"Hua Xi, 15 years old, Qinghuai Ladies College, Level 12 of the Fire-observing State, from Taiyi City."
"Chen Zhiqiao, 17 years old, Ciban University, Level 10 of Fire-observing State, from Ciban Special City."
"Mo Zong, 18 years old, affiliated university of the base, Golden State, from District 2."
As a main preacher introduced them, three young girls who would participate in the selection of female priests walked in from outside the praying hall and headed toward the grand hall along the long platform carved with complicated patterns. On the surface, the order of these female priestess candidates was random, but everyone knew that there was a problem. This was because the two girls, Hua Xi and Mo Zong, were the candidates that were highly favored this time.
"Jiang Yuxia, sixteen years old, studying at the Institute of Divinity and an exchange student at the University of Stargate. She is in the Golden State and comes from a priest clan."
As expected, the fourth person introduced the most popular candidate for the selection of the female priest.
Countless gazes landed on the black-haired girl who had a serene temperament and walked silently.
It wasn't until today that many people learned that she had the direct bloodline of the priest clan. The teachers and students of the University of Stargate and the Divinity Institute couldn't help but scream in surprise.
Following the voice of the main preacher, the candidates entered the praying hall one after another, walking forward along the long platform.
No matter how much attention was focused on them, they remained calm and undisturbed.
A total of 100 candidates for the Priestess selection were selected from the primaries of the various districts of the planet.
The names, realms, educational backgrounds, and even family backgrounds of these 100 girls had long been reported by various news media. There were no secrets at all.
As the name of Zong Lizi appeared, it drew the attention of many people.
"Zong Lizi, sixteen years old, studying at the New Era Institute and an exchange student at the University of Stargate. She is at the eleventh level of the Fire-Observing State, from the Mingshen Neighborhood."
For many years, the people living in the dark and boring underground streets all wanted to change their living environment and social class, and they had put in a lot of effort to do so.
Becoming a priestess was undoubtedly the simplest and most beautiful method. There had been many brave girls in history.
Unfortunately, dreams were always so weak when compared to reality.
Without the guidance of a famous teacher, without the input of knowledge, without the relevant etiquette training, and without any help, none of the girls from the underground district passed the preliminaries.
Finally, one appeared this year.
However, she was not the most popular candidate. The three girls, Jiang Yuxia, Mo Zong and Hua Xi, were the most likely candidates to become the next female priest.
Mo Zong and Hua Xi both had extraordinary family backgrounds. The former was the daughter of an aristocratic family, and her family owned the largest resource transportation company on this planet.
The latter was even more impressive. It was said that he was a distant relative of the Hua Family of the Main Planet.
Their lives were very similar to Jiang Yixia's. After they showed their outstanding talents and potential, they were trained by their families to become the new priestesses.
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Thousands of gazes were fixed on the long platform in the praying hall.
Hundreds of thousands of eyes looked at the image in the night sky.
Hundreds of millions of people were watching the screens at home or on the streets.
The whole planet was paying close attention to the praying hall in the deep part of the prairie and the selection of the female priest.
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A worker was suspended from the alloy cliff wall between the four-story platform and the five-story platform below the eastern rift valley.
His right hand quickly tapped on the touch screen, controlling more than a hundred drones to repair the cliff.
Dirty water leaked out from the cracks in the alloy plate not far below, dripping onto the remaining magma walls. It should not have fallen into the Chaoyang Underground Block, which was known for its harsh conditions, but the stench still spread.
The worker was watching the light screen on his left wrist attentively, paying no attention to the stench. As Jiang Yuxia appeared, his heart shrank a bit. He thought that the black hair was right in front of him and that the beautiful girl was walking toward him. His right hand trembled reflexively. Pah!!!
With a muffled bang, a drone crashed into the alloy structure, burst into countless sparks, and then rolled down on its own.
The worker glanced at the drone helplessly, thinking that he would have to make another report. Then, he resumed watching the live broadcast on the light screen.
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There was a community on the seventh level below the rift valley in Shou 'er City.
The New Era Institute was on the seventh level, and it was even lower on the cliff wall. To put it more precisely, it was on the seventh and a half level.
The students didn't leave the institute after school ended that day. They watched TV together in the canteen under the leadership of the fat president.
The TV was showing the selection of the female priest. As the camera turned to Zong Lizi and the main preacher announced that she was from the New Era Institute, cheers broke out in the canteen.
"Ah … when did Student Zong dye her hair?"
"She's so beautiful!"
"Isn't it a bit different?"
"What do you people know? She went up from here, so she will be suppressed by the people up there. If she doesn't look special, how can she be seen by others? "
"I think Student Zong's temperament has improved a lot after a few months at the University of Stargate."
"Hmm, she has a very good temperament."
Hearing the discussions of her classmates, Lu Shuiqian clenched her hands more tightly, thinking that they all said she was an emotionless iceberg when she praised her temperament. What were they thinking now?
Her line of sight fell on the light screen. Seeing Zong Lizi's red hair burning like a fire, she felt jealous and couldn't hold back her tears any longer.
She couldn't even go to the surface of the earth, to say nothing of participating in the selection of the female priest. Why could that guy do it?
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One thousand meters down from the cliff of the New Era Institute, they arrived at the Mingshen Neighborhood at the lowest level.
The conditions here were indeed much better than in the Chaoyang Underground Neighborhood. The raindrops formed by the dirty water were rarely seen here, and the wreckages of the drones falling down from the sky were rare.
There was an inconspicuous house in the darkest part of the neighborhood. Its iron door was tightly shut, devoid of windows, and a light illuminated the messy objects on the platform.
Mister Dan, who had been a fake here for forty years, pushed away the optical magnifier on his face. Hearing the faint noises outside the house, he furrowed his brows slightly, wondering what had happened.
He pushed open the iron door and walked out. He came to the street that he hadn't seen for more than ten days, and arrived at the night market by following the noises.
The usually quiet night market was quite lively that day. It turned out that the owner of the barbecue stall had moved the TV screen in his house to this place.
Mr. Dan curled his lips in disdain, thinking that these people were really a bunch of rats who had never seen the light of day. How could they get so excited just by watching TV? Just as he was about to leave, he suddenly saw a familiar face on the screen. He couldn't help but stop and wipe his glasses with his clothes. He took a few more careful looks and confirmed that it was indeed the little girl. What was going on?
"This student Zong often comes to my place to eat the barbecue and drink the wine. I could tell that this little girl was extraordinary at the time. You guys don't have the taste! "
The owner of the barbecue stall flipped the barbecue skewers and said excitedly with a cigarette in his mouth. The cigarette ash was blown off and fell on the skewers, wondering what kind of taste it would add.
The people around the barbecue stall couldn't help but laugh when they heard the owner's words. They all said that he was a big talker.
Everyone on the street knew that little girl. They all knew that she was poor and thrifty. Why would she come here to eat beef and drink wine?
Seeing that they didn't believe him, the owner of the barbecue stall was very angry. He said with a red face, "You know nothing! She has even ordered eggplant before! "
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The boss of the game hall was also smoking. His right foot was on the stool, watching the scene on the light screen with mixed feelings.
"I know this little girl. She is very obedient and very kind. Don't be fooled by her cold face. She is just pretending to be cool for those idiots."
He suddenly came to his senses and slapped the guy across the face, cursing, "How dare you steal my money! Do you want to die? "
The scoundrel fell to the ground after being slapped. "I won't dare do it again, boss," he cried while holding his head in his hands.
The boss of the game hall threw the cigarette butt to the ground forcefully and kicked him again, cursing, "How dare you steal from me! Do you think you are that devil?! "
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Zong Lizi didn't have the intention to represent the tens of thousands of poor people in the Mingshen Neighborhood or even the underground neighborhood. She didn't miss the days when she couldn't see the sunlight and the tasteless beef and eggplant. Yet, she was fully aware that she was the representative of those people in the eyes of the crowd that night.
She had been under a great deal of pressure since she registered for the selection of female priest, and she had seen many peculiar gazes, all of which originated from her identity and background.
She was of course very nervous at the moment. Even though she thought she had no chance of entering the final list of three candidates, she still wanted to perform better.
She had participated in the preliminary selection of the University of Stargate, so she had some experience. She knew that the selection of the female priest consisted of three major items. Except for the last item, the contents of the first two items were the same. They were to test the candidates' memory and Cultivation state in Cultivation. Zong Lizi had some confidence in the former, but her Cultivation state … she was at the eleventh level of the Fire-Observing State. Though she was at the level of a teacher at the New Era Institute, she was merely an ordinary one among these talented girls.
Mr. Xia began to read out the procedure. Zong Lizi grew more and more nervous. Looking at the green ceramic bowl on the table in front of her, she suddenly wished that the ceramic bowl would break into pieces so that she could delay the selection.
Jiang Yuxia could sense her emotion. She reached out her hand and patted on the back of her hand gently.
Zong Lizi let out a reluctant smile and took a deep breath. Then, she started breathing at a frequency that was most comfortable for her.
She didn't even know that this frequency was the frequency at which Jing Jiu tapped the armrest on the chair on the deck, seemingly unconsciously.
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The current female priest had been selected more than twenty years ago.
It had been many years since such an event had taken place on this planet.
Those young female candidates felt as nervous as Zong Lizi, but they concealed their nervousness very well, maintaining a calm countenance and a nonchalant demeanor.
Only those who were truly confident wouldn't feel nervous at all, like Mo Zong from the second special zone. She was the mistress of the Mo family, in the Golden State, and had gone through three rounds of gene modification. In order to become a female priest, she had trained for twelve years. She couldn't see any possibility that she wouldn't make it to the final list.
Her line of sight fell on Zong Lizi not far away. She was still calm, wearing an appropriate smile. Nobody could detect the disdain in her mind.
"Well …"
Hearing the voice by her side, Mo Zong had the impulse to frown; but she was afraid of losing her composure. She suppressed her emotion forcefully, wondering what was wrong with this little girl of the Hua family; she was always so nervous and her voice was so tender that it was disgusting.
Hua Xi was by her right side. She had a round face, a picturesque eyebrows and eyes, and a hint of childishness still lingered on her face. She looked quite adorable.
Pointing to the book on the table, the little girl said uncertainly, "Big Sister Mo, the test today is easier than the one we usually practice."
Mo Zong couldn't believe her judgment. She looked at the other book on her table and ascertained that it was a book of divinity she had never read before. "It's not difficult to memorize it temporarily," she said, "but it's definitely not that easy."
There were many ways to test one's memory. For instance, Jiang Yuxia participated in the preliminary selection of the third level, which tested the students' ability to recognize the color and the ability to read water. In comparison, it was not a difficult task for these talented girls who had undergone gene modification and knowledge input to memorize a book they had never read before in a certain amount of time.
Unless they were given very little time, but that would be fair to all the candidates.
However, the selection of female priest that night was truly interesting. It was because the rules announced next were as simple as that.
All the girls had to memorize the book within twenty minutes; those who couldn't do it would be eliminated.
Hearing this rule, those girls who were not confident in themselves felt relieved.
It was then that Jiang Yuxia suddenly said softly, "I've read this book before. Please choose another one."
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