Chapter 74

Returning to Lujia Town, everyone went to sleep, but Fang Yun did not. Instead, he silently read the classics of the sages in the Wondrous Book World.

Fang Yun would not let up for a moment, for the classics and thoughts of the sages were the foundation. Without a solid foundation, the more poems one wrote, the greater the hidden dangers.

Fang Yun studied until seven in the morning before going to sleep. At nine, he got up with everyone else.

Fang Yun entered the Literary Palace and was delighted to find that his talent had become more condensed, the literary gall vortex had sped up again, and even the Literary Palace had become more solid.

"Although I experienced battle yesterday and gained some insights, and even killed demons with my own hands, how could the Literary Palace also be reinforced? Could it be that the human race's credit for finding demons, which was attributed to me, has strengthened my Literary Palace?"

Fang Yun did not think much about it, only feeling that the chance of becoming a Scholar before the Sage had increased.

After breakfast, everyone set out again, this time heading to the area where they had spotted demons during the day.

With Nunu, finding demons during the day was very easy, but there were few demons during the day, and they only managed to kill nine in the end.

The Scholar class of the Prefecture Literary Academy, with Lujia Town as the center, slowly hunted demons over the next few days. Unfortunately, the number of demons increased day by day. On the fourth night, they were busy all night and only managed to kill one pig demon.

Since demon hunting usually lasted ten days, everyone discussed for half an hour and ultimately decided to leave Lujia Town and head deeper into Zeshan Mountain. Every ten to fifteen days, the demons in Zeshan Mountain would come down the mountain to attack lone people or livestock. Now, very few demons dared to attack villages.

Before leaving, some people from Lujia Town came to see them off. The student named An Chengcai, who had caught a cold, could not appear and asked the town mayor to thank the students for killing demons on his behalf.

Everyone hired people from Lujia Town as drivers and rode in armored ox carts to the foot of Zeshan Mountain, then each carried four days' worth of food and necessary items into the mountain.

For the next three days, they would eat and sleep in the mountain, returning on the fourth day.

This was the first time the Scholar class had entered the mountain to kill demons, and they were all excited. Fang Yun, after several days of training, had become more experienced.

Fang Yun did not just observe; starting from the second day, he sought advice from Liang Wuzhang, the best archer among the bowmen, and began practicing archery. After only three days of practice, except for his timing, which was not as good as the veterans, his archery strength and accuracy had surpassed all the bowmen. Everyone thought he had a natural talent for archery.

However, Fang Yun knew that the accuracy of his archery was due to the literary gall vortex. The literary gall was the pure spiritual force of a literatus, and those with a literary gall were very different from those without.

Although Fang Yun only had a literary gall vortex, it was enough to give him a clearer target and more precise perception than ordinary bowmen.

"Archery" was one of the six arts of a gentleman, and both archery and arrow shooting belonged to it. These scholars and candidates had all learned it at the county or prefecture literary academies. Only Fang Yun, who had entered the prefecture literary academy directly from the middle school, had not.

However, the most valuable thing Fang Yun gained these days was not archery experience but the discovery of another benefit of the Wondrous Book World.

He could study the books while walking!

Although the efficiency of reading while walking was only half of normal, it was still much better than not reading at all.

Fang Yun originally thought it might take him a long time to break through from a student to a Scholar, but after continuously studying the classics of the sages, participating in demon hunting battles, and observing Scholars using paper soldiers, he felt that he might become a Scholar before the Sage soon.

Li Wenying had already ordered all the academies and private schools in Jiangzhou to teach the "Three-Character Classic," and the Xuanting Bookstore was already selling "The Western Chamber" and "The Pillow Record" throughout the Ten Kingdoms. Various calligraphy and painting shops were also selling "The Inscription of a Humble Abode," causing the Literary Palace stars formed by these famous works to grow at an unimaginable speed. The starlight shone on Fang Yun's talent, making his already full ten-inch student talent have the potential to burst at any moment.

The team entered the mountain around two in the afternoon. After walking for fifteen minutes, they encountered demons and began killing them all the way until evening. They stopped to tally their results and found that they had killed thirty-seven demons in just one afternoon.

After dinner, they continued to hunt demons. Fang Yun almost became a demon killer, averaging five arrows to kill one demon, and even shot an arrow directly into the mouth of a demon soldier, pinning it to a tree.

By midnight, everyone was exhausted and had to retreat, finding a cave where demons had once lived to spend the night.

Fang Yun, who only slept for two hours a day, volunteered to keep watch until five in the morning. The group arranged for him and Liang Wuzhang to take the night watch.

Fang Yun and Liang Wuzhang sat on either side of the cave entrance, quietly watching outside.

Liang Wuzhang was taciturn, mostly staring at the dark blue sky and stars, occasionally glancing at the dark forest outside the cave.

Fang Yun, on the other hand, calmly used the Wondrous Book World to read the classics of the sages. After so many days, he had already bought all the collections of the sages and all the monthly issues of "The Sage's Way."

Books that ordinary people would not finish reading until they were at least thirty years old had been quickly browsed by Fang Yun, allowing him to understand the thoughts of the sages, which was an important reason for the rapid and stable growth of his talent.

Around three in the morning, the eastern sky began to show a faint brightness. Fang Yun suddenly opened his eyes, a broad smile appearing on his face. He immediately took a deep breath to adjust his emotions and said to Liang Wuzhang, "Brother Liang, my stomach is a bit uncomfortable. I'll go outside to relieve myself."

Liang Wuzhang stood up and asked, "Do you need me to keep watch for you?"

Fang Yun pointed to the sleeping Nunu and said, "It's better than anything else."

"True, go ahead. I'll be careful."

Fang Yun thanked Liang Wuzhang, picked up Nunu, and quickly left, pretending to go to the bathroom.

After circling around a few trees and moving away from the cave entrance, in a place where no one could see him, Fang Yun put Nunu on the ground, leaned against a large tree that two people could barely hug, closed his eyes, and entered the Literary Palace.

The talent and literary gall vortex in the Literary Palace had undergone significant changes.

The fine, ten-inch student talent was continuously expanding and contracting, each expansion reaching the thickness of a thumb, and each contraction becoming finer than a hair.

The literary gall vortex was even more remarkable. Previously, Fang Yun could still see the vortex composed of tiny starlight, but now it was spinning so fast that it appeared as lines in his eyes, and it was gradually shrinking, converging towards the center.

Fang Yun did not move, as the most taboo thing during a rank breakthrough was external interference. No pills could help one break through; it could only happen when one's cultivation was sufficient, and the water would naturally flow.

Fang Yun waited quietly in the Literary Palace. Suddenly, the ten-inch student talent exploded, emitting an orange light that illuminated the entire Literary Palace. Fang Yun felt as if he were in a hot spring, extremely comfortable.

Fang Yun knew that the next step was for all the orange light to converge and re-form into a one-inch Scholar talent.

However, no matter how long he waited, the orange light did not move.

"What's going on? Can the promotion to a Scholar before the Sage also be stuck? Is heaven against me?" Fang Yun had a bad feeling.

At the same time, the brightest star in the night sky, the Literary Star, suddenly became brighter, surpassing the full moon in brightness. It then moved slightly, emitting a sound that every life form on the Holy Yuan Continent could hear.

The sound was extremely unique, with the weight of a large bell, the clarity of jade, the mellowness of a zither, and an unparalleled majesty, as if the only sovereign of the world were issuing a command.

Whether in the Ten Kingdoms, the Three Barbarians, the Four Seas, the Five Demon Mountains, or the demon world connected to the Five Demon Mountains, countless humans, demons, and barbarians were awakened by the movement of the Literary Star.

Nunu immediately jumped up, looking around alertly, then raised her head to gaze at the particularly bright Literary Star, fear appearing in her eyes. She then looked at Fang Yun, her small mouth opening in surprise, and she blinked continuously.

Subsequently, a vast and majestic force crossed a great distance and entered Fang Yun's head.

Fang Yun thought it was the descent of talent, but suddenly, his whole body was wracked with pain, as if his soul were being torn apart. He then found that the Literary Palace hall, his statue, the Literary Palace starry sky, and the literary gall vortex had all instantly turned into the smallest particles, and if they were any smaller, they would have turned into nothingness.

"Am I going to die?"

Fang Yun's vision went black, and he lost consciousness. He did not know how long it had been before he found himself still alive, and everything in the Literary Palace had returned to its original state. The orange light had not yet condensed into Scholar talent, and everything seemed like an illusion.

Suddenly, the sound came again, even louder than the first, as the Literary Star moved for the second time.

Fang Yun once again fell into a painful unconsciousness.

Not long after, Fang Yun woke up again, the intense pain almost making him curse. He wanted to know what was happening, but before he could think more, the Literary Star moved for the third time.

Fang Yun fell unconscious again.

Fang Yun woke up.

The Literary Star moved for the fourth time.

Fang Yun fell unconscious for the fourth time.

When Fang Yun woke up for the fourth time, he was numb. He had made all the preparations to become a Scholar, read a large amount of material, and asked the five Scholars in his class, but none of them had mentioned that becoming a Scholar would involve such great pain.

Everyone said it was very comfortable.

The Literary Star moved for the fifth time.

Fang Yun fell unconscious again.

At this moment, countless humans, demons, and barbarians were looking at the Literary Star in the sky.

When a Half-Sage became a Sage, the Literary Star moved only three times, but this time, it moved five times.

"Which powerful new Half-Sage has become a Sage?" countless people wondered.

"Is Yi Zhishi becoming a Sage?" many people with ranks speculated.

In the Wu Kingdom.

Yi Zhishi sat up from his dream, rushed out, and created a large hole in the door, running to the courtyard and looking up at the sky.

"Who has become a Sage with five movements of the Literary Star!" Yi Zhishi was extremely shocked.

"No! There is no sound of ten thousand bells, so it's not becoming a Sage! Could it be becoming a Great Confucian? No, when a Great Confucian is formed, their talent reaches the sky, and all those above the rank of University Scholar can sense it! Could someone have just become a University Scholar and triggered five movements of the Literary Star? Impossible! When I became a University Scholar, the Literary Star only moved once!"

Yi Zhishi, who was in his forties and had a handsome face, looked slightly terrifying, but he quickly regained his usual calm and composure.

"What a terrifying five movements of the Literary Star, almost making my literary gall unstable. Who is it?"

At the Kong Family's villa at the foot of Daofeng Mountain.

An eighty-year-old man calmly looked at the Literary Star, but a hint of unmasked shock could be seen in his eyes.

He then exhaled heavily, and the breath from his nose immediately turned into a series of light golden names, floating in the air. These were the names of all the University Scholars, including Li Wenying's name.

Then, these names fell one by one, finally disappearing on the ground.

"No one has become a new University Scholar."

The old man blew forward, and more names floated in the air, all of them Academicians, and they fell one by one just like before.

"No one has become a new Academician."

"Strange!" The old man shook his head, his eyes filled with cold vigilance, and he slowly turned back, looking no different from an ordinary old man.

A new week, please give me recommendation tickets. o(∩_∩)o

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