Chapter 2 The Transcendent Sacrifice
However, as a subject of the empire, of course, it is also a welfare, which still makes Ding Yi look forward to it, that is, the transcendent sacrifice. Every child is required to travel to various major cities to verify their qualifications when they reach the age of 10.
Every year on March 15th, families with young children hang a carp flag outside their windows, and a dragon flag is raised in the town square. Accompanied by their parents, school-age children from all over the world will undergo qualification tests to select children who can cultivate the truth and realize their dreams of carp leaping into the dragon gate.
Ding Yi is nine years old this year, and it is only six months now, and there are still nine months until March 15 next year. I used to accompany my brothers and sisters to participate in this ceremony, but now after a lot of reading and observation, I can become a cultivator or not, and I no longer know anything in my heart.
In fact, the test of cultivation is very simple, and in the past, cultivators, especially those monks who had a single lineage, went to the world in person to find children who were suitable for cultivating their own lineage. However, there are many sects of cultivators, each with different requirements, and there are often omissions. Even if the opportunity is wrong, it is often missed.
Often, after more than ten years of searching, nothing was found, and the ancient cultivators were extremely selfish, and some of the cultivation methods were very cruel. In particular, some demon cultivators are often like Gu cultivators, in order to select suitable disciples, let children with cultivation qualifications compete with each other cruelly, choose one out of a hundred, choose one out of a thousand, so that many cultivators die before they grow up.
Moreover, it is not a cultivation seed that is suitable for their own lineage, they would rather destroy it than let their opponent possibly get it.
As for some monks born in the wild road, they often insist on cultivating good seedlings into crooked melons and cracked dates.
Of course, there are also sects of cultivation that recruit disciples in the world, and children who are interested in cultivating will come here, but there will still be quite a lot of seeds of cultivation that have not been discovered.
The empire is different from other countries, and even arrogant in the world, destroying hundreds of dynasties. From the desert of Western Qin in the bitter cold land, it has expanded to the strongest empire on the surface spanning three continents, four oceans, tens of billions of people, and millions of cultivators. It depends on its selection mechanism and political system.
Raise the strength of the whole country to select cultivators, screen the seeds of cultivation, give appropriate training, and use scientific methods and means to improve the cultivation of cultivators, and achieve a large number of cultivators in a short period of time. And use the ability of the cultivator to feed back to the mortals, forming a virtuous circle.
Basic education, and the transcendent sacrifice for the selection of cultivators, is one of the ways in which the empire must be victorious over the nations of the land.
The method of screening and selection of the transcendent festival is to allow all the young people of the appropriate age, after drinking the awakening soup by the Health and Food Administration (i.e., the former Medicine Valley, Baicaomen, Regeneration Pavilion, Shennong Temple, as well as the great witches of the Million Mountain, and the priests of the Whispering Forest), without thinking an inch, passing through the so-called Gate of Creation, the body surface will glow with the glory of the Cultivation Seed. Different colors, different intensities of Haoguang, and then the corresponding spectrum can know what kind of cultivation qualification the young man is.
Basically, it is a one-in-a-million probability, although there will be a small probability of omission, but it is the most advanced method at present.
Ding Yi's book now is "Heaven and Earth Yin and Yang Induction Divine Chapter", which was originally the cultivation method of the "Hehuan Sect", as the ancient evil cultivation sect Hehuan Sect, and now it has been used as one of the institutions of the Family Planning, Eugenics, and Multiple Births Department (as well as the Yin and Yang Gate, the Huanxi Sect, the Palace of Eternal Life, etc.). The induction of heaven and earth, the integration of man and heaven and earth, is not only the intersection of yin and yang, but also the beginning of life, Ding Yi wants to find something helpful to himself.
"Little ghost, this is not a book you should read," a voice came from beside him.
This is really not something that should be read by his age, because this book is the latest edition and has pictures.
Since the invention of paper, the inheritance of human civilization has a new carrier, those almost annihilated culture, Taoism, has been developed and disseminated, and because of its convenience, the cost of education has been greatly reduced, the text with characters, paintings, more rich in the content of the book.
After the establishment of the empire, many Taoist systems that were almost nirvana were rescued and continued. Most of the books in the bookstore are only simplified versions, and the real complete books are in the collections of the National Academy, the Zangjing Pavilion, the Imperial Library, and the various sects. But this kind of abbreviated version is also rare.
In the past, no matter how much money a mortal had, it was impossible to read such books. Now, under the enlightened policy of the Empire, all kinds of exercises and secrets are also open to ordinary people. Of course, it also depends on what level of cultivation you reach.
The book in Ding Yi's hand, if it weren't for Sister Fuchen driving away the guests, this book that was originally placed on a high bookcase, with Ding Yi's height of more than one meter, he would not have been able to get it. The person who reads this book must be a childish person, and as soon as he was driven away by Sister Fuchen, he hurriedly put down the book and fled.
It was a young man with a yellow hair on his head.
Ding Yi was not calm for a moment, because this person was very famous in Jiyun City, and Zhao Tiangui, a famous golden retriever dog in the Police Elimination Department.
This Zhao Tiangui is also a monk, and it is said that there is no case that he can't solve, especially this person has the magic power of smell, not only can find things through the sense of smell, but also recognize people through the sense of smell.
The ability to rise to supernatural powers is not an ordinary ability. It is said that this person was able to smell the taste of the dishes on the wine table outside the Ximending Building from the vegetable shop at the east gate of the city, and once a colleague of his made a bet with him to arrange in advance for someone to use a large bowl in the restaurant to hold more than a dozen similar dishes one by one and let him guess. The result was all right for him.
On another occasion, the proprietor of Fuguifang got an antiquity, Shanhe Ding, and invited guests, and he was also one of the invited guests, who not only judged that the antiquity was a fake by virtue of his sense of smell, but also judged the characteristic identity of the dummy, and finally checked it out as expected.
In Jiyun City, he is a god-like legend, and there are many stories about him.
Ding Yi put down the book, he didn't dare to be presumptuous in front of the cultivators, the education he received since he was a child was to have awe, not to mention respect and inferiority, and his class identity was not something he could overcome.
Zhao Tiangui was very happy today, and his junior sister Wei Lin, who had been chasing him for a long time, not only agreed to himself, but also asked him to meet his sister's family today. The future father-in-law, the owner of the Dream Theater, and Wei Xiang, the top illusion master in Jiyun City. As the top literary fan of Jiyun City, the twenty-seventh volume of the newly arrived "Daozang", as well as the representative poetry collection "Exile" of the latest wandering poems, should he like it.
Zhao Tiangui, who rarely stepped into the bookstore, found such a superb product not long after he came in. A three-foot-tall boy was looking at a 'picture book' with pictures and texts, far beyond his age.
Looking at the child who turned to leave, Zhao Tiangui picked up the book that was put down by the child, not to mention that the quality of the book was really good. The printing is beautiful, and the frames are beautiful. In particular, the drawing is obviously the handiwork of a master painter, and the characters are lifelike......
"The people inside, all put down the books and come out, who is the owner of this store?", an untimely voice suddenly came, Ding Yi, who was just about to leave, Sister Fuchen, who was pretending to be cleaning, and Zhao Tiangui, who was reading with relish, were all stunned for a while.
Several young men and women in blue overalls broke in.
"The boss is not here, I'm the manager of this store, what's the matter?" Sister Fuchen hurriedly stepped forward.
"We are from the Propaganda Department," led by a petite young woman with short hair and glasses, "according to the instructions of the peak, there are lawbreakers walking around and bewitching the people, and we must rectify all bookstores and bookstores and confiscate banned books."
"There are also books you sold, including the following titles, I hope you will cooperate with us in the recovery. ”