"My dear teacher, you are both civil and military. The battle of Ning'an City shocked the world. You are a military strategist and a literary master. The position of Grand Marshal is the most suitable for you." Jing Jun looked up at Fang Yun and said in a slightly pleading tone.
"Alas... This king," Fang Yunshen said after a few breaths, "I resigned from my post to strive for the position of a great scholar, and I will also strive to strive for the position of a semi-saint. What's more, I am going to the Valley of the Buried Saints, and I have no interest in government affairs in the short or long term."
"Are you really going to the Holy Burial Valley?" Sai Zhixue was extremely surprised.
Many officials present were also surprised. Some people of lower literary rank knew little about the Holy Burial Valley, but they had seen related news on the recent discussion lists and knew that the place was extremely dangerous.
All places including the Holy Ruins, Denglong Terrace, Jinshi Hunting Ground, etc. are dangerous, but in the Holy Burial Valley throughout the ages, there have been total annihilation of the army, and this happened more than once.
After all, according to legend, the Holy Burial Valley is the burial place of all saints, and the powers of the saints inside are different from when they were alive. Once, just one day after the Holy Burial Valley was opened, all races were wiped out!
Later, the saints of all realms used all means to deduce that an emperor had awakened a complete holy body. This was not scary enough. The scary thing was that this holy body was controlled by an extremely evil thought. As soon as it woke up, it regarded all living things as enemies and killed everyone.
If the various races stayed inside for a long time and obtained enough holy energy and holy bones, they would have a chance to join forces to fight against the evil holy bones. However, they were in there for too short a time, and the holy energy they obtained was not enough to take treasures out of the seashell. They could not defeat such a terrifying force on their own.
Many years later, the Holy Burial Valley was opened again, but not many kings and emperors from all races in the myriad worlds were willing to go there. At that time, there was still an ancestor god in the demon world, who was forced to consume a huge amount of power to put the holy remains that were contaminated with extremely evil thoughts into a long sleep. At the same time, the demon world also sacrificed many great demon kings and emperors, suffering a huge loss.
However, there are also lucky times. If one encounters an eruption of treasures from the Holy Burial Valley, also known as a gift from God, many people will leave with a large amount of treasures. A great scholar from the Kong family once encountered a gift from God and returned safely. In the following hundred years, the number of university scholars and great scholars from the Kong family doubled!
There have been four divine gifts in the history of the Holy Burial Valley. Within a hundred years after each divine gift, there would inevitably be great changes in the world.
The doomsday battle between the monsters and the ancient monsters took place a hundred years after the first divine gift. Everyone said that the monsters gained endless benefits from the first divine gift and became the decisive force in defeating the ancient monsters.
But no matter how great the benefits of the Holy Burial Valley are, every scholar in Jing Country is unwilling to let Fang Yun enter.
After all, the benefits Fang Yun gained in the Sacred Burial Valley might not necessarily help the Jing Kingdom, but if Fang Yun died in the Sacred Burial Valley, the Jing Kingdom would fall into an endless abyss and there would be no recovery.
"Fang Xusheng, please think about it again."
"Whatever you ask for, we, the civil and military officials in the court, will do our best to satisfy you!"
Everyone pleaded, but Fang Yun remained unmoved.
Fang Yun moved his sleeve and Jing Jun's hand slipped away.
Fang Yun walked forward again.
The young man Jing Jun looked at Fang Yun's back and wanted to keep him again, but found that for some reason, he could not move.
"Fang Xusheng!"
"Prince Ji!"
"You can't leave..."
Many officials were heartbroken, as if the Jing Kingdom would collapse once Fang Yun left the Golden Palace.
However, Fang Yun never looked back.
The officials stopped trying to persuade him to stay, and just stared at Fang Yun blankly, with despair, grief, discouragement, or sadness...
Fang Yun walked out of the Golden Palace gate and continued walking forward while reciting poems.
"Once you have seen the sea, all other waters are but puddles; except for Mount Wushan, all other clouds are but mounds. I am too lazy to look back at the flowers now, partly because of the holy teachings and partly because of you."
Everyone was already emotionally aroused by Fang Yun's departure, and after hearing this poem, they were unable to control themselves.
Jiang Hechuan smiled bitterly and said, "Fang Xusheng has decided to leave, so let us read a poem to see him off."
Everyone nodded helplessly. When seeing someone off, some scholars who were traveling far away would leave immediately after writing their poems because they felt too sad, and leave the people behind to appreciate them, which is called poetry appreciation.
"This poem is like a love poem. It seems to be written for a lover, but it doesn't seem like it when used at this time."
"The first two sentences are easy to understand literally. Having seen the vastest ocean, it is difficult to be attracted by ordinary rivers and lakes; ordinary clouds are too ordinary. Only the clouds when the goddess of Wushan makes clouds and rain in the legend are called real clouds. However, in connection with the last two sentences, it is difficult to determine whether Fang Xusheng wrote this for Yang Yuhuan or for his resignation."
"The literal meaning of the last two sentences is not difficult. Even if you are surrounded by thousands of flowers in full bloom, you are too lazy to take another look. The reason for this is half because you have the Holy Way in your heart, and the other half is that you can't tolerate anything else in your heart except 'the Lord'. I don't know if this Lord refers to Yang Yuhuan, the imperial power, or the official position."
"This poem is full of deep emotion and profound meaning. You can understand it at first glance, but if you read it carefully, it seems to have other interesting meanings."
"However, I am more inclined to the most original poetic meaning, that after going through hardships, Fang Xusheng found that he owed Madam Fang a lot, and this time he resigned half for the sake of the Holy Way and half for her."
"Yes, this poem has a very beautiful artistic conception, with the vast sea, the clouds of Wushan Mountain, and the flowers. It is beautiful but not gaudy, and subtle but not obscure. It is more like a love poem. The writing style of this poem is different from the gaudy and exaggerated poems in the red-light district, and it is also different from the innocent love poems in the Book of Songs. I am afraid it can lead a new trend."
"I feel that there is a kind of regret in this poem. The first line laments the lack of water, the second line laments the lack of clouds, the third line laments the lack of flowers, and the fourth line, I don't think it is necessarily half for the holy way and half for the king as the literal interpretation suggests, but it seems more like a sigh with hidden questions. But what is the sigh about? I am stupid and can't figure it out."
"No, since this poem was written at this time, it is definitely not a love poem. Why isn't the water of the vast ocean the scene of the battle between Mr. Guanhai and the incarnation of Wolf Slaughter? Why isn't the cloud of Wushan the Holy Cloud of the head of the Kong family seen at the Mid-Autumn Literary Meeting that day? Why isn't the so-called flower bush the civil and military officials of the court?"
"Wonderful, wonderful, wonderful! In this way, the Holy Way does not need to be explained. That Lord may be the 'I' in Fang Xu Sheng's heart."
"Excellent! That 'half because of you' is very similar to Tao Sheng's 'picking chrysanthemums under the eastern fence, leisurely seeing the southern mountains' and 'the caged bird longs for the old forest, the fish in the pond misses its old pond'. Why did Fang Xusheng resign? For the sake of the saintly way, and also for the heart of seclusion from the world."
"Indeed, compared with the Patriarch of the Kong Family and Chen Sheng, we are indeed not as good as water or clouds, and are not worthy of Fang Xu Sheng's nostalgia."
"This is probably the mind of a virtual saint and the ambition of a great man!"
"Alas... When I think about it carefully, this poem is not just about Fang Xusheng writing about himself, but also about each and every one of us."
The court fell silent again. Many people savored the poem carefully, and slowly, sighs were heard one after another.
"Once you have seen the sea, all other waters are but puddles; except for Mount Wushan, all other clouds are but mounds..." Jiang Hechuan murmured in a low voice, with endless melancholy in his eyes.
As the officials read his poems and saw him off, Fang Yun left the capital and flew straight to the Governor's Mansion in Xiangzhou, in order to accompany Yang Yuhuan and to hand over the affairs of Xiangzhou.
Before he flew far, Fang Yun received a letter from Jiang Hechuan.
"Buried in the Holy Valley, be careful of Yi Zhishi. It is said that Wen Ying was not included in the Four Great Talents back then, which was related to him."
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