Sun God Champion

Chapter 111 Three Daoist Trials, What Is a Gentleman?
Yujing City.

The sun is rising.

Yang An got up early, and after washing up, he followed Yang Yan and others to participate in the Taoist assessment.

Elder Yang Yu walked in the front, seemingly energetic, but he couldn't hide the tired look in his eyes.

Obviously, didn't sleep last night.

Yang An knew that he should investigate what Yang An said.

The clan died more than a dozen clan children who had been cultivated with great difficulty, as well as many guards.

If Qingzhou Wang and others took action, there would definitely be some clues left behind.

He wants to send someone to investigate as soon as possible.

All along, he has never doubted the people of the clan, but now it seems that the people of the clan are most likely to make a move.

The Taoist assessment site is in Zhenyun Hall.

When Yang An and others arrived at the assessment site, there were already vigorous soldiers guarding the gate of the newly built Zhenyun Square.

Show the token and walk into the square one by one.

Yang An walked into Zhenyun Square. The area is very open, about five miles long and wide, and can accommodate at least tens of thousands of people participating in the assessment.

In the center, there is a huge arena.

Below the arena, tables were arranged neatly. At a glance, there were thousands of tables.

"The first test, is it a martial arts competition or writing?"

Seeing this posture, Yang Yan looked puzzled.

"It will start soon, and you will know the answer soon."

Yang An replied with a smile.

"You think that everyone is like you, who is as good at writing poems. I hope it's a martial arts competition, and I can have an advantage."

Yang Yan shook his head.

In the martial arts competition and writing essays, what he hopes is undoubtedly the martial arts competition.

This assessment performance is good, even if he joins the army, he can get off to a better start.

In the Daqian Dynasty, the army consisted of five troops, ten troops, one hundred capitals, five hundred battalions, one thousand troops, ten thousand commanders, and the commander at the top.

When these innate martial artists join the army, they are usually the leaders of a hundred people. If they can pass the Taoist examination and pass the Qianhuang's eye, they may become the commanders of five hundred people, and the most outstanding ones have a slight chance to become generals of a thousand people.

As for the commander of ten thousand people above, only by making outstanding military exploits can he become the commander of ten thousand people.

In this Taoist assessment, Yang Yan and other Qingzhou disciples are all trying to compete for the commander of the [-] people.

As for the general with a thousand people, none of them thought about it. Although the general with a thousand people has a slight chance, it is very slim and can be ignored.

The better the assessment results, the greater the probability of becoming a commander.

As long as a congenital martial artist doesn't make mistakes, he can be promoted very quickly.

Yang An knew the powerful relationship, but he didn't want to do it.

Under the leadership of the attendants, Yang An and the others sat in an empty seat, with paper and pens prepared beside them.

"How could it be a literary test?"

Yang Yan lowered his face and sighed.

The faces of the next few people were ugly.

This assessment method is the worst result for them.

The people coming from behind took their seats in an orderly manner under the leadership of the attendants.

A quarter of an hour later, Zhenyun Square was full of people.

Yang An took a glance, and a stream of strong blood rushed straight into the sky.

This is the result of the gathering of people and blood in Zhenyun Square.

Obviously, all the people participating in the assessment are not bad in martial arts.

"Everyone, the assessment of the Dao Sect begins now, and today I will supervise the assessment of the first Sect."

"The content of the assessment is: horse riding mountains and rivers."

Li Shiyuan stood on the final martial arts arena, his voice was loud, rolling towards everyone.

Everyone listened carefully, and after listening, all eyes were brightened.

Yang An fell into deep thought after listening.

The content of the assessment is very simple, it is to ask Dongzheng's attitude and strategy.

Horse riding on mountains and rivers is the attitude of Qianhuang.And these assessors, first express their attitude, and then give their own strategy for the Eastern Expedition.

In the assessment, the attitude is the first, the strategy is the second, and the literature is the bottom.

After Yang An finished his analysis, he started to write.

As a big man, he was trained by the clan, so he can't bend his butt.

The Eastern Expedition attitude must be supported.

As for the strategy, Yang An didn't want to borrow the good articles and strategies of the sages to write a well-regulated article by himself.

Neither stand out nor bottom out.

After thinking about these things, Yang An began to write, eloquently, and quickly finished writing. When someone handed in the papers one after another, he handed them over to the invigilator not far away.

After Yang An finished handing in and left, Yang Yan and the others also left one by one.

"Brother Yang An, you have been busy for so many days, do you want to go out for a drink?"

Yang Yan said with a few people from Qingzhou.

For this assessment, several people have been preparing in the Zhenyun Pavilion, busy for a long time.

"No, I will continue to participate in the next two games."

Yang An refused, and the second assessment was about half an hour later.

"What? You have to participate in the next two assessments."

Yang Yan looked surprised.

"Ah."

Yang An nodded and went back to the house.

An assessment still consumes energy.

Going back to the house is to rest your mind and adjust your state.

Yang Yan and the others left in a daze.

He didn't even think to understand why Yang An had to participate in the next two assessments.

Elder Yang Yu didn't come to find Yang An either, so he should have tacitly allowed him to participate in the next two assessments.

An hour later, Yang An appeared in Zhenyun Square.

There were tens of thousands of people who participated in the assessment, but there were less than a thousand left, and none of them showed any vitality. Obviously, their martial arts cultivation base is not high.

Compared with the previous [-]-person assessment, the second assessment presided over by Fang Xiandao not only has fewer people, but also has relatively poor cultivation.

The person who presided over the assessment was a strange middle-aged man.

Yang An opened the paper on the table, and the examination questions came into view.

"Alchemy process and fire control."

After reading it, Yang An already had an idea in his mind. Fang Xiandao's assessment is not difficult, as long as he read "Dan Brokerage Essentials", he can answer it.

However, there are also some pitfalls.

The alchemy process recorded in the alchemy notes is generally fine, but there is no record of the fire control and the judgment of the alchemy.

Generally, only those who have read a lot of books on alchemy, or who have practiced alchemy with their own hands, can understand these issues.

Yang An happened to have read many alchemy books, among which were some suggestions and treatment methods for the two.

This assessment, as long as these are also recorded in it.

After thinking, Yang An started to write.

Summarize the attention points related to alchemy that you have seen, and write them down one by one.

After finishing writing, Yang An was not in a hurry, and continued to wait for someone to start handing in the papers before he handed in the papers in a leisurely manner.

He's getting ready for the third game.

In this Daoist assessment, the third round is Yang An's goal.

Zhengyi is in line with Yang An's requirements.

Staying in Yujing, while reading more Confucian books, can also avoid King Qingzhou and others, and dormant for a while.

His cultivation base is progressing very fast, as long as he becomes a Grand Master, Qingzhou King and others, it will no longer be a problem.

The trouble can be cleared.

The second assessment was beyond Yang An's expectation. It was really not that difficult, and it didn't take much effort after writing it.

Yang An is very confident that his grades in this assessment should be almost the same.

Even if something goes wrong in the last assessment, at least Fang Xiandao can be used as a backup.

Inside the house, Yang An lit the sandalwood incense to restore himself to his best condition.

The last assessment is scheduled for the afternoon.

Yang An was silently practicing "Xuanyuan Taoism" in the house. The progress in the cultivation of the master's realm was not fast.

After the xinxing problem last time, Yang An has been looking for ways to grind his xinxing from various aspects.

It just so happened that there was an assessment in the afternoon, so it was the most suitable for practicing "Xuanyuan Taoism".

After the three assessments are completed, it will be the Qianhuang and the Daomen who will select candidates, and of course they will follow the wishes of the participants.

The three parties finally give out the assessment results, and those who pass the assessment will be listed on the stone wall next to Zhenyun Hall.

Yang An allowed himself to calm down and respond to all changes with the same.

In the third assessment, there were a few fewer people.

Yang An saw that there were less than five hundred people.

Among them was an acquaintance of Yang An's, the Sun family's Sun Minghui who was vomited blood by Yang An.

Seeing Yang An's gaze, he glanced contemptuously.

Can write poems, but not necessarily write articles.

He has already received the news that the one-way assessment is writing articles.

He wants to prove to everyone that the articles he writes are the best.

Yang An is only a bit talented in poetry, and his articles are not as good as him.

Yang An sat on the vacant seat and flipped over the paper, it was a blank sheet of paper.

Obviously, we still have to wait for the middle-aged man sitting cross-legged with his eyes closed on the martial arts stage to come up with a question.

After a while, when the third test began, the man opened his eyes, stood up slowly, and a gust of wind blew past.

"The third test will be made by me."

"Title: What is a gentleman?"

After the man finished speaking loudly, he glanced at the crowd contemptuously, snorted coldly, and sat cross-legged with his eyes closed.

Contempt.

Naked contempt.

It seems to say that none of this group of people can pass the examination.

The people who participated in the assessment saw the attitude of the other examiners, and several of them were so angry that they got up and left.

No one stopped.

Some people were aggrieved, but they held back and sat down to answer questions.

Sun Minghui frowned slightly, but didn't get up.

After thinking for a moment, I decided to write.

Yang An sat steadily, his expression unchanged, but he couldn't help but look at this person a few more times. This person should be a spiritual practitioner.

Because just after that person closed his eyes, there was a gust of wind, which should be the result of this person's wandering spirit.

This person continued to close his eyes, and his spirit must have wandered again.

"interesting."

Yang An sighed softly, and began to think about the purpose of writing the question together.

Zhengyi is not the same as Fang Xiandao, nor is it the same as ordinary cultivating sects.

Suzerain Ji Changyue was the number one scholar in Enke for [-] years. He was a minister for several years. He had an academic disagreement with Li Yan, the prime minister at that time. After that, he resigned and joined Zhengyi. With outstanding spiritual talent, he became the suzerain of Zhengyi after breaking through ghosts and immortals. .

Since Ji Changyue became the suzerain of Zhengyi, she began to reform Zhengyi and taught loyalty, filial piety and righteousness.

Take loyalty to the emperor as the teaching.

He was affirmed by Qianhuang and supported Zhengyi.

Compared with Fang Xiandao's way of clinging to the rich and powerful, Zhengyi's development is very promising.

With the grace of the Holy Spirit, one will surely rise.

Even if there was a voice of opposition, it disappeared after Emperor Qian supported it.

"What is a gentleman? It is to take the meaning of loyalty to the emperor, which is a bit one-sided."

"A gentleman has both ability and political integrity, is gentle and polite, and does what he does and what he doesn't do."

Yang An thought silently in his heart.

"Work hard and never stop."

"Benevolence, righteousness and morality contain all things."

These thoughts floated through Yang An's mind one after another.

A gentleman has been the direction that all people have expected since ancient times. Generally, people with both ability and political integrity regard themselves as gentlemen.

Most of them are scholars.

After reading a lot, he calls himself a gentleman and demands himself with the etiquette of a gentleman.

"The assessment topic of Zhengyi should be given by the suzerain Ji Changyue. If it is him, Enke champion, who has served as a great minister, he should be a scholar's gentleman if he takes the direction of a gentleman."

Yang An kept thinking about it.

While Yang An was still thinking about the intention of the person who wrote the question, others had already started writing.

The definition of a gentleman is not complicated. Even people who have never read a book will know something and be able to describe some characteristics.

In Zhenyun Square, everyone started to write, but Yang An was still thinking about it.

He always feels that something is overlooked, and the article written in this way is not good.

In the third assessment, will he hide his clumsiness and use all the scriptures he has read.

If you can't solve the problem, don't do it.

From the corner of his eye, Sun Minghui saw that Yang An hadn't written yet, so he smiled contemptuously.

Sure enough, those who can write poetry may not necessarily be able to write essays.

Yang An looked at Zhenyun Square, and suddenly realized that there was a piece of information that he had overlooked.

"Ji Changyue has the support of the Emperor Qian, so he must be a supporter of the Emperor Qian. If the Emperor wants to conquer the East, then the goal of his question is to at least express support to the Emperor Qian."

"This is his attitude, and it is also Zhengyi's attitude, supporting the Eastern Expedition."

Yang An recalled the whole process in his mind, and finally figured out what was wrong.

This Daoist assessment is mainly about the Eastern Expedition.

Therefore, in the final solution to the problem, there must be a willingness to support the Eastern Expedition.

Zhengyi can also use this to express his attitude without being too flattering.

After Yang An figured it out, he began to write.

"A gentleman should be upright."

The more Yang An writes, the more he feels.

Between the lines, it not only said that a gentleman should be a person and act responsibly, but also proposed that Yunmeng invaded, and that a gentleman should have the ambition to serve the country, and also explained that the more he prayed for the country.

In the end, Yang An couldn't help but quote the poems of the sages.

"Heaven and earth have righteousness, mixed with manifolds. The lower part is the river and the mountains, and the upper part is the sun and stars. People call it Haoran, and it is full of darkness. The emperor's road should be Qingyi, and the Hanhe Tuming court"

There is righteousness in the poems of the sages, and there is a tribute to the awe-inspiring spirit. They also quote the heroic deeds of loyal ministers and righteous men to express their loyalty to Dagan and their determination to go east.

Not only does it show loyalty to the country, but also a gentleman's integrity.

Yang An wrote that unconsciously, the mind and mind of the whole person are changing.

Yang An didn't notice all of this, and was still writing furiously, writing what was in his heart.

Zhou Ji, who was taking the assessment together, came out of his shell after closing his eyes. He didn't travel far away, but was in the examination room, looking at the group of people participating in the assessment.

The examination questions this time were given by his master Ji Changyue.

Zhou Ji closed his eyes, which was specially requested by his master.

The examiner, who can endure the examiner's ignorance, and calmly, has passed a test.

On the one hand, one must go through a long period of silent and nameless hard work and study.

Only by keeping one's mind steady and not being shocked by honor or disgrace can one be at ease in the Taoist sect.

In the past, the Zhengyi assessment was similar to Fang Xiandao's. It mainly depends on the understanding of the Taoist scriptures, and then checks the talent. Only if you pass both can you stay.

However, after Ji Changyue became a clan, she changed her mind. She first examined her mind and then her understanding of Confucianism.

According to Ji Changyue, if one can understand Confucian classics, one must have a good understanding of Taoism.

If you have enough xinxing, if you spend some time reading Daoist books, you will definitely achieve something.

Closing your eyes during the assessment means that your soul has come out of its shell to observe the people participating in the assessment.

He didn't care if someone left on the spot, such a person wouldn't stay in Fang Xiandao for long.

If you don't have enough xinxing, you won't be able to practice martial arts or spiritual cultivation.

Especially in spiritual cultivation, if you don't have enough character, you are looking for death.

Spiritual cultivation is extremely difficult and dangerous.

After observing for a while, I can see a few good seedlings.

Of course, how many people can join Zhengyi depends on the results of the assessment, and the suzerain finally decides.

Looking at those few with satisfaction, Zhou Ji suddenly felt that the aura of Zhenyun Square had changed.

An awe-inspiring artistic conception slowly emerged on the square.

When he looked up, he looked shocked.

(Note, the actual meaning of Zhengqi Song is a bit inconsistent with the text, and has been deleted and edited.)
(End of this chapter)