From a Zhengyi Taoist Child to a Master of All Laws

Chapter 354: The White Cloud Taoist Temple
Wang Xin was ultimately no match for Zhao Ziyao and was beaten black and blue.

Perhaps stimulated by Yubao, Zhao Ziyao's cultivation has improved a lot in the past few months, and perhaps she has already gotten rid of the embarrassing status of being a congenital floor tile.

However, in the end, Li Yang and Chi Yanhong ignored the two guys' suggestions.

This period of time was a very ordinary one for the people on the mountain. Li Yang and Chi Yanhong discussed the affairs of the Taoist temple every day, and spent the rest of the time practicing in the back mountain, absorbing the spiritual energy of heaven and earth, in the hope of breaking through and awakening the fourth earthly magical power as soon as possible.

But for the 20 million candidates in China, every day is like a year.

As time goes by, the seven days of the sage moment gradually pass.
At 8:00 a.m. on June 15, tens of millions of candidates flooded into the official website for college admission score enquiries on time.

At 6 p.m. on the same day, the official Ministry of Education held a press conference and announced the admission score lines for Taoist temples in each province.

This is also called the college line, which is basically around 30 points above the undergraduate line.

According to statistics, there are 32.54 million candidates this year, and the passing rate for college entrance examinations is about 40%, which is much lower than the % previously estimated by major media. The total number of candidates who passed the line in various provinces is close to million.

The total number of students enrolled in all Taoist academies is still 200,000.

For the candidates who passed the line, they were naturally excited. The chance of entering the Taoist Academy would double, and three out of a hundred people could get what they wanted.

The 14 million students who failed to pass the exam were naturally shocked.

Knowing that he had no chance of becoming an immortal in this life, he immediately became angry.

The comment sections of the official blogs of the major Taoist academies, led by Baiyun Taoist Academy, were directly overwhelmed, with countless candidates venting their emotions here.

"I want to protest. Why should we be deprived of our right to cultivate immortality just because we have poor grades? This is discrimination!"

"Li Zhenjun, I really am a rare genius in cultivating immortals. Although my grades are average, I am very good at cultivating immortals. Please give me a chance."

"It's a complete shady deal, a secret operation, linking the Xiuxian Daoyuan with the college entrance examination results, which idiot came up with this!"

"I once had a purple-robed old Taoist priest teach me the Dharma in a dream. We have a predestined relationship. If you don't recruit me, it will be your loss!"

Cursing and begging, cursing and swearing, all kinds of things in the world were happening everywhere.

Various classic lines such as "Thirty years in the east, thirty years in the west, don't look down on the young and poor" are emerging in endlessly.

Fortunately, the authorities had already started laying the groundwork and taking precautions. These guys vented for two or three days before slowly beginning to accept reality.

Li Yang read the comments under the official Weibo of Baiyun Taoist Temple and just found it funny.

Thirty points above the undergraduate level is actually not high.

Besides, no matter how talented you are, if you don't have enough education, you won't be able to understand a martial arts manual even if you are given one. There's no point in recruiting you.

The public opinion about the failed students was barely suppressed here, and soon afterwards, the Taoist college application on June 20th completely occupied the attention of the entire Chinese media, and major official media followed up in real time every day.

There are two stages in the admission to the Taoist Academy, one is the pre-application application, and the other is the interview.

The application process is different from that of ordinary colleges and universities. There is no distinction between majors, only colleges. The simple application interface has only two options, one is the first choice and the other is the second choice.

In order to make it easier for students to make decisions and prevent missed opportunities, the number of first and second choices for each Taoist college is updated in real time on the official website every day.

On the first day, Baiyun Mountain planned to recruit 1,800 people, but the number of applicants for the first choice has reached 800,000, and what's even more terrifying is that this number is still rising. Everyone knows that Baiyun Taoist Temple will be very popular, but I didn't expect you to be so popular.

Even Li Yang on Baiyun Mountain was a little confused by this data.

Damn it, at the age of 18, they all claim to be the children of destiny, and they all think they are the protagonists!
It’s no wonder that Li Yang was a little confused. Eight hundred thousand people were competing for 1,800 places, and if these eight hundred thousand candidates persisted, they would enter the second interview according to the process.

Eight hundred thousand candidates gathered in Baiyun, accompanied by their parents and teachers. Nearly three million people, with their families, would flock to Shiyang Village below.

The first to be frightened were the relevant authorities, who negotiated with Li Yang overnight. Afterwards, major official media outlets broadcast recruitment promotional videos of other Taoist academies every day.

The application process started on June 20th and ended on June 25th. During these five days, with the continuous publicity from the official media and the attendance of high-ranking Taoist priests from other Taoist temples on various talk shows, some of the hot-headed guys finally came to their senses.

The number of candidates who registered for Baiyun Mountain as their first choice has decreased, but it has never fallen below 800,000.

Young people are always full of youthful vigor.

This terrifying number made the Qingcheng Taoist Temple and the Wutai Buddhist Temple feel overwhelmed, and the Thirty-Six Taoist Temples were even more unable to catch up.

The deadline was 6 p.m. on the 25th, and the statistical results of the first choice applications came out. Baiyun Taoist Temple took the lead with nearly 800,000 people, Wutai Brahma Temple ranked second with 390,000, and Qingcheng Taoist Temple ranked third with 320,000.

The difference in the number of first-choice applicants for the other thirty-six colleges was not that big. The lower twelve colleges, the middle eighteen colleges, and the upper six colleges that were discussed online before did not show a significant gap in the number of first-choice applicants.

The situation of filling in the second choice is exactly the opposite of the above data. There are only more than 30,000 people who fill in the second choice for Baiyun Taoist Temple, and Li Yang doesn't know who these gods are.

How could Li Yang have imagined that these people were betting that Baiyun Taoist Academy would recruit less than 1,800 people out of the 800,000 candidates and would start recruiting for the second choice.

When the statistics of volunteer applications are completed on the 25th, the second phase of enrollment will officially begin.

The interview times of each Taoist temple are not the same. Among them, Baiyun, Qingcheng and Wutai have the earliest interview times, which officially start on July 1st, while the interview times of other Taoist temples will be postponed for a few days.

This is also to allow those who failed to be selected in the three top colleges to have time to participate in the second choice interviews of the remaining thirty-six colleges.
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June 27th, early morning.

The days in Sichuan are long in summer, and usually they start to get light after 4 o'clock. But at this time, the sky is not yet fully bright, just like a piece of steamed cloth, dark and stuffy.

Each province and city has prepared special buses for candidates who have registered for the three major Taoist academies. In the darkness of night, hundreds of buses are traveling on the road, with their headlights on, silently moving in one direction from all directions.

The candidates, coming from different regions and with different faces, were nervous, anxious, irritated, eager, and yearning, like a growing torrent, flowing forward under the dark sky.

Inside the carriage, the candidates looked out the window at the buses in front and behind them. The atmosphere inside the car was noisy and chaotic, but slowly, it became a little quiet.

People were silent, silently looking at the long queue outside the window in the night, with more and more vehicles gathering together.

We are strangers, but our roads lead to the same direction?
On the bus from Quanzhou in southern Fujian, Chen Li and Wang Shuhuan also stared blankly outside. They had seen this scene once before.
That was the Luotian Grand Ceremony a year ago, at Mount Longhu, and a similar scene occurred.

On Mount Longhu, the Luotian Grand Ceremony thoroughly demonstrated to the entire world the miraculous world that was slowly recovering.

What will happen this time?

Wang Shuhuan didn't know, Chen Li didn't know, and all the 800,000 examinees didn't know either.

They just looked at the mountain shrouded in clouds and mist, which was faintly visible in the distance, and waited devoutly.

(End of this chapter)