Fang Yun thought for a long time and found that the time was ripe to start what he had always wanted to write.
Fang Yun slowly wrote four words on a blank piece of paper.
Fang's Dictionary.
There have been many dictionaries in Shengyuan Continent for a long time, but they always have various shortcomings, making it difficult to form a unified standard. The unification and standardized use of dictionaries is of great significance to the human race.
It has to be said that the saints’ concept of education still remains in the era of Confucius, and they still believe in teaching students in accordance with their aptitude.
Teaching students in accordance with their aptitude is suitable for higher education and elite education, and the educational resources required are extremely huge. Whether it is teaching students in accordance with their aptitude or quality-oriented education, they are all castles in the air and are hindering the progress of the general public.
Similar education is not bad, but it is difficult to implement before the human race's strength reaches a certain level.
If the human race's Wenquxing and the vitality of heaven and earth were dozens of times stronger, children would be able to remember everything they saw, they would be able to find anyone to solve their learning obstacles, they would be able to pass the imperial examinations easily, and the teacher would be able to achieve great results by just giving a few words, and that kind of education would be possible.
With the help of excellent dictionaries, as long as students are willing to learn, even if they come from an average family or have average intelligence, they can acquire additional knowledge in their extracurricular time and avoid falling behind their peers who have more educational resources.
Libraries, simplified characters, vernacular Chinese, dictionaries, punctuation marks, phonetic symbols, and a series of other changes all have only one purpose.
Reduce the obstacles that people face in their path to education.
In Shengyuan Continent, there are many ways to annotate pronunciation in dictionaries, including direct pronunciation, reading as, and fanqie. Although it is also an effective method, it is not convenient.
For example, the word "儒" is written directly as "音同如" in literal phonetic notation, "读若如" in pronunciation as "读若如", and "人朱切" in fanqie, which is composed of the initial consonant of "人" and the final vowel of "朱". All of them have great limitations and are very inconvenient.
In the history of Shengyuan Continent, there were some scholars who invented new phonetic symbols, but they failed to become popular for various reasons.
Obviously, Pinyin cannot be used in Shengyuan Continent, so Fang Yun decided to use the phonetic symbols formulated by the Beiyang Government in later generations to annotate the characters in Fang's Dictionary, aiming to create the first and most advanced phonetic dictionary in the history of the human race.
This project was not difficult, but it was extremely time-consuming. Fang Yun patiently compiled it slowly.
As the compilation of Fang's Dictionary progressed, Fang Yun's understanding of words and their meanings also improved. Words are the basis of everything, which greatly improved his understanding of all books, including the saints' classics.
Before entering the God-given Mountains and Seas, Fang Yun was still worried that his foundation would be unstable if he forcibly advanced to the fourth realm. However, after compiling only one percent of the "Fang's Dictionary", Fang Yun knew that his foundation was already solid.
Any great scholar who can compile this dictionary has a solid foundation in literature, and with a little time to polish it, he or she can rise to the top.
The biggest difficulty of "Fang's Dictionary" is its popularization, but Fang Yun has decided that once he returns to Shengyuan Continent, he will force the Panoramic Nation to learn it, lobby the Holy Academy, and then send people to lobby various countries, trying to make all human beings learn to use this dictionary.
With a new goal, Fang Yun is full of energy and feels tired but happy.
After experiencing the Black Treasure Mountain, Fang Yun's island continued to grow by hunting monsters and devouring other small treasure mountains, and now its height above the water has reached three hundred feet.
After being promoted to the third realm, the power of withering and decaying is endless and can easily support a major war. However, there is very little power of withering and decaying to drive the mountain island, so Fang Yun has been using the power of withering and decaying to accelerate, making the speed of the mountain island close to five hundred miles per hour, like lightning.
The visible distance of the mountain island also increased to more than 600 miles, completely exceeding anyone Fang Yun had ever seen, whether it was ferocious creatures or alien races or those powerful emperors.
On the way, Fang Yun met several emperors with extremely terrifying auras, who were no less powerful than Yi Zhishi or the strongest Dragon Emperors, and he avoided them from afar.
With the help of two maps, Fang Yun continued to absorb treasures from the mountain and gathered three maps together, gaining a deeper understanding of this God-given mountain and sea.
As the map became more complete, the center of the God-given Mountains and Seas became more and more attractive to Fang Yun. However, every time Fang Yun was about to go there, he would inexplicably think of the terrifying coffin-carrying man who seemed to be carrying the sky on his back, and his heart would immediately calm down.
However, although Fang Yun did not go to the core of the God-given mountains and seas, he had been approaching there, wanting to get the map there.
When God bestowed the mountains and seas, Fang Yun was silently calculating the time in the Shengyuan Continent in his heart.
The first day of the first lunar month, the second day of the first lunar month, the third day of the first lunar month…
On the fifth day of the first lunar month, Fang Yun suddenly felt a panic in his heart, as if the sky was falling and the earth was cracking, and his brows immediately frowned.
"Did something happen at home? Did Yuhuan get into danger? Or did something unusual happen to the human race that affected my relatives and friends? Or did it endanger Jing Country, or did something big happen in the Sacred Burial Valley?"
Fang Yun suppressed his uneasiness, but was still worried.
The Doctrine of the Mean says that the path of utmost sincerity can predict the future.
Sincerity is as good as God.
Although Fang Yun is a great scholar in the third realm, he is still far from reaching the state of utmost sincerity, but he also has a certain perception of some dangerous things.
Fang Yun put down the small calligraphy brush in his hand, looked up and around, and was shocked to find that the sky above the center of the God-given Mountains and Seas was no longer a clear blue sky, but a deep blue.
"Isn't our visual range limited? Was it caused by the sudden change in the mountains and seas bestowed by God, or is it because my vision is different from that of ordinary people that I can detect this change?"
Fang Yun stared at the deep blue sky for a while, but couldn't make out anything. Just as he was about to turn his head, he suddenly opened his eyes.
Under the extremely distant deep blue sky, a huge translucent gray figure was suspended in the air.
The huge figure was similar to the man carrying the coffin, over a thousand feet tall. The translucent light and shadow intertwined on her body, creating a loose black dress. The black dress swayed gently, covering her huge body.
The man's body was almost translucent and gray in color, but his hair was pure white like snow, hanging down behind his waist and gently floating. The strange thing was that at the end of each hair, there was an ancient brass book hanging.
Fang Yun couldn't see her face clearly, he only saw her huge hands holding a huge brass book, which was mottled with verdigris and exuded an ancient and vast atmosphere.
The huge woman was lowering her head and mumbling something unintelligible. No one knew what she was reciting.
The huge brass book continuously flew out pages of brass paper, which turned into dazzling divine light that spread over hundreds of miles after flying far away. One could clearly see large-scale space shocks occurring in the distance, and even occasional space cracks.
When Fang Yun saw it for the first time, he had no idea what this giant was, but he soon got slightly clearer information from the ancient monster heritage.
Chanting ghosts.
One of the top alien races, in the records of ancient demon heritage, there was once a strongest chanting ghost who beat the Dragon Emperor, who was known as the ancestor, and made him flee in panic.
Farther away, divine lights shone brightly, and it was impossible to tell who was fighting with the chanting ghost.
It was the first time that Fang Yun saw a battle at the saint level. He was unwilling to miss it, so he kept staring at the place where the divine light was intertwined. After a long time, he saw a part of the mysterious figure behind the divine light, which seemed to be only a small part of the eyes.