Cicadas are falling like rain around Pinghu.
Mr. Pang stared and listened blankly until Fang Yun began to play "Liang Xiao Yin" and the music changed from solemn and sad to melodious and cheerful, then he reacted.
"He used to use the sound of his zither to call for late autumn, but today he went a step further and actually used the sound of his zither to call for cold winter, making all the autumn cicadas think that cold winter has arrived and naturally die. If he plays a war song in the future, it will be really amazing. Killing cicadas with autumn sounds is nothing, but killing cicadas with one song, he will be able to enter the first realm of the zither path in a few days."
After playing "Liang Xiao Yin", Fang Yun began to continue to polish "Jiang Jun Ling", striving to make "Jiang Jun Ling" of Qin Dao Yi Jing more perfect. Once it is revised, the actual effect can be seen on the day when he plays it for the first time. As for whether it can show the glory of the Tang Dynasty, it depends on the efforts of these days.
Fang Yun kept playing the unfinished "General's Order" intermittently, recording and revising it, and the sound of the piano was very mixed.
Although Mr. Pang was not good at playing the zither, he could understand the powerful momentum of the trumpets sounding at the beginning of the new song and the army ready to go. He had been suspecting that Fang Yun was composing his own war song these days, and today he saw that Fang Yun's "Autumn Wind Tune" had such a strong murderous intent, he became even more certain.
"War poetry has the strongest killing power, followed by war songs. If he can achieve even half of his war poetry in terms of war songs, he will be invincible. There is hope for the revival of Jingguo."
Mr. Pang quietly listened to Fang Yun's music. Seeing that the sky was about to brighten, he glanced around and said to himself, "These cicadas are extremely delicious when fried in boiling oil. Especially the breast meat, it is really a great dish to go with wine. It's almost Mid-Autumn Festival, it will be too late if I don't eat it now. Oh, when I was a child, if I saw cicadas all over the ground, I would laugh all day long."
After reminiscing about the fun of catching cicadas in his childhood, Mr. Pang began to pick autumn cicadas.
After revising part of the "General's Order", Fang Yun left. When he returned home, he found that Mr. Pang was a little different today. It seemed that he was holding something in his robe.
When they reached the door, Mr. Pang suddenly asked, "Do you want one?" Then he spread out his clothes, revealing many cicadas.
Fang Yun looked at Mr. Pang seriously, then at the cicadas, and found them quite interesting. He said, "Tomorrow I will ask my family if they can make them. If they can, I will go to your house and ask for some."
"Okay." Mr. Pang agreed with a smile.
At this time, Fang Daniu, who had gotten up at night, heard the noise, opened the door and stuck his head out, and saw Mr. Pang with a bag full of cicadas. His confused eyes were full of doubts. Then he asked carefully, "Master, did you and Mr. Pang go to catch cicadas?"
Fang Yun and Mr. Pang were at a loss whether to laugh or cry. One was the top scholar in the Ten Countries, and the other was a scholar from the Holy Court's Criminal Hall. It was impossible for them to catch cicadas in the middle of the night when they had nothing better to do.
Mr. Pang shook his head and went home. Fang Yun smiled and walked towards the door.
Fang Daniu muttered quietly as he closed the door: "Let me catch cicadas in the future. I'm good at it. The ones on the trees actually smell average. The ones in the caves are the best."
"Go to sleep!" Fang Yun said with a smile and went back to the room.
Fang Daniu was completely confused.
When he woke up the next day, everything was normal, but when he saw the Zhendanqin, Fang Yun was stunned. There seemed to be an inexplicable connection between him and the Zhendanqin, and the qin seemed to be an extension of his body, just like his fingers.
"This feeling... the fingers and strings are as one, the zither is like my bones and blood. Have I reached the first level of the zither art, where both sound and emotion are combined?"
Fang Yun immediately sat down in front of the zither. The moment his fingers touched the strings, he had an extremely strange feeling. In the past, the strings were tight and he had to be careful all the time, because they were the silk of the spider demon, which would hurt his hands and feel threatened. But now, touching them was like touching another finger of his own, and he felt that the strings would never hurt him.
"It turns out that I have already entered the realm of Qin Dao, much faster than I thought."
Fang Yun thought for a moment and recalled a theory, that is, if a person has enough accumulation in the field he is good at, it will be easier for him to achieve success than most people when he enters other similar fields, which is to learn by analogy.
"Since I have the world of strange books, I can read quickly. I have read more books than others in their entire lives. Coupled with my talent, literary courage, literary mind and literary talent, I have gradually accumulated enough knowledge to learn by analogy. This art of the zither comes from my accumulation and my hard work!"
The effort of sleeping only two hours a day was not in vain.
Fang Yun smiled with joy because of the harvest after his hard work.
After washing up, Fang Yun walked out of the bedroom and heard some commotion at the gate of the courtyard, and someone was shouting outside.
“Blood rainbow!”
"It's the blood rainbow!"
Fang Yun looked solemn. He walked out of the door in two steps and came to the street. He followed the gaze of the crowd and saw a blood-red rainbow light spanning a thousand miles in the sky like a bridge in the southwest direction of Huangyao Mountain.
Mother Jiang muttered worriedly: "A hundred miles of bloody rainbow means a disaster for a state; a thousand miles of bloody rainbow means disaster for ten countries. Something big is bound to happen!"
General Lai's old father was standing nearby. He sighed and said, "Young people today probably don't know about the blood rainbow a few years ago. It was really scary. It spanned the north and south of the continent. The blood covered half the sky. Even the insects and beasts were scared. Fortunately, golden light appeared in the sea and shattered the blood rainbow."
"There is another blood rainbow this time. I don't know where the disaster will happen. I hope it's not Jiangzhou. Jiangzhou can't stand it."
Fang Yun had a worried look on his face. Ordinary people didn't know this, but he already knew that the last time the blood rainbow covered the sky was because the demon and barbarian tribes attacked the Liangjie Mountain. Once the Liangjie Mountain was captured, the demon army could rush into the human world unimpeded, instead of only a few demons being able to come to the human world like now.
A thousand miles of blood rainbow means that at least one demon saint is about to take action.
Fang Yun felt that the official seal at home was moving, and he returned immediately. It turned out to be a letter from Feng Yuanjun.
"Stay at home and don't move. I'll come to you right away. We have something important to discuss."
Fang Yun waited quietly. After a while, Feng Yuanjun came and then the two of them entered the study.
"Something bad has happened."
Fang Yun had never noticed that Feng Yuanjun was so anxious, as he was about to become a Hanlin.
"Is it related to the Demon Saint?" Fang Yun asked.
"Yes. The two demon saints of the wolf tribe personally led the expedition to Liangjie Mountain, and the demon emperor was the commander-in-chief of the war. The reason was that the semi-saints of the human race used "Humble House Inscription" to injure many rebellious scholars. This was a revenge war. The demon camp opposite Liangjie Mountain originally had three demon saints in charge, and now there are five plus a demon emperor. All the semi-saint families have to mobilize disciples to go there."
"The Thousand Miles Blood Rainbow is caused by the power leaking out of Liangjie Mountain, right?"
"right."
The room was unusually dull. The official seal moved slightly again, and Fang Yun went to see the new letter.
After reading it, Fang Yun sighed and said, "Even the seismometer has to be deployed."
"How... did you know that?" Feng Yuanjun didn't expect Fang Yun to know such a thing.
"The head of the Zhang Heng family sent me a letter saying that the situation in Liangjie Mountain is tense and it is the Zhang family's turn to join the battle. Their disciples cannot go to Kongcheng with me. All the people of the Zhang family who are Juren or above must go, and they will also bring a seismometer."
Feng Yuanjun thought for a moment and said, "This time there will be at least ten semi-saint families going, so it is normal for the Zhang family to be the one. Alas, only the Zhang Heng family, which has a deep foundation, is not afraid. Those families with slightly weaker foundations, once a genius is born but dies in Liangjie Mountain, they will slowly decline in the future, unless another genius emerges. By the way, I heard that the evil king Menglintang wants to harm you?"
"Just for what I have in my hand." Fang Yun said.
Feng Yuanjun nodded and said, "I can't say much at this time, but you are from Jingguo, from Jiangzhou. Even if that evil king is the descendant of a half-saint, we will definitely stand by you!"
"I understand." Fang Yun said.
Feng Yuanjun sighed lightly and said, "These are eventful times. I am not here mainly to tell you about Liangjie Mountain, but for another big thing." His expression was a little strange.
"What's the matter?" Fang Yun asked.
"You are on the Monster Clan's hunting list, and your first time on it is the Hanlin list, ranking fourth."
Fang Yun finally understood why Feng Yuanjun had a strange expression. This hunting list was created by the demon race's rebellious scholars in collaboration with the demon race. It ranks the strength of human geniuses. As long as the demon and barbarian races kill anyone on the list, they will get a huge reward.
When the human race first learned about the hunting list, they were extremely terrified, fearing that they would be killed if they were on the list. But later they discovered that all those who could make it to the hunting list were the best of their generation, and many people even wanted to get on the demon race's hunting list to prove themselves.
In the first few years after the Hunting List was released, human literati launched several small waves of killing demons and barbarians, which was something the demon race did not expect.
However, the demon and barbarian tribes also had targets, and many human geniuses were killed because they were on the hunting list.
Now, the demon hunting list has become a ranking of the status of human geniuses.
Fang Yun did not get angry but laughed: "Fourth on the Hanlin list? Aren't you flattering me? I am just a scholar. Above them are Juren and Jinshi, and after that is Hanlin, which is three levels lower, and I am still fourth. I remember that Jianmei Gong is only third on the Grand Secretary Hunting List now."
"So this matter is very strange. Some people suspect that the demon race is really flattering you. For example, Yan Yukong, as a Juren and a direct disciple of a semi-saint, is only ranked twelfth on the Jinshi list. You, a scholar, are ranked fourth on the Hanlin list. It is really suspicious. However, what is even more strange is that you were "rewarded" with a drop of Holy Blood as soon as your ranking was announced! Your actual hunting bounty is almost the same as the last person on the Grand Scholar list. Even the first Hanlin who ranked ahead of you did not receive a Holy Blood reward."
"This... Holy Blood is not only of great significance to the human race, but even more important to the demon race. They can directly improve their strength through Holy Blood. I am a scholar, and you are using Holy Blood as a bounty. Isn't that too much of a compliment to me?" Fang Yun said.
Feng Yuanjun said, "If we talk about your actual talent, I wouldn't be surprised even if your bounty was raised to ten drops of holy blood, but with your actual contribution, you can barely make it into the list of Jinshi. Except for the dragon of the Kong family, no one has reached such a high position right after entering the list."
"What position did the dragon of the Kong family hold before he was killed?" Fang Yun asked curiously.
Feng Yuanjun said slowly: "He was not on the list at first, but not long after he came out of the Holy Ruins, he was ranked first on the list of Grand Scholars!"
"This... is worthy of being the dragon of the Kong family. He is ranked first in the list of Juren Chengdaxueshi and the hunting list. I am afraid no one can surpass him." (To be continued...)