Fang Yun immediately bowed to everyone and said, "This snake demon is a Star Demon Barbarian. Unlike the Blood Demon Barbarian, it does not kill people and is even an enemy of the Blood Demon Barbarian. So I hope you will treat Xiaoqing well."
"Since it is Mr. Fang who has spoken, we should obey him." Dean Yan spoke with some hesitation.
"Thank you, President Yan, and thank you, my literary friends! I will get dressed and go to Nanruolin and then to Hangzhou City." After Fang Yun finished speaking, he returned to his room, put on his clothes, packed up simply, and put some daily necessities into the Yinjiangbei.
The drizzle stopped last night and the sky is exceptionally blue today.
Fang Yun walked out of the yard and found Cui Yingying standing at the door next door, looking at him with resentment in her eyes.
Fang Yun nodded slightly, walked towards the main gate, passed through an archway and came to the main gate courtyard. Fang Yun stopped and looked at the officers and soldiers and scholars in front of him with confusion.
More than fifty people were dressed for travel, carrying bags and weapons, and lined up in an orderly manner, accounting for more than half of the people who participated in the battle yesterday.
Dean Yan didn't take anything.
Fang Yun saw Dean Yan smiling at him and asked, "Where are you going?"
Dean Yan said, "Of course I will go to Hangzhou City with you. Nanruo Forest is extremely dangerous, and it is almost impossible for you to pass it alone. Anyway, you saved our lives. If we didn't need someone to protect the academy, the rest of us would go with you. Nearly half of the people accompanying you are elite soldiers from the capital, which will be of great help to you in passing Nanruo Forest."
Fang Yun was grateful in his heart and said to those people: "Thank you all."
A scholar soldier wearing armor smiled and said, "It is our duty to escort the genius of the human race through the difficulties. Mr. Fang, please don't be polite."
"Okay! Give me your bags, I can put them into my Drinking River Shells to save energy." Fang Yun said.
Everyone put their backpacks in front of Fang Yun. Fang Yun held the Yinjiangbei in his hand and inserted his energy into it, which immediately formed a huge suction force to take in all the bags.
Dean Yan said: "Since you have Yinjiangbei, you might as well pack more arrows. That thing is consumed the fastest."
Fang Yun said: "Can you bring kerosene or something that can burn?"
Dean Yan said, "Mingli Academy is close to the border. It was originally one of the frontier army bases, and we often encounter small groups of monsters. Therefore, there is an armory here for resisting monsters. You can choose any one, and the frontier army will replenish it when the time comes. Come on, I will take you there."
"Okay, thank you."
Fang Yun followed Dean Yan into the armory, selected bows and arrows, oilcloth, kerosene and other necessary items, and then came to the main courtyard, and was about to lead those people away when a loud voice rang out.
"What's going on? You soldiers are supposed to escort our master's coffin to burial, but you're just leaving it alone before our master's body is even cold? Even though our master is gone, he was once a dignified Right Prime Minister!"
The scholar soldier smiled and said, "Madam Cui, we have left six soldiers behind, enough to take Prime Minister Cui's body back to his hometown for burial."
"Nonsense! Our master wants to have a grand funeral, what can we do with only six soldiers? People who don't know would think that our Cui family has offended the king! Stop immediately, or the Ministry of War will send you to the border to die."
The smile on the scholar's face disappeared, and he said indifferently, "We are going to Nanruolin. It is a hundred times more dangerous than the border."
"you… "
An old soldier said impatiently, "What do you mean by 'you'? We clearly agreed that we would marry our daughter to whoever lifted the siege on the academy, but you immediately stopped talking about it when you saw it was Mr. Fang! We risked our lives to get this stability, not for you to threaten us! We are only tolerant of Mr. Fang, if it was any other Mr. Fang, I would have slapped you both in the face long ago to let you know what etiquette is!"
"you… "
Mrs. Cui was furious and was about to curse, but a soldier nearby suddenly raised his hand and rushed over to hit Mrs. Cui. Mrs. Cui was so scared that she immediately shut up.
“Haha…” Those old soldiers burst into laughter and followed Fang Yun out.
The scholars glanced at Mrs. Cui with disdain.
There were many students from the academy among them, who seemed to be very rude. However, Dean Yan nodded with a smile. These scholars were not only willing to follow Fang Yun to death, but also did not care about the power of the Cui family at all. They all had the character of scholars and were the hope of the human race.
"March forward quickly!" Fang Yun said, and issued orders to the army one after another.
Those old soldiers were secretly amazed. Fang Yun's orders were very well-organized, just like someone who had risen from a soldier to a general step by step. He was extremely experienced.
Everyone took big strides and rushed towards Nan Ruolin, raising dust and making slight noises from armor.
Before coming, Fang Yun already had an outline of his plan. While walking quickly on the road, Fang Yun was thinking about the specific details.
Fang Yun has already determined that since the tree demon grandma needs the power of the Moon Tree Ganoderma, she will definitely stop him at all costs. He and the tree demon grandma will inevitably have a battle, but how to fight has become a problem.
Fang Yun was very confident that he could hunt down ordinary demon commanders, but the tree demon grandma was different. He couldn't even get within a hundred feet of it.
Ahead are rolling hills with dense forests between the mountains. Walking along the forest, you can reach Hangzhou City directly.
As he approached Nanruolin, Fang Yun ran at a rapid speed while his mind entered the Yinjiangbei to check his treasure.
In the Holy Ruins, Fang Yun obtained many cultural treasures. He picked out some Jinshi cultural treasures and several practical Juren cultural treasures and kept them among them as his life-saving items. The rest were placed in the Holy Courtyard.
In addition, the four treasures of the study can enhance the power of war poems, especially the holy pages, which can not only enhance the power of poetry, but also turn the virtual into the real, and have a powerful effect.
However, Fang Yun discovered that some overly powerful items, such as the mysterious little stone, the dragon's breath stone carving, and the holy blood in the strange book world, were all wrapped in invisible power. He could only feel them but could not use them.
After walking a few more steps, Fang Yun suddenly smiled in surprise, then looked down at his collar and patted his chest.
Mist Butterfly is about to wake up!
The Mist Butterfly can control strange winds and weak water, and because this Mist Butterfly absorbed the chill in the Comet Corridor, it also mastered the power of ice.
Although Fang Yun didn't know when Wudie would wake up, he felt more at ease. Not to mention that Wudie herself had great strength, and not to mention that "Iron Horses and Ice Rivers Come into Dreams" could borrow the power of Weak Water, Wudie and Wen Baoqin alone were enough to sweep away countless demon soldiers.
The Mist Butterfly is a divine creature coveted by all qin masters.
When they were a hundred feet away from Nan Ruolin, Fang Yun stopped, and the others also stopped and looked at Nan Ruolin in front of them.
Nanruolin is extremely mysterious and a famous place of death. Almost no human is willing to enter it.
There used to be a Nanruo Academy in Nanruo Forest, but it was later occupied by monsters and barbarians, and eventually forgotten by everyone.
The trees here are taller and thicker than those elsewhere, but unlike normal trees, the bark of all the trees here is black, like coal, and the leaves are grayish white, which is very strange.
The entire Nanruo Forest was covered with this kind of trees. Fang Yun felt an instinctive disgust when he saw it.
Fang Yun felt that something was spying on him. He looked around but saw nothing. He immediately realized that the tree demon had discovered him and all the trees were its eyes and ears.
A strange light flashed in Fang Yun's eyes, and he said, "Keep going, be prepared, and be careful of sneak attacks from the demon tribe!"
Afterwards, Fang Yun took out a telescope made by the Mohist school. Although the craftsmanship of this telescope was not as good as the military telescopes of later generations, it was made by a famous craftsman of the Mohist school and had excellent effects.
It was extremely quiet along the way.
There were no monster attacks, no chirping of insects or birds. There was no movement of the wind or grass, and even the sound of people's footsteps on the ground was absorbed by the strange weeds, making it almost silent when walking.
Deathly silence.
The group walked quickly forward, and after entering the southern forest, most of the sunlight was blocked by the tree canopy above, and the forest was extremely dim.
The whole world seemed to be left with only two colors: black and gray.
One hour, two hours, three hours...
Not to mention the young students in the academy, even the emotions of the old soldiers were on the verge of exploding.
"Damn it, I've never wanted to fight a monster so badly as I do today. Hold your breath!" cursed an old soldier.
It was not appropriate to talk during a forced march, but the scholar soldier did not stop them.
With this beginning, the others began to vent their resentment.
"I can't help myself, this Nan Ruolin is too weird!"
"No wonder the repeated attempts to encircle and suppress the tree demon granny were unsuccessful. It turns out that their morale was ruined before they even saw the tree demon granny."
…
After everyone had vented enough, Fang Yun said, "Let's make a fire and cook some hot food on the spot."
When Fang Yun spoke, he used the power of the second-level literary advisor, and the depression in everyone's heart was cleared away by the power of the literary advisor.
Suddenly, the roar of a tiger demon came from the front.
Fang Yun was stunned, and immediately said: "What a vicious tree demon! Why did she show up at this time? As long as we light a fire to cook, the demon will definitely attack. They may not even give us a chance to rest!"
At first, everyone thought it was a big deal, as hot meals and dry food were almost the same, but they didn’t allow people to rest, which was a big problem.
These people did not acquire the power of "marching poems" before setting out, and Fang Yun was only a juren, so he could not learn the marching poems that only jinshi could learn. Without marching poems, the soldiers' physical fitness could not be greatly improved. If they marched for a whole day, their strength would drop by at least 10%.
The most fatal thing is that it will take two days and one night to get out of Nanruolin. If Fang Yun can't sleep tonight, it doesn't matter, those scholars can hold on, but the strength of the students and ordinary soldiers will not be as good as before.
"What should we do then?"
Fang Yun said: "I will distribute food to you. Eat while walking. Maybe we can find a solution when we get to Nanruo Academy."
Fang Yun hoped that old man Shushan would show mercy and not kill the Jinshi Yan Chixia, otherwise, his chances of getting out of Nan Ruolin would be almost zero.
Everyone continued on their way, and all the monsters left.
As the sun was about to set, the woods ahead became sparse, and everyone saw a ruined academy, and a scholar in a white robe and sword suit was reciting the "Book of Songs" aloud.
"… Big rat, big rat, don't eat my wheat…"
Fang Yun, who was tired after a day of work, smiled. This person was Yan Chixia. Because he had a fast-moving Hanlin treasure, he could come and go freely in Nanruo Forest. Even the tree demon grandma couldn't do anything to him. (To be continued...)