In the view of Grand Secretary Ye Hongye, it is a great thing that Su Lin did not have a strong opponent in the national examination this time. However, Su Lin himself was a little sorry, because Su Lin was a Confucian scholar who became more and more courageous as his thoughts became more and more explosive as the difficulties he encountered.

There is a saying that if you don’t force yourself, you will never know how excellent you are. Why can many people burst out with strong potential at the critical moment of life and death? Why do so many semi-saint families give up their stable and luxurious family life in the Great Wall Pass and go to the wilderness outside the pass to fight with monsters and barbarians and other wars to seek breakthroughs?

It is precisely because in the face of difficulties that the most powerful potential in human thoughts and spirits can burst out indefinitely that the human race can survive again and again in every crisis of almost being exterminated by external forces. And every time the human race experiences a major disaster, the human race becomes stronger.

"Difficulties and obstacles are not obstacles that hinder me from moving forward. Instead, they are the essential motivation that keeps me surpassing myself..."

At the moment when he entered the examination room, he saw the candidates in the national examination around him, not even a half-sage family. Su Lin shook his head regretfully. When he picked up Wen Bao's pen and ink to answer, he lacked a sense of interest in competition.

At this moment, Su Lin truly realized the inner meaning of what Sub-Saint Mencius said, "Born in distress and death in happiness."

"This - Changfeng-cfwx-once, there was no strong opponent. I couldn't even get excited about my thoughts, but instead I was a little sluggish... I couldn't have many creative answers in the face of these test questions... I could only answer them in a regular manner..."

Brush!

Without an opponent, Su Lin still started answering questions easily. The process of the national examination was more standardized than that of the state examination. The temple directly sent a supervisor to supervise the examination with the king. This time, the nine tripods of the holy artifact sent from the temple in front were no longer used. Instead, the real divine artifact of the Wu Kingdom Taimiao was used.

Under the illumination of the artifact Jiuzhou tripod, hundreds of juren from all over the Wu Kingdom began to answer questions. From writing the verbs of the saints' quotations, to writing poems and lyrics, to making ink and meaning and strategy, two days passed, and the juren continued to write and completed one test paper after another.

However, these juren also knew that this time they met a strong enemy, Su Lin, a genius who was famous in the Nine Kingdoms. When he was a child, he wrote poems on the country. Within six months, he passed the prefecture and state examinations one after another, and no one could compete to win the first place.

Therefore, even though several of these juren were qualified juren who had participated several times, they had a deep accumulation of holy power and thoughts at the age of thirty or forty, but they did not have the confidence to challenge Su Lin's genius glory halo.

In the past, Su Lin was in the party who was not favored by others in the imperial examination. This is no wonder. Everyone thinks that he is young and has little thoughts, and it is already very good to be able to pass the imperial examination successfully to obtain a literary position. How could he be compared with those geniuses from the semi-saint family?

However, while being unpopular again and again, Su Lin showed amazing strength and talent again and again, using poetry to understand the country, using nine words "生" and novels of "大", using pinyin and holy characters... and other ideological skills obtained by breaking through in times of crisis, and proved their strength to everyone again and again.

Therefore, this time in this national examination, Su Lin became the most favored genius child. The prince of the Su family of the semi-saint family, the author of the poems of Zhenguo, the youngest Duke of Zhenguo in Wu, and the genius who is famous in the nine countries...

One title after another made everyone dare not underestimate Su Lin's strength. So much so that some children of the semi-saint family avoided Su Lin's edge and did not come to take the exam.

However, this made Su Lin very uncomfortable, and his thoughts felt like he couldn't get out of his hands. No one was forced to compete with him, but he couldn't perform at an extraordinary level.

The level of Su Lin can only be said to be the level of ordinary geniuses. There are not many amazing things. Although it is already the best among the hundreds of juren. However, almost any genius child from a semi-saint family can reach Su Lin's level, and there is nothing particularly worthy of praise.

"Huh? This time, the poems written by Su Lin are just poems from Mingzhou... and Mo Yi and Taoism... are all just the rules, not as amazing as the nine words "英" in the last trial..."

As the invigilator, the king of Guoshen Sun Jianshi originally planned to see with his own eyes how talented Su Lin was and killing all directions. As a result, test papers were passed one by one. After the automatic judgment of the artifact Jiuzhou Ding, although Su Lin's score was indeed the first place, his answers were not recognized by the king of Guoshen Sun Jianshi.

Perhaps it was because of the king Sun Jianshi's expectations for Su Lin were too high! Su Lin's previous imperial examinations were all thrilling, but the national examination lost its opponents, and he suddenly became more enthusiastic and became more orderly. Even the test paper of the poem, Su Lin did not copy many of the available poems in the "Written Heaven" and tried to fill out a poem himself, but did not reach the level of "Terminating the Country", but was a little more than Mingzhou.

"Emperor Brother, what's wrong with Su Lin? It seems... I feel like he can't get enough energy to take the exam. This time, he came out of the tomb of the book, but he had been comprehending the soul of the book in the "Tao Te Ching" for more than a month..."

The eldest princess Sun Lingxiang also shook her head and said in confusion. In her opinion, the thoughts and power that Su Lin showed in the book grave were far more than some Jinshi and even Grand Secretary, but why did she suddenly become weak during the national examination?

"I'm also strange! Maybe... Su Lin deliberately restrained his strength and just won the first place. He didn't spend much effort. It's also a big mistake among the candidates in this class. Otherwise... if they motivate Su Lin, maybe... they could have Su Lin spawned a poem to maintain the country..."

The king Sun Jianshi said slowly, "However, the top 20 were finally decided, and you still have to go through the last try of the Jiuzhou Ding. That is to win the tripod. Maybe... in this level, we can see Su Lin's excellent performance..."

"Seeking the top? Indeed... the artifact is much more powerful than those heart stones. Using artifacts to ask responsibly can even allow candidates to directly break through to the Jinshi and reach the literary level of the Grand Secretary... In the imperial examinations of our Wu Kingdom over the years, there are many geniuses with deep accumulation, and they have surpassed two literary level levels in one step..."

When talking about this competition, the eldest princess Sun Lingxiang's eyes lit up again. She stood on the top of the city and looked at Su Lin who was writing and answering carefully below. Her heart slowly thrustled again, and her eyes showed an obsessive expression.

"Teacher Wu, how about it? Which one do you think that genius Su Lin can rank in the national examination this time?"

The Grand Tutor Fang Zhengxin stroked the white beard and asked the Grand Tutor Wu Jindao beside him.

Because the national examination was held in the capital, it was also considered a grand event in the entire Wu Kingdom capital. Civil and military officials basically followed and observed and participated in this national examination. Especially the three grand masters, Taifu and Taibao, they even took the opportunity to find some materials to make, collect them as their own children and train their disciples.

The genius of Wu State won the ancient Lei Chi Li Yuncong. He was attracted by the Grand Tutor Fang Zhengxin during the national examination and took it as his personal disciple. From then on, he rose to prominence in the court.

"Teacher Fang, look at the talent and thought light in the exam room... Although Su Lin's position is the most radiant, he is only the level of a genius in ordinary families... It is naturally no problem to get the first place, but he lacks ambition!"

Grand Tutor Wu Jin smiled and said, "The few semi-saint families in our Wu Kingdom are really stingy, for fear that their children will be hit by Su Lin's genius, so they deliberately made them not to participate in this year's national examination. For no reason, we old guys have lost a lot of attention..."

"Haha! That's... Without strong competitors, even if they are geniuses, they will slack off."

The Grand Tutor Fang Zhengxin smiled, obviously seeing this, and immediately pointed to Su Lin's direction and said to the Grand Tutor Wu Jin in a low voice, "Tai Shi Wu, Su Lin is said to have obtained the soul of the "Tao Te Ching" in the book tomb this time, but... I'm afraid that with his current literary position and thoughts, he still cannot subdue and comprehend the thoughts in the "Tao Te Ching".

"The soul of the book of the Tao Te Ching? I'm afraid... Even if Su Lin is said to have received the help of Sesame History Saint Ji Wuchang, he cannot refine it, right? Unless... he had read the full text of the Tao Te Ching before and understood the thoughts in it. But obviously that was impossible... but this was also his great fortune. It is reported that Confucius also suddenly gained enlightenment after listening to a volume of the "Tao Te Ching" by the saint Lao Tzu, and created the holy power cultivation system to become an instrument, and he became a saint..."

As soon as he heard the "Tao Te Ching", the Grand Master Wu Jin frowned, then paused and breathed a sigh of relief and said, "The path of cultivation of thoughts is always the same as the same path... The great way is three thousand, and it is said that it is recorded in the "Tao Te Ching"... How great would it be if we were also lucky enough to see the magical "Tao Te Ching"... Maybe we would not be stuck by the natural chasm in front of us..."

"Teacher Wu is right. Mencius of the Sub-Saint once said that he was born in distress and died in peace. You and I have fought in the court of Wu for so many years... but the progress of my thoughts is very small... It seems that it is time... to go out to experience the wilderness..." (To be continued...)
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