"Fang Yun, wake up, wake up..."
"Oh?" Fang Yun opened his eyes in a daze, looked up, and found that there were people standing all around him.
"Oh, have you finished reading ten thousand books?" Fang Yun stood up, but his feet were weak and his body swayed. Seven or eight hands supported him together.
Everyone smiled when they saw this, as they were all worried that something might happen to Fang Yun.
Fang Yun looked around and found that most of the people had left. He smiled and said, "It's okay. I just read too much and I feel full. Let's leave the literary world together and go to the venue to check the number of chips."
Everyone surrounded Fang Yun and walked towards the door.
Qiao Juze said: "This time, we are almost tied with Shen Kingdom in reading ten thousand volumes of books, but with your ten chips and the lead in the first big competition, we will definitely win! We may even rank eighth, still surpassing Qing Kingdom!"
"By the way, for some reason, the people of Qing and Jia are reading a little slower than last year, with only a few people reading normally."
"Let's go out and see the results."
Everyone left the literary world of the competition and appeared at the competition venue of the Confucius Academy, then looked at the tall light curtain together.
The new ranking of the eleven academies has changed.
First place, Confucius Academy, one hundred and sixty-three and one.
Second place, Shu Kingdom Academy, one hundred and sixty chips.
Third place, Qiguo Academy, one hundred and fifty-eight.7.
Fourth place, Yun National Academy, 157.9
Fifth place, Wuguo Academy, one hundred and fifty-seven chips three.
Sixth place, Jiaguo Academy, one hundred and thirty-eight chips and two.
Seventh place, Yue National Academy, one hundred and thirty-six chips three.
Eighth place, Jingguo Academy, one hundred and thirty-five and nine.
Ninth place, Qingguo Academy, 135 chips to 1,
10th place: Shen National Academy, 125.7.
Eleventh place, Gu National Academy, 62 chips.
The tenth-ranked Shen National Academy was eliminated in this reading of ten thousand books, and turned gray just like the eleventh-ranked Gu National Academy.
The fourth-placed Yun Kingdom was originally in fifth place after the first round, but in the second round it defeated the Wu Kingdom by a lot and became fourth.
In the reading of ten thousand books, Fang Yun alone scored ten points, but the other students were average, so he was surpassed by Yue Guo and ranked eighth.
Even though the number of chips of the students of Jing country in reading thousands of books was not as good as that of the students of Qing country, their overall score was still higher than that of Qing country because they were so far ahead in traveling thousands of miles.
Fang Yun looked at the seat of the Shangshe Jinshi in the Qing National Academy and found that there was no one there. It turned out that they had left early.
Qiao Juze smiled and said, "Our original goal was to maintain the top ten and strive for the top nine, but we didn't expect to be ranked eighth temporarily! Fang Yun, people from all over Jing Country must be cheering for you. Accept the praise from the people of Jing Country."
Fang Yun shook his head and said, "Let's talk while we walk."
Everyone left the venue. Cui Wang said first, "Brother Fang, we know what you are going to say. We are less than one chip ahead of Qing. According to past results, Qing will have at least seven or eight chips ahead of Jing in the next round. Even if you still have ten chips in the next round, it will only be four chips ahead of last year, so the chances of winning Qing are slim. However, we are satisfied with having beaten Qing for two consecutive games."
"Yes, Brother Fang. You don't have to worry too much about it. Since you are qualified to enter the third round, you will at least be ninth. If you make one step forward compared to last year, no one can say anything to you!" You Nian said.
Fang Yun sighed and said, "Let's not talk about this, let's just discuss how to pass the 'Tour of Ten Thousand Questions'. In terms of variety, the tour of ten thousand miles is the most, and both the ten thousand books and the ten thousand questions are very simple, one is reading books, and the other is answering questions. However, the ten thousand questions are different from the previous two, there is a time limit, which makes it more difficult."
"Yes, someone has calculated that on average, each person in Wantihai can answer 150 questions per hour, and it would take more than three hours to answer 1,000 questions. This is an average. With our level, it would take at least four hours to finish answering them, but Wantihai only gives us two hours at most! We can't finish answering them at all! Even if someone writes very hard, they may not be able to finish answering them."
“In fact, writing down the answers to many questions doesn’t take too much time, but thinking about them takes too much time. In all the previous sessions of Wantihai, no one has been able to finish all 1,000 questions. Some people did not have enough time, and some people left them blank because they did not know how to do the questions.”
"The most important thing is that among the 1,000 questions, 500 are about the classics of the saints, which are relatively complicated. We are all Jinshi, so we are naturally not afraid. But the other 500 questions are about the contents of the 1,000 books we read in the previous "Read Ten Thousand Books". We have only read them once and barely understood the meaning, how can we answer them!"
"Yes, the five hundred questions are very strange. Some are just tricks and it is impossible for anyone to answer them. If you don't know how to answer the questions, it will be useless even if you have the same high-quality writing skills as Fang Zhenguo."
"The thousand books I just read are of all types. If the five hundred questions were just simple filling in the blanks or reciting the contents, they wouldn't be difficult. Unfortunately, You Wan Ti Hai won't test us in such a simple way."
Everyone returned to their residence to rest and prepare for tomorrow's trip to Wanti Sea.
After Fang Yun returned to the room, he immediately lay down on the bed and then entered the literary palace.
Fang Yun carefully observed the Wen Dan in the center of the sky above the Wen Palace. Compared with before, the current Wen Dan was a circle larger and more crystal clear, getting closer and closer to the second realm of perfection.
"The Ming Gallbladder Bell is a treasure of the Saint Academy. There are inscriptions written by a semi-saint himself on the bell. It has been nourished by the power of the saint for a long time and is extraordinary. If a scholar's literary courage is covered with dust, he can use his military merits to exchange for a Ming Gallbladder Bell to shake it and clear the dust. Even the children of semi-saint families are not eligible to receive the Ming Gallbladder Bell for free. They can only wait for literary competitions like the Ten Nations Competition to have a chance."
"The first level of perfection is when the power of the literary courage can be released to influence the outside world. The power of the literary courage of the second level can form a substantial attack force, which can not only weaken the enemy's war poems or magic, but also have a miraculous effect on some magic that affects the mind. The strength of the literary courage is even more related to the future of the saintly way. If the literary courage reaches the third level, it will be even more useful."
After reading Wen Dan, Fang Yun looked carefully at the self-statue in the deepest part of Wen Palace.
There was a colorful bracelet on the statue's wrist. The bracelet was neither stone nor wood, neither gold nor jade, but like flowing liquid.
Fang Yun was puzzled. He looked at it carefully for a while before he remembered that the light of this colorful bracelet was very similar to the river of light he had entered before.
"I've read that there's no record of that river in the book, nor in the ancient demon heritage, but I think it should be one of those limited few strange rivers. But, I don't know what this colorful bracelet is for."
Fang Yun observed the Wen Palace again and found that apart from the Wen Dan becoming stronger and having an additional colorful bracelet, only the murals in the Wen Palace had slight changes.
Those murals originally depicted mythological events such as Dayu controlling floods and Shennong tasting hundreds of herbs, but they were later destroyed. Now they have become slightly flat, as if preparing for new murals.
Fang Yun left the Wen Palace and slowly recalled the events in the "Spring and Autumn Annals" that he had seen today.
The Book of Documents is the first history book, but it is too complicated and is not a pure history book.
The Spring and Autumn Annals is the earliest extant chronological history book. Whether in terms of age or influence, it can be said to be the source of historians. In the Confucian system, the Spring and Autumn Annals holds a very important position and is considered to contain profound meanings. Like the Analects, it contains the teachings of Confucius. (To be continued...)