Just as Yun Zhaochen's tongue sword was about to pierce Feng Cheng's throat, a jade seal suddenly appeared in Lei Tan's hand, and a brilliant golden light flew out from the jade seal and enveloped Feng Cheng.
"Ding… "
Yun Zhaochen's tongue sword hit the golden light and was immediately bounced back, with tiny cracks appearing on the surface, and it escaped back into Yun Zhaochen's palace of literature.
"Puff..."
Yun Zhaochen vomited blood and his body was shaking and about to fall. The university scholar next to him immediately supported him.
Zong Ganming said in a cold voice: "Yun Zhaochen assassinated Grand Secretary Feng Cheng, which is a heinous crime. He should be killed on the spot, but considering his contribution to the Blood Mang Ancient Land, he is temporarily banned. If he commits the same crime again, he will be killed without mercy!"
After Zong Ganming finished speaking, he took out an official seal specially granted by the Dongsheng Pavilion, controlled the holy temple in the Xuemang ancient land, and sealed off Yun Zhaochen's Wen Palace.
Feng Cheng was still in shock. He looked at Yun Zhaochen and cursed, "You lunatic! I saw the Pure Lotus of the Turbid World. The Pure Lotus of the Turbid World is mine. I sold it to the Lei family. What does it have to do with you? Why did you want to murder me? Bastard!"
“Bah!” Yun Zhaochen sneered, “The Pure Lotus of the Turbid World belongs to my Blood Mang Ancient Land. Who the hell do you think you are, Feng Cheng, to claim it for yourself? Just because I see you means it’s yours? I see you, so are you all going to be my slaves? I only regret that I am not strong enough, otherwise I would have killed you, the traitor of the Blood Mang Ancient Land! You and I are obviously human, and the Blood Mang Ancient Land is obviously under the jurisdiction of the Holy Academy, but you have fallen into depravity and worked like a slave for the Lei family, the clan leader. You are like a bug and deserve to die!”
"When did you, Yun Zhaochen, become so righteous? Who doesn't know what the Grand Secretary of our Xuemang Ancient Land is like? You actually sacrificed yourself for the Xuemang Ancient Land. You must be crazy! Idiot!" Feng Cheng looked at Yun Zhaochen with contempt.
"Heh... Indeed, a month ago, I, Yun Zhaochen, was just a good guy who was popular with everyone. It was not until I met the young man named Fang Yun that I understood what a scholar was!"
"Wait, what did Fang Yun experience in the ancient land of Xuemang?" Zong Ganming asked curiously.
Yun Zhaochen said slowly, "He saw a stranger being chased by the bear tribe. He rescued him. He could have taken the dragon-patterned rice field for himself, but he kept his promise to share it with the family of the deceased. He did not bow his head when he met the first demon king of the bear tribe, and killed his descendants in front of him. In the ruins of Dragon City, he spared no effort to save people from danger with his holy pages and blood, and finally sacrificed his own life to bring us out of the Dragon City Hall, and he himself died together with the demon king! After hearing his deeds in the Sin Hall, I finally understood what a scholar is! I, Yun Zhaochen, cannot be as high as Fang Xusheng in this life, so I should die like him, in a blazing manner!"
Zong Ganming showed an unhappy look on his face, then smiled and said, "So you know about Fang Xusheng, and naturally you also know about my clan. I have changed my mind. Feng Cheng, take us to where the Pure Lotus of the Turbid World is, and take Yun Zhaochen with you."
Feng Cheng was about to speak, but Zong Ganming looked at him and he sighed helplessly. He said, "I will take you to the place where the Pure Lotus of the Turbid World is. Brother Yun, let's go together!"
Afterwards, Feng Cheng helped Yun Zhaochen up and helped him to his own meteoric rise to fame. He led the other university scholars out of the city lord's mansion and flew high into the sky.
Soon, dozens of white clouds flew to three miles away from the Pure Lotus in the Turbid World, and everyone could see layers of precious light in the water below. A huge white lotus was blooming, and colorful light was flowing around the lotus.
"Stop!" Lei Tan shouted, stopping everyone.
Zong Ganming added: "From now on, except for Lei Tan, no one is allowed to take a single step forward, otherwise you will be charged with robbing the Pure Lotus of the Turbid World! Brother Lei, go and check it out."
"Thank you, Brother!" Lei Tan showed a grateful look and flew over quickly, trying to take the Pure Lotus of the Turbid World, but found that he was blocked by a powerful protective force.
"It is indeed the Pure Lotus in Turbid Worlds, but it has not yet fully opened. Please wait a moment. Judging from the situation, it will be fully open in a few hours at most, and I can take it!" The sound of Lei Tan's tongue bursting with spring thunder came from afar.
Zong Ganming nodded slightly and secretly transmitted the message. Then he saw that the other twenty-two Grand Scholars of Shengyuan Continent immediately surrounded Grand Scholar Xuemang, leaving only Feng Cheng and his rising star Yun Zhaochen.
"Master Zong, why are you doing this?" Tan Hemu said with a serious face.
"For no reason, just to prevent you from being desperate! I have always underestimated you, Xuemang University Scholar. I never thought that even in this backward place where people eat each other, there would be righteous people. I originally wanted to let Yun Zhaochen go, but now, I have to execute him on the spot in front of Zhuoshi Qinglian!" Zong Ganming said loudly.
"You can't kill me, Xuemang Grand Secretary!" Tan Hemu roared angrily.
"Everyone, are we, the Xuemang scholar, going to allow them to bully us like this?"
"I, Xue Mang, have never bowed to the Holy Academy, and today I cannot kneel before the Zong Clan, the Lei Clan!"
Many Xuemang university scholars were filled with righteous indignation, arguing fiercely and ready to fight at any time.
However, more than half of the Xuemang Palace's Grand Secretaries remained indifferent.
Yao Luo, who had just been promoted to Grand Secretary, sighed and said, "Don't you understand? The Holy Academy treats us as human beings, so as long as we don't betray them, they allow us to govern Xuemang. But the Zong family and the Lei family are different. They don't care about the life and death of our Xuemang people. They will only use us to achieve their goals. Once our request to the Zongsheng to take charge of Xuemang Palace is rejected by the Holy Academy, what will the Zong family do? They will definitely let us die, let us disrupt the Xuemang Ancient Land, and force the Holy Academy to compromise. We are just dogs in the eyes of the Zong family!"
Zong Ganming said: "Master Yao, you are too kind. If you can join the Zong family, you can at least gain three generations of family elders."
Yun Zhaochen slowly raised his head and asked angrily: "What about those Hanlin scholars? What about those Jinshi scholars? What about those Juren scholars? What about those Mengtong people? What about the common people? I, Yun Zhaochen, have never betrayed the human race, and I will never betray the Blood Mang Ancient Land!"
"What does their life and death have to do with our clan?" Zong Ganming looked at Yun Zhaochen coldly, his words were like the cold winter, chilling him to the bone.
Some of the Xuemang Grand Secretaries glared at Zong Ganming, while others lowered their heads.
"When the sun rises, it will be the time for me to cut through the clouds and illuminate the dust with my sword!" A gorgeous ancient sword of the king flew out of Zong Ganming's mouth.
Everyone instinctively looked towards the east.
The whiteness of the fish belly expanded rapidly, and a red light appeared from the end of the sky and the earth.
Suddenly, the sun jumped out and the world turned white. The first ray of light and warmth filled the sky and the earth.
"Huh..."
Fang Yun slowly opened his eyes and looked forward blankly. Endless flames were burning.
However, Fang Yun did not feel any burning or pain. Instead, he felt as if he was in a hot spring and his whole body was warm.
Afterwards, Fang Yun discovered that his vision was constantly expanding. Although he was not moving, the world he saw was changing rapidly.
Fang Yun found that he was in a huge fireball, which was even larger than the Shengyuan Continent. Arc-shaped flames continuously erupted from the surface of the fireball, forming endless heat radiating into the starry sky.
Following the endless heat, Fang Yun discovered that the world in front of him was constantly expanding, and a continent was floating in the void.
A moment later, Fang Yun's gaze swept across every inch of this continent, the chirping of insects and birds, the breeze, rain and dew, and even every person's expression, every movement, and every breath, all within his sight.
An absurd idea arose in Fang Yun's mind that he could control all living beings between heaven and earth.
.(To be continued.)