Chapter 339: First Meeting Neighbors Linyuan Dao Palace

On the second day, just after dawn, Shi Xuan was in the strong wind, and after watching the rising sun from the window, he opened the door and walked out.

He climbed up the ladder from the first floor to the eighteenth floor, and slowly opened the closed iron door in front of Shi Xuan. Inside was a transparent light shield made of green light.

Two young people, a man and a woman, walked out of the light shield. The man was about the same height as Shi Xuan, of medium build, with a hint of tiredness between his eyebrows, but he looked very bookish. The woman had a pretty face, and at this time her face was filled with a hint of maternal warmth, because her belly was already quite big, and she was probably six or seven months pregnant.

"Hello, sir, are you the neighbor who just moved in yesterday? I'm Li Wei, and this is my wife Huang Xiao. We live opposite you." The man carefully supported his wife, and at the same time did not forget to greet Shi Xuan enthusiastically.

Looking at this warm scene, Shi Xuan couldn't help but smile: "I'm Shi Xuan. You two are really in love. You go downstairs for a walk early in the morning." Since he moved to a big city and lived in a high-rise building in his previous life, Shi Xuan no longer had the idea of ​​actively greeting his neighbors. It was the same for all these years of practicing Taoism. Unexpectedly, the residents here are quite enthusiastic, but the cultivation of both of them is not high. Li Wei has to get out of the body, and Huang Xiao has to cultivate his qi.

Huang Xiao glanced at her husband with anger and happiness: "It's all his fault. He clearly studied the formation all night last night. I told him not to accompany me for a walk in the morning, and to have a good rest. It won't be a big deal to take a day off, but he just didn't listen."

Li Wei laughed loudly when he heard this: "We are all people who practice Taoism. It's nothing to not sleep for a day. I'm sorry to make you laugh, Mr. Shi."

"By the way, Mr. Li, are you a master of formations?" Shi Xuan asked with a little curiosity. People here like to call strange men "Mr.", so Shi Xuan followed suit.

Li Wei said a little embarrassedly: "I'm just trying to make a living at the Linyuan Formation Research Institute. I just happened to reach a critical point recently, so I studied all night."

Shi Xuan asked a few questions casually, and got a general understanding of the formation level of the out-of-body cultivators in this world. This Li Wei is also a graduate of a well-known Taoist academy, but he studied the formation development department, so the standard of cultivation is lower than that of most other departments.

Judging from Li Wei, a representative of the higher level of formation among the out-of-body cultivators, his understanding and research of formation restrictions is almost at the lowest level of the soul cultivators in the Yuyu world, which is very good.

Shi Xuan asked casually on this side, but Li Wei on the other side was extremely surprised. He was the leader among the cultivators of the same level in the Linyuan Formation Research Institute, but this unfamiliar Mr. Shi was able to get to the point with just a few words, and it seemed that he was deeply immersed in the way of formation.

"Mr. Shi, it seems that you are also a master of formations? I wonder which Taoist academy you graduated from?" Li Wei asked with great admiration, which surprised Huang Xiao beside him. Her husband was always proud of his attainments in formations. Mr. Shi did not seem to have the pressure of the spiritual energy of heaven and earth, so he must be quite extraordinary in formations, which caused her husband to react like this.

"I am a graduate of the Taoist Theory Department of the lower academy of Xuqing Taoist Academy, and I just returned to Linyuan City." Shi Xuan reported his fake identity. Xiao Yang did not know Shi Xuan's background and what type of magic he was good at, so he gave him a Taoist Theory Department, so that any magic could be related.

Li Wei and Huang Xiao both opened their mouths, looking a little shocked. It seems that in this big world, Xuqing Taoist Academy is indeed very famous.

After calming down, Li Wei bowed and said, "So Mr. Shi is from Xuqing Taoist Academy. No wonder, no wonder, but Mr. Shi, why are you..." The biggest difference between Xuqing Taoist Academy and other Taoist academies is that in order to graduate, no matter which department, one must have the cultivation of the Qi-inducing period. Li Wei was surprised why Shi Xuan did not have the pressure of the spiritual energy of heaven and earth.

Shi Xuan had already said, "After graduation, Shi planned to return to his hometown, so he did not take the exam for the spellcasting license in the imperial capital. The temporary spellcasting license in the Taoist academy was suspended again, so he was preparing to sign up today."

Li Wei looked like he had seen it, but he was not confused. Although the students and disciples of Xuqing Taoist Academy were vying for business companies, military corps, and hunting cities everywhere, they did not include the Taoist Theory Department. You should know that the students and disciples from this department are all typical of being very good at talking but very embarrassed in practice.

"Mr. Shi, you picked a good day. Today is the exam day for the spellcasting license every half a month. If you sign up, you can take the exam in the afternoon. Maybe you can get the spellcasting license tomorrow." Huang Xiao interrupted from the side.

"In that case, let's set off without further delay." The cloud ladder had already gone up and down several times.

Li Wei hesitated for a moment, and before Shi Xuan entered the cloud ladder, he said: "Ba Zhiyuan, one of the chief officials of the Taoist Palace in this city, is narrow-minded, and is especially jealous of cultivators like you who came from the Dao Academy, so please be careful."

"Thank you, Brother Li." Seeing Li Wei's goodwill, Shi Xuan changed his address and seemed closer.

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Shi Xuan called a wheelless car for passengers and went to the Taoist Palace in Linyuan City. Along the way, the driver talked eloquently, even more than another driver from the imperial capital that Shi Xuan had seen in his previous life, but he also learned more common sense and some recent events from him.

For example, the survivors in the abyss were too incompetent, and the Yinfeng ghosts in the nearby nine layers of the Earthly Evil became powerful and advanced to the Golden Elixir. They sneaked up at night and ate a lot of living people, which made everyone scared. The governor of this city has already met with Linyuan General Xiao Huarong to send out a group of soldiers to get rid of the Golden Elixir ghost.

"Ten yuan coins, hey, if I were alive in the era of Xuqing Tianzun, I would be in charge of the sky above and the earth below. Even if those Yinfeng ghosts became powerful, they would not dare to offend us. Guest, please take your time." Xuqing Taoist Temple was founded by the great figure Xuqing Tianzun back then.

After getting off the car, there was a building covering a large area in front of me. There were two six-story buildings in front, and courtyards one after another in the back. On one of the buildings, the five seal characters "Linyuan City Taoist Palace" were written, and on the other building, a layer of water curtain was covered, which clearly showed the speech of a dark-skinned monk wearing a classical bright yellow robe.

He stood in the center of a circular hall, surrounded by seats, where five or six hundred monks of different ages sat.

"There are fewer and fewer monsters in our world, and it is difficult to advance the domesticated monsters, which leads to a lack of materials. Many Jindan Grandmasters and Yinshen Venerables have expressed their desire to recuperate and give those monsters space to grow again, otherwise they will only exhaust the pond and catch fish, which will be a huge disaster for us and our descendants..."

"What they said makes sense, but there is one thing that I don't agree with. Why only search in this world? There are countless void demons outside the sky. Compared with monsters, their similar materials are not bad. Why not conquer and hunt them? Have you forgotten the pride of the era of Xuqing Tianzun, everyone?..."

"So, our journey is in the vast starry sky."

His speech was very passionate and quite emotional, but the five or six hundred monks around him were not affected at all, and asked questions one by one.

Shi Xuan did not continue to read and walked into the building with "Linyuan City Dao Palace" written on it. The person should be Venerable Wei Yu, and those cultivators seemed to be members of the Senate.

In this building, Shi Xuan easily found the place to register for the spellcasting license. The two beautiful girls in charge were also surprised to see Xuqing Daoyuan on Shi Xuan's identity document. Disciples from such top Daoyuan are scrambled for by major cities, and they would never come to a small place like Linyuan City. However, after seeing the Taoist Theory Department, it became clear.

After paying a thousand yuan for the green spellcasting license registration fee, Shi Xuan found a chair and sat down with his eyes closed, regardless of the surprise of people coming and going, and sat until the afternoon "Spellcasting License" exam began.

Because there is an exam every half a month, and the disciples who are not graduates of the Daoyuan have not returned yet, there are very few people taking the exam, only about ten, and this quiet room seems deserted.

According to what Shi Xuan heard with his sensitive ears, most of the more than ten were long-time test takers who had failed the exams for a long time. Two of them were recently promoted to obtain a higher level of spellcasting license (red, orange, yellow, green, blue, purple, level seven). Only one, like Shi Xuan, was taking the exam for the first time.

This cultivator was an ordinary young man of seventeen or eighteen years old, but he looked a little nervous.

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"It is customary to take three exams. I believe everyone knows it." The speaker was the oldest and gray-haired one of the three chief officials who had just walked in. However, judging from the respectful and submissive attitude of the other two chief officials towards him, he should be of extraordinary status, most likely the master of the Linyuan City Dao Palace.

Seeing these cultivators nod, the chief official smiled gently and introduced himself: "I am Xiao Cangtian, and I am in charge of your exams today." As expected, he was the master of the Linyuan City Dao Palace, and the only middle-grade Jindan Grandmaster in Linyuan City. In terms of seniority, he was the grandfather of this generation of Linyuan Generals.

Then he introduced the two people around him: "This is Ba Zhiyuan, this is Xu Zhang, they are both great masters of the Soul Stage, and the masters of the Dao Palace."

When Shi Xuan heard Ba Zhiyuan, he remembered Li Wei's reminder, so he looked at him. He had regular features, frowned eyebrows, and a dark complexion. He looked ordinary, but the female cultivator named Xu Zhang was a little beauty.

The first round was a Taoist theory test. A water mirror appeared on the table, and eight pieces of Taoist knowledge emerged. There were papers and pens next to it.

Although Shi Xuan has never been good at writing with a brush, his soul cultivation is extremely powerful, and the control of the Yin God over the flesh has reached a certain extreme, so his writing with a brush is still quite fluent and beautiful.

However, Shi Xuan did not know what the Taoist knowledge of the Qi Induction Stage was like here, and his identity was that he graduated from the top Taoist academy, Xuqing Taoist Academy, so he could only selectively answer according to his above-average understanding of Taoism.

Xiao Cangtian paced back and forth in the quiet room, looking at the students' answers from time to time. When he stood next to the young man, he was already extremely nervous and trembling. Xiao Cangtian had to pat his shoulder to signal him to calm down, and then walked to Shi Xuan.

Xiao Cangtian looked at the questions Shi Xuan answered, nodded and left. But after walking a few steps, he recalled the answers he had just seen and felt that there seemed to be some truth in them, which was not as ordinary as it seemed on the surface. Although it did not involve more profound Taoist theories, it was unique and made people feel enlightened.

So, Xiao Cangtian walked back to Shi Xuan and stood there motionless, becoming more and more fascinated as he watched.