Chapter 26: Entering the Holy Temple for Initiation

"Ziqing! Good news!"

Li Xingyun, who was having breakfast at home, was putting a mouthful of wontons into his mouth when he heard Gu Qinghui's yelling voice coming from the door of the courtyard.

In less than three blinks of an eye, Gu Qinghui went straight to the main hall.

Holding on to the wooden door frame with one hand, he looked at Li Xingyun pantingly and said, "I've been admitted to the Tongsheng School!!!"

"Hmm!!!" Li Xingyun was also a little surprised. He didn't hear Gu Qinghui's name when the results were released the day before yesterday, but today he said he had passed the exam.

He realized a possibility and said: "Is it because there are not enough people available from other counties?"

Qin Keqing asked suspiciously: "Is it possible that the extension quota from other counties fell on your head?"

Gu Qinghui stood there with a smile. You didn't need to listen to the answer, you could tell just by looking at his proud expression.

"Mingtang, congratulations!"

"Hey, we are all happy together. Today, the temple is going to conduct a talent initiation for the children, so all the children have to be gathered together. I only found out that I was admitted after being notified by the county registrar."

"I see, the county clerk has just walked out of my house, and now he has entered your house."

"Haha, no matter so much, I am admitted to the Tongsheng School and can go to the holy temple for talent initiation! Unfortunately, I have to go to the temple that has been extended the quota for talent initiation, so I can't go with you."

"It's a good thing to be promoted to Tongsheng." Li Xingyun was happy for him for a while, and then asked: "Have you eaten yet? How about making do with it?"

"I am a scholar, full of economic ink, and I am extra full today! I won't eat! I still have to tell other people the good news. They have been scolding me to death in the past few days."

"..."

Li Xingyun watched him leave happily and couldn't help but shook his head.

Qin Keqing peeled an egg aside and handed it over, smiling and saying: "Today is the day for the Holy Temple's talent initiation, and it is also the day for the major academies in Chang'an to recruit Confucian scholars. With the prince's talent, he should be admitted to the Holy Temple.

'Yes."

Li Xingyun smiled and said nothing.

An hour later, Li Xingyun, dressed in a scholar's green shirt, set off with Qin Keqing.

At the door, I saw Gu Qinghui setting off with his aunt.

In a flash, the two of them disappeared.

"The warlock system is really unpredictable." Qin Keqing couldn't help but sigh after witnessing a magical power.

Everything is low-grade, only reading is good... Li Xingyun said that Confucianism and Taoism will never die, and you are the younger brothers after all.

He and Qin Keqing were chatting and laughing all the way as they walked towards the Academy of Literature.

Today's liberal arts colleges are not as lively as they were on the day of the imperial examination and the day when the results were released.

Because Wannian County has a large number of children who take the exam every year, this year there are 100 children.

On the day when the results were released, all one hundred students arrived. Some came alone, but most of them brought their relatives and family members, just to let their families see that they had studied hard for ten years and lived up to their expectations.

The arrival of Li Xingyun made the entrance of the liberal arts college seem a little noisy.

"It's Li Xingyun here!"

"This year's top double-A case! That 'Lovesickness' is really beautifully written! It deserves the title of A-class! I had some doubts before, but after seeing the poems and poems published in Wen Dao, I am convinced!"

"Three-day Shuangming Prefecture, the first-ranked student in the imperial examination! The journey for such talented people to start is much further than ours."

"Just by relying on Shuangmingzhou's poems, he can easily pass the imperial examination in the future even if he travels around without practicing. It's not like us who have to pass the imperial examination year after year."

"After the talent initiation, major academies in Chang'an will come back to recruit students, and even the Holy Academy will send people over. People like him are destined to be absorbed into the Holy Academy."

Listening to the praises from others, Qin Keqing covered her mouth and snickered, leaned close to her head, and said in a gentle voice: "Your Majesty, you are now famous in Chang'an."

"But Sister Qing's beauty has been famous in Chang'an a few days ago."

"I just praised you but it didn't make sense." Qin Keqing said angrily.

"The liberal arts college is open." Li Xingyun heard a clang, put aside his joking mood, and looked forward to it.

Although he was inspired by Mingzhou Shi's talent and was promoted to Tongsheng Wenshi, who would dislike having so much talent in his body?

Otherwise, if we only rely on the two Mingzhou poems in the Wen Palace, which are full of talent, when will we be able to fill the Wen Palace and promote scholars?

Seeing the grand opening of the Literature Academy! More than a hundred people at the door of the Literature Academy became excited.

And a person walked out of the gate of the liberal arts college.

The emperor of the academy, Lu Huan, was known to all the students in Wannian County.

"First of all, congratulations on your success in passing the imperial examination. Those who are on the imperial examination list will enter the liberal arts academy to worship the holy temple! The rest can enter the liberal arts academy, but they are not allowed to set foot in the holy temple."

"I would like to listen to your teachings!" A low-pitched voice came out from more than a hundred people in unison.

"Um."

After saying this, the president of the academy, Lu Huan, turned around and stepped into the liberal arts academy. The students at the back could no longer suppress the throbbing in their hearts and swarmed in.

Li Xingyun also stepped forward slowly.

Anyway, the talent of the temple is there, and you won’t get more just because you set foot there first.

When everyone came to the literary courtyard, some people had to stop and were not allowed to follow.

"But Sister Qing, you take a stroll here first, and I'll go first."

"Well, I'll wait for the prince to come back."

Li Xingyun calmed down and walked towards the high holy temple in the center of the Academy with firm eyes.

.......

Holy temple!

Lu Huan took a hundred boys to the high pavilion of the holy temple.

This floor is extremely spacious, enough to accommodate hundreds of people.

Directly in front of the stairs leading up to the high pavilion, you can see a stone statue as soon as you go upstairs.

Saint Kong!

There are one hundred futons arranged neatly in front of the stone statue of the saint.

"Sit on the futon, no need to follow the order, and wait patiently!"

After hearing what Lu Huan said, everyone didn't fight much and just found a futon and sat down cross-legged.

Li Xingyun looked at the stone statue and wondered how talented this initiation could be.

Seeing that everyone had calmed down, Lu Huan also walked to the incense burner in front of the saint's stone statue and picked up three thick incense sticks from the side.

ignite!

After three bows, he said with great force: "Student Lu Huan, please pray for the blessings of the saint! Give me talent and enlightenment, and forge a literary position for future generations!"

After saying this, three sticks of incense were inserted into the furnace cauldron.

There was a huge rumble and earthquake, and the stone statues were full of vitality.

"Close your eyes and feel calmly, open up a literary palace, and absorb talents into it."

"Um."

Hearing this, everyone closed their eyes.

Li Xingyun had already opened the Wen Palace, which also contained two stone pillars inscribed with Mingzhou poems.

He didn't have that many steps to take and directly channeled the talents coming towards him into the Wen Palace.

One strand after another, one strand after another.

"This talent is all pale white, but why does it seem incompatible with my own talent from the stone pillar?" Li Xingyun looked inside the Wen Palace and noticed something strange.

Shizhu felt the foreign talent and absorbed it directly!!

Damn it! You unlucky thing! That was the talent initiation I got after working so hard to gain fame, and you just absorbed it like this?
Chapter completed!