“Although the ability to speak eloquently cannot be accelerated by writing fervently, it can be used while running, by using the mind to mobilize talent and the energy of heaven and earth.
However, writing The War Poetry requires one to stop, turn around, write, and then start running again, which takes about three breaths’ time.
Yan Yukong fearlessly charged towards Fang Yun, not only was there the assassin formed by the black fog of the Yi River Song, but also himself. Within a distance of less than twenty feet, a Presented Scholar could completely rush over within three breaths.
Fang Yun instantly understood Yan Yukong’s tactics: no matter how powerful the arrow in the stone was, the black fog assassin could deflect or slow it down, allowing Yan Yukong to easily dodge it and then have enough time to catch up with Fang Yun.
The two were very close at this moment. If Fang Yun had not experienced the Three Mountains and Two Pavilions, he would undoubtedly lose.
“I spent a long time in the Three Mountains and Two Pavilions. Although the gifts from The High-ranking Official or The War Poetry were all illusions, I didn’t really practice, but I have practiced and mastered the War Poetry like the Yi River Song that an Accomplished Scholar can learn!”
The second time Fang Yun used his Heart of Literature, like Yan Yukong, he also produced the Yi River Song, and an assassin with black fog appeared, whose solidity was not weaker at all!
Fang Yun’s Yi River Song was personally taught by “Li Wenying” in the illusion!
Fang Yun used the black fog assassin to intercept Yan Yukong’s assassin. Once Yan Yukong wanted to rush over, he could control the black fog assassin to attack him. He only needed to maintain a distance of fifteen feet from the black fog assassin, so as not to be too far away and cause the assassin to dissipate, while waiting for his talent to stabilize again.
The blade of the black fog assassin was extremely strong and fast. Even if Fang Yun and Yan Yukong both had combat experience, they couldn’t withstand it for long. Therefore, Yan Yukong had to stop and let the two black fog assassins fight each other.
Yan Yukong, due to his previous high-speed running, was panting heavily. He glanced at Fang Yun not far away, then lowered his head to start writing.
“Stars fill my eyes through the smoke, it’s our army’s arrows firing…”
Fang Yun knew clearly. Yan Yukong might not be able to create a timeless War Poetry, but with his talent, he must have his own War Poetry.
Yan Yukong, as a Presented Scholar, also has a medium-grade Heart of Literature. The speed at which his talent stabilizes is much faster than that of an ordinary Accomplished Scholar. Therefore, when he saw that he couldn’t fight Fang Yun in close combat, he made the best of the situation, let the black fog assassins fight each other, and once the black fog assassin was more than fifteen feet away from the master, it would dissipate. In this way, he kept Fang Yun close and launched an attack with a small range of War Poetry.
Yan Yukong’s “Arrow Poem”, although close and less powerful, is equivalent to twenty archers shooting together. The current Fang Yun simply couldn’t dodge it.
However, Fang Yun, who had experienced the illusion, was not the same Fang Yun who had only one experience of killing demons. He was personally instructed by “Li Wenying” on how to fight.
Deception in warfare was the first tactic “Li Wenying” taught Fang Yun.
After Fang Yun found that the first “Arrow in the Stone” could not kill Yan Yukong, he knew that Yan Yukong’s experience was too rich. If he fought head-on, he would definitely not be able to kill him. He had to use a strategy.
No matter how talented Yan Yukong was, without the movement of the God of Literature, his talent was just like fog.
Fang Yun’s literary position was inferior to Yan Yukong’s, but the five movements of the God of Literature made his talent a step higher, like water.
Talent like water is much more stable than talent like fog. In reality, Fang Yun only needed three breaths to stabilize his talent, but he spent five breaths on the Heart of Literature before, just to give Yan Yukong an illusion, to make Yan Yukong misjudge the time it took for his talent to stabilize again. His purpose was to wait for now, to wait for Yan Yukong to be distracted and unable to dodge.
When Yan Yukong was writing the War Poetry with ease, Fang Yun picked up the pen and finished it in one breath. Moreover, he deliberately suppressed the sound of the pen falling, to avoid Yan Yukong hearing it.
Just as the “Arrow Poem” was about to be completed, the silver arrow of the “Arrow in the Stone” had already flown in front of Yan Yukong.
Yan Yukong’s eyes were filled with horror, he couldn’t believe that an Accomplished Scholar could stabilize his talent earlier than a Presented Scholar.
“Boom…” The sharp arrow pierced through the broken mountain illusion, killing Yan Yukong’s intention.
Yan Yukong’s intention was restored to the purest power in the Book Mountain and entered Fang Yun’s body.
Then the sky and earth changed color, a huge funnel-shaped energy appeared, directly pouring into Fang Yun’s head, extremely violent.
Fang Yun rolled his eyes and fainted.
After a while, Fang Yun opened his eyes and found himself lying on the top of the Four Mountains. At the same time, he felt something different in his eyes, but he didn’t know what was going on, so he kept blinking and looking around. After a while, he finally understood.
“This is actually ‘Passing Clouds and Smoke’. Energy can only be perceived when it is highly condensed. Now that I have ‘Passing Clouds and Smoke’, although I can’t see the usual energy, I can see the energy like clouds and smoke when the energy is slightly condensed or flowing. This power is actually a higher level of clear vision and night vision, which is a power that a Grand Academician can have. I didn’t expect the Four Mountains to reward me.””The use of ‘Passing Clouds’ is not widespread, and it may not be useful even after decades of observation. But once it comes into play, it could save one’s life. Presented Scholars who ascend the Four Mountains do not gain this power. Could it be a reward for Talented Scholars who ascend the Four Mountains? Very likely! Although ‘Passing Clouds’ is far inferior to ‘The Heart of Literature’, it is still better than nothing.”
Between the peaks of the Four and Five Mountains, a huge stone bridge appeared. The wind howled on both sides of the stone bridge. Before Fang Yun could get close, he felt the strength of the strange wind.
At this moment, Fang Yun’s courage to write was extremely strong. He was not bothered by the strange wind that could make ordinary Presented Scholars suffer. He successfully reached the Fifth Mountain.
The others in the Book Mountain had gone from admiration and cheering to a certain numbness. If passing the Three Mountains as a Talented Scholar was a miracle, then what was passing the Four Mountains? No one knew how to describe it, as it was beyond everyone’s expectations.
Those from the prominent families of All the Saints were particularly special. Their feelings were very complex. They were happy to see such a great talent emerging, but it was hard for them to accept that a commoner had surpassed them.
For a long time, they didn’t know what to say.
The Semi-Saints of the Hall of All the Saints were no exception.
“Eastern Saint, does Fang Yun have some particularly powerful self-created poems? If not, he couldn’t possibly pass the Four Mountains, given the huge gap between Talented Scholars and Presented Scholars.”
“All matters related to Fang Yun are classified as Four Saints’ secrets.”
Three Semi-Saints were taken aback. Four Saints’ secrets were only known to the Four Saints of the human race, except for a few related personnel. Such secrets must be related to the fate of the human race. High potential alone could not reach this level, not even Yi Zhi Shi could reach it in the past.
“Are his war poems handed down from generation to generation? And do they surpass the ‘Yi River Song’?” Mi Fengdian couldn’t help but ask. It wasn’t that he was impatient, but because he had been paying attention to Fang Yun since he took the Child Scholar exam. He thought he knew Fang Yun well, but he didn’t expect that he still knew so little about Fang Yun.
“More than that.” Wang Jinglong said no more.
The three Semi-Saints looked at each other. Mi Fengdian whispered, “Fang Yun must have written something that can boost the fate of the human race. It seems that just reading ‘The Path of the Saints’ is not enough to understand him.”
The eyes of All the Saints fell on the incredibly bright spot on the Fifth Mountain.
The Fifth Mountain also had a stone gate light curtain, but unlike the previous green light curtain, this green light curtain was mixed with a hint of blood.
Fang Yun entered with a solemn expression.
Inside was also a prairie, but hundreds of demon soldiers were rushing over from a few miles away under the leadership of three demon generals. There were rough-skinned wild boar demons, bloodthirsty and warlike wolf demons, and the most troublesome porcupine demons for the human race.
“No wonder even Yan Yukong couldn’t pass the fifth level. Without the Treasures of Literature, even an ordinary Imperial Scholar would have to be very careful when killing these demons. Even the most experienced Presented Scholar couldn’t possibly kill these demons without the Treasures of Literature. There are just too many demons in front of me.”
Fang Yun knew that dying here wouldn’t matter, so he didn’t back down and stepped forward to meet these demons.
Soon, the two sides met. Just as the porcupine demon’s flying needles were about to hit him, Fang Yun’s ‘Arrow in the Stone’ shot out, piercing through the unprepared wild boar demon general and killing it.
Fang Yun could only do this much. Then, the flying needles from all directions turned him into a hedgehog.
Fang Yun’s vision went dark and then bright again. When he opened his eyes, he thought he would be back on the top of the Fifth Mountain, or appear at the foot of the mountain or even return to the academy. But he found himself in a palace.
The palace was very spacious, square, with a side length of about fifty meters, larger than the polo field of Jade Sea City.
The walls, floor, roof, and pillars of the palace were all made of shiny black stone. There were no lights in the palace, but it was bright everywhere.
Fang Yun was stunned. Even though he had been through hardships in the illusion, he felt a little excited.
“This should be one of the legendary mysterious places. Since the Book Mountain brought me here, it must be well-intentioned. But I wonder what good things are here. Could it be more precious than the top-grade ‘The Heart of Literature’ that encourages rapid writing?”
Fang Yun thought to himself and carefully observed. He found that in the center of the floor of the mysterious palace, there was a huge character “一”.
“Is this the first palace? Is there a second one?”
Suddenly, a wolf demon soldier, a Savage Cow soldier, and a man in a Talented Scholar’s robe appeared out of thin air.
“Three enemies at the Talented Scholar level?” Fang Yun slowly retreated, ready to attack at any time.
“Roar…” The wolf demon soldier roared and rushed over with the Savage Cow soldier, while the human Talented Scholar was discussing military strategies on paper.
The wolf demon soldier was getting closer and closer. When the wolf demon soldier was about five meters away, Fang Yun suddenly wrote ‘Arrow in the Stone’. The wolf demon soldier couldn’t dodge in time and was killed.
Three breaths later, Fang Yun recited the ‘Yi River Song’, first using the Black Fog Assassin to kill the Savage Cow soldier, then entangling the Black Fog Assassin of the Talented Scholar, and then killing the Talented Scholar with the second ‘Arrow in the Stone’.
“Is it that simple here?”
Then, three new figures appeared, making Fang Yun realize that this place was not only not simple, but rather troublesome.
Among the three new figures, in addition to a barbarian soldier and a Talented Scholar, there was also a wolf demon general, equivalent to a human Presented Scholar.
Fang Yun was well aware that the running speed of the wolf demon general was extremely fast. Unless he summoned the divine consciousness of Li Guang, the wolf demon general could easily dodge in a head-on battle.
“There’s no other way but the Rapid Travel Poem!”
The wolf demon general was very smart. He didn’t rush over immediately, but instead, he was also sizing up Fang Yun, seemingly contemplating the method to kill him. (To be continued.)