Lonely Immortal

Zhao Mingyin's words still echoed in Zhang Zhiwen's ears. Although he had expected it, he obviously underestimated the people who made the rules in the Xian Dynasty.

Was the reform of the Xian Dynasty a casual change? Was it a temporary decision? Was it simply to suppress the clans? That was definitely not the case, and it was definitely not a simple matter.

From beginning to end, the reform of the Xian Dynasty revealed a long-planned taste. The Xian Dynasty wanted to consolidate power, that was for sure, but consolidating power required someone to help him complete it, that was to rely on a very large base of official immortals to complete it, but the huge number of official immortals could not bring more burdens to the Xian Dynasty, otherwise it would be better to give power to the clans. How many people are there in the clans? Compared with the huge official immortals, there is definitely no comparison.

Therefore, it needs to start from the county government of the Xian Dynasty. Take the position of deacon for example. Previously, there were not many positions of these deacons, which were controlled by some relatives. At most, they were corrupt, which actually did not have a big impact. Of course, for the lower-level cultivators, this impact must be very large. Otherwise, can the reform of the Xian Dynasty attract the strong support of the lower-level cultivators?

But now it is different. Now there are more than a hundred Xiantian Dao Soul cultivators in a year. How to arrange the positions of so many people? If not, how can the Xian Dynasty control the whole situation? Therefore, the Xian Dynasty is also smart. First of all, all cultivators above the Xiantian Dao Soul must participate in the provincial examination. After the deputy county lord interfered with this matter, it did not have much effect. In the end, all Xiantian Dao Soul cultivators were allowed to participate in the provincial examination.

And they must attend, and they cannot be absent. This will pull all the innate Dao soul cultivators into the court of the Immortal Dynasty, and none of them can escape. Then they will definitely firmly control the power of the Immortal Dynasty. Then there are job arrangements. As for rewards, they will be given some, and there will be annual salaries, but jobs cannot be given randomly. The Immortal Dynasty does not have so many county government positions, but there are a lot of job arrangements in the countryside. They will be sent directly to the countryside to be deacons, which can solve a lot of manpower arrangement problems.

Afterwards, the Immortal Dynasty must hold provincial and county examinations every four years, and go down round by round. When these deacons are old and die, a large number of new deacons will replace them, and the Immortal Dynasty will complete the power layout of the entire court.

Therefore, it is impossible for Zhang Zhiwen to secretly hang around in the outer hall for his whole life. The Immortal Dynasty is to prevent cultivators like Zhang Zhiwen who have innate Dao souls and above from not participating in the affairs of the Immortal Dynasty court and unable to control their movements. The Immortal Dynasty will make everyone participate.

Then Zhang Zhiwen's plan must be impossible to achieve. Now he must participate in the provincial examination and get good grades, otherwise he will be assigned to work in the countryside. Going to the countryside will be the end. The salary must be very low. Although it is better than the outer hall disciples, Zhang Zhiwen can steal things every day in the outer hall, but where can he steal in the countryside?

Then Zhang Zhiwen must not go to the countryside, otherwise his life will be ruined, but this does not prevent other cultivators from being willing to go to the countryside. At least as a deacon of the Immortal Dynasty, it can be regarded as a guaranteed income. If the accumulation time is longer, maybe he can be promoted.

So, when other people heard this news, they didn't feel much, but Zhao Mingyin obviously didn't want to go to the countryside. He was old and couldn't afford it. He didn't want Zhao Liumei to go to the countryside either. He knew that there would be no future in the countryside. Young people naturally didn't want to stay in the countryside. They must have a better future in the county government.

Therefore, there are cultivators like Zhao Mingyin, who all hope to climb up, so the competition for the exam must be fierce.

At this moment, Zhang Zhiwen decided to use the Immortal Mansion to cultivate seeds, otherwise he would really be exiled to the countryside. Zhang Zhiwen even felt that it was possible that the cultivators who did not do well in the exam would be exiled to the frontier, which would not make people feel strange.

Fortunately, Zhang Zhiwen still had the Immortal Mansion, otherwise he would be in big trouble again this time. It was natural that the Immortal Mansion cultivated seeds. If it was cultivated with the spiritual soil distributed by the county government, it would probably be difficult to germinate. After all, this was a test of the candidates' planting skills.

Of course, the exam time was one month, and everyone had a lot of time to complete this task, but Zhang Zhiwen felt that even if he did not have the help of the Immortal Mansion, it would be difficult to make the seeds germinate. If the seeds could germinate, then at least the level of planting spiritual medicines should be quite good.

Soon, a month passed, and everyone came out one after another. Some were depressed, some were nervous, and some were quite happy. Chen Huanzhi naturally came out with his chest held high. He held a pot of spiritual medicine seedlings in his hand. The seedlings were already more than one foot tall, which was really surprising.

Most of the seeds in other people's hands did not sprout out of the soil, and even after digging up the soil, you could see that the seeds had sprouted a little bit. Some people's seeds were not bad, and they sprouted and emerged from the soil, but they were only as high as a finger, which was considered very good.

Zhang Zhiwen did not expect Chen Huanzhi to sprout the seeds to such a great extent, but Zhang Zhiwen was 100% sure that this guy did not use ordinary means to sprout, otherwise the spiritual soil would not have so much spiritual power to cultivate such a tall green seedling.

Obviously, Chen Huanzhi must have some tricks to keep him under control, but no one knows about them. This makes Zhang Zhiwen have some thoughts. It seems that he is not the only one to have adventures in this world, others also have adventures. , but also, if Chen Huanzhi didn't have a chance encounter, how could he have the ancient Taoist soul? Zhang Zhiwen even felt that the county boss had some adventures.

Everyone has secrets, especially monks like Chen Huanzhi. Their secrets are definitely not small, and the assessment is conducted by a single person in a room. This is to avoid so-called cheating. Anyway, other people will watch. You don't know how the other party cultivates the seeds, and such a measure allows many people to hide their secrets, including Zhang Zhiwen.

Therefore, there are actually many wonders in this world, and we should not underestimate other people. Zhang Zhiwen's Immortal Mansion is naturally more powerful. He can make elixirs grow in an instant, let alone a month, and even make elixirs grow. The quality reaches the best quality.

However, Zhang Zhiwen didn't want to be so exaggerated, so as not to arouse suspicion, but Chen Huanzhi naturally didn't have so many scruples, so he just used his best skills. He just wanted to tell the world that he had strong means to quickly cultivate elixirs.

The seedling in Zhang Zhiwen's hand was very small, only the height of a finger, similar to other innate Taoist monks. Anyway, it looked ordinary, and there were only about a dozen monks like him. Obviously , Innate Taoist monks may not all be masters of planting, most of the monks are not good at it, including Zhao Mingyin.

At this moment, Zhao Mingyin and others are so bad that they can't even see the seedlings. It is estimated that the sprouts are buried in the soil. It is obvious that they will be eliminated, at least in the elixir assessment level. Eliminated.

Therefore, Zhao Mingyin and others looked extremely ugly, but they soon saw the situation on Zhang Zhiwen's side and saw that Zhang Zhiwen's elixir had sprouted. They were relieved immediately, but they were also very surprised and pleasantly surprised. , they did not expect that Zhang Zhiwen also had good attainments in growing elixirs.

"Hey, Master Chen must be really good!"

"That's right, otherwise how could he be an ancient Taoist monk? There must be something special about him!"

"Mr. Chen is definitely number one this time. If he wins number one, he can lead the team. Then Chen Huanting will have to obey his orders!"

"This is not just as simple as leading a team. Once he becomes the first in the township examination and passes the county examination, then he will definitely be the first deacon of our county government. And the first deacon has great power. The dean of the law enforcement hall The master must be him, and the master of the inner hall must be him, and he is directly second only to the county master and deputy county master! "

"Yes, Mr. Chen has turned around now. Hey, I don't know how he will deal with those who looked down on him before!"

"It goes without saying that anyone who offends him will definitely be sent to the countryside to work as an errand, including Chen Huanting, who will hardly be spared!"

"Isn't that the case for Chen Huanting? At worst, she will just go to the government office as an errand!"

"Hey, government offices require government examinations. The examinations will not start until four years later. The news I just received cannot be false!"

"I see, that's really... Hey, but this matter has nothing to do with us. Let's go and get acquainted with Master Chen!"

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These Xiantian Taoist monks are all old foxes. Seeing that the situation has changed, they all went to curry favor with Chen Huanzhi. Seeing this situation, Zhao Mingyin and others naturally went to curry favor with Chen Huanzhi, and Zhang Zhiwen thought about it, and he also He pretended to pass by. It wasn't that he wanted to curry favor with Chen Huanzhi, he just didn't want to be too conspicuous or attract too much attention.

The world is like this. You are a white swan, but if you are among a bunch of black swans, then you are a sin. If Zhang Zhiwen doesn’t want to be the one to bear the blame, he can only follow the crowd, but he will not fawn over Chen Huanzhi. He Just came here to show off.

At this moment, a lot of flatterers appeared around Chen Huanzhi. Chen Huanzhi transformed from a down-and-out young master into a popular one in the eyes of everyone.

"Hey, Master Chen, you will definitely be promoted to the government office in the future, and our direct government office lacks powerful monks like Master Chen!"

"Yes, the county examination is nothing to Mr. Chen, it is just an appetizer!"

"Haha, it's easy to talk. Everyone, if I, Chen, am lucky enough to be promoted in the future, I will definitely not forget you. After all, we are all colleagues!"

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Chen Huanzhi is not stupid. Seeing so many people coming to curry favor with him, he must gather these people. This will be his future network resource in the Immortal Dynasty. Of course, he is willing to take this group of people under his command and wait for him to be promoted in the future. If there is a large group of people following him, then his power will continue to grow.

Obviously, this guy has great ambitions, not only to become the first deacon of the county government, but also to become the first deacon of the government government, or even the first deacon of the state government, paving the way for his future as an immortal official.

Seeing this situation, Chen Huanting's face finally turned a little ugly. Obviously, she saw that Chen Huanzhi had great potential in the future and was likely to overwhelm her. If this was the case, her life would not be very easy, although she had not offended him. This brother, Chen Huanzhi, would definitely not look good on her.

As for those who offended him, including the deputy county lord and even the county lord, as long as Chen Huanzhi is promoted to an official immortal, or even an eight-star or seven-star official immortal, they will come to retaliate fiercely. The Chen family will never be at peace in the future, and this is definitely not the result Chen Huanting wants to see.

But now it seems that there is no way to stop Chen Huanzhi. He seems to be bound to rise and be unstoppable, especially in the first round of the assessment. This kind of green seedlings is far beyond the results of the provincial examination. Even if it is the prefectural examination, it is outstanding and can even win the first place. Even if it is the state examination, it is among the best!

"To be honest, this planting is still a little bit worse. Next time, I should be able to plant three feet of green seedlings!"

Chen Huanzhi seemed to notice Chen Huanting's expression, and he said even more unscrupulously.

At this moment, everyone was stunned. Obviously, no one expected that Chen Huanzhi's planting skills were so superb. This kind of skills can definitely get the first place in the prefectural examination, and even compete for the first place in the state examination.

Chen Huanzhi must have got a great opportunity, and if he won the first place in the state examination, he could directly meet the emperor, that is, the current immortal emperor. Once he was named the world's number one official, his status would definitely exceed that of a nine-star official immortal, and he would be on par with a six-star official immortal.

What is this concept? This means that Chen Huanzhi is likely to become the owner of the government office in the future, and he will be a big boss. What is the county lord? Not to mention the deputy county lord.

Therefore, Chen Huanting's face became even uglier. She didn't expect Chen Huanzhi to emerge so suddenly and be so sharp.

But Zhang Zhiwen didn't care. What did the affairs of their Chen family have to do with him? He planned to muddle through. After passing the provincial examination, he got a so-called top ten, and he could live a stable life. Yes, he had a very strong desire to live a stable life. He had been wandering for too long since he was a child, and he especially wanted to live a stable life. He didn't have any ambition at all.

However, at this point, Chen Huanting had to continue to host the examination, so she stopped the monks who were praising Chen Huanzhi.

"Well, now that the exam is over, let's take a look at the results!"

After hearing this, everyone returned to their respective positions, and then Chen Huanting began to check one by one, and Chen Huanzhi naturally stood very arrogantly. He was very disdainful of Chen Huanting being the chief examiner, and he felt that Chen Huanting was not worthy of examining him.

It was just that he could not disobey the current rules of the county government, but the more so, the more he hated the Chen clan and even the county government in his heart.

"Well, this junior brother can enter the top ten!"

Chen Huanting looked at the spiritual medicine seedlings in the hands of many monks, and she saw one who was conditionally promoted.

This monk was naturally very happy, and Chen Huanting continued to look at the next one, and the next one was Zhang Zhiwen's.

When Chen Huanting saw Zhang Zhiwen's sprouts, she was slightly stunned, and then she showed a look of shock. She couldn't help but raise her head, looked at Zhang Zhiwen, and asked: "Did Junior Brother cultivate this sprout himself?"

"Yes..." Zhang Zhiwen was a little confused, this was naturally cultivated by him.

Seeing Zhang Zhiwen like this, Chen Huanting was overjoyed and said: "Then congratulations Junior Brother, this sprout is a top-grade sprout, amazing, amazing!"