Xun Ye stood aside and looked at Yan Yukong and others and Meng Linyu, his expression changing. No one knew what he was thinking. He had already completely offended Fang Yun and these people in the Holy Ruins. Now the life or death of the Evil King was unknown, and Fang Yun's life or death was also unknown. It seemed that the Evil King had a greater chance of winning.
Shi Tang said, "Master Fang's life or death is uncertain, and you come here to laugh at him. Where is your courtesy? Where is your kindness? When I become a Jinshi, I will definitely challenge everyone in your Meng family to a literary duel!"
Meng Linyu frowned slightly. Although Shi Tang was not very strong, the Shi family was the number one family in zither, and the first head of the family was Confucius' zither teacher. When a genius from such a family spoke in public, his weight would be even greater than that of Yan Yukong.
"Wait, what? Master Fang?" Meng Linyu asked. Fang Yun was younger than all the geniuses from their aristocratic families, especially these scholars who had never taken the imperial examination in order to enter Shengxu, so they were all older.
"Some of us have already worshipped Fang Yun as our mentor. Even if there is no such relationship, he is our savior. How dare you gloat over his misfortune at this time? It is only right and proper that you must avenge him!" Ma Xiong said.
Hua Yuqing said slowly: "I am not good at poetry, and my literary courage is barely enough, so I will not compete with the Meng family. The evil king disguised himself as a beast in the Holy Ruins and poisoned Fang Yun. Although it was extremely despicable, after all, the saints set the rules. No matter life or death in the Holy Ruins, no matter what happens after leaving, no one will be held accountable. But Meng Linyu insulted my mentor, and I beg my medical friends, Hua Yuqing, to refuse to treat anyone in the Meng family!"
Hua Yuqing's words exploded like thunderous holy sound. No one present expected that the evil king would use poison to harm Fang Yun.
It seemed as if a cold wind was blowing across the backs of everyone in the Meng family. Yan Yukong alone was just a little troublesome, but now even people from the Qindao family, the Ma family of craftsmen, and the Hua family of medicine were defending Fang Yun together and calling him their mentor. This was going to be a big problem!
Not only them, but also the group of the most outstanding scholars seemed to share the same hatred and hated the Meng family together.
However, thinking that the evil king would definitely return with a full load in the Holy Ruins, the Meng family felt that it was nothing, after all, these noble families had not had a good relationship with the Meng family, and some of them had even become enemies.
Meng Linyu was speechless. He felt anxious as he was afraid he would lose face if he could not refute it.
Xun Ye suddenly came over and shouted, "Meng Linyu, even if you have a personal grudge against Fang Yun, you can't say such things when his life or death is unknown! If you still say this after hearing the news of Fang Yun's death, I will go to the Holy Academy to report you for violating etiquette!"
Meng Linyu was stunned for a moment. Suddenly he realized something, and cast a grateful look at Xun Ye, then said to Yan Yukong and others aggrievedly: "Fang Yun's death has not been confirmed, why are you so aggressive? It is well known that our Meng family has a grudge against Fang Yun. He thinks that the women of our Mengsheng family are not as good as his child bride. This is an insult to our Meng family. What's wrong with me saying a few words here?"
"If you hate Fang Yun at ordinary times, I won't care much, but Fang Yun may have just been killed at this moment. Your words and actions are chilling! I will not give up on this matter! I only ask you, do you want to compete or not?" Yan Yukong said coldly.
Meng Linyu wanted to hold back. But thinking that the evil king must have made great gains in the Holy Ruins, he immediately said, "How ridiculous! I am a Jinshi, and our Jinshi literary competition includes verbal battles. I want to compete with you in verbal battles. Who dares? I know that you are more courageous than me, so why should I compete with you?"
"Despicable!" Li Fanming looked at Meng Linyu with contempt.
Meng Linyu suddenly smiled sinisterly and said, "I suddenly remembered an important thing. If Fang Yun were to die, what would happen to the child bride who is more noble than our Meng family's children? Don't get me wrong, I just said it casually, and I have no bad intentions!"
"Meng! Lin! Yu!" Sun Naiyong was furious. Using war poems here would be severely punished, but the punishment for hand-to-hand fighting was not severe. He rushed towards Meng Linyu and was about to attack, but was stopped by the people around him.
Meng Linyu was shocked. He didn't expect that even the military family would take action. However, words spoken were like water spilled, and there was no way to take them back. He could only argue stubbornly, "Brother Sun, why are you so angry? I am just concerned about the future of that noble child bride. Did you misunderstand me? It's unfair. How could I, a member of the dignified Mengsheng family, do such a despicable thing? A gentleman loves a beautiful lady. If I have a woman I love, I will definitely treat her with courtesy and take her home as a concubine."
"Meng Linyu, don't go too far!" A hint of hatred appeared in Han Shoulu's eyes.
Meng Linyu said: "You have formed a clique to slander me, but I can't clear myself of it even if I jump into the Yellow River. You only dare to scold me. If my elder brother, the evil king, was here, who would dare to criticize him? Who would dare to fight him? You are a bunch of bullies who bully the weak and fear the strong, and you still have the nerve to bully me? You are despicable."
Meng Linyu was halfway through his words when he noticed that the expressions of the people in front of him seemed to change. They were looking behind him expectantly and nervously. When he finished speaking, they actually looked surprised.
Then, a familiar voice sounded behind him.
"Oh? Has the evil master's spirit returned?"
Meng Linyu's body trembled, and he turned around hurriedly, only to see a bright beam of moonlight slowly dissipating, and Fang Yun was walking out of the beam of light.
"Fang Yun!"
Li Fanming and others shouted Fang Yun's name while walking quickly towards him. The big rabbit ran the fastest and rushed to Fang Yun like a pony, then hugged Fang Yun's legs, tilted its head back, and grinned.
"You scared us to death!" Zong Wude smiled in surprise.
"I told you that you would be fine! That demon saint didn't make things difficult for you, did he?" Li Fanming blurted out.
Everyone present was stunned. Was Fang Yun's delay in returning because the Demon Saint was in trouble? How could the Demon Saint return alive despite being in trouble
Fang Yun smiled and said, "Lie Sheng was very polite. He sent me back after we chatted for a few minutes."
Everyone couldn't believe their ears. The Demon Saint was quite polite? Who else dared to say that to the Demon Saint? Who else could say that to the Demon Saint? And he said he would come back after chatting for a few words? That was the Demon Saint! It was rare to meet a human half-saint, and it was a hundred times harder to meet a Demon Saint. It was even more of a miracle to come back alive!
The fact that a human being met the Demon Saint and returned safely is something that will definitely go down in history!
Zong Wude sighed and said, "Alas, I really can't compare with you. When you just arrived at the gate of the Demon Ancestor, a demon marquis passed by with a sand centipede and sent you away immediately. When you left the Comet Corridor, more than ten demon kings came to pick you up. Now, the demon saint sends you back to Kongcheng. Can you be more domineering?"
"Haha, you are worthy of being Fang Zhenguo!" Sun Naiyong laughed happily.
"You... you are not bragging." Xun Ye looked at Fang Yun in disbelief. Even though he was from a sub-sage family, he could not imagine that he could come back alive after meeting the Demon Sage.
Kong De said: "The Holy Academy's guidance is carried out at the same time, without any order. I can't think of anyone else who can suppress the Holy Academy's guidance moon power for such a long time except the Demon Saint."
The people around nodded.
"What is there to be happy about? We can only discuss success or failure after my elder brother shows up in his spiritual realm!" Meng Linyu said.
Fang Yun smiled slightly and said, "I think the evil king's spirit will not come back!"
Everyone heard a strange power in Fang Yun's voice, like the words of a great scholar, loud and decisive!
"You think it's useless!" Meng Linyu said disdainfully.
At this time, some people received letters sent by carrier pigeons.
Someone shouted excitedly, "Good news! Good news! Something happened to the Evil Lord! Not long ago, the Evil Lord was bleeding from all seven orifices in the Prison Sea and passed out! The doctors judged that his soul clone in the Holy Ruins might have been reduced to ashes!"
Countless curses and curses popped up in the hearts of everyone in the Meng family. How could this be good news!
The few Meng family members who knew the inside story turned pale. The death of the evil king meant that the Meng family's Star King plan had completely failed.
That was the plan left by Meng Sheng! Did the Meng family's eight years of hard work just go to waste
“You’re talking nonsense! You’re talking nonsense!” The person who spoke was not Meng Linyu, but Meng Linyu’s uncle Meng Li. Meng Li shouted like a madman, “You’re talking nonsense! Lin Tang’s spirit clone will not be in trouble! It is absolutely impossible for it to be in trouble! Someone, drag this bastard who cursed the elite of our clan out and beat him to death! Lin Tang, come out! I know you are among these people! Come out and let them see our Meng family’s Star King, the Meng family’s Dragon!”
Everyone looked at Meng Li in confusion, wondering if he was crazy, the dragon of the Meng family? It was just wishful thinking.
A few young people were even amused and laughed. The Meng family was so ignorant that they actually dared to imitate the Kong family's dragon and create a Meng family dragon. It was really hilarious.
No matter how Meng Li shouted, no one or any spirit beast admitted that they were the Evil King.
Meng Linyu stared at Fang Yun blankly, constantly recalling what Fang Yun had said.
Li Fanming felt relieved and said, "You deserve it! These despicable people from the Meng family were so proud of themselves when they heard the bad news about Fang Yun that they even did not let go of his wife. This is retribution!"
Fang Yun's face turned cold and he asked, "What happened? What happened before I came back? What sweet wife? Is it Yuhuan?"
Li Fanming immediately said, "We were worried about you just now. Meng Linyu came to provoke you, implying that you deserved to die, and then hinted that you could no longer protect Yang Yuhuan, and he was going to attack Yang Yuhuan."
"Nonsense, I didn't say that!" Meng Linyu shouted.
Fang Yun said: "Tell me his original words."
Mo Shan handed over a conch shell, and Fang Yun entered into the air, replaying the previous words exactly.
Meng Linyu's face became even more embarrassed.
Fang Yun stared at Meng Linyu, and said slowly and firmly: "The heart of a scholar is like a mirror. You know what you want to say, and I know it. I won't waste my words with you. Since you dare not challenge Yan Yukong's literary courage, do you dare to challenge me in literary courage?"
Meng Linyu was stunned for a moment, but his expression quickly improved. He sneered, "Fang Yun, do you think you can scare me with your tricks? You were a scholar before entering the Holy Ruins. Even if I think highly of you and make you a scholar before the Holy Ruins, you are just a talented scholar. How can you fight me? I promise you! Let's see how you do!"
Xun Ye on the side was about to stop him, but after thinking carefully, he realized that he and Fang Yun had come all the way to the third corridor. Fang Yun was a literary talent, but his literary talent was not that outstanding. Meng Linyu was a Jinshi, and his literary talent had been condensed for many years. Even if he was not very good, he would not lose to Fang Yun.
However, some of the scholars present followed Fang Yun to the seventh corridor and saw with their own eyes that Fang Yun used his literary courage to push away the poisonous blade snow. When they heard Meng Linyu's agreement, they were stunned at first, and then the same strange smile appeared on their faces. (To be continued...)