Chapter 260 – Avalanche slope


Everyone completely forgot about their own perilous crossing of the floating ice river, all of them were stunned by Fang Yun’s performance-like crossing method.

When those Demon Barbarian Saints crossed this floating ice river, they didn’t do it as effortlessly as Fang Yun. They all witnessed several Saints pondering for a long time before continuing to leap at the final water area.

“I want to die!” Li Fanming covered his face and exclaimed.

The big rabbit also covered its face with its ears.

On the shore of the second corridor entrance about ten miles away, the Star Demon Barbarians cheered, even they themselves were unclear why they were cheering for Fang Yun.

“Fang Yun, tell the truth, do you have the ability to control ice?”

“Yeah, are you playing with us? Even if an Imperial Scholar comes here, it’s impossible to cross the floating ice river as easily as you! We can’t react at all. Even if the Wolf Savage Saint retraces your route, he might fall into the river.”

Just as Fang Yun was about to explain, he suddenly warned Yan Yukong with a thunderous voice, “Brother Yan, don’t step on that hexagonal ice block in front of you on the left.”

Yan Yukong was startled and looked at the ice block.

Kong Delun pointed at the floating ice, and the golden eagle on his shoulder flew onto the ice. As soon as its claws stepped on it, cracks formed on the ice surface. The golden eagle was frightened and quickly ascended, the ice block slowly cracked and fell into the water.

“Thank you, Brother Fang, for your rescue. But how did you know?” Yan Yukong was very grateful. With his strength at the peak of the Courage to Write realm, even if he fell into the water, he could swim to the nearby floating ice. But there was a small chance of an accident.

Fang Yun hadn’t told them the method of crossing the floating ice river before, fearing they wouldn’t believe him. But now that he had safely crossed, he didn’t need to worry.

So Fang Yun said, “The Sage Confucius said: ‘Observe their motives, scrutinize their methods, examine their comforts, how can a person hide? Learning without thinking is useless. Learning the method of observing people from Sage Confucius, can we think about observing the laws of all things in the world? The shape, color, stillness, and movement of this floating ice river, etc. Are there rules like observing people? After thinking for a long time, I finally found that this floating ice river does have rules.”

Fang Yun had done a lot of interpretation of the classics, and he was already very good at using the content of the classics of All the Saints to cover up what he had learned in his other life. The main reason was that many truths in the world are interrelated. The ancients have already said everything.

Then, Fang Yun explained his classification method in detail.

After Fang Yun finished speaking, those Demon Barbarians who understood human language just thought Fang Yun was powerful, but those Presented Scholars were dumbfounded for a long time.

“I understand your ‘Ice Division Method’, it’s a very good method. But if you really let me master this floating ice river, I can’t do it at all! Now that you’ve said it, I want to die even more!” Li Fanming said.

“Die together, die together.” Jia Jing’an laughed helplessly.

Yan Yukong said, “Fang Yun, your ‘Ice Division Method’ is simple, but clear and effective. Although it’s not as good as the Path of the Saints, it seems to be able to derive some ‘minor techniques’. It’s a pity that it’s not suitable to discuss in detail at this time. Let’s talk about it in detail after leaving the Comet Corridor.”

“Alas, we all vaguely know this method, but we can’t do it so meticulously, so reasonably, so effectively. One step short, and it’s a world of difference. Fang Yun, you really are ‘glorious and not with the four seasons’, you among people, have the heroic posture of ‘lotus leaves reaching to the sky endlessly green, lotus flowers reflecting the sun in a different red’. You can be our teacher.” Kong Delun said.

“We may ‘know’, but we don’t know deeply, precisely, broadly, and we can’t express it in words and text. Teach others. Fang Yun, you can ‘teach a man to fish’, let us learn the method of crossing the floating ice river, you really have the style of the ancient sages!”

Shi Tang thought of the anomaly after the Thunderstone lacquer was made, and pondered the words of everyone. He felt more and more that Fang Yun’s blood must be the “blood of a great sage”.

Many Presented Scholars were smiling, because after listening to Fang Yun’s summary, they had a new understanding of this floating ice river.

“That ice looks big, but it’s the shallowest color, don’t step on it!”

“This floating ice has a lot of new gaps at the edge, it’s often hit. Originally it couldn’t be ridden, but this ice is exceptionally hard, as long as it’s in the center, it’s not afraid of other floating ice hitting it.”

With Fang Yun’s guidance and knowing the rules of the floating ice river, the Presented Scholars felt as if the veil on the floating ice river had been lifted.

Fang Yun watched as these Presented Scholars almost immediately learned to apply it, and nodded slightly. They just lacked a different way of thinking. Once someone taught them, they would surely understand quickly and apply it.

After about half an hour, all the Presented Scholars had reached the shore. Although they had successfully crossed the floating ice river, they were far from as free and easy as Fang Yun.

Those Demon Barbarians who could understand human language couldn’t learn and apply it as quickly as the Presented Scholars, let alone the Bull Mountain and Dog Demon who couldn’t understand human language.

Seeing that there was no way, Fang Yun used the method of thunderous voice to guide the two of them across the river. They reacted quickly and had strong jumping ability. They did whatever Fang Yun told them to do and quickly jumped to the shore.

Some of the smarter Demon Barbarians followed the route of Bull Mountain and Dog Demon and also reached the shore, but most of the Demon Barbarian generals were still jumping around on the floating ice river relying on their instincts.

Everyone entered the light gate and arrived at the square after the second corridor.

The two stone lions were also in this third square, and there were no Demon Barbarians inside, it seemed that they had all gone to the third corridor.Upon entering the square, Fang Yun and all the Presented Scholars once again received the baptism of the power of the God of Literature, and aspects such as their literary palace, the courage to write, and their talent were all significantly enhanced.

However, Fang Yun suddenly closed his eyes and entered his literary palace.

Fang Yun didn’t look at the newly enhanced courage to write and talent, but instead turned his attention to the two lamps of the Heart of Literature.

The “outstanding talent” Heart of Literature showed no change, but Fang Yun felt that the “Fervent Writing” Heart of Literature seemed to be different. Upon closer inspection, apart from being slightly brighter than before, there was no difference.

The same Heart of Literature is divided into three levels: lower, middle, and upper. Fang Yun knew that the upper level Heart of Literature was the limit. Although some books mentioned that there might be something extraordinary beyond the upper level Heart of Literature, like the Five Realms of poetry, it had never appeared in the Holy Origin Mainland and could only be considered speculation.

“What a pity, maybe it’s just an illusion.”

Fang Yun took another careful look at the Fervent Writing Heart of Literature, found nothing, and left the literary palace.

Fang Yun opened his eyes and found that many people were resting in the square, and all the literati were either reciting the classics of All the Saints or silently memorizing them, trying to recover their talent as quickly as possible.

Everyone knew in their hearts that Fang Yun could help them for a while, but not for a lifetime.

Having received the star power of two corridors in succession, everyone was determined to conquer the third corridor. As long as they passed the third corridor, their talent, the courage to write, or strength would receive a huge boost, which would be of great help to becoming a Great Scholar.

If they wanted to gain power beneficial to becoming a saint, they would have to pass at least the sixth corridor.

Fang Yun’s talent increased a bit more, reaching one inch and nine points.

Before long, everyone got up one after another and headed towards the third corridor. Li Fanming said to Fang Yun, “It’s a pity. Except for you, all of our Presented Scholars have reached the limit of ten inches of talent. Now, the power of the God of Literature will not increase our total talent, but it will make our talent more refined, which is extremely beneficial. But your talent is less than ten inches, so the power of the God of Literature can only increase your total talent, which is not good for refinement.”

“It’s okay, there will be opportunities in the future.” Fang Yun didn’t mention that his talent had already reached the “Talent Like Water” level, far surpassing everyone present in terms of refinement. Moreover, because he had received the illumination of the God of Literature before becoming a saint, his “Talent Like Water” might soon advance further.

Once his talent surpassed “Talent Like Water”, the power of the War Poetry written with this talent would significantly increase, and the chances of triggering phenomena like the Soul of Poetry, Calling the Saints, and Resonance of Gold and Jade would far exceed those of the past.

“Let’s go, to the third corridor!”

The Presented Scholars were full of vigor and entered the fog gate one after another, stepping into the third corridor.

“Boom…”

Before they could even see what the third corridor looked like, everyone was shocked by the loud noise, their ears aching.

Fang Yun took a closer look and saw a very long slope in front of him. The slope was about forty-five degrees, very steep, and as long as the previous two corridors, nearly twenty miles.

A twenty-mile slope wasn’t much, but this slope was undergoing a continuous avalanche!

Snow several feet thick was pouring down from the top of the slope, mixed with hard rocks.

Avalanches may seem like just fluffy snow pressing down, without much force, but in reality, the impact force of an avalanche is terrifying. An avalanche can reach a speed of 400 kilometers per hour, equivalent to one-third of the speed of sound, forming a shock wave with great destructive power at the front of the avalanche, equivalent to the force of an explosion. Being hit by snow at this speed is worse than being hit by a herd of elephants.

In his previous life, Fang Yun had heard of an avalanche in Alaska that destroyed all the buildings more than twenty miles down the mountain, with snow flying and covering the sky for three hundred miles.

The avalanche and rocks were deadly enough, but when the snow splashed onto their bodies, everyone realized that this snow, like the cold wind in the first corridor, had a power similar to the strange wind and the Weak Water. Once this snow touched the body, it would not only freeze people but also freeze the literary palace.

“Let’s call this snow ‘Freezing Snow’. Look, that Demon Barbarian seems to have been frozen to death.” Sun Naiyong said.

Everyone looked over and saw a large snowball rolling from the front, falling on the flat ground. Then, a mysterious force took away the snowball and a large amount of snow, leaving only the frozen body of the Demon Barbarian on the ground.

The Demon Barbarian Saints had passed the first and second corridors early on. Everyone thought they had already reached the fourth corridor, but three figures were enduring the impact of the avalanche three or four kilometers from the top of the slope. They were parting the rushing thick snow and slowly moving forward.

Those three powerful figures were the Flood Dragon Douji, the Eagle Demon Yingyan, and the Dragon Barbarian Longling.

The three Demon Barbarian Saints had vigorous vitality around them, and not a single snowflake could touch their bodies. However, even such powerful Demon Barbarians appeared very embarrassed under the avalanche, slowly climbing up step by step, occasionally even retreating half a step.

Ma Xiong said, “It’s over. I didn’t expect it to be a pure test of strength. The human race cannot pass this third corridor. Even among the Demon Barbarians, only those Saints and the Saint Clan can pass. Ordinary Demon Clan members can only die if they go up.”

“Moreover, this corridor has certain restrictions. That Yingyan can fly, but now he has to walk up against the avalanche like the other Demon Barbarians.”

“Our human race’s individual strength is far inferior to that of the Demon Barbarian Saints. To pass this avalanche slope, I’m afraid we need to work together.” (To be continued.)PS: This is the fifth triple update this week! I’m asking for recommendation votes in the wee hours..


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