Chapter 1596 – Fruit of the Soul Refining Sect

“Could it be that my Soul Refining Sect, and then there is no day of rise, and then Yuan continuation of the possibility of ……” that middle-aged man as if crazy, laughing ruefully, but just at this time, he suddenly changed his face, violently turned back to look distantly into the distance.

“Huh!” His eyes stared, and he immediately pinched his hands together, frantically deducing and calculating.

“This is ……” The man’s complexion changed rapidly, he had consumed a large amount of longevity vitality in this short moment, and had counted nine times in a row, but the result of all nine times was one!

This was a conclusion that made him feel unbelievable and even somewhat absurd!

In silence, his body swayed and directly dissipated without a shadow, but with the art of transfer, he went straight to the State of Zhao.

Inside a county in the State of Zhao, heaven and earth were quiet, the only thing that was there was the second floor of an inn in the county, standing in front of the window, Wang Lin, whose murmured voice, faintly echoed.

“Cause and effect, what is …… cause and effect ……”

The night’s time, slowly passed, Wang Lin did not know when he returned to the table, looking at the extinguished candlestick, silently dumbfounded, the voice that existed before in his mind kept reverberating, gradually replacing all of it.

The window, which he had forgotten to close, was at the moment windless and rainless. As the sky brightens, as the early sun rises, the light envelops the earth, the people who wake up early, are all surprised to find that the dark clouds that have filled the sky for most of the month, in this early morning, actually all disappeared.

Bright sky, cloudless, the sunlight with a soft fall on the body, so that people are almost rusty body, suddenly renewed vigor.

Like this year’s summer, came a little earlier, like this year’s rainy season, receded a little faster.

Dafu also woke up, rubbed his eyes, and after seeing the sky outside the window, he immediately raised his eyebrows and smiled, proudly pointed a finger out the window, and shouted out to Wang Lin.

“I had a dream last night that the thunder dissipated with a single point of my finger, haha, it’s still me that’s powerful, isn’t it. Hmph, it seems like I’m really not an ordinary person, alas and alack.”

Wang Lin’s thoughts slowly hid in his mind as that sky brightened up, he hadn’t slept all night, but he didn’t feel any fatigue, it was just that the swelling pain in the center of his eyebrow that was faintly coming.

He rubbed his brow and glanced at Dafu, after seeing the smile on his face, he felt happy himself.

“You’re great, it’s you who dreamt of going up to Heaven and making the thunderstorm disappear, alright ……”

Dafu was quite excited and even more pleased.

Days rush, the county’s imperial examinations, also held after five days, rushed to the scholar here, in this tense five days of waiting, in the early morning of the sixth day, under the still sunny sky, from each living in the inn out, toward the county to rush to the four examination centers.

Within these five days, in addition to going to the county government office to send the road guide examination sticker, and lined up the examination room, almost did not leave the inn, but seize all the time to read, doing the final preparations, he was equally nervous, this time to take the examination, if it is successful, then it can be continued. But once you fail, then everything will have to start again from scratch, and you will have to return to the village and silently wait for another imperial examination after several years.

Wang Lin didn’t want to fail, he couldn’t bear to see his parents’ gloomy gaze, and even more so, he didn’t want to let his parents feel that seemingly comforting, but actually ridiculing gaze in front of those over-eyed relatives because of his failure.

Five days, Dafu but suffocated, he is good natured, in Wang Lin study will go out on their own, in that county around, gradually, know some people, learned to be more stingy skills.

On the sixth day, after Wang Lin bathed and burned incense, and changed into a white scribe’s shirt, he exhaled deeply, and went out of the inn with Dafu, who was carrying a bamboo-rowed bookcase, and walked towards the examination center.

He is going to, is the third examination room, in the west of the county …… road street is very lively, on both sides of the street there are a lot of morning stalls, those vendors early out of the stalls, so that these go to catch the examination of the scholars, can be in their place to buy some food.

At a glance, the street to go to catch the examination of many students, each other are in a hurry, or with worry, or with nervousness, and even to eat, also to live a few mouths to swallow and then rushed away.

Wang Lin deep breath a few breaths, slowly calm down the mind, eat a few buns, then with Dafu came to the outside of the examination room, where the crowd is large, dense, but there is no noise, most of the closed eyes there, recalling the book read in the heart.

Two officials wearing brocade robes outside the cold look at those candidates, because of their presence, so that here gradually filled a heavy atmosphere, Wang Lin calmly stood there, looking at the sky on the examination room, his mind slowly and completely quiet down.

Behind him, Dafu, is looking around, but looked at, but his face is depressed, he saw that other people’s schoolchildren are almost all not very old, in contrast, he seems to be a bit out of place.

After muttering a few words, Dafu took out the buns and bit into a few bites.

Not long ago, the examination moment came, only to hear the sound of the bell seems to come from a distance, the sound echoed throughout the county, through a heavy.

This bell ringing, those closed eyes of the scholars one by one open their eyes, look grave, the feeling of tension all of a sudden will resurface.

“Enter the examination hall! If there are any cheat sheets, take them out on your own, don’t be disqualified after being discovered.” One of the brocade-robed officials flipped his eyelids and slowly spoke.

As these scholars stepped into the examination room one by one, almost everyone would be searched to make sure there were no cheat sheets before they were put in.

When it was Wang Lin’s turn, he did the same thing, and after checking the bamboo rows of book cases and other things, he was allowed to enter.

Dafu waved his hand outside toward Wang Lin and shouted. Even if there were people around who frowned in disgust, he didn’t care.

Wang Lin had a smile on his face as he waved at Dafu outside and turned around to enter.

After finding the seat with his name on it, Wang Lin calmly sat down, and in the gaze of the supervisor of the examination center, all of the candidates who sat down opened the rice paper on the table and concentrated. Until the supervisor took out the question paper for this examination that had been sealed by the fire waves, not long after, the sound of rustling writing echoed.

Wang Lin calmly grinding ink, looking at the rice paper in front of him, but for a long time did not put pen to paper, the time of the examination is a whole day, very loose, leaving people enough thinking free.

Slowly, those like Wang Lin contemplation of the scholars, also have thoughts, one by one pen, to the end, the entire examination room will be left only Wang Lin sitting there, still thinking.

At the moment, the subject of the examination, is a picture, the picture is very simple, there is only a mountain, there is a big straight tree on the mountain, the sky seems to have the wind, blowing the tree seems to be swaying.

A few strokes under the mountain outline, there seems to be a family house guarding the mountain.

The meaning of this painting is very clear, and it is about the four words “pillar of talent”. Almost all of the candidates could see it, and most of the essays they wrote were centered around these four words.

It was just that when Wang Lin saw the painting, the voice that echoed five days ago within his mind was once again faintly surfacing.

“Cause and effect …… what is …… cause and effect ……”

Time slowly passes, in the blink of an eye it is noon, there are already people who have finished writing their articles, holding the rice paper and blowing on the remaining ink that is not dry, their complexion reveals delight, slightly shaking their heads inwardly reading up silently.

Only Wang Lin, still sitting there silently, eyes show confusion, never put down the pen, such a thing, not rare, the few supervisors can not help but look at Wang Lin a few more eyes.

Gradually, one after another, people left the examination room, or complacent, or lost, after leaving here, in the company of the scribe or alone, far away.

The sun was setting, the entire examination room was also slightly gloomy, from the end of the time is not much, only less than half an hour left, in addition to Wang Lin, the last scholar also got up in a long sigh, before leaving, looked at Wang Lin, shook his head and left.

“If you can’t make it, hurry up and leave, don’t waste time.” A supervisor frowned and walked over to Wang Lin, tapping his right hand on the table.

Wang Lin didn’t look up, instead, his eyes closed, and after a few breaths, he violently opened his right hand, lifted his right hand and licked some water like ink, took his pen and dabbed some of it, his eyes revealed a bright aura, and he quickly wrote on that rice paper.

“What is cause and effect, if you are looking for a house wood, but this mountain has no wood, I only planted a tree, take the branch at the beginning of the day, take the wood in the middle of the day, take the root at sunset ……” Wang Lin seems to have forgotten everything around him, his mind echoing that vicissitudes of the voice, surfacing the paintings that he had watched early in the morning, and constantly writing down his own thoughts and incomprehension.

“Huh?” The supervisor standing beside Wang Lin glanced at it briefly for a few moments and was immediately startled and looked at it carefully. Even the remaining few supervisors not far away were attracted by the sound of that light eek and walked over to look at it, and after this look, one of them snorted and threw a grapefruit away. Not long after, the remaining few people also shook their heads and walked away.

“…… What is cause and effect, planting wood as a cause, take wood as a result …… Ran house wood into the appearance of the day, the same has become a cause and effect …… ”

Wang Lin put down the pen, a deep look, the eyes of the bright dissipated, replaced by a kind of confusion, light sigh in toward the only always stand behind the supervisor of the old man a cupped fist, pack up the bamboo row, out of the examination room.

Until he left, that supervisor old man picked up Wang Lin’s pen and ink rice paper, carefully looked at it again, his eyes revealed a trance, as if he had some enlightenment, memorizing Wang Lin’s name on that examination paper.

“This kind of contemplation of cause and effect actually appears in a young man, this person may not be able to become a pillar of the court, but he can become a great scholar of his generation!” The old supervisor pondered for a long time, picked up a pen, and drew a circle on Wang Lin’s name.

Wang Lin walked out of the examination room, a glance saw that outside against a tree, waiting for a day, huffing and puffing under the sleep of Dafu, a smile on his face, walked to the side of Dafu, he was about to push the other side to wake up, but just at this time, suddenly the sky and the earth darkened, but to see the wild winds, a burst of ghosts crying under the mournful sound, suddenly a black wind fell from the sky, directly shrouded the Wang Lin and Dafu two people, seems to be divided between the place where they are and this county town. The two of them seemed to divide the place where they were from the county town.

In that black wind, a middle-aged man in a black robe appeared, a cold aura permeated his entire body, and his eyes gazed at Wang Lin.

“The old man won’t hurt you, you only need to answer one question.”

He was none other than the Soul Refining Sect’s recluse senior brother! Almost all of the science examination scholars in this county had been sought out by him one by one during these few days, and each of them had asked the same question, and ultimately had their memories of the matter wiped out by him, and under disappointment, they once again searched for the next person.