Chapter 82

County Magistrate He turned back and glanced at the fleeing snake demon. He gritted his teeth and continued to chase, relying on the poem of swift travel. The importance of the great scholar's defamatory writing was too great; even if some people were to die, it would be worth it.

"Watch out for the demon turtle!"

Fang Yun retreated with the scholars.

"You will all die!" The demon turtle roared in demon language, suddenly spewing a stream of dark green blood. The blood instantly turned into a poisonous fog, spreading over a hundred feet, enveloping everyone.

"Oh no!"

Chen Xibi suddenly waved his literary treasure pen. The brush pen flashed with a strange light, and three tornadoes, each several dozen feet high, rose from the ground, dispersing the poisonous fog.

However, the poisonous fog was too fast, not only enveloping over a hundred demon clans but also hundreds of human soldiers and candidates.

The candidates either used their literary treasures or recited poems like "The Great Wind Rises," immediately creating small winds to disperse the nearby poisonous fog.

The soldiers suddenly screamed. Although the protective armor of "With You in the Same Robe" was powerful, the source of the poisonous fog was the snake demon's venom. The protective armor quickly dissipated, and the poisonous fog entered their skin, causing incurable snake venom to enter their bodies.

Over a hundred soldiers screamed for two or three times before dying.

The people behind were horrified, especially the more than ten students who had never truly been on a battlefield. Their faces turned pale as over a hundred living people suddenly died. The real battlefield was too cruel.

Before the poisonous fog dissipated, the demon turtle suddenly used another demon technique, sending a larger wave of water. This wave also contained snake venom, and anyone below the rank of a graduate would die if poisoned.

"Use literary treasures to intercept the wave!"

"Everyone, climb the trees and don't let the water touch your bodies!"

Mr. Wang, holding a graduate's literary treasure, shouted, "Everyone, come close to me!"

Fang Yun and the others nearby rushed to Mr. Wang. Then, Mr. Wang's graduate literary treasure emitted a green light, reciting a battle poem by a semi-saint, "Praising the Osmanthus Tree." A large green tree shadow rose from the ground, enveloping everyone within ten feet.

Those under the tree shadow looked forward and saw Chen Xibi using three tornadoes to collide with the massive wave, while other candidates used "The Blue Wave" to summon waves to collide with the demon turtle's wave.

"Boom, boom, boom..."

Water mist exploded everywhere, and the demon turtle's wave attack finally slowed down.

The demon turtle's wave used the power of a pseudo-dragon pearl, which was not just a demon technique but a flood of water like a breached river. Without a dozen candidates, it would be impossible to block it. Fortunately, Chen Xibi was there, and his three tornadoes rooted in the wave, creating a water suction phenomenon, drawing a large amount of water into the sky.

Everyone tried to look forward, but their view was blocked by the water mist and tornadoes, unable to see what the demon turtle was doing.

Suddenly, a fist-sized water-colored sphere shot through the water mist and tornadoes at an incredible speed, like a meteor, flying toward Chen Xibi. The sphere carried terrifying power, and a loud explosion followed, plowing a deep trench in the ground.

"Pseudo-dragon pearl!"

Everyone was shocked, not expecting the demon turtle to be so treacherous, using the fog to interfere with their vision and the wave to conceal the process of using the pseudo-dragon pearl. Now the pseudo-dragon pearl was approaching, moving too fast, even a scholar could not avoid it, and only a university scholar could escape unscathed.

Chen Xibi did not expect the demon turtle to be so decisive, using its strongest killing move right after the first encounter.

Chen Xibi immediately released a graduate's literary treasure for protection and tried his best to dodge, but the pseudo-dragon pearl still penetrated the literary treasure's protection and hit his left shoulder.

Blood spurted out, and Chen Xibi flew like a broken kite, his left arm severed at the shoulder.

Everyone saw a large gap in Chen Xibi's left shoulder, and those with good eyesight could see his heart beating through the wound.

If Chen Xibi were not a graduate, he would have died, but now the talent in his literary palace activated, drawing the surrounding elemental energy to seal the wound.

Chen Xibi fell heavily to the ground, and a nearby candidate quickly picked him up. Then, the poisonous water rushed over.

Many people either climbed trees or rushed into the osmanthus tree shadow.

Wherever the poisonous water passed, no grass grew. When the poisonous water touched the osmanthus tree shadow, it immediately split and was gradually absorbed by the ground.

The ground was wet everywhere, and many candidates stood on tree branches, fully alert, watching the demon turtle in front.

The demon turtle had expelled most of the snake venom, turned back, and saw the snake demon fighting with County Magistrate He. It then looked at the unconscious Chen Xibi, a greedy look flashing in its eyes.

"Since you made me use the dragon pearl, I will eat you for nourishment! A graduate, so many candidates and scholars, eating you will be enough to make me immediately advance to a demon general. Then I will hide in the dragon palace, and Li Wenying won't find me!" The demon turtle said, rushing toward the candidate holding Chen Xibi, but its speed was much slower than before, as using the pseudo-dragon pearl and being poisoned had greatly reduced its strength.

The candidates did not run away because they all knew that once Chen Xibi was unconscious, no one together could kill this demon turtle, which had a pseudo-dragon pearl.

A candidate lieutenant shouted loudly, "You carry the adult and run, the students of the literary institute, you also run! All soldiers, kill the demon with me! Where I stand, righteousness exists, my blood turns green, and I exchange ten years of life for the righteous energy of heaven and earth!"

The lieutenant suddenly slapped his left chest, spewing a mouthful of blood mist. The red blood mist immediately turned into large characters, forming the famous "The Great Wind Rises."

The great wind rises, and the clouds fly, the power extends to the sea, and I return home, where can I find brave warriors to guard the four directions!

These red characters quickly turned into pieces of green jade, flying toward the demon turtle.

The lieutenant's hair instantly turned half white, and his skin visibly aged.

"A human madman!" The demon turtle, as if seeing a ghost, hurriedly dodged.

The green jade characters collided with each other, making a tinkling sound, then turned into a green jade tornado. The face of the lieutenant appeared in the tornado, which moved toward the demon turtle at twice the speed of a regular "The Great Wind Rises."

Unlike the ordinary "The Great Wind Rises" tornado, this one contained a force that made the demon clan tremble, a faint righteous energy.

At the same time, this faint righteous energy spread in all directions, and every person with a literary rank felt their talent increasing. If they wrote battle poems, their power would increase by at least ten percent.

Everyone who saw this scene felt their blood boil. Those soldiers who were originally afraid of death either jumped down from the trees or walked out of the osmanthus tree shadow, holding weapons and rushing forward.

"My life is enough to block the demon turtle for a moment! Candidates, it's up to you!" A soldier held a shield and stepped forward, his steps steady.

"I can hold for two moments!" A scholar kept shooting arrows at the demon turtle.

An old soldier with a spear stood in front of a candidate.

"Green blood, loyal heart." Fang Yun muttered to himself, now finally understanding why the human race could stand firm on the Holy Yuan Continent for thousands of years.

With these brave warriors who even the demon clan fears, how could the human race be defeated!

The green tornado finally hit the demon turtle, but the turtle pulled its head and limbs into its shell, which emitted a faint blood light. The tornado scraped the shell, making a rustling sound, and even some fine powder was scraped off, but it could not hurt the demon turtle.

After five moments, the tornado disappeared, and the demon turtle, unharmed, poked its head out, opened its mouth, and showed a row of sharp teeth, its eyes wide with anger.

"The righteous energy hurts me so much! If I hadn't used demon blood to protect myself, my precious shell would have been damaged! None of you will escape, die!" The demon turtle suddenly opened its mouth wide.

Another candidate lieutenant shouted, "Run, it's a dragon roar!"

It was already too late.

"Ao..."

A dragon roar filled with grandeur and authority spewed from the demon turtle's mouth, turning into three waves of air that rolled in all directions. This was not water but sound, and no one could escape.

The first wave of air swept past, breaking large trees, and the protective power of the candidates' literary treasures was on the verge of collapse. The osmanthus tree shadow formed by Mr. Wang's graduate literary treasure trembled.

Those soldiers, child scholars, and scholars without literary treasures or insufficient protection were immediately knocked unconscious by the air wave.

The second wave of air followed, and the candidates' protective power collapsed. Many candidates were hit by the air wave and suffered minor injuries, and those who were previously unconscious were killed.

Cracks appeared in the osmanthus tree shadow where Fang Yun was.

The third wave of air did not have a chance to take effect when the famous tune "High Mountain" by Yu Boya suddenly sounded from behind. Fang Yun turned back to look.

He saw a candidate at the rear, a military instructor, with a zither floating in front of him. His hands gently played, and beautiful music leaped, forming a mountain shadow between the demon turtle and the people.

"Boom!"

The third wave of the dragon roar collided with "High Mountain," creating a loud noise and sending dust flying.

Fang Yun looked around; all the trees within a hundred feet were broken. Except for the candidates, everyone outside the osmanthus tree shadow was killed by the demon turtle's dragon roar.

There were four hundred people when they came, but now there were fewer than a hundred.

Fang Yun clenched his fists tightly.

Mr. Wang suddenly said, "Students, run immediately, leave this to us!"

Mr. Wang said, then suddenly moved forward, shouting as he walked, "Where I stand, righteousness exists, my blood turns green, and I exchange ten years of life for the righteous energy of heaven and earth!"

A mouthful of blood spewed out, and this time, the blood turned into the protective poem "With You in the Same Robe" instead of a poem to kill enemies.

Mr. Wang's "With You in the Same Robe" already had a poetic soul, and now, with the green blood and loyal heart, it was close to the legendary saint soul.

The green jade characters exploded, emitting the sound of a thousand troops, turning into green jade energy armor, landing on everyone. A thin layer of flame covered the surface of each armor, and the demon soldiers and civilians just looking at it felt their eyes sting and tears flow.

The protective ability of this green jade armor was no less than a "Mountain Assignment" poem.

The second burst of the green blood and loyal heart's power made all the scholars feel an even stronger righteous energy.

The demon turtle hesitated for a moment, its eyes landing on the unconscious Chen Xibi.

A graduate's talent comes from the Literary Star, and while demons can absorb power from the moon and other stars, they cannot directly absorb the power of the Literary Star. However, they can gain strength by eating people with literary ranks.

A graduate's body is a treasure to any demon general.

"For the Dragon Platform..." The demon turtle charged toward the candidate holding Chen Xibi again.

"Stop him!"

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