On June 15, the sixty third year of Zhengshi, it is an auspicious day to start the foundation, enter the school, offer sacrifices, and open the light.
Before dawn in the morning, shuoyang city was full of people, and the streets were overcrowded. Families took their children and women to the streets for fear that they would move outside the east of the city with the crowded flow of people.
These families on the street came from various counties and towns a few days ago, as well as the people of the city, rich families with gold and silver, and poor families and civilians in rags. They all came to the Daochang set up by Xianmen outside the East effect of shuoyang city. The daomen Xianyuan has been opened. Today is the first day of the opening of Xianmen Daochang.
At the moment of dawn, the sun rises at the beginning of the day, and the "spirit measuring road field" located in the open space in the east of shuoyang city has been surrounded by the people, surrounded by a sea of people.
In the middle of the "spirit testing center", there is a four-way red cloth platform, surrounded by a shield wall composed of soldiers and warriors, which separates the people with passionate feelings.
The east gate of the ashram is the entrance. There are long queues. You can't see the end at a glance, and people keep up. It is said that a large number of officers and soldiers have lined up three miles away, and captors are on both sides to maintain order.
At the top of the list are the well-known rich businessmen in shuoyang city. These people spent a lot of money to manage the government and shuoyang Taoist temple, which was arranged to stand at the top in order to make a good omen.
"Oh, oh" at the end of the hour, the crowd around the dojo sounded a sky shaking cry.
Four immortal masters' swords broke through the air and landed on the high platform in the middle of the Taoist hall. These four immortal masters, three men and one woman, dressed in Ming Huang Bagua Taoist robes, are tall and straight, dignified, and beautiful. The women's long hair is elegant and beautiful. They are really immortal family style.
"Taoist Xuanhan" stayed on the high platform alone. Li Feng, Liu Yu and Tang Zhi got off the high platform. Tang Zhi sat down in the sunshade on one side. Li Feng and Liu Yu went to the front and rear doors of the Taoist hall respectively and guarded the entrance and exit of the Taoist hall to maintain the order of the Taoist hall.
"Taoist Xuanhan" took out a two foot silver disk and inlaid five intermediate spirit stones of red gold, pale green, blue, red and dark yellow on the corner of the five awn array behind the silver disk one by one.
Then, facing up, he carefully installed it on the inclined spirit seat built in the center of the platform. This glittering silver plate is the "five element spirit measuring plate" of the third grade intermediate magic instrument.
"Let's be quiet. Taoist Xuanhan was ordered by the Pope to preside over the" spirit Testing Conference ". Tao gives birth to one, two, two, three, and all things have spirits. This spirit testing conference does not allow wealth or poverty. All children under the age of 10 can enter the testing for one month from now on." Taoist Xuanhan looked around and said loudly.
"Good, good, good!" the crowd suddenly burst into a flood of applause, and everyone was extremely excited.
"The auspicious hour has come, and the spirit testing meeting will begin now. Please invite the first child to enter." Taoist Xuanhan looked up at the time and said solemnly.
Wang Shi, the young grandmother of Tangji grain shop, the richest man in shuoyang City, held her half-year-old daughter who was just born. She was the first to climb the high platform of the Taoist temple and was stared at by hundreds of thousands of onlookers. Wang Shi had never seen this battle. Her steps were a little soft. She lowered her head and walked to Taichung with her daughter in her arms.
"Wang's wife has seen the Taoist priest!" Wang went to Taichung and immediately bent over as a blessing.
"Mrs. Wang, please put your beloved's hand in the center of the silver plate!" Taoist Xuanhan nodded and said.
"Taoist priest, is that so?" Wang picked up his little daughter, pressed his tender little white hand into the circle in the center of the silver plate and said.
"Look, it's shining!"
"Has this been chosen?"
"The Tang family is really lucky!"
When seeing the silver disk, the crowd around the unknown immediately issued bursts of voices, thinking that it should be selected by the immortal gate! When the first one came to the stage, there was a spiritual root, which was not as rare as the rumor. The people in line behind suddenly became excited.
"Madam Wang, lingai has no chance with our sect. Hold lingai!" Taoist Xuanhan said when the silver plate light dissipated.
"Know, know, Taoist priest!" Wang's face turned white and said in a lost way.
"What's going on?"
"It's shining. Why didn't you choose it?"
"Yes! The silver plate is shining!"
Seeing this change, the people around looked at each other and didn't know what had happened. At that time, there were different opinions.
"Everyone be quiet and listen to me. This silver plate is a Taoist magic instrument called" five elements spirit measuring plate ". The young children on the stage will put their hands in the center of the plate, and the silver plate will light up to detect whether the young children have spiritual roots. If there are no spiritual roots, the spiritual light of the silver plate will dissipate. If there are spiritual roots, the outer ring of the silver plate will light up five colors of gold, wood, water, fire and earth." Taoist Xuanhan waved to calm the onlookers and explained.
"Oh!"
"I see!"
"The little daughter of the Tang family is unlucky! What a pity!
The people around suddenly sighed. It turned out that the silver plate was shining. It was not the spiritual root. It had to light up the five-color spiritual light before it could be selected by the immortal gate.
"Please next!" Taoist Xuanhan shouted loudly.
……
An hour later, nearly a thousand young children appeared on the stage, but no one could make the silver plate of the immortal family shine with five colors. The onlookers and the people in line rubbed their hands and feet. Why are there so few spiritual roots? None of the nearly a thousand people have them. It's really difficult to enter the gate of the immortal family!
"Next!" Taoist Xuanhan shouted solemnly again.
"Hao'er, don't cry! There's nothing good about the immortal gate!" a pair of fat father and son were led out of the back door of the Taoist hall by the Yamen. The white haired old woman waiting outside the door, supported by a servant girl, immediately came forward to comfort the baby grandson with red eyes.
"Grandma! Hao'er, I'm going to fix immortals, I'm going to fix immortals!" the little fat man was obviously spoiled at home and lost his temper.
"Well, well, let's go home, xiaojixiang. Bring the sugar water to Hao'er quickly." the white haired old woman said to the little girl.
"Here, young master!" the little girl came forward timidly and handed over the sugar water porcelain cup she had been carrying.
"No! I want to be an immortal!" the little fat man waved his hand and patted the porcelain cup away, saying angrily.
"Pa!" the little fat man's father, fat member, didn't scold the little fat man. Instead, he slapped the little girl's face again and shouted, "it's no use at all. A porcelain cup can't be held stably. Don't clean it up quickly."
"What are you doing? Don't block here and go!" the officers and soldiers guarding the door shouted angrily when they saw that the son of man was still blocked here.
"Yes, yes, let's go!" the fat member quickly apologized and laughed, then kicked and squatted on the ground, picked up the fragments of the porcelain cup, and shouted angrily in a low voice: "hurry up!"
"Ah!" the little girl was in a hurry. Her palm was cut open by the fragment. Blood gushed out and kept dripping on the ground. But the little girl gritted her teeth and endured severe pain. She picked up the fragments of the porcelain cup three or five times, held them all in her arms, bowed her head and choked and said, "clean up, sir!"
"Let's go!" the fat member waved his big hand and everyone was about to leave.
"Wait a minute!" Liu Yu, who had already seen this scene in her eyes, called the big family.
"Immortal master, what can I do for you?" the fat officer turned and saw the Taoist priest of the immortal gate, and hurriedly smiled and said.
"How old is the little girl!" Liu Yu asked, pointing to Xiao Jixiang.
"I can't remember whether I'm six or seven." the fat member was stunned and then replied.
"Then she also meets the requirements and can participate in the spirit test." Liu Yu said directly.
"Immortal master, this little girl's life is cheap. She can't have spiritual roots. There's no need to delay your time to become immortal." the fat member replied contemptuously.
"In front of the Taoist gate, there is no distinction between high and low life. Everyone is equal. Constable Zhang, take the little girl to the front and arrange her to measure her spirit!" Liu Yu said without doubt.
"It's immortal master!" Constable Zhang, who was on one side, immediately came forward and took the little girl into the ashram.
"This..." the fat member couldn't help being embarrassed. He thought that when the smelly girl came out, he would teach her a good lesson when he came back to the house, which would make him lose face in front of the immortal master.
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"Little girl, what's your name and how can you come up alone?" Taoist Xuanhan asked when he saw a little girl in old clothes bow her head and go up alone.
"Taoist priest, I don't have a name. My family calls me little auspicious!" the little girl said timidly with her head down.
"It's all right! Just press your palm in the center of the silver plate." Taoist Xuanhan took the little girl to the "five elements spirit measuring plate" and said softly.
"Hmm!" the little girl nodded, wiped her uncut right hand on the clean part of her coat, and summoned up the courage to press the palm of her hand on the silver plate.
The central area of the "five elements spirit measuring plate" first appeared white. After a few moments, a large circle of blue water light suddenly lit up on the outer ring of the silver plate. Taoist Xuanhan couldn't help nodding and showing a smile when he saw this scene.
"Oh!"
"Oh, my God! Look! The magic weapon lights up blue!"
"It's really selected. The little girl is so lucky!"
"Which family? It looks like the child of a poor family."
……
The crowd around suddenly sounded a sky shaking cry, and finally someone was pregnant with Linggen. The onlookers were as excited as if they had entered the immortal gate. The people lined up and waited for some frustrated people were also shocked all over and turned happy.
"This girl has a single spiritual root of water system and is destined to our sect. I will take her into our immortal gate on behalf of the sect." Taoist Xuanhan announced loudly to the audience.
"What's your name? Go down to rest with your sister and go!" Tang Zhi took the little girl on the stage and said kindly.
"Sister, my name is Xiao Jixiang!" the little girl looked red and followed Tang Zhi. Although her little head didn't quite understand what the spiritual root was, she was still a little confused, but she also knew that she seemed to be able to cultivate immortality and should no longer be beaten and scolded.
Outside the back door of the Taoist temple, the fat member has been silly. How can such a smelly girl have spiritual roots? The Yamen guards guarding the back door looked at the immortal Master Liu not far away. The immortal master changed and saw that the little girl had spiritual roots. She was really an immortal!
Although Liu Yu had a straight face and remained unchanged, he was very surprised and relieved. Naturally, he could not see who had spiritual roots, and he was not really an immortal. It was just that the little girl was so pathetic that she moved her heart and said something to give her a chance.
Because if she misses today, she may miss her life. If she comes from a family like her, she may not have the chance to change her life.