Almost everyone was stunned. Fang Yun had gone to great lengths to kill the imperial army. Without him, even if they didn’t fight for the Mist Butterfly, seven or eight Presented Scholars would have inevitably died. Fang Yun’s contribution even surpassed the combined efforts of the other Presented Scholars.

Yet, Liu Zizhi dared to obstruct Fang Yun from obtaining the Mist Butterfly.

“Oh?” Fang Yun looked at Liu Zizhi, his gaze was very calm, but to the other Presented Scholars, this calmness was somewhat terrifying.

Liu Zizhi’s gaze flickered slightly, as if he wanted to meet Fang Yun’s gaze, but upon seeing Fang Yun’s unusually calm gaze, he involuntarily looked away.

Yan Yukong said with a stern face, “Liu Zizhi, you’re quite scheming! If you dared to say this during the battle with the Demon Barbarians, I would have killed you. Now that you say it, I won’t take action, but I disagree!”

Li Fanming said, “The Mist Butterfly was mainly won by Fang Yun. There’s no room for negotiation on this matter. It must be given to Fang Yun!”

“Liu Zizhi, be careful in the Holy Land in the future!” Sun Naiyong clenched his fists. As a military strategist, he couldn’t stand such things.

Liu Zizhi showed no shame on his face and loudly said, “What, am I not making sense? The Mist Butterfly is a rare creature after all, how can it be treated like a slave? Since Fang Yun is a role model for scholars, he should let the Mist Butterfly choose for itself, let it willingly submit to you. Fang Yun, what do you think?”

Everyone looked at Fang Yun.

Fang Yun’s mouth curved into a somewhat playful arc, and he slowly said, “Repeated provocations, it seems someone has taken my words as wind passing by their ears. Liu Zizhi, I’ll ask you one last time, do you really want to do this? You should understand that the Mist Butterfly is ultimately mine.”

Fang Yun’s voice was resounding, and he even exuded the autumnal aura from when he played “The General’s Order”.

A flash of surprise crossed Liu Zizhi’s eyes, and then he said, “Fang Yun, your ambition lies in becoming a Semi-Saint, you are a person who will be remembered for centuries! Even if this is the Holy Land, I haven’t harmed you, if you kill me, you will bear the stain for a lifetime!”

Fang Yun suddenly lowered his eyes slightly and slowly said, “You make a good point, it’s better to let the Mist Butterfly choose.”

A victorious smile appeared on Liu Zizhi’s face, his gaze even revealed a hint of disdain. It was as if he was looking at a foolish scholar, and then he wanted to take something out of his Swallowed Lake Pearl.

Many Presented Scholars showed disappointment, even Niu Shan, who was standing next to Fang Yun, was somewhat dejected.

However, Fang Yun pointed at Liu Zizhi.

“Niu Shan. Kill him!”

The Demon Barbarians led by Niu Shan quickly rushed towards Liu Zizhi. The distance between the two sides was less than one zhang (3.3 meters), and Liu Zizhi didn’t even have time to use his defensive Treasures of Literature. He was split in half by Niu Shan’s axe.

His body fell to both sides, his brain, internal organs, intestines, and blood splattered out.

All the Presented Scholars suddenly realized. Fang Yun let the Mist Butterfly choose, but, the Mist Butterfly would never choose Liu Zizhi!

At this moment, all the Presented Scholars had the same thought.

They needed to reevaluate Fang Yun!

“Well done!” Sun Naiyong and Li Fanming couldn’t help but say.

The astonished expression on Liu Zizhi’s face was split in two, and he didn’t understand why Fang Yun was so decisive until his death.

In the last moment of his life, Liu Zizhi saw Fang Yun suddenly take out an Imperial Scholar’s Treasure of Literature. The sound of the defensive War Poetry “Ode to the Osmanthus Tree” echoed in the air, and a semi-transparent image of an osmanthus tree enveloped Fang Yun, forming a powerful defensive force.

“You think too highly of yourself, you’re not worth me bearing a stain. You don’t even have the courage to confront me directly in the Holy Land, unless someone gives you that courage. Right, Tyrant?”

Fang Yun didn’t look at Liu Zizhi’s corpse, but at the spirit beast next to Liu Zizhi. It wasn’t a spirit leopard, but a spirit dog.

From beginning to end, that spirit dog was no different from other spirit beasts, and Fang Yun had never paid it any extra attention.

The spirit dog’s body shuddered, and it turned and fled, a Treasure of Literature of an Imperial Scholar appearing in its mouth. The power of the swift-moving poem allowed it to run quickly.

However, Fang Yun had exchanged seven Swallowed Lake Pearls from the spirit bone, and he had quite a few Treasures of Literature of an Imperial Scholar in his hand.

A Town Paper appeared in Fang Yun’s hand, and then projected a semi-transparent mountain. The mountain stretched for a mile, with smooth and straight walls, blocking the Tyrant’s path.

“If you don’t have a treasure to escape, you might as well die here.” Fang Yun said.

At this moment, everyone understood that with Liu Zizhi’s strength and intelligence, he would never repeatedly provoke Fang Yun after encountering him in the Holy Land. He wasn’t a disciple of a Sub-Sage Prominent Family like Xun Ye, but Liu Zizhi did just that, so he must have had some reliance. However, they still couldn’t figure out how Fang Yun could guess that the Tyrant’s divided spirit had possessed that spirit dog.

Yan Yukong said coldly, “Tyrant, if you only target Fang Yun, I will only stop you and won’t kill you. But you actually tried to sow discord secretly, don’t leave today! Kill!”

Yan Yukong gave the order, and the other Presented Scholars had no choice but to take action, although some were slower and some were faster.

The spirit dog was terrified, and a Saint Page was spat out from the Drinking Pearl of the River in its mouth. The Saint Page self-ignited, and a ball of white light suddenly appeared around it, ready to turn into light and leave.

“Hmph!” A drop of red and purple blood appeared in front of Yan Yukong. The blood condensed into a round blood bead in the air. As soon as this drop of blood appeared, the surrounding Presented Scholars didn’t feel anything unusual, but the Demon King not far away was so scared that its hair stood on end and it quickly retreated. The Mist Butterfly even fell to the ground, covering its head with its pink wings, shivering.

Fang Yun saw that within the droplet of blood, there was a tiny ancient sword of talent. The color of this ancient sword was very unique. It was neither the white ancient sword of the ordinary Imperial Scholars, nor the bronze color of some Hanlin Scholars, nor even the blood-dripping ancient sword of Li Wenying. Instead, it was a War of Words sword covered with rust.

This War of Words sword absorbed the purple-red blood droplet and quickly expanded, slashing directly at the Tyrant.

As soon as this rusty ancient sword appeared, the white light around the Tyrant was suppressed, and he couldn’t escape.

At the same time, a strange wind blew wildly in the sky. An invisible and colorless strange wind descended from the sky, blowing towards the rusty ancient sword.

However, the rusty ancient sword was too close to the Tyrant. It was bound to hit the Tyrant before the strange wind arrived.

“Semi-Saint ancient sword, such a decisive Semi-Saint disciple, such a top Presented Scholar in the world! Yan Yukong, this grudge is settled!” The Tyrant said, while five purple-red blood beads appeared in front of him. However, his blood beads were not as bright as Yan Yukong’s, and there was a faint sense of decay.

The five blood beads turned into five large hands stacked together, blocking Yan Yukong’s ancient sword. The white light around the Tyrant surged, and he was about to escape again.

“I’ve always disliked you!” Sun Naiyong shouted, a page of the saint in front of him burned, and a strange power fell on the Tyrant. It not only broke the Tyrant’s white light and the power of the War Poetry, but also made the spirit dog’s body shake, distracting the Tyrant’s control over the spirit dog.

“Bastard!” The Tyrant couldn’t help but curse. He was not the main body, even if he was fully prepared, he was facing the most outstanding disciples of the strongest prominent families in the world. These people would not kill actively. But once they were pushed to the limit, the cards left by their families would inevitably be revealed one after another.

The power of the War Poetry of the other Presented Scholars had already arrived nearby, and the body of the spirit dog was simply unable to resist.

The Tyrant sighed lightly, an ancient book appeared, and the spirit dog vomited a mouthful of black blood. Then the originally broken white light and the protective power of the Imperial Scholar’s Treasures of Literature reappeared.

The power of the Presented Scholars’ War Poetry fell on the Tyrant, but it was blocked by the white light and the power of the Imperial Scholar’s Treasures of Literature.

However, Mo Shan of the Mo family had taken action early.

A huge mechanical snake burst out from under the Tyrant’s feet, leaping high and swallowing the spirit dog. Then the mechanical blades inside its body crazily slaughtered.

“Is he dead now?” Even Li Fanming felt a slight pain between his legs. Being targeted by Yan Yukong, Sun Naiyong, and Mo Shan, the three top Presented Scholars using their life-saving methods, not to mention a Presented Scholar or an Imperial Scholar, even a Hanlin Scholar would undoubtedly die.

“Wait until I leave the Holy Land and merge with my main body. That will be your death! This grudge is irreconcilable!”

Suddenly, the mechanical giant snake exploded violently, a point of white light attached to a jade pendant full of ferocious aura, carrying a Drinking Pearl of the River, flew out and rushed towards the bronze giant gate.

Fang Yun had to stop, and everyone else also stopped.

That was a bloodline jade pendant, a very rare and strong life-saving method of the prominent families of All the Saints. It was invincible under the Semi-Saint, and once this bloodline jade pendant was used, it meant that all the cards were revealed.

Fang Yun showed a faint smile. Since the Tyrant had used the bloodline jade pendant, he finally had the possibility of killing him in the Holy Land!

Yan Yukong turned around and said apologetically, “I’m sorry, the Holy Land suppresses all overly powerful destructive forces to prevent the Holy Land from being disturbed again, so I couldn’t kill the Tyrant.”

Fang Yun, however, bowed his hand and said, “Thank you all for your help. I didn’t expect you all to use such life-saving methods to help me.”

Sun Naiyong laughed and said, “Even if we didn’t use it on you, we would use it on the Imperial City Army. Since you helped us deal with the Imperial City Army, we will help you deal with the Tyrant. Han Xin was a potential Semi-Saint. He was ultimately killed, and now his descendants are also being persecuted by the Tyrant. I couldn’t do anything outside the Holy Land, but once I’m here, of course, I will do my best!”

Mo Shan said, “The Tyrant has been looting wildly for more than seven years, and he has too many life-saving methods. But now that he has used the bloodline jade pendant, it means that he has at most one or two life-saving methods left. As for thanks, there’s no need. If you still don’t know what the Holy Land is testing at this point, then you’ve really come in vain.”

After speaking, Mo Shan glanced at the corpse of Liu Zizhi. There was no contempt or regret in his eyes, only the indifference of looking at a dead object.

Xun Ye’s body trembled slightly, and he lowered his head in shame.

Han Shoulu and many other Presented Scholars nodded in agreement, looking at Xun Ye with regret.

Li Fanming laughed and said, “Master Fang, I didn’t expect you to be so decisive today, killing so happily! Liu Zizhi did have a private grudge with you, but we, the Presented Scholars of the human race, united against the outsiders to prevent the Demon Barbarians from seizing the King of Stars. He, on the other hand, targeted you at this time. He deserved to die! But, how did you know that the spirit dog was the Tyrant? Just because Liu Zizhi dared to provoke you?”

Fang Yun said, “Liu Zizhi dared to let the Mist Butterfly choose because he had something that the Mist Butterfly urgently needed, and the Mist Butterfly would definitely choose him. However, apart from the Tyrant, almost no one knew about that thing, and almost no one could get it. Moreover, apart from the Tyrant, Liu Zizhi would not trust anyone else and cooperate to target me.”

Everyone nodded, Fang Yun’s deduction was not wrong at all. Among the known people who entered the Holy Land, only the Tyrant was the only possibility.

“What does the Mist Butterfly urgently need?”

Fang Yun took out a Swallowed Lake Pearl, which was handed over by Niu Shan after he killed Liu Zizhi, and then he wiped his hand, and a purple crystal-like saint fruit appeared in his hand. (To be continued.)

PS: There will be three updates tomorrow, and there will be three updates from Thursday to Sunday!!!