet behind him, two subordinates followed him.
The water demon on the right side had a lid as big as a pot lid. At first glance, he knew it was transformed by a turtle. Beside it, he also followed two subordinates.
Among the waves farther behind them, there were many ugly-looking aquarium soldiers. At a rough look, there were hundreds of them. These sailors were not conspicuous, but they formed a military formation at this moment. Above the military formation, a thick black demonic aura rushed straight into the void, with a terrifying momentum.
"The person who came here is not good." Chang Jin looked at the military formation in the water carefully and shouted in surprise: "It turns out that there are also powerful people in the aquarium, and they actually understand the method of human formation."
There is no difference between these sailors and the ones summoned by Zhu Po Long, they all use the help of the imperial talisman to shape. If the other party does not form a formation, but gathers together in a mess. Sweep across with one sword, you can kill them all.
It’s just that they form a formation and their luck is connected, but now it’s a bit difficult to deal with.
Chapter completed!