Chapter 045 Duanshi Test
Seeing Duan Shi coming with two monks, everyone greeted them.
"Team Leader Duan, why are you here now? We still need a while to get ready."
"I know you guys are busy, I just came here early to check on the situation."
"Duantou, you are here."
"Stop talking nonsense and do your job."
"Good morning, Team Leader Duan."
"Ah, good morning, thank you for your hard work."
Duan Shi greeted everyone along the way, and by the time he reached the tent in the center, his mouth was a little dry from talking. He, the leader of the Dragon Team, is becoming more and more popular. Every time he goes out, a group of people will surround him enthusiastically.
He quickly went into the tent to avoid everyone's enthusiasm. If he chatted for a while longer, his saliva would really run dry.
Inside the huge military tent, Ye Caiying was staring at a large virtual screen in front of him in a daze.
After Duan Shi and Liu Jimeng came in, they greeted the old man obediently. Qiao Ji didn't react much, but also nodded slightly as a greeting.
"Good morning, Mr. Ye."
"Secretary Ye, good morning."
"Good morning, everyone." Hearing their greetings, Ye Caiying closed the virtual screen, turned around, and responded with a smile.
Ye Caiying had received the news from Duan Shi before the three people came, so he was not surprised by their visit.
"Come and sit over here." He led the three people to a table in the middle of the tent, on which were scattered several exquisite wooden boxes.
Liu Jimeng found that in addition to the ones on the table, there were more wooden boxes neatly stacked in a corner of the tent. A rough count showed that there were probably nearly a hundred of them.
I don’t know what’s inside.
Ye Caiying immediately revealed the answer to them: "The test stone is in these boxes. Do you want to try it?"
"Just put it here?" Liu Jimeng was surprised. She thought it would be placed somewhere safer.
Ye Caiying understood her doubts. "Of course. After all, these can only be activated by cultivators. Ordinary people will have no use for them. Moreover," he blinked at Liu Jimeng, "I don't think anyone can break through the defense outside and get to the core."
"That's true."
Liu Jimeng then remembered how strong Taishan’s defense was. It was really impossible for even a mosquito to fly in.
Since Ye Caiying said not to take it too seriously, she just came casually.
Under the gaze of several people, Liu Jimeng picked up a box at random and opened it. Inside is a transparent diamond-shaped crystal that looks crystal clear and is supported by red velvet.
"Isn't this a crystal? It's so ordinary."
"really."
Duan Shi and Liu Jimeng both thought that anything produced by Long Jun, even if it was a common test stone, should be very extraordinary. I didn’t expect it to be similar to the crystal from Blue Star.
Chu Yi: "......"
She was a little speechless. What exactly did these two people expect from Long Jun? Test stones were equivalent to weeds in ancient times, okay? How could they be so high-end?
"No matter what he looks like, as long as he is useful, why bother about appearance?" Ye Caiying couldn't help but criticize these two superficial juniors.
Why do young people nowadays only care about appearance?
Liu Jimeng smiled embarrassedly and quickly changed the subject.
"Secretary Ye, Lord Long said that these can only be activated by cultivators. It can be used for emergency now, but what about the nationwide test later?" With a population of billions, not to mention that there are only two cultivators, her and her senior, there are not even enough test stones.
"Don't worry, we have a way. Long Jun has handed over the principle of the test stone to the chairman, and our research department is already working overtime to study it. Combined with the information that the witch once traded, we are confident that we can develop the test equipment within a month."
Although people certainly don’t want to wait even for a minute, they can only keep waiting if the hardware measures cannot keep up.
From research and development, to making sure there are no bugs, and then to production, we still have to wait at least half a year.
Duan Shi also knew how difficult this was, after all, they were starting from nothing, but the people might not be able to hold on for that long.
Therefore, he asked with a little worry: "Mr. Ye, is there any countermeasure from above?"
"Of course." Ye Caiying picked up the teapot and poured two cups of spiritual tea for Duan Shi and Liu Jimeng. "Although we have obtained the skills, whether everyone can understand them without any obstacles is a very serious problem."
yes.
The three people suddenly reacted.
Indeed, the exercises are all written in classical Chinese, with no vernacular translation at all. Asking modern people to read the ancient exercises, the first hurdle is to understand them.
Qiao Ji herself was an ancient person and had never worried about this kind of problem. Liu Jimeng relied on his inherited memory and had never thought about it. But when the Chairman and his men first received the skills, they were stunned.
They simply cannot accurately understand the meaning of the exercises, which is a huge problem.
"No translator?" Duan Shi couldn't help but become more anxious, as this problem was closely related to him.
"Yes." To everyone's surprise, Ye Caiying gave a positive answer again.
How do you mean this?
Duan Shi and Liu Jimeng didn't understand. Since there was a vernacular translation, why did they still need to learn classical Chinese?
"In fact, the skills that Long Jun gave us are all in the jade slips. Just like what is written in the novel, we can understand them naturally by sticking the jade slips on our foreheads. However, there are only a few jade slips, and we don't have other jade slips to burn, so we can only record according to our own understanding."
"Isn't this okay?" Duan Shi didn't understand what the problem was.
"Xiao Duan, you have to understand one thing. The comprehension of the technique is a very personal matter. We in Blue Star say that there are a thousand Hamlets in the eyes of a thousand people. Everyone's understanding of the technique is different." Ye Caiying took a sip of tea. "And this difference will affect your path of cultivation. This is related to the future."
"For example, last night, although the exercises we received were the same, the leaders, including the Chairman, had different understandings, and what they wrote in vernacular was different."
"So that's how it is." Liu Jimeng murmured to himself. In this case, it is indeed necessary to learn classical Chinese.
The practice is the same, but depending on each person’s understanding, everyone will eventually take a different path, which is the most suitable for them. If everyone sticks to the same translation, understands the same meaning, and chooses the same path, the impact on the future will be enormous.
Seeing that they all understood, Ye Caiying smiled and said, "So, before you start the formal cultivation by testing your spiritual roots, you should learn the ancient Chinese texts well first."
After the doubts were solved, Liu Jimeng couldn't help but sympathize with the people who were still celebrating without knowing anything. "Students are fine, but office workers are miserable. I don't know how many years it has taken for the teachers to return the knowledge they once had."
Hearing her say this, Duan Shi's face next to her suddenly turned gloomy.
Apparently, he was one of those who had long since returned knowledge to the teacher.
Ye Caiying looked at this junior with a bit of disdain and couldn't help but knock him on the head, "Why are you so worried here? Who else can be missing? Who else can be missing? As the leader of the Dragon Team, isn't it just a matter of asking to borrow a jade slip to learn from it?"
"puff!"
Seeing Duan Shi being scolded, Liu Jimeng covered his mouth and laughed out loud.
I didn't expect that Team Leader Duan, who is always smart, would be so stupid at this time.
"Mr. Ye!" Duan Shi's face turned red due to Ye Caiying's sudden attack. He just didn't remember it for a moment.
"Don't call me. If you want to learn, just study it on your own. Why are you calling me?" Ye Caiying was annoyed. Why did this kid suddenly lose his brain?
"No, I'm just worried about the general public, not myself, really!" At this time, he had to say that he was thinking about the people, otherwise what would he do if Mr. Ye really asked him to learn by himself.
"cough"
Chu Yi also wanted to laugh, but she had to hold it back in order to maintain her image as Qiao Ji.
"Alright, stop playing tricks here. Don't you want to test your spiritual roots? Why don't you try?" Ye Caiying walked over to Duan Shi. Duan Shi and he were the only ones who needed to be tested. "That's great. Test this old man too."
Although Ye Caiying knew that at his age, he had no hope for a future in cultivation, he was also full of curiosity about that world, so it would be okay for him to understand his own spiritual roots.
"Sure, Secretary Ye." Liu Jimeng put the test crystal back on the table, looked at the operating instructions in the box, practiced it twice in his mind, then pinched his fingers with one hand and activated the crystal.
"Okay, who do you think will try first?"
The method is very simple and Liu Jimeng succeeded in one try. The activated crystal emitted an inconspicuous soft light, which looked much more magical than its ordinary appearance just now.
Although this glowing transparent crystal looks like a crystal chandelier no matter how you look at it.
Looking at the thing on the table that could decide his fate, Duan Shi felt nervous. He clenched and unclenched his hands several times, and finally, under their encouraging eyes, he placed his left hand on them with a slight tremor.
Under the nervous and excited gazes of several people, the transparent crystal was rendered with a thick earth color the moment Duan Shi's hand touched it. The color kept changing from light to dark, and finally stayed at a relatively thick tone. The color looked very pure, without the slightest turbidity.
As soon as you see the color, you can tell that Duan Shi has earth-type spiritual roots.
I just don't know what the grade is like.
"Xiao Liu, what's the quality of Xiao Duan's spiritual roots?" Ye Caiying was a little nervous. As the leader of the Dragon Group, if Duan Shi's spiritual roots were not of high quality, things would be difficult.
Duan Shi was also very nervous. He didn't care about the attributes, but he attached great importance to the quality of the spiritual roots, especially for someone in his position. If the grade is low, let alone the future path of cultivation, I am afraid that even everything I have now cannot be preserved.
There are countless people who want to pull him down.
Compared to their nervousness, Qiao Ji and Liu Jimeng were obviously relaxed.
"Don't worry, Secretary Ye. Team Duan has good talent." Liu Jimeng said easily. In fact, this result also made her feel relieved. "It's a top-grade earth spirit root."
“Huh~”
Duan Shi breathed a sigh of relief and was very satisfied with the result.
"Hahaha, not bad, Xiao Duan. Good, good. You actually have a top-grade single spiritual root. You have a very good talent." Ye Caiying was finally relieved. His position as the younger generation was completely secured.
"Once you're done with these few busy days, go ahead and apply, pick a technique and start practicing. Don't waste your good talent."
He earnestly told Duan Shi that what he said before about asking Duan Shi to study on his own was just a joke. How could a country possibly allow its people to learn slowly? Of course, it wants everyone to learn as fast as possible.
"I understand." Duan Shi withdrew his hands and clenched them at his sides. This was a good start, and he had to work hard.
Liu Jimeng was sincerely happy for him. A top-grade spiritual root would allow Duan Shi to go further and more smoothly on the path of cultivation.
Chu Yi was also in a good mood. She was still very satisfied with Duan Shi, the leader of the Dragon Team, and didn't want to change the boss. She had originally decided to give him a backdoor if the test results were not satisfactory, but she didn't expect that Duan Shi had quite good talent.
Although she used the power of the dragon veins to cleanse everyone's spiritual roots, she could only cleanse the dried and shrunken spiritual roots back to their original level. Only a few people can purify it again through the power of dragon veins, but the chance is too small, and it is simply impossible for people without strong luck.
Just when a few people were happy for Duan Shi, the test crystal on the table returned to its original state because no one touched it.
Seeing that the crystal had returned to its pure and transparent state, Ye Caiying also became eager to test his own spiritual roots. He asked Liu Jimeng, "Xiao Liu, do we need to activate this test stone again?"
"No, that's not necessary. Secretary Ye can just put his hand on it. After the test stone is opened, it also needs a specific hand gesture to close it. If it is not closed, the next person can just put his hand on it."
Liu Jimeng hurriedly explained that she had forgotten that Secretary Ye said he wanted to give it a try.
"OK."
Compared with Duan Shi, Ye Caiying was much more decisive. He put his hand on it as soon as he finished speaking.
The moment my hand touched the crystal, I had the same reaction.
But this time the color is different.
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