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Chapter 7 Reincarnation Illusion

Next to the peach tree where Zhao Xifeng refined his body, there was a small temple built by an old monk in Ma. In addition to the daily use of bottles, pots and clay pots, there was no other decoration in the temple. Even the place where the Buddha's golden body was worshipped in ordinary temples was placed. On weekdays, the old monk sat in the Buddha's seat to preach to the people who occasionally came to the small temple to fulfill their vows or seek medicine. There was a circle of fences outside the house, which encircled eight feet in radius, four feet in radius, and four feet in radius. There was a building that had only been recognized in the city gate of the town. According to the old monk, these eight feet in 84,000 worlds are eighty-four thousand worlds, and the fence is ten feet in the world. The opening is a convenient door to save all living beings. Zhao Xifeng disdained this, but Zhao Wu recorded it carefully and valued it.

Today, Zhao Xifeng stood at the door of the front door, feeling very inconvenient. He had tried several times. As soon as he stepped out of the yard, he returned to the yard. It seemed that the yard had become a cycle. Zhao Xifeng picked up a stone and threw it at the yard door. The stone passed through the door and did not fly back to the yard. It seemed that he was the only one who couldn't get out.

Zhao Xifeng stared at her big eyes, not knowing what was going on, but she just vaguely felt that this had something to do with the exam that the teacher in the school in the morning, so she stopped blindly and stood in front of the door and began to think about the solution.

The Gu family is one of the two major families in the town, and almost monopolizes the north-south trade routes of the town. Panlong Town is located in the border, far away from the Central Plains, and many necessities such as salt and iron must be purchased from the south, so the Gu family is extremely influential in the local area. People in the town often say that Liushui guards the Imperial Palace, which is not a false statement. Seven years ago, the second wife of the Gu family gave birth to a baby boy, named Qingyuan. She was an ordinary child, but after the star tide, she suddenly opened her mind and spoke overnight. She knew three thousand words at the age of three and was extremely intelligent. Her family regarded it as the treasure of Zhongxing. Not only did she invite a gentleman from the Imperial College to retire from the capital, but she also indirectly found out that the teaching department that came to Panlong Town to work was actually from the Tianqing Department of Qinggui, who was extremely important to this school entrance examination. She left the road early in the morning and waited at the school. After the registration, she started preparing for the exam without stopping.

At this time, Gu Qingyuan was copying the highly praised "Yunshan Song" among the scholars of the capital this year. The article that could have been copied in half an hour was still only copied to the middle section after an hour, and a large stack of rice paper had been used.

Gu Qingyuan closed his eyes and focused his mind. After thinking for a moment, an extremely typical adult smile appeared on his face. He continued to copy it as if nothing had happened.

After returning home from the school, Erpang from the Dong family was clamoring for hunger. In fact, he just wanted to go to play with Aunt Li’s girl earlier after dinner. His parents hurriedly prepared lunch for him, but when they really sat on his table, they found that they couldn’t finish the rice today and their stomachs were filled.

Gou Yifang returned home and sighed slightly as he looked at his father who had not yet woken up, so he had to make a fire and cook. Gou Yifang's father was a scholar who failed the exam. He was not talented when he was young, but he failed the imperial examinations many times. He became addicted to alcohol while he was pitying himself. He lost all his family property and became less motivated. If it weren't for Gou Yifang's mother who had remarried for many years, he would have been starved to death on the streets.

While thinking about his mother who is almost impossible to meet, Gou Yifang turned the rope to take the well water in annoyedly. However, today's rope seemed to be infinitely long, and the wooden barrels in the well never appeared.

This scene happened to all the twenty-three students in the town who signed up for the exam. They were doing something but couldn't finish it, as if they were trapped in a vicious circle of infinite time and space.

Zhou Zhe and the other two were still in the side hall of the Xuefu. The four of them sat around an octagonal round table, and twenty-three bronze mirrors were placed on the table. The scene in the mirror was exactly what the candidates looked like now.

"Change reincarnation?" the old monk exclaimed: "Mr. Zhou learned such a profound secret method of Tianqing at a young age, and the younger generation is terrifying."

Zhou Zhe shook his head and said, "Master is a mistake. This round of kickback was originally issued by my master when he left the town. It has nothing to do with me by triggering the spirit cards in the hands of these children."

Guo You frowned and said, "The Kick-off is an extremely brilliant illusion in the Tianqingsi Cabinet. Even practitioners will find it difficult to solve it in a short time. Using it as a test question is whether it is too strict. Besides, being trapped in the illusion for a long time will also have an impact on these children. Lord Li's layout is a bit abrupt."

While browsing back and forth on the bronze mirror quickly, Zhou Zhe explained: "These illusions are all very simple primary illusions. If the complete samsara kickback creates a real world and makes people lose it, then what the candidates have to face is just soap and water bubbles, which can be broken with one puncture. Therefore, as the first question of this initial exam, the first thing to test is the mind and nature of these children. Please look at it."

As he spoke, he pointed his hand at the seven bronze mirrors on the table. After the children in the mirror discovered their abnormality, they began to frighten, then cried loudly, and had a deep emotional breakdown and made a lot of noise.

Zhou Zhe calmly turned the seven bronze mirrors downwards and covered them on the table, and then said: "The road to cultivation is to go against the will of heaven and alone. I don't need to say that you have experienced the difficulties and difficulties you encounter. These children are a little weaker and do not have the courage and determination to face problems. For them, being an ordinary person may be a better choice."

The old monk and Guo You nodded slightly, while the man surnamed Zheng disagreed and said, "Mr. Zhou, all the children you gave tokens this morning have the talent for cultivation. In the Little New Year scene when the stars have not yet fallen, they can be called geniuses wherever they are placed. In my opinion, cutting off their path to cultivation is a huge waste for our dynasty. You must know that when these children grow up, they can become important combat forces in the Northern Expedition to the White Sea."

Zhou Zhe looked up at him and said, "The court should put the interests of the people first. If we train people who are not suitable for war to go to the battlefield, then such a Zhou Dynasty would be destroyed."

The man surnamed Zheng snorted coldly and stopped talking.

The atmosphere of the scene was a little awkward for a moment. Guo You knew that neither of them could afford to offend them, but the fact that the side effects on Panlong Town in the future had a great impact, so he had to change the subject and point to a bronze mirror and said, "Look, some candidates have broken the illusion."

"So fast?" Zhou Zhe said in surprise.

The three of them looked at the bronze mirror. The person who broke the illusion was Gou Yifang. Seeing that the rope was turning could not shake out the wooden barrel for a long time, he threw the rope down, picked up a stone from the ground and threw it into the well. After confirming that the sound of water echoed, he ran back to his house to take out another rope and a clean sponge. He tied the rope to the sponge and sank it into the well. After a while, he pulled out the sponge and squeezed the sponge into the rice basin. This was repeated three or four times. The water in the basin slowly disappeared through the rice grains. The illusion gradually disappeared. Gou Yifang held the rice basin and walked away from the mirror.

Zhou Zhe smiled and said, "This child is smart. He immediately discovered the problem of the illusion and came up with such a way."

Guo You smiled and echoed: "A gentleman's nature is not a different kind of person, but a good person is good at using things."

Next, candidates broke the illusion one after another. Among them, Dong Erpang relied on a plate of braised pork to eat up the "eat" provided by the illusion, which was ridiculous.

There are fewer and fewer figures in the mirror, and only a few people are left. Seeing that the sun has set west, if it is thrown before sunset, it means that although you have perseverance, you still lack some understanding and lose the qualification to practice.

At this moment, Gu Qingyuan broke the illusion and saw the child in the mirror writing quickly, and the writing was so vivid that he could write. The manuscript copied next to him was already two inches tall. The old monk nodded and said, "This is my wish, and it is not inferior to the law."

Fakong was a closed disciple accepted by the presidency of the Kyoto Gucha Temple three years ago. He is known as the little Maitreya. With his position as an old monk in the Sect, if this evaluation is spread, Gu Qingyuan would probably become famous overnight.

Finally, Yun Shanchan turned the last page, Gu Qingyuan put down the pen in his hand and sighed with satisfaction. The illusion was broken.

Just as everyone was about to look away, Guo You said with a tight eyebrows and said, "Strange, I have read this Yunshan Recitation, and I am indeed very talented, but it is very different from the article copied by Gu Qingyuan."

When everyone looked closely, they realized that Gu Qingyuan's way of breaking the illusion was to rewrite a new version of Yunshan Recitation with his own brushstrokes.

Gu Qingyuan was only eleven or twelve years old, but he was in a illusion but was not anxious or impatient. He was still focused on his studies and could write parallel prose that was comparable to that of the imperial examination scholars. He was so talented, so kind and talented that he really made people talk.

The man surnamed Zheng was silent for a long time and said, "This son's qualifications are the best. I wonder which one is higher and which one is lower than the little princess who has been praised in Baihu for years."

Everyone knew that what he said was the first of the entire Great Zhou Dynasty. The implication was that the young girl who had surpassed the head of Huangji Sect.

The next method of breaking the illusion was also wonderful, but compared with Gu Qingyuan, it still lost a little color. In the end, there was only a figure flashing in a bronze mirror.

Guo You looked at the person in the mirror and frowned and said, "I know this child. He is the girl from Aunt Li's house in the wine shop. Her parents died prematurely, and she was the only one who lived with her aunt. She had no talent for cultivation and shouldn't have signed up for this first exam."

The little girl from the Li family is named Li Xuan. The illusion she faces is wearing shoes. At this time, she was sitting on her small bed and wanted to see the brother of the Zhao family next door. So she put on her left foot and then when she put on her right foot, she found that the one on her left foot was still on the ground. She repeated this cycle for an afternoon. Seeing that dusk was approaching and night was approaching, there was still no progress. She couldn't help but sag her mouth and she was about to cry.

Zhou Zhe and the other four knew that as soon as she cried, the exam would be considered a failure. And just as the little girl was about to cry, she suddenly remembered something, so she put away her tears, walked to the ground barefoot, closed her eyes and said piously: "Roll on the ground three times, Xifeng will come to save me." Then she rolled three times on the ground seriously.

Zhou Zhe and the man surnamed Zheng looked at each other, wondering what the purpose of this move was. The old monk and Guo You have been in the town for a long time. They all knew that this was a prank created by a little devil in the world, and they looked at each other and smiled.

At this time, the sunset at dusk was lazily about to close the last ray of light. The entire room of the school hall was stained with golden color. Zhou Zhe had reached out and pressed it on the bronze mirror representing the girl of the Li family to be buckled. Suddenly, he saw the door of the room in the mirror open. Zhao Xifeng stood at the door with a frown.

"When did he get out of the illusion?" The man surnamed Zheng frowned and stood up. He had never been optimistic about Zhao Xifeng because the essence and blood in Zhao Xifeng's body were exhausted, and the most fundamental thing to break the illusion was the consumption of essence and blood. Dong Erpang swallowed twelve bowls of rice, and Gu Qingyuan sat down all day long and wrote beautiful articles. It was the easiest way to do it, but he also used the child's body to get water for half an hour. In addition to examining the children's nature and talents, the reincarnation kickback also had to examine the essence and blood background and whether it was impossible for anyone to do it. He thought that Zhao Xifeng had already cried and eliminated at the beginning of the exam, but he never thought that he had already escaped from the illusion.

Zhou Zhe said with a strange expression: "He was the first to break the illusion. He got out of trouble before the bronze mirror was even arranged, so I don't know how it was done."

At this time, the old monk who had been silent for a long time suddenly said, "This child, seeing that he couldn't go out, he kicked my barrier and broke through the wall."

Everyone was silent for a while, all of them had strange expressions and could not speak. It turned out that before Zhou Zhe took over the position of deputy director of the cabinet of Rentianqingsi, he often climbed over the wall in Tianqingsi. Later, it was said that he climbed over the wall and pointed out the correct location for Li Chun, who had been searching for the stars for a long time, and it was a good story for a while.

The man surnamed Zheng sneered and said, "Precautions, no rules, and no way to climb the road." I don't know if it was Zhou Zhe or Zhao Xifeng.

The old monk in Mayi retorted rarely: "If there is no barrier in his heart, there will be no barrier in the world."

Zhou Zhe let out a long sigh, chuckling and shook his head: "I just climbed over the wall back then, but this kid kicked the wall down directly. He also kicked the master's temple wall. The younger generation is so terrifying."

Everyone continued to turn their eyes to the bronze mirror.

Zhao Xifeng was placing his hands on his hips and questioning Li Xuan with a nipples: "Sister Li, didn't you agree to come to my house for dinner tonight yesterday? Why are you not here yet?"

The girl said timidly: "Brother, I can't wear shoes."

Zhao Xifeng shook his head, walked to the bed with an expression of no way to do anything to you, and reached out to pull the girl's feet. The girl curled up her legs and avoided it. When she saw Zhao Xifeng glaring at her again, she finally surrendered and slowly stretched out one foot.

The illusion was broken.
Chapter completed!
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