Chapter 22 There is a Mountain Outside the South Gate
The morning light shone on Chaosi Lane, and a touch of sunlight entered the courtyard. Li Mengzhou got up and started to wash it briefly. He also found a new piece of clothing from the package to change it. Although they were all worn, they were washed clean and considered new clothes.
Pushing open the yard, Li Mengzhou kept yawning and rubbing his slightly astringent eyes. It was obvious that he didn't sleep well last night, and he was wearing a pair of dark circles. Although his skin was not white, the dark circles were still obvious.
The terrain outside Langya City opens from four city gates, southeast, northwest and north, leading to each state and county. Outside the city is the Tianhe River, with tributaries of Tianhe River crisscrossing and reaching the western part of Jiang Kingdom, including forest sources and countless hills.
The walking tour of Zhaixing Mansion is in the inner city of Langya, and the Lihua Academy is also in the inner city of Langya, but it takes over the back mountain of the north of Langya City, while Buluoshan and Ligong Jianyuan are located on two hills outside Langya City.
Buluo Mountain is more than ten miles away from the East City Gate, while the Palace Sword Courtyard is more than ten miles away from the South City, which is the main gate of the capital. The terrain is slightly higher, and many of the areas are depressions left by time.
The mountain where Ligong Sword Court is located has no name, but it is directly called Ligong Mountain Gate. Perhaps this mountain had a name before, but after the Ligong mount was standing here, this mountain represents Ligong.
There are many carriages parked at the south city gate, which are specially arranged for young people to ride in the mountain in the court. All the young people who want to enter the mountain gate of the palace need to meet at the south city gate.
For some reasons, he could also rent a separate carriage to Li Palace by himself. Li Mengzhou had no money on him, so he could only follow the large army.
The snow on the mountain has not melted, the mountain roads are difficult to walk, and the ground will inevitably have wet or muddy areas. Nearly dozens of carriages are filled with the official road. I don’t know how many horse hooves are irritated by the snow.
Except for the carriages rented separately, each carriage can be about four or five people. Li Mengzhou was unwilling to squeeze in a carriage with people, so he discussed with the palace guards who followed him and borrowed a horse and planned to take a horse to the mountain.
No matter whether these people can enter the Li Palace or not, they will eventually enter the mountain. No one can guarantee that any person will become a disciple of the Li Palace, so the accompanying guards did not reject Li Mengzhou.
Even if ordinary young people come from nobles, these guards will not take them seriously. However, if young people are practitioners or even enter the Ligong Sword Court, they will not be able to easily offend them. As long as they do not make excessive demands, most of them will agree.
In the capital of Jiangguo, candidates have always been more important than officials and more important than those wealthy and powerful businessmen. Although this seems incredible to outsiders, it is an indisputable fact.
Most of the candidates are young people, and young people represent the future of the entire Jiang Kingdom. In places like being admitted to Ligong and Academy, the identity of young people will also rise with the flow. Just like Shen Qiubai, who is known as the number one young practitioner in Jiang Kingdom, in addition to his own honor and the identity of a disciple of Zhaixing Mansion, the height he stands at is far greater than that of many officials in the court.
In addition to the emperor and some powerful old ministers, Shen Qiubai could not see the court without a greeting, but the officials also had to give the greetings to Shen Qiubai.
Of course, these candidates who have not yet had a title cannot be compared with Shen Qiubai, but no one can guarantee whether the second Shen Qiubai will appear among these teenagers. Moreover, Jiang Guo valued the most talent. No matter whether he can enter the mountain gate or academy, their identities are different from ordinary people during the exam, or even before the exam.
This is the preferential treatment given to these candidates by Jiang Guogong, and it also encourages them to get good results.
Although Jiang Guo was in the Confucian dynasty, Confucianism was also one of the three orthodox monks in the world. The status of practitioners is naturally very high, while those who have studied and have a culture are naturally even higher.
Following the gradually rising mountain road, after several hours of bumpy ride, countless carriages left the South City Gate and had already reached the Ligong Mountain Gate.
Seeing the mountains shrouded in white mist, several white clouds always covered most areas. As the white clouds floated, large areas of temples were occasionally revealed, which looked particularly spiritual and fairy-like.
Li Mengzhou rode his horse forward, looking at the place of practice near before him, and a strong color appeared in his eyes.
The carriage did not continue to go up the mountain, and the guards just arrived at the exit area with these candidates. To reach the examination venue, the candidates needed to walk there, which was also part of the exit area assessment.
The guards will wait on the spot, and if anyone who has been eliminated goes down the mountain, they will naturally take them back to the capital.
Although Ligong Sword Academy is not a top-notch practice sect in the entire Jiang Kingdom, and because of the withering of sword cultivators, Ligong's situation may fall into the darkest ending at any time, even so, Ligong Sword Academy still exists in Jiang Kingdom after all, and can be ranked among the top three practice mountains in the capital Langya. Not everyone can enter such a place of practice.
Among the nearly 100 young people, there will inevitably be people who are worried about entering the palace and cannot leave the palace.
Compared with the grand occasion of Lihua Academy's enrollment, the wide open mountain gate of Ligong only attracted less than a hundred people, which was already a very poor situation, but it would not affect the competitiveness of the mountain gate assessment at all.
After saying goodbye to the accompanying guards, nearly a hundred young people began to hike and climb the mountain.
The mountain road is not tortuous, but it is muddy on the ground. Most people walk along the snow to avoid the soles of their boots being stained with mud, so they walk a little cautiously.
Li Mengzhou was dressed in black, not only dressed up as a low-key person, but also had empty hands, so he walked very quickly.
Li Mengzhou naturally did not hold the Park Knife, which was broken last night to verify the defense power of the black silkworm armor, and did not find a craftsman to forge a Park Knife again.
What he was going to get into was Jian Xiu Mountain Gate, and holding a Park Sword certainly didn't seem that way.
Moreover, he is not good at using swords. He just used the Park Knife to cut grass and meat, and kill people by the way. The skills he practiced have not much to do with the knife. It was just because he needed weapons that he chose the Park Knife, the most common one in Shuning Town.
Most of the young people who traveled with him were very particular about their clothes, obviously they were not from poor families. They wore brocade clothes, wore silver crowns on their heads, held folding fans, or carried long swords on their backs. Some even had slaves following and serving, like nobles in the capital or children of powerful people from other places.
The majority of these candidates are boys, with only a few dozen girls. Li Mengzhou looked at them casually for a few seconds. Most of them looked pretty good, with fair skin, small and exquisite, or heroic appearance, and obviously they all have their own identities.
No one paid special attention to Li Mengzhou, and Li Mengzhou walked alone at the end, and if he didn't look back, he wouldn't be able to find him.
Walking ahead were two teenagers about sixteen or seventeen years old, one wearing a white robe and the other in a green robe, looking at the surrounding mountains and looking back from time to time.
The young man with white robe had a tender face, but he looked very proud. He said to the young man with green robe beside him: "Brother Zhou, there seems to be no one worth paying attention to when the gate of the Palace Mountain is wide open this year. Look at the excited appearances, they are the declining appearances who have never seen the world."
The young man in the green robe seemed to not agree with the words of the young man in the white robe. He looked at the people around him and said, "Did you see the person holding a folding fan? He is the young master of the Zheng family in Youzhou. It is said that it is a martial arts family. Although martial arts and practice are two worlds, his fists and feet are not simple.
Before we become practitioners, we must not offend him. This young master of the Zheng family is also one of the biggest obstacles for our trip. The person following him is from the He family in the capital, the He family is a prominent family, and there are many ancestors who have entered the court as officials. It’s a pity that the younger generation of the He family is not good at doing well and there are no praiseworthy people.
He Zhengrong was highly expected by the He family. It is said that he could visualize the spiritual energy of heaven and earth at the age of ten. Now he was only fourteen years old and was baptized by Amaterasu. Although he was unable to directly enter the realm of travel, compared with those who only visualize the spiritual energy of heaven and earth, and even have not yet entered the visual stage, he is definitely the most likely candidate to be admitted to the Li Palace.
Chapter completed!