Many people stared at the holy apricot infatuatedly. It represented hope for the holy path, a higher literary status, glory for the family, and almost everything.
Many people forgot to hear what Li Wenying said, only to wake up at the end and hear Li Wenying announce the worship of the holy temple.
Afterwards, led by Li Wenying, everyone present stood up and worshipped the holy temple first.
Afterwards, according to etiquette, music and dancing began.
In a country of rites and music, one must not slack off.
After the music and dance were over, Li Wenying read out the agenda of the literary gathering.
The theme of this literary gathering is "Singing Fang Yun". Any positive poem that sings Fang Yun can be selected. Regardless of whether the author of the poem is present or not, as long as he is a human, as long as his poem ranks in the top 200, he can get a Holy Apricot.
There are three thousand holy apricots, but the ownership of most of them was decided in advance by Fang Yun.
More than 500 pearls will be distributed at this Shengxing Literary Conference, of which 200 will be determined by the quality of the poems, 50 will be awarded to the winners of various literary activities on site, and the remaining 250 will be presented in public to those who have made contributions to the human race, in order to encourage human scholars.
Since the theme of the literary gathering had spread throughout the human race long before, many scholars picked up their pens and started writing after Li Wenying announced the start of the literary gathering.
Not only were there scholars writing on the spot, but countless poems also appeared on the human race discussion board. Because many scholars were unable to come to Yueyang, they could only participate in the literary gathering through the discussion board.
Since this was within the Academy of Literature, the talent for poetry was visible, and everyone witnessed a spectacular scene that had never appeared in human history.
The scene of the literary gathering was filled with shining orange light, and talent rose from one page of poetry after another, one after another, ranging from one foot to several feet. The total number was the highest in all the literary gatherings of the human race.
The brilliance of talent was so bright that it even outshined the lights at the scene. Even the moon and the Wenqu star in the sky were dimmed by the countless rays of talent.
Suddenly, all the talents in the audience shook slightly, and then all the talents gathered in the sky.
Some poems are not yet finished, but talent is constantly forming and rising.
The orange color in the sky became more and more, slowly condensing into a huge ball of light.
Not only did the talents of the Academy of Literature fly towards the ball of light, but the talents formed by Yong Fangyun from other places were also gathering here.
The literary gathering had just begun when this strange scene pushed it to a climax. The scene was immediately in an uproar, and all the scholars did not care whether there were any great scholars present or not, and they all started talking about it.
"What is that? Could it be the reincarnation of Wenquxing?"
“The brilliance of talent is so magnificent and unprecedented!”
"Everyone, does anyone know what that is?"
“It’s not recorded in the books!”
"Could it be the Talented Sun? Isn't that the talent power of a semi-saint?"
"It should be a rare phenomenon!"
“Hahahaha… I spent a year’s savings to come here, and some people called me stupid. But who would have thought that I would encounter a strange phenomenon just after the literary gathering began. It’s worth it! It’s so worth it!”
“Who knows what this vision is?”
The scholars present kept asking questions, but no one could come up with an answer. Finally, they came to a reply that everyone could agree on. Perhaps after the literary meeting was over and everyone had finished writing their poems, this vision could officially take shape.
The strange vision aroused the enthusiasm of the human race and spread on the discussion list.
As a result, some scholars who originally did not want to participate in the Chanting Fang Movement also began to write.
Sitting in the seat of the great scholar of Jing State, Jiang Hechuan suddenly laughed and said, "I didn't want to participate in this Yong Fang Competition, for fear of being accused of snatching the Holy Apricot from the youngsters. However, how can I be absent from such a grand event? I will also participate in this Yong Fang Competition. If I am lucky enough to be in the top 200 in talent ranking, I will give up my ranking and the reward will be postponed accordingly!"
"Since Mr. Hechuan is involved, then I, Cao, will also make a fool of myself." Cao De'an said afterwards.
Then, many Jing people expressed their willingness to participate.
Some people can see clearly that most of these Jingguo people have been ready to participate for a long time. Now they suddenly say this to stimulate those who don't want to write poems. Since this strange phenomenon is caused by a large number of poems, the more people participate, the stronger the strange phenomenon will be.
The entire literary gathering was a gathering of high-ranking scholars from Jing State trying to seize the extremely slim chance of helping Fang Yun, so naturally they had to use all means at their disposal.
Li Wenying, who was hosting the literary gathering, suddenly said, "Before Fang Yun left, he said that no matter how many fruits the holy apricots produced, one in ten would be kept for use. This time, there are 3,000 holy apricots, and 300 of them have not yet been determined. I, Li, took the place of the virtual saint and allocated 250 holy apricots as rewards for this literary gathering. But this time the rewards are slightly different from the previous ones. They are only awarded to those without literary positions, students, scholars, juren and jinshi. Except for the top 200 people, the top 50 people in each literary position can get a holy apricot!"
As soon as the news came out, the venue exploded again.
The reason why many scholars did not participate in the competition for the Saint Apricot was that they knew that their literary status was low and it was difficult for them to compete with those scholars who had been famous for a long time, so they simply watched the fun.
However, now there are 250 holy apricots as rewards based on literary rank, and everyone is tempted.
When the scholars from Qing State, which was in opposition to Jing State, saw this scene, they were too tired to get angry. They could only sigh that Jing State was full of talented people. Fang Yun was already amazing, but Li Wenying was even more decisive and shocking. He just gave away two hundred and fifty holy apricots like that. No one from Qing State could do that.
Rewarding according to literary rank may seem unfair to scholars with high literary ranks and may cause dissatisfaction among some scholars. However, those scholars with high literary ranks account for less than one thousandth of the total.
In terms of strength and writing, scholars with high literary status have an overwhelming advantage. But in terms of poetry, people with high literary status do have advantages, but they are not so obvious.
Once countless low-level scholars are mobilized to write poems praising Fang Yun, forming a more powerful vision is only secondary. The most terrifying thing is that almost all scholars will convince themselves to praise Fang Yun for the sake of Sheng Xing, even if they have opposed Fang Yun before or just remained neutral.
As a result, more and more scholars announced their participation in this literary gathering.
There was nothing going on at the literary gathering, but the discussion board was almost boiling, because most of the scholars of the human race did not come to the gathering and could only use the discussion board to publish their poems.
Articles on the list poured down like a waterfall.
Before the changes in Wenquxing and when the number of places in the imperial examinations of the human race had not been increased, the human race already had tens of millions of scholars with literary titles. In recent years, with the increase in places, the number of scholars with literary titles has almost exceeded 100 million.
However, not only scholars with literary titles would participate, but those without literary titles would also participate. They would ask other scholars to post poems on their behalf. This would result in the total number of poems praising Fang Yun on the discussion list before the end of the literary gathering far exceeding 100 million, and possibly even reaching 1 billion.
One billion people praise Fang Yun!
Soon, the Jing State official in charge of ranking the poems was confused and had to bite the bullet and ask Li Wenying how to distinguish those hundreds of millions of poems.
Li Wenying thought about it and asked the Holy Academy to take action.
Finally, Dongsheng Pavilion reluctantly announced that the incarnation of Dongsheng Sect's Mo Ju would be responsible for calculating the poems on the discussion list, and in order to facilitate non-scholars to pass on poems, the discussion list would be open to all human beings before the end of the literary gathering. Anyone could directly enter by silently reciting the discussion list in their hearts while standing near literary academies or official seals in various places of the human race.
Once the news spread, it caused another uproar. At a literary gathering, a semi-saint was responsible for counting the poems. What an honor it was!
The Holy Xingwen Society is shrouded in divine glory.