Chapter 7: Third Army Division

Li Yan was thinking as he moved forward with the team. "Marshal Hong on the stands was paying attention to this side. Maybe there was something else going on in this tent. But this tent didn't look very big, so it was a little small to use my fists and feet. Did the army also consider literary talent?".

Just like that, he walked with his head down and thought about it. Suddenly, Li Yan felt his eyes light up. It turned out that the last person in front of him had entered the tent. The space in front of him was much wider. But when he raised his head, the man had entered and lowered the door curtain, but he couldn't see the situation inside clearly. Li Yan didn't think about it anymore, just stayed there and waited quietly.

After just a few dozen breaths, someone came out with the curtain. It was the person who had just entered. At this time, this person was rolling down the sleeves on his other wrist with one hand, but his face was full of confusion, and he looked puzzled. Then, urged by the soldiers at the door, he walked to the end of the row in the middle of the parade ground. At this time, one of the soldiers pointed at Li Yan and said, "You, go in." After hearing this, Li Yan walked towards the door of the tent.

Li Yan felt a dark moment in front of his eyes after he opened the door curtain and entered the tent. He closed his eyes slightly, adjusted to the light, and opened his eyes again. At this time, he saw that there was only a low table in the tent. Behind the table, a man was sitting cross-legged on a small carpet. This man was about 40 years old, wearing a scholar's hat and a loose black robe. The hem of the black robe was spread on the ground, covering his lower body. Even when sitting, he was only a little shorter than Li Yan. I think he was also very tall.

He had a thin and narrow face, a gray complexion, a long beard fluttering in front of his chest, a pair of hands clasped in his sleeves, hugging his chest and abdomen, half covered by the low table, and a pair of narrow eyes occasionally shot out a ray of brilliance, and he was looking at Li Yan at this time. Seeing Li Yan looking at him, he stretched out a slender white finger from his sleeves and pointed to the small carpet in front of the table, "Sit", and then said no more.

Li Yan followed the instructions and walked to the table. Only then did he find an unfolded cloth bag on the table. Rows of small bags were sewn vertically on the surface of the cloth bag. The bag mouth was facing upwards. Each small bag was inserted with a different number of fine needles. The needle tails exposed from the bag mouth were shining silver. ??

Li Yan looked at the rows of silver needles on the table, and his heart was beating. He thought, "How can I register without a pen, ink, paper, or inkstone? Why is this thing placed here?" He was immediately in a state of confusion and didn't know what to do.

The man in black robe saw Li Yan coming to the table and staring at the silver needles hesitantly without sitting down, and said, "Don't worry, I'm just testing your meridians. If your meridians are very good, you may have a good fortune waiting for you."

After hearing this, Li Yan thought for a while and sat cross-legged like the man in black robe behind the table. He came here anyway. He had to pass this level anyway, otherwise he would not be able to enter the next level of the school field assessment. It was useless to think more.

Seeing Li Yan so straightforward, the black-robed man smiled and said, "Put your left wrist meridian exposed and put it on the table. It will probably be fine in a few breaths." Li Yan did not think about it any more. He stretched out his right hand and rolled up the rough cloth sleeve on his left wrist a few times, and then placed his palm facing up on the side of the cloth bag on the table.

After seeing Li Yan put his left hand as he said, the black-robed man stretched out his right hand and used two white and slender fingers to pick up a silver needle from the unfolded cloth bag like lightning. Before Li Yan could see clearly, he only felt his wrist numb. When he looked closely, the silver needle had already been mostly immersed in his meridians. After the black-robed man finished this, he put his hand back into his sleeve, and then hugged his hands in his sleeves and lowered them to his abdomen, and then glanced at Li Yan's face.

After Li Yan felt his wrist numb, he had no other strange feelings, but just when he was confused, after only two breaths, he suddenly felt a chill from his abdomen rising to his brain, his head suddenly felt cool, and his whole body felt comfortable.

The black-robed man squinted his eyes and saw that Li Yan was fine. He felt a little sorry. He had seen this situation countless times in the past few years, but he always had expectations in his heart after each acupuncture. In the past few years, only the first time at the beginning of last year made him ecstatic, but unfortunately the final result made him very angry.

Just when he was about to take out the silver needle from Li Yan's pulse gate, he saw a layer of black air slowly surging on Li Yan's face. The black-robed man was stunned, and then he was overjoyed in his heart, but his face remained calm. Then his hands moved like the wind, flying like a butterfly through flowers, and four more silver needles were inserted into Li Yan's pulse gate. This time, only after a breath, Li Yan suddenly felt four more hot, dry, heavy, and warm air rising from his abdomen and straight up to the top of his head.

Now he felt like he was being tormented in a boiling oil pan. His brain was hit hard. Not only did he groan, but his face showed pain, and he began to twist under the cover of various air.

After the four silver needles were inserted, the man in black robe stared at Li Yan's face without blinking, as if he was afraid of missing something. When the second green air rose on Li Yan's face, he became a little nervous. Then the third red air surged up, and he clenched his fists even more. But as yellow and white air rose up later, he loosened his clenched fists with some disappointment. His face became uncertain and he frowned, thinking about something.

Li Yan was in agony at this time. Several streams of gas in his abdomen kept colliding around, causing him great pain. He had changed from sitting cross-legged to bending sideways on the ground, and his body had bent like a shrimp. Fortunately, he did not touch the five silver needles on his wrist at this time, otherwise he did not know what the result would be.

If someone could see his face clearly at this time, they would find that the five colors of gas on his face were changing alternately, among which the black gas was the strongest, followed by blue, red, yellow, and white. When it came to white, it was the lighter gas. Every time, the black, blue, red, yellow, and white flashed alternately in this order. The pain became more and more unbearable, and Li Yan groaned a few times again.

These moans woke the black-robed man from his deep thoughts. After looking at Li Yan, he hesitated again. Finally, as if he had made some kind of decision, he stood up without any movement and came to the table and stood in front of Li Yan. He was silent and ghostly. He waved his right sleeve and five cold rays flashed from Li Yan's left hand. He heard a few "twitching" sounds and a row of silver needles with tails trembling were nailed into the table. Although this table was not made of very good wood, the things used in the army were all about quality rather than appearance. This table was also made of red jujube wood and was extremely solid. His method was impossible to achieve unless he was a first-class or top master in the world.

The black-robed man looked at the silver needle on the table, and then at Li Yan's face which was recovering rapidly, and couldn't help but sigh in his heart, "Alas, I am still not at a high enough level, and I dare not enter those places. I can only use this lowest and most primitive method to test, and the consequence is that it brings a lot of pain to the tester. Fortunately, in the end, there is no harm to the body and mind, and it is only a temporary pain. If there is a 'Spirit Testing Stone' or 'Spirit Testing Pillar'" Thinking of this, he sighed again. These are currently out of his reach, but maybe after this time, he can, and thinking of this, his heart can't help but get hot. But after seeing Li Yan on the ground, he muttered to himself, "The last one turned out to be a mysterious spiritual root, with better aptitude than me, but the most regrettable thing is that he can't read, and even the most basic spells are half-understood. He wasted the heaven-defying aptitude given to him by God, and ended up like that."

Thinking of this, he sighed again, "Alas, although this person has mixed spiritual roots, he is better than those without. Time is running out. Although these two people appeared one after another within two years, it was just a coincidence. I have tested about 100,000 people in the past few years. I thought of this method to come to the army to test the existing soldiers and newly recruited soldiers. There are only these two people in so many years. This is the biggest opportunity, and I estimate that I only have one or two years. Even if I hit the heaven-defying luck and find the right person in the future, I will have no time."

"If the mixed spiritual roots are used well, you can still give it a try." Thinking of this, he took a long breath and looked at Li Yan on the ground who was slowly returning to normal.

Li Yan felt like he had been tortured, but the beatings were deep in his soul. He could not control the pain, but he could not shout out loud. He could only moan softly, as if he had experienced a long and unbearable time. Finally, after Li Yan felt numbness in the meridians of his hands, the pain disappeared like a sea tide, as if it had never happened. It was just an illusion.

Li Yan stood up from the ground with his hands on the edge of the table. He looked at the row of silver needles on the table, which were shining with silver light, and looked at the black-robed man in front of him with some fear, as if he was standing here like a ghost from the underworld. He did not believe that it was just an illusion. It was really painful to the internal organs and bones. Otherwise, how could the row of silver needles on the table be explained? The black-robed man saw Li Yan's fear and smiled at him gently, saying, "Don't be afraid. My last name is Ji, and my name is Ji Wenhe. Others call me Ji Junshi or Lord Ji."

Li Yan was shocked when he heard this. "He is the Third Army Division who is as famous as Marshal Hong and is in charge of Qingshan Pass together? He is also well-known. Why did such a big man use those methods just now?"

The Third Army Division saw that Li Yan did not speak, so he smiled and continued, "Although I made you suffer a lot just now, it was worth it. So many people in recent years have not been able to get such a good life. I am a wandering person. Because I suffered an incurable injury a few years ago, I came to this army to find something to do and find someone with whom I am destined to be. I have no children and have always wanted to find someone. The successor, I will teach you everything I have learned. Otherwise, if I die in the future and the inheritance of our sect is cut off, I will find it difficult to face the founder of our sect even in the afterlife. The method I imposed on you before is the method of selecting disciples in our sect, because the martial arts of our sect require a strong physique, wide meridians, and full internal organs to enter the sect. Otherwise, even if you learn it, it will be useless, and you may even die from the reverse flow of the breath. So, are you willing to become my disciple and inherit my knowledge? "At the end of the words, the voice of the military division was serious, and his eyes were staring at Li Yan without blinking.

Li Yan thought to himself, "This entry method is so vicious and painful. I think those skills are not easy to learn, and how can I believe what he said. "Thinking of this, he was thinking about how to refuse, but suddenly he thought of a sentence that the captain named Liu Chengyong, who met at the city gate today, seemed to have said when he entered the city gate.

"Those thieves of Meng State were unable to attack three times with their army, and the head of the other deputy commander was taken by the third military advisor." This is what he said. So this military advisor is an enemy of ten thousand people. According to what he said just now, he entered the army after being injured. If he had not been injured before, he would have been a hero.

Look at the row of silver needles on the table again. Just now, after the pain disappeared, his whole body was soft and weak. When he stood up, he used his hands to support the table. Although he was not very heavy, if it was made of ordinary wood, there would be some sound if most of his body weight was pressed on it. Just now, this small table did not make any sound, which shows how solid it is.

He looked at the row of silver needles again, and was even more shocked. Silver needles are also available in the village doctors. He has also seen them. They can be easily bent with just a flick of the finger. How can these needles be inserted into this solid wooden table? He is not a stupid person.

Young people always admire heroes. Every young person has a heroic dream, imagining that he can save the common people and the people he loves from danger. Li Yan is no exception. Although he is more meticulous, it is only relative to people of the same age. Generally speaking, he is still a young man. In just a few thoughts, he has changed all kinds of thoughts.

Thinking of this, Li Yan felt an impulse in his heart. He had long forgotten the pain of living a life worse than death just now. He only felt that he could learn the ability to penetrate the sky and the earth in his dream by following the man in front of him. He raised his head and looked at the military division and said seriously, "If you are favored by the elder, I dare not disobey."

After hearing this, the military division did not show any surprise on his face. This was already expected by him. If he did not agree, he would be surprised. The military division asked him, "What's your name?"

"I am Li Yan, a boy from Daqingshan." Li Yan replied.

"Then can you read and write?" The military division asked again.

"I've studied in a private school for a few years. Although I'm not a talent for the imperial examination, I'm familiar with the classics." Li Yan answered again. This is not Li Yan bragging. When he was studying in a private school in the village, the old scholar took a fancy to him among all the people and hoped that he could take the imperial examination. However, according to Li Yan's family situation, if he continued to study, he would not be able to support it. This made the old scholar feel very sorry. Even so, Li Yan read all the nearly 100 books in the old scholar's collection, and he studied hard for the parts he didn't understand.

"Have you learned any martial arts or internal skills?" When Ji Junshi heard that he was also a person who was familiar with the classics, his hope in his heart also increased a little.

"I only learned a few superficial fighting skills in the village, and I haven't learned any advanced martial arts, let alone any internal skills." Li Yan continued to answer.

When Master Ji heard this, he smiled and said, "That's good. Your body meridians are very suitable for the requirements of our sect's mental method. I will tell you the sect's rules after I return. As for your family background and identity, I will send someone to check. I hope you don't hide anything. You are also the last applicant today. In this case, then follow me." After saying this, he flicked his sleeves, and the silver needles and cloth bags on the table disappeared.

Li Yan was even more surprised when he saw it, and then bowed and replied, "Yes, sir." Then his face showed some hesitation, and he did not follow immediately.