337 Living Beings Can Be Weak or Strong
Ning Yao and Wu Xin did not find any more clues, and the same was true for Lin Yan who went to class at the academy.
The world tree mentioned by Master Liu has great merits. He talked about it all day but couldn't finish one tenth of it, and he had to continue tomorrow.
Master Liu expressed great dissatisfaction with the fact that Ning Yao and his friends did not come to class but went out to "hunt" instead.
So Lin Yan asked, "My fellow disciples and I are new here, and we don't have much food on us. If the eldest brother and the others don't go hunting, would you be willing to help us?"
One more person eating means one more mouth to feed, and ten more people eating means one more table. The costs are completely different.
Although Master Liu was a foundation-building cultivator, the products in Xuanlin Village were average. He was unwilling to feed so many people for nothing, so he did not ask any further questions.
Three days passed in the blink of an eye. On the morning of the third day, the middle-aged woman who had come to induce Jiang Xin to take the academy examination came to the outside of the courtyard early and took Jiang Xin and others to the academy to take the examination.
Shen Musi’s gaze lingered on her for a moment, and he secretly communicated with his fellow apprentices: “There is still some of my medicine powder on her body. She was the one who sneaked into our courtyard the day before yesterday.”
He said "there is her", not "it is her".
Zhao Shi keenly heard the hidden meaning in Shen Musi’s words: “Do you suspect that she came here with someone else?”
“Based on the medicine powder consumed in the hospital, there should be a lot of medicine powder left on her body. But now there is not much medicine powder left on her body, and a lot of it must have been on other people. I just don’t know if she came with those people, or if they came in batches.” Shen Muse looked at the middle-aged woman, but didn’t take it too seriously.
Anyway, they were going to the academy, so it didn't matter who had come to the courtyard to inquire before.
Along the way, many people were rushing towards the back mountain, all of them were villagers from Xuanlin Village.
Many parents and even grandparents accompanied their children and grandchildren to the academy in the back mountain, muttering as they walked: "We must pass the assessment and enter the academy, so that we can obtain a pseudo spiritual root."
"It's better to go out and not stay in this small mountain village."
"If you can enter the academy, you must study hard. Don't be like your father, who thought he was great just because he had a fake spiritual root and missed the opportunity to leave here."
The middle-aged man who was scolded showed a look of surprise: "Mom, it's not that I don't study hard, it's just that I can't learn. The knowledge is too difficult to understand..."
Before he could finish, the gray-haired old lady hit him on the head: "What nonsense! How can you say that about the knowledge of the World Tree? It's because you don't study hard!"
The old lady was angry, and the middle-aged man did not dare to say anything back. He could only mutter in dissatisfaction: "It's hard to pronounce... I always feel like something is stopping me from learning those..."
They were not very close to Ning Yao and the others, so their voices were not loud, but they could not escape the hearing of the Jindan cultivators.
Many other parents who accompanied their children to take the exam also had similar conversations with this family.
Ren Yuan was deeply moved by what he heard and joked, "When I encountered a bottleneck in my cultivation before, I comforted myself in the same way - it's not that I can't do it, but there is a mysterious force that is preventing me from learning."
Zhao Shi looked at him silently: "Do other disciples of your Kunlun Palace have the same realization?"
"No, everyone else thinks it's their own fault." Ren Yuan said with a smile, looking at the parents who were still taking the time to tell their children about his last college exam. "But they are united here. They all blame external forces for stopping them from studying, and don't think it's their own problem."
Jiang Xiao followed them, kicking small stones. Hearing this, he raised his head and asked, "Could it be that there is really an external force preventing them from studying?"
Everyone was stunned.
Wu Xin realized something was wrong: "What did you find?"
Jiang Xiao said softly: "Mingchen was born because of the wishes of all living beings. The Devourer usurped Mingchen's achievements, which is equivalent to going against all living beings."
"Living beings can be very weak or very strong. In the face of this kind of predatory behavior, living beings' original desire to survive is still subconsciously resisting, so many people cannot learn the knowledge preached here."
Ren Yuan suddenly realized: "So the reason why I encountered a bottleneck in my cultivation before was because sentient beings didn't want me to make further progress."
Jiang Xin: "No, that's purely because you're a bad cook."
Ren Yuan: “…”
Woo woo woo, the last bit of room for self-comfort is gone.
While joking, the group successfully reached the top of the mountain and saw a magnificent building with golden and magnificent splendor.
If people didn't know in advance that this was an academy, people would have believed it even if someone said it was a palace.
Seeing such a magnificent building for the first time, many students exclaimed in amazement and had all kinds of thoughts in their minds. Their desire to enroll was stronger than ever before.
The students who came to take the test this time were all boys and girls in their teens. Ning Yao and his companions were not very conspicuous hiding in the crowd.
The middle-aged woman left after sending them to the foot of the mountain. The other parents who accompanied their children to the exam sent their children to the gate of the academy, and only left reluctantly after being reminded by the academy manager.
After verifying their identities, everyone entered the academy one by one.
Ning Yao and his friends had a handwritten letter signed by Master Liu. The steward at the entrance of the academy glanced at them, said nothing, and let them in.
All the candidates gathered in the square inside the academy. Lin Yan roughly counted the number of people and found that there were about a hundred of them. All the children of school age in Xuanlin Village were there.
At this moment, the door of the hall opened and a Jindan stage cultivator walked out.
As soon as he came out, a faint pressure from the Jindan stage fell towards everyone. The candidates who had no cultivation at all immediately looked painful, as if a mountain was pressing down on their heads, and they all bent over.
Some people with weaker physical constitutions fell directly to the ground, their faces so pale that they couldn't even get up.
This layer of pressure is not heavy, but it is an immortal method that is unattainable for mortals and is completely unbearable.
“You are so shameless to bully others by taking advantage of your power.” Shen Muse cursed inwardly, and seeing Lin Yan bending down in a pretentious manner, he had to pretend to be uncomfortable.
The Jindan cultivator standing in front of the hall glanced at the entire room, and seeing that everyone was impressed by the little bit of pressure he had revealed, he nodded with satisfaction.
"You are all talented people, elites nurtured by the World Tree with great effort. You all come to my academy to take the test today. I hope you can all pass. We are the descendants of the World Tree, and the World Tree will never die!"
The sound amplified by magic power spread throughout the venue, bringing layers of echoes.
Many of the students who came to take the test believed this firmly and shouted this sentence out loud or whispered it.
The sound waves were getting louder and louder, and those mortal boys who had just looked painful seemed to have drawn strength from it, and they slowly stood up despite the shallow Jindan stage pressure.
Chu Linfeng was confused: "How did they resist this pressure?"
"Use the force." Lin Yan raised his eyes and glanced at the sky.
Chu Linfeng was shocked: "How many times do I have to say this nonsense to borrow the power of the Devourer?"
"It has intercepted the power of the wishes of all living beings." Jiang Xin said unhappily.
[Humph, thief!] 】
She stomped her feet angrily, and the invisible force spread out from her, spreading like ripples.
The young men who had originally had fanatical eyes suddenly calmed down, and the shouts of "The World Tree is immortal" that were wildly echoing in the square gradually disappeared.
The Jindan cultivator was puzzled and was about to ask when he suddenly felt a pain in his heart, as if someone had kicked him. He spat out a mouthful of blood.
In a trance, he seemed to hear someone calling him a thief.
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