The Journey of Projection Upgrading
Chapter 188: Testing

Chen An looked at the crowded scene ahead and couldn't help but fall into contemplation.

For some reason, looking at the lively scene ahead, he always had a strange sense of déjà vu.

Just like going back to the past and seeing those old men and women pushing each other for a bit of cheap discount.

Isn't it?

The scene in front of him is just like a grand sale.

Of course, in this world's situation, such a grand sale is unlikely to happen.

But even so, it is mostly a good thing.

Chen An continued to observe for a while.

Then he discovered more.

He found that among the crowded crowd in front, there were basically all kinds of people.

There were ordinary people, wealthy people, beggars, and even some warriors in unique attire.

According to the situation in this world, these people should belong to completely different classes, and if they met in normal times, they would not only not stand together, but most likely fight.

Unlike the past life, the class opposition in this world is much more severe.

Can't help it, it's a feudal society.

"What are they doing?"

Doubts aside, but for the current situation in front of him, he was very curious.

He was thinking, what kind of good thing could make so many people with different backgrounds so enthusiastic, like a big sale.

The guide quickly gave him an explanation.

"Screening."

The guide was concise and quickly gave an explanation.

It turns out that the prominent families in this world not only provide resources and manpower to the high-level practitioners, but also have the obligation to provide talent for the practitioners.

This is normal.

After all, a sect of practitioners certainly needs a continuous influx of fresh blood to operate healthily.

Otherwise, over time, the people in this sect will become fewer and fewer, how can they win in the competition with other sects?

So fresh blood is very important.

But expecting those high and mighty celestial beings to do this themselves, that's not too realistic.

After all, this job is really too annoying.

So over time, they have also played their traditional skills.

Distribution!

All the prominent families they support have the obligation to send talents to them, and there are fixed limits every year.

Those who send can receive rewards, but if they send less...

Well, there will be consequences to bear.

So the scene in front now appears like this.

Can't help it.

If it's something else, these spokesmen can still use their imagination to try to shift the burden onto the lower class people as much as possible.

But this matter cannot be deceitful.

What they want are talented seeds who have the qualifications for cultivation. Even if you try to shift the burden, can you create these people out of thin air?

To collect as many talented seeds as possible, these spokespersons are doing their best.

That's the situation.

The reason why the front is so lively is for testing qualifications.

The whole process is sponsored by the prominent families, completely free, with only one purpose, to test as many potential practitioners as possible.

For most people in the world, as long as they have the qualifications, it is equivalent to stepping into the sky, with the possibility of becoming a high-ranking celestial being in the future.

Plus it's free, so everyone is rushing, afraid of falling behind.

So the current lively scene appeared.

"The front should be the measuring point set up by the Liu family."

Looking at the lively scene ahead, the guide said with some gloating: "The relationship between their clan and the celestial beings is very distant, and there are not many good seedlings left in the clan. They can only slowly look for them from the outside, and it has been three years since they handed over enough celestial seedlings."

"If they can't hand people over again this time, I'm afraid their good days are over."

The guide was gloating, looking forward to it.

It seems that no matter where you are, envying the rich is instinctual.

Chen An, on the other hand, looked sideways.

From the situation described by the guide just now, the distribution of these celestial seedlings is gradually downward. The top is naturally the sects of practitioners.

They hand over the task to the city lords and the like, and then the city lords distribute the task to the various prominent families below.

The major prominent families distribute the task to smaller prominent families below.

Distribution step by step, sinking step by step.

Why does this seem familiar in a way?

Chen An fell into contemplation.

At the same time, he was pondering another question.

According to the current situation, potential practitioners should be considered rare in this world.

As long as you have the qualifications for cultivation, you can easily become an influential person, even being supported by various parties.

Just by looking at the current situation, if a person with the qualifications appears, the Liu family, responsible for handing over celestial seedlings, would probably be jumping with joy to complete the task.

And by coincidence, Chen An is someone with the qualifications for cultivation.

Although his qualifications may not be top-notch, at least he has them.

Just because his qualifications are not top-notch doesn't mean he shouldn't take them seriously.

And in this world, having the qualifications for cultivation is the top asset, more important than anything else.

So Chen An was thinking, should he find a place to mix in, and then try to sneak into one of the sects of practitioners?

This way has many benefits.

As part of the top class in this world, those practitioners are the ones who have the most resources and channels.

And within the sects of practitioners, there are large numbers of practitioners.

As long as he gets into a sect of practitioners, he will be able to access the most abundant resources and channels in this world.

It will be convenient for both cultivation and gathering information.

Chen An has not forgotten his goal.

He wants to cultivate, but he also wants to learn how to depict spiritual arrays.

Cultivation requires techniques and teachers, and spiritual arrays also need someone to guide him.

The nameless ancient scripture that Bai Qing gave him before is not the foundation, it only serves as a basic traction for spiritual energy. As for the specific cultivation techniques, Chen An doesn't have them on hand.

To obtain them, he needs to interact with those practitioners.

Thinking about it, becoming a celestial seedling and then mixing into those sects of practitioners is also a good choice?

Chen An pondered.

"Mr. Chen?"

In front of him, the confused voice of the guide came.

It seems that Chen An's contemplation has been going on for too long, prompting the guide to wake him up.

"Ah, it's nothing."

Chen An quickly reacted, with a smile on his face: "Let's continue exploring."

"Okay."

The guide also nodded: "Mr. Chen is from out of town, if you're willing, you can also go ahead and try in front, it's just kind of difficult to get in line."

He seemed to sense some of Chen An's thoughts, so he suggested.

"Okay."

Chen An nodded, then glanced at the long line of people in front, shaking his head: "Let's go over when there are fewer people, it's too crowded right now."

Yes, the queue in front has become a long line.

The situation, even Chen An had only seen it during the nucleic acid testing and vaccination in his past life, and he still has some lingering fears.

"But when will there be fewer people."

The guide was not convinced: "Although this testing only needs to be done once, there are always some people who are not satisfied, so even if the results are out, they still secretly come to line up."

"With so many people like this, the queue will never be short."

"Indeed."

Chen An nodded in agreement.

Then they left and walked around.

They continued to visit various areas.

While Chen An admired the scenery around him, he also gathered information.

He soon found that there were similar testing points in every corner of the city.

And each place has a long line, with basically no shortage of people.

This momentum is even crazier than when he got vaccinated in the past life.

But with this momentum, Chen An seemed to have not seen any results.

According to the guide, this testing had started several days ago, but so far, no one has found any results.

"Wasn't it said that one in two thousand people can be found?"

Chen An was puzzled.

The people who came to test today, most of them had been tested several times in the previous years, just coming for the fun of it.

Chen An suddenly realized.

It turned out that this testing is held several times every year.

In other words, as long as you are not a newcomer or a newborn with only a few years of experience, everyone else has been screened several times before.

The potential to cultivate is something you either have or you don't, it can't be developed later.

Those people who didn't get any results before can't suddenly develop the potential now.

So it's normal not to have any results.

Because those with potential had already been selected.

Only newborns and outsiders have some hope.

Even outsiders are a bit uncertain.

Because according to the temperament of this world, those outsiders in their own living place, may have been tested several times as well.

Calculating this way, it seems quite normal for the current situation to appear?

Chen An could somewhat understand the anxiety of those prominent families.

On one hand, there are fixed task indicators from above, and on the other hand, the people who have been screened over and over again from below, still need to meet the promised task, the pressure can't be small, right?

In the past life, if the company's task indicators were not met, the worst that could happen was losing your job, but in this world, if the task indicators given by the celestial beings are not met, the consequences could be losing your head!

Can they not be anxious and panic?

Chen An put himself in the shoes of those prominent families, and felt that even he would start to panic.

Can't help it.

It's crucially important, the survival of the entire family is at stake.

Fortunately, he is not one of them.

And in a way, the more serious the situation, the more beneficial it is to him.

The reason is simple.

For those prominent families, Chen An with the qualifications for cultivation is a living task indicator.

As long as he is willing to join, they would be begging for him, right?

The more anxious they are, the better treatment Chen An can expect to receive.

This is definitely a good thing.

Thinking this way, Chen An's mindset relaxed, and he walked around casually.

While collecting information about the celestial beings, he was also actively exploring information about the warriors.

This step went smoothly.

Unlike the subtle information about the celestial beings, information about the warriors was open in many ways, maybe because they had already declined and had no deterrent power, so many pieces of information were openly available.

There were similar records in many magazines and ancient books, clearly stating the decline and reasons of the warriors.

"The Heavenly Emperor oppresses the Four Sides?"

After collecting various ancient texts, when Chen An learned about this, his face was full of surprise.

He never expected that the reason would be like this.

He is not Bai Qing, he doesn't have a predecessor like the Empress Luo Shan to teach him, so he doesn't know the secret stories of cultivation.

But that doesn't stop him from being shocked.

Just like White Qing before, he never thought that there was such an existence in the world that could forcibly modify the rules of a realm.

This truly broadened his horizons.

Chen An was amazed.

Although due to the level issue, the ancient texts in his hands are limited, the descriptions of the legendary Heavenly Emperor are not very detailed. Some descriptions even seem particularly absurd.

For example, there is a description that says the Heavenly Emperor was born from the forces of nature, creating the heavens and earth, with his eyes becoming the sun and moon, and his body becoming the mountains, rivers, and oceans.

Wow, the Heavenly Emperor directly became Pangu.

This is obviously false, because Chen An is from another world.

In that world, there is no description of a Heavenly Emperor.

From this, it can be seen that the existence and influence of the Heavenly Emperor are mostly limited to this world, far from the absurd descriptions in those ancient texts.

But even so, it is frightening.

Chen An sighed.

He felt like he had fallen into a trap.

When he was in the Big Beam world before, although he couldn't cultivate immortality, he could at least practice martial arts.

Now, in a new world where the spiritual energy is active enough for cultivation, he can finally cultivate immortality, but his practice of martial arts is restricted.

In any case, it seems like there are always restrictions.

But overall, being here is better.

At least he can live longer in the future.

He is still pondering.

In the next few days, he continued to explore various areas, silently contemplating his next steps.

However, during this process, his guide changed.

Perhaps sensing Chen An's interest in Jilin City, and coincidentally having some free time, Lin Yuer volunteered to serve as Chen An's guide.

Compared to the previous guide, she was no less familiar with Jilin City, and in the past few days, she had been taking Chen An around, learning a lot of new things.

Chen An's mood is hard to say, but she seems to be quite happy.

She had a smile on her face all day long.

And after these few days of inspection, Chen An finally made a decision.

At a certain moment, he finally took a crucial step.

It was at the familiar testing point, with the familiar crowd and people bustling around, everywhere was packed.

But this time, Chen An walked straight up.

Behind him, Lin Yuer followed quickly.

(End of Chapter)

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