The Otherworldly God

After being granted a month's rest, the three finally embarked on the journey of becoming apprentice Taoists and put on new clothes.

"To be honest, this dress is really ugly. A bunch of people are wearing it. It's stupid."

"When you entered the freshman school, I think you wore the same clothes, right? But you didn't like to wear them, so you were punished by the training master several times for this. Do you remember?"

"Won't she just ignore it later?"

"You are now an apprentice Taoist priest, so don't cause any trouble. Doctor Baizhi just reminded us."

"Okay. Hey Qi Ming, I think this dress suits you quite well, but I think it looks better on Yu Hua."

"They're all the same, what's the difference?"

“People are different.”

"Ahem, it's different. Let's go."

There are five levels of Taoist priests: Taoist novice, Taoist apprentice, Taoist intern, Taoist priest, and Taoist master. Among them, Taoist apprentices and Taoist interns are collectively referred to as Taoist sons.

Daochu are also called newcomers. They are taught uniformly by the training center. They cannot learn the law yet. They mostly learn some history, rules, etc. After passing the assessment, they can officially start learning the law and are called apprentice Taoists.

Apprentice Taoists can enter Taoist halls or Taoist training centers (both belong to the Taoist Institute). Although the magic spells they are exposed to are relatively basic, they are quite extensive. How far they can learn depends on the individual.

After worshipping a master, one can learn more advanced spells, but will tend to focus on the spells that one's master is good at. One can also take on tasks under the guidance of the master and earn internship points, which is called an intern Taoist priest.

Only those who meet the internship score requirements can proceed to the next Taoist assessment. This is set by the Taoist Alliance with unified standards. There is an assessment every year. Those who pass will be granted the rank of Taoist, which means they are independent.

There is an advancement ceremony for new Taoist apprentices. This ceremony is very important and grand. The head of the family, Aunt Fang and other teachers from the teaching center must attend, and new students are not allowed to be absent without special reasons.

The three of them were not required to attend due to health reasons, and the main reason was that no one notified them at all.

So today, Le Zheng Sihui specially asked all the new Taoist apprentices to gather in the open space in front of the school to hold a small ceremony for them. It seemed to be caring for them, but in fact it was to attract hatred for them.

Many people were already dissatisfied with their privilege of resting for a month to recover from their injuries, and were even more dissatisfied with their not attending the ceremony. Now they had to come to make up for it early in the morning. Seeing the dissatisfaction in the eyes of many newcomers, Le Zheng Sihui couldn't help but smile proudly.

Because they took the assessment a few years later, they inevitably stood out among the newcomers who came in at the same time, especially since Le Zheng Yuhua and Le Zheng were both famous. Le Zheng's petite and beautiful appearance was not so bad.

"From now on, all your actions will be subject to stricter requirements than before. You must ensure that you do not do anything that will embarrass Le Zheng. Work hard to move forward as a true Taoist, and strive to become a Taoist who defends the righteousness of the world.

I don't need to say anything else, and I won't repeat the rules. You have learned enough from the training master. The only difference I want you to remember is that in the training center, the mistakes you make can generally be forgiven or lightly punished, but it is very different in the teaching center. Do you understand what I said?"

"I understand."

"Very good, let's all go back to the Taoist Hall."

There were a total of thirty-three Taoist apprentices who passed the assessment this time, and they were divided into two Taoist halls, with a total of seventeen people in their halls.

The three of them were at the end, along with the two newcomers who had participated in the last natural danger assessment. They still nodded secretly when they saw someone looking at them. When they noticed someone was looking at them, they both looked very flustered and quickly turned their heads back.

"It seems that we have been isolated. I hope Shui Ling can remember what Doctor Bai Zhi said."

Le Zheng Qiming looked at Le Zheng Shuiling worriedly, and Le Zheng Shuiling looked back at him, as if asking, "Is there something wrong?"

Seeing her like this, Le Zheng Qiming became even more worried.

Even if one becomes an apprentice Taoist priest, it is still difficult to learn magic at the beginning. Even if one does learn magic, it is mainly based on mnemonics.

Le Zheng Shuiling dislikes textbook homework the most. She seems very impatient during class and doesn't seem to be listening to anything.

She was swaying and almost fell asleep, when suddenly something flew towards her and she stood up out of fright.

"Then you answer it."

Le Zheng Shuiling was confused. She recalled that she seemed to have read a passage just now, but she had no impression of what it was. Seeing Le Zheng Qiming pointing at the book to her, she thought it was the content of her own book.

"The great way is not to be praised, the great debate is not to be spoken, the great benevolence is not to be benevolent, the great integrity is not to be modest, the great courage is not to be jealous..."

“This is from the last two classes.”

"what?"

"Then tell me what you mean by this sentence."

"The meaning of this passage is... that is, don't talk about the great truth, don't talk about the shit, the great man is not a human being, the great integrity... the great integrity is not humble..."

Her words caused everyone to burst into laughter. Le Zheng Sihui could only sigh and shake her head, but she was actually very happy.

"After class, ask other people about what you learned earlier."

"Yes."

Le Zheng Shuiling sat down obediently. When she saw the small stone beside her, she remembered that someone had just thrown it at her. If it weren't for that person, she wouldn't have been so embarrassed.

"Don't get caught by me, or I, Le Zheng Shui Ling, will kill you."

The get out of class was finally over. As soon as Le Zheng Sihui left, several people came over and laughed at Le Zheng Shuiling for what had just happened.

"Don't talk about shit."

"Adults are not human beings."

"Hahaha, idiot."

Originally, Le Zheng Shuiling wanted to slam the table, stand up and yell at them, but Le Zheng Qiming hurriedly stopped her.

She shook off Le Zhengqiming's hand. Everyone thought she was going to fight or something, but she just said coquettishly, "I really can't do it. I'm just stupid. There's nothing I can do about it."

Le Zheng Qiming didn't know whether to be surprised or happy. His expression was twisted into a mess. He didn't know what he would think when he saw Le Zheng Shuiling like this.

Maybe because they saw that she admitted her stupidity so easily and thought it was boring, they walked away.

Le Zheng Shuiling raised her eyebrows proudly at Le Zheng Qiming.

"Medicine Baizhi's words really work."

"I thought you wouldn't listen."

"I, Le Zheng Shui Ling, am flexible." She deliberately glanced at Le Zheng Yu Hua, knowing that he didn't care about her, and didn't even look at her reasons. "I don't want Brother Yu Hua to blame himself, he must think that we are in this situation because of him."

"That's not the case. We are not popular anyway. Who told us to be fearless and just two troublemakers?"

"Not bad, not bad. It's worth it that I treat you as a good brother."

"Alas, if you didn't treat me as a good friend, I would have almost become a trainee Taoist priest now."

Le Zheng Shui Ling patted his arm.

"What are you talking about? Even if I give you five years, it's not certain that you can successfully become a Taoist apprentice."

"That may not be possible in the next five years. Isn't it even more hopeless now?"

"Bah, you crow's mouth. If there was no hope and you didn't go, Brother Yuhua and I wouldn't wait for you."

"No, aren't we three together? Speaking of which, we are quite lucky that we were not separated and are able to be in the same temple."

"Yes, it would be nice if we could have the same master."

"Yeah, what do you think?"

"Well, I think Master Feixu is good."

"I guess there's no chance."

"We'll talk about it later. We still have a few years to stay in this teaching post. Go back and sit down. Class is about to start."

Before Le Zheng Qiming walked back to his seat, others had already hurriedly sat down. Until he saw Le Zhengbo coming from a distance, he sat down in one second.