Fang Yun looked at Grand Secretary Guo Zitong and said, "Master, may I use the treasure?"
Guo Zitong said: "You can use protective treasures, but not offensive treasures. He cannot use any treasures."
"Student knows." Fang Yun walked towards the lawn with a smile, without any burden in his heart. Jinshi and Juren are simply worlds apart. Even people like Yan Yukong, who had been polished among Juren for many years, could only compete with the newly promoted Jinshi. They had no power to fight back when they met people who had been Jinshi for more than five years.
Verbal sparring is a qualitative leap. With verbal sparring, the human race has the power to truly rival the monsters and barbarians.
Cui Wang smiled and walked to the other side of the battlefield.
Qiao Juze crossed his arms and said with a smile, "Who do you think has a better chance of winning, Fang Yun or Cui Wang?"
Gong Yangyu said: "I have fought with Cui Wangwen. Although his lip-sharp sword has not been integrated into the complete dragon bone, it is still half a dragon bone. Even though he became a Jinshi three years later than me, he is still not inferior to me. It's just that his literary courage is not as good as mine, so his ability to control the sword is slightly worse."
Qiao Juze said, "We are all on the field today. This is probably the only chance in this life to bully Fang Yun. We must not miss it. With Fang Yun's ability, he must have reached the second level of Wendan when he became a Jinshi. At this level, he can control his swords and tongues at will. His talent sword can fly without any stagnation and can at least return three times. It's simply terrifying."
"If he uses his power of multitasking to control the sword and write war poems at the same time, he would be worse than a monster."
"Thanks to Cui Wangcheng who has been a Jinshi for more than a year, and the ancient sword of talent that has been integrated with dragon bones and sharpened with dragon horns. If an ordinary newly promoted Jinshi dares to use verbal attacks on him, Fang Yun's literary courage will be enough to shatter his verbal attacks."
Everyone nodded and rubbed their hands, ready to go. Chen Lile even started to argue early, imitating Fang Yun's warm-up.
Fang Yun and Cui Wang stood ten feet apart. This was the standard distance for a literary battle.
Cui Wang was obviously four or five years older than Fang Yun, but he looked more immature than Fang Yun. He said, "Fang Yun, although the dean wants you to understand the verbal battle, and he will use the power of the Holy Temple to prevent you and me from being seriously injured, since it is a literary battle, there will always be accidental injuries. I hope you will be careful."
"I understand. I have protective cultural relics, so you should not take it lightly." Fang Yun said as he put down the tray in front of his chest and prepared pen, ink and paper.
"Of course." Cui Wang answered seriously, not daring to underestimate Fang Yun.
"Please!" Both parties bowed at the same time.
Fang Yun reached for his waist with his left hand and took out an inkstone with the inscription "Osmanthus Tree" from the Yinjiang Shell. He activated the power of Wen Bao and saw a tall osmanthus tree covered with light and shadow, standing between heaven and earth, forming a power equivalent to that of the Jinshi war poem.
At the same time, Fang Yun was writing Chen Guanhai's battle poem "Canglangxing" as fast as he could. As soon as the poem was finished, a huge wave over ten feet long surged towards Cui Wang. However, the top of the huge wave was not a wave, but a group of shrimp soldiers and crab generals made of water.
Those shrimp soldiers and crab generals held swords and guns, shouted loudly, and looked very aggressive.
Cui Wang's face changed. This power was close to the second level of poetry.
Qiao Juze was surprised and said, "Fang Yun has the help of the fake dragon ball, plus the possible Star King, the power is already greater than that of Jinshi using this poem."
"He's testing."
During the discussion, Cui Wang's eyes narrowed. A white sword of talent flew out of his mouth, and with a sharp sound of breaking through the air, it flew forward and pierced through the huge waves with a bang, going straight for Fang Yun's head.
The huge wave fell to the ground and no longer moved forward.
Although Fang Yun's battle poems for the juren were strong, they could only stop him for a moment in front of Cui Wang, a jinshi who had the help of a semi-saint family.
At the moment when the verbal battle collided with the huge waves, Cui Wang's body seemed to tremble slightly.
Fang Yun's eyes suddenly flashed, as if he thought of something, and he immediately walked in the shadow of the osmanthus tree. This is a classic way to deal with verbal sparring, which can slightly interfere with the verbal sparring. At the same time, he recited the Juren defensive war poem "Mountain Fu" in his mouth.
More than half of the Jinshi candidates watched attentively, but those experienced Jinshi candidates and Grand Secretary Guo Zitong seemed puzzled.
When Cui Wang heard Fang Yun reciting the defensive war poem, a smile appeared on his face, and then he began to recite the Jinshi war poem "Watching the Tiger Roar". This handed down war poem was written by a military strategist Jinshi a hundred years ago when he encountered a tribe of tiger monsters attacked in Liangjie Mountain. The poem was written in a moment of desperation. It can form a huge range of Yuan Qi tiger roar attack, which can not only hurt the monster commander, but also any monster soldiers and civilians within the range of "Watching the Tiger Roar", no matter how many there are, will be torn into pieces by the powerful force.
Cui Wang was certain that the range of "Watching the Tiger Roar" was too large and Fang Yun would not be able to escape no matter what. Coupled with the power of verbal sparring, Fang Yun would definitely lose.
Cui Wang's lip sparring and tongue sword accurately hit the virtual shadow of the osmanthus tree that was protecting Fang Yun. With a slight sound, a gap was left on the virtual shadow of the osmanthus tree, and the lip sparring and tongue sword was against the gap, slowly piercing inside.
At this time, Cui Wang was reciting "Watching the Tiger Roar" and could not do two things at once. His verbal battles would only attack Fang Yun according to his previous thoughts, but the power was far less than when Cui Wang was controlling it himself.
Cui Wang's verbal sparring was so powerful that it was very likely to pierce through the virtual shadow of the osmanthus tree when Fang Yun had just finished reciting "Ode to Mountains". At that time, the combined power of "Watching the Tiger Roar" and the verbal sparring would be enough to instantly defeat Fang Yun's defensive power.
Seeing that the cracks on the virtual shadow of the osmanthus tree were getting more and more, Fang Yun blinked while reciting "Ode to Mountains", and the power of literary courage in the middle stage of the second realm burst out.
The strong wind blew, the green grass bent, and Cui Wang's sharp words seemed to be blocked by an invisible wall of steel, unable to advance an inch.
Cui Wang was shocked. He did not expect that Fang Yun's literary power was stronger than the legend. However, he then put his mind at ease. After "Watching the Tiger Roar" was recited, Fang Yun would definitely lose even if he had the power of a literary hero.
After Fang Yun recited the first three sentences of "Mountain Ode", he opened his mouth and recited the fourth sentence.
"Not in the stone edge!"
Everyone present was stunned. This was not a line from "Mountain Fu" at all, but the last sentence of Fang Yun's self-composed war poem "Arrow in the Stone".
"You say one thing and mean another!" Qiao Juze exclaimed.
Before Cui Wang could react, a long arrow containing the power of the soul of poetry and the King of Stars flew towards him.
The speed of this poem is as fast as Cui Wang's verbal battle, and both have just reached the level of a hit, which is twice the speed of sound.
Cui Wang was horrified and instinctively shouted, "I give up! Dean, help me!" He rolled on the ground while shouting.
Fang Yun immediately controlled the arrow in the stone to fly into the sky, avoiding Cui Wang.
"Fang Yunsheng!" Guo Zitong said.
Cui Wang stood up in a panic, brushing off the grass and dust on his body while muttering softly, "Fang Yun is really treacherous! He first tricked me into giving up the verbal sparring and reciting the war poem with the protective poem, but then he changed his mind and recited the war poem halfway through. How can I compare with him? Hey, remember this, next time you use the verbal sparring, immediately use the protective war poem to protect yourself. His "Arrow in the Stone" is a scholar's war poem after all, and it can't break the Jinshi protective war poem. You... what are you doing standing there?"
Cui Wang discovered that the scholars were staring at Fang Yun.
After a long while, Qiao Juze asked tentatively: "Shangpin said one thing and meant another?"
Cui Wang then realized that Fang Yun recited "The Arrow in the Stone" after reciting three lines of "Mountain Fu" in the fourth line. Only a person of the highest quality could do that.
"Yeah." Fang Yun nodded slightly.
Cui Wang rolled his eyes and said, "It's over! In future literary battles, if we don't allow verbal battles, Fang Yun will be invincible among his peers. When it comes to paper war, he has the ability to compose poems in one breath and write them quickly. When it comes to speaking, he has the ability to say one thing and mean another, and can completely adjust his words according to other people's war poems and target them from beginning to end!"
Qiao Juze said: "It's the same for the demons and barbarians! The smarter the saints and barbarians are, the more unlucky they are. I suspect they will be played to death by Fang Yun's hypocrisy."
Gong Yangyu said unhappily, "Let alone the same rank, if I don't use verbal battles with him, I have a 90% chance of failure. The power of Jinshi over Juren is verbal battles, and the power of Jinshi poetry is only mediocre in front of a monster like Fang Yun."
"It seems that our chance to bully him while he is a juren has failed." Qiao Juze said with a smile.
Cui Wang rolled his eyes and said with a smile, "Classmate Fang, we want you to get familiar with the attacking methods of verbal battles to prevent you from getting hurt in the Dragon Stage. How about this, you are not allowed to compete with me with your words and your heart. This time, my verbal battles will not hurt you, but only show my attacking methods. How about that?"
"You can try it." Fang Yun nodded.
The second round of literary battle began. Fang Yun changed his tactics and used three "Arrow in the Stone" and the power of literary courage to attack Cui Wang's verbal sparring. When Fang Yun was about to use the fourth "Arrow in the Stone" to attack, Cui Wang raised his hands to surrender.
"Can you give me a chance to defeat you? No matter how powerful my verbal sparring is, it can't withstand an attack like yours! What's the matter with your "Arrow in the Stone"? Why can it turn halfway? The key is that the turn is smoother than my verbal sparring. Can you not treat war poems as verbal sparring? You are destroying my self-confidence!" Cui Wang was very frustrated.
The scholars laughed. Qiao Juze said, "You can't be blamed for this. If you want to blame someone, blame Fang Yun for being too talented. He is a talented person who is usually only found in university scholars. If the university scholar uses the poems of scholars or juren, it would be easy for him to defeat you."
But Cui Wang then said: "You two compete first. I seem to have discovered my shortcomings. The literary duel with Fang Zhenguo is different!"
Cui Wang said this with his head down. He left the grass while thinking and sat on the stone steps in a daze.
The others nodded slightly. Cui Wang was more talented than more than half of the people here, but the reason why Cui Wang became a Shangshe Jinshi so quickly was mainly because he was good at thinking and learning. Even though he was defeated by Fang Yun, a Juren, he was neither discouraged nor angry. This attitude can best determine a person's success.
Chen Lile said, "I'll try too. But I won't use offensive poems, only verbal sparring and defensive poems. Maybe I can find my weakness in verbal sparring."
Qiao Juze said, "That's right. Failure in front of a high-ranking scholar may be because the other party is too strong, but failure or frustration in front of a scholar can make us discover our true shortcomings. Fighting with Fang Yunwen is the best of both worlds."
"In a literary battle, whoever learns more will be the winner." Fang Yun said.
"Indeed." The scholars in the upper house agreed unanimously. (To be continued...)