On the way to the holy temple, Fang Yun kept thinking that whose works he would resonate with his thoughts, so choosing the works was the most important thing.
Generally speaking, it is best to read the works of the six sub-sages and Confucius. Not to mention that the seven sages have a high level of thought, the power they left in the world alone far exceeds that of other semi-sages, and the resonance formed is stronger.
Among the six sub-sages, except King Wen of Zhou who wrote the "Book of Changes", the other five can be considered disciples or disciples of Confucius. Instead of reading their books, it is better to read the works of Confucius directly.
Confucius once compiled the Six Classics, namely "The Book of Songs", "The Book of History", "The Book of Rites of Zhou", "The Book of Changes", "The Book of Music" and "The Spring and Autumn Annals". They are the six highest classics of Confucianism and the source of Confucian thought in Shengyuan Continent.
Fang Yun wanted to read the Book of Changes, but the Book of Changes was the first of the classics that Confucius personally conferred, including the Zhouyi and Yizhuan. In the end, if Confucius had not personally written the preface to the Zhouyi and the Yizhuan to explain the Zhouyi, even the descendants of King Wen of Zhou would not have been able to read it.
Nowadays, people who are proficient in the "Book of Changes" are either descendants of Confucius or descendants of King Wen of Zhou. They have natural advantages, and it is difficult for others to surpass them in level if they specialize in the "Book of Changes".
Confucianism has three rituals.
"The Book of Zhou Rites" records the official system of the Zhou Dynasty, and after Confucius compiled it, he used the official system to express the Confucian philosophy of governing the country.
"Yili" is a system of etiquette compiled by Confucius' disciples, focusing on the etiquette of scholars and officials, including the ceremony of coming of age, weddings, funerals, sacrifices and so on.
The etiquette system of the human race has been changing all the time, so after "The Book of Zhou Rites" and "The Book of Rites", a classic more suitable for scholars appeared, "The Book of Rites".
"Book of Rites" is the work of Dai Sheng, a semi-sage in the Western Han Dynasty. The content of "Book of Rites" can be divided into four categories. The second category is the explanation of "Zhou Li" and "Yili", the first category records various rituals, the third category records the words of Confucius and his disciples, and the fourth category is the articles written by representative figures of Confucianism.
The most famous chapters in the Book of Rites are The Great Learning and The Doctrine of the Mean. The Great Learning was written by Zengzi, the second sage, while The Doctrine of the Mean was written by Zisi, the second sage and grandson of Confucius.
During the Song Dynasty in the ancient Chinese nation, Zhu Xi even separated "The Great Learning" and "The Doctrine of the Mean" from "The Book of Rites" and listed them as one of the "Four Books" along with "The Analects of Confucius" and "Mencius".
In Shengyuan Continent, there is no such thing as Four Books and Five Classics, only Six Classics and Thirteen Classics.
Now the Shengyuan Continent places more emphasis on "The Book of Rites" and does not pay much attention to "The Book of Zhou Rites" and "The Book of Etiquette and Ceremonial", so Fang Yun is not planning to recite the three rituals.
The Book of Songs is the source of poetry, and the Book of Music is the source of music and rhythm. It can be seen that poetry and music have a very high status in Confucianism. Some later generations even speculated that the reason why Confucius compiled the Book of Songs was to lay the foundation for future war poetry. Therefore, even if there were no poets or lyricists in the human race at this time, many people believed that when the human race's poetry accumulated to a certain level, there would inevitably be poets and lyricists.
Human beings have been progressing all the time. The changes from "Zhou Li" to "Yili" and then to "Liji" are the best proof. Even the most conservative and old-fashioned etiquette systems are changing, and other aspects are even more self-evident.
However, the help of "The Book of Songs" and "The Book of Music" to literature is limited and can only be used as auxiliary.
As for the Book of Documents, Fang Yun didn't even need to think about it. This was a collection of ancient historical documents and prose that recorded the Yao and Shun periods as well as the Xia, Shang and Zhou dynasties. The content of the book was extremely obscure, and even a university scholar would have difficulty fully understanding it.
In the Sixth Mountain, a mysterious man stopped Fang Yun by reciting the Book of Shang. Fang Yun obtained part of the true meaning of the Book of Shang, but because there were too many incomplete parts, Fang Yun could not practice it at all.
Thinking of the mysterious man, Fang Yun looked down at his right hand. There was still a thin horizontal scar on the palm, which had not healed yet.
That strand of hair has been suppressed in the world of strange books.
In the end, Fang Yun found that he could only learn "Spring and Autumn Annals".
In fact, Fang Yun wanted to learn "The Analects" the most because it records the words of Confucius and his disciples, but "The Analects" was not written by Confucius himself, but by his disciples, barely staying at the level of a sub-sage, while "The Spring and Autumn Annals" is a real book of a sage.
When thinking of the Spring and Autumn Annals, Fang Yun recalled his mysterious experience after reading ten thousand volumes of books in the Ten Kingdoms Competition. He entered the colorful river and personally experienced what happened during the Spring and Autumn Period for more than two hundred years. He even saw things that were not recorded in books such as the Spring and Autumn Annals and Zuo Zhuan.
However, Fang Yun had an illusion that in fact everything had been recorded in the "Spring and Autumn Annals", but many people did not read it completely.
Fang Yun thought of the "Tai Gu Galaxy Tributaries" recorded in the ancient demon inheritance. He had already made a bet with the demon saints that the Tai Gu Galaxy Tributaries were placed in the Holy Academy. As long as he could obtain the Tai Gu Galaxy Tributaries and his literacy reached a certain level, he could use the methods recorded in the ancient demon inheritance to enter the legendary place and obtain the real supreme secret.
However, the process of entering the legendary land requires one to go through a terrible baptism of power. Fang Yun recalled the colorful bracelets that appeared more than 200 years after the "Spring and Autumn Annals" and was convinced that the "Spring and Autumn Annals" could help him to a certain extent.
So Fang Yun took a deep breath, walked to the center of the temple, sat on the ground like people in the Spring and Autumn Period, faced the statue of Confucius, and recited the original text of "Spring and Autumn Annals".
"In the spring of the first year, the king's first month. In the third month, the Duke and Zhu Yifu made an alliance at Mie. In the fifth month of summer, Duke Zheng defeated Duan at Yan..."
When Fang Yun read out the first word, everything in front of him suddenly shattered. Then he saw a carving knife appear in front of him. Under the carving knife was a blank bamboo slip spread out, and an old hand holding the carving knife was slowly carving words.
The chisel would have made only a slight sound when it entered the bamboo slips, but this chisel made a strange sound when it carved the words. Sometimes it sounded like a spring flowing over a stone, sometimes like a huge hammer hitting a bronze bell, sometimes like the shouting of thousands of troops, and sometimes like the stars breaking apart...
Every stroke seemed to create a new world.
Whatever word Fang Yun recited, his old hands would carve that word.
Every time a word was carved, a strange power would condense in the word, and finally form golden words that flew out and quickly flew into Fang Yun's eyebrows, making Fang Yun feel like he was bathed in a spring breeze.
Fang Yun was ecstatic. This was not a simple "resonance of thoughts" but a higher level of "writing by the holy pen". Only the most talented descendants of the saints could have the opportunity to stimulate this.
Holy Court, East Holy Pavilion.
Papers and books are flying all over the room. It seems messy but is actually in order. An old man is wandering in his mind, and his eyes keep flashing through scenes of the stars moving and the sun rising and setting.
Suddenly, the image in the old man's eyes disappeared, and he turned his head to the north, looking towards the direction of the capital of Jingguo.
"good!"
The old man only spoke one word, and hundreds of pens in the room began to dance, thousands of scrolls began to hum, and ink blossomed.
In the Confucius Mansion.
"Something big has happened! The Spring and Autumn Annals is ringing by itself, and a drop of holy blood is dimming, as if someone has stolen the thoughts of Confucius!"
The entire Kong family was in chaos.
The capital city, the holy temple of the imperial academy.
Fang Yun continued to recite "Spring and Autumn Annals".
The scholars were simply unable to fully absorb the power of the holy pen. Fang Yun knew that this power would subtly influence him, and he would not be able to fully absorb it until he reached a very high literary level.
As Fang Yun was reciting the Spring and Autumn Annals, his talent was restored at an unstoppable speed. After only a quarter of an hour, the three streams of talent were full and could not be increased any further.
Fang Yun did not leave immediately, but stayed for half an hour before getting up. At this time, he had not finished reading "Spring and Autumn Annals", but Fang Yun was not in a hurry, as he could continue reading when he came back.
Fang Yun returned to the battlefield again and saw Zhang Chengyu instructing Cui Wang. The two stopped immediately when they saw Fang Yun coming back.
The head scholar Guo Zitong nodded and said, "As expected of Fang Zhenguo, I also guessed that you would recover your talent ahead of time. Next, Ke Yuan."
Fang Yun and Ke Yuan began to spar with each other. Ke Yuan was just like Chen Liyue before. He only attacked with verbal attacks, allowing Fang Yun to get familiar with the fighting style of the Jinshi.
After his talent was exhausted, Fang Yun went to the holy temple again and continued to recite "The Spring and Autumn Annals" slowly.
Fang Yun is not trying to force himself to understand the great principles in the Spring and Autumn Annals, nor is he trying to force himself to connect the thoughts of Confucius in books such as the Analects and Confucius' Family Sayings. He only studies without thinking, because if he goes in the wrong direction when it comes to the holy way, he will be doomed.
After reciting for half an hour, Fang Yun went to the literary battlefield again to compete in a literary battle.
In the next few days, Fang Yun continued to discuss with the nine top Jinshi scholars. At the beginning, they only used verbal sparring.
By the third day, only the verbal sparring of the three men could break down Fang Yun's defense.
Then they began to attack Fang Yun with the Jinshi War poems, so that Fang Yun could become familiar with the Jinshi War poems.
By the fifth day, no one could defeat Fang Yun just by competing in poetry.
In the end, among the Shangshe Jinshi, only five people could defeat Fang Yun by using both.
In this process, not only Fang Yun is making progress, but every Jinshi who has passed the imperial examination is also making progress. Their room for improvement is much greater than Fang Yun's. After all, Fang Yun has already reached the limit of a Juren, and it will be difficult to increase his literary strength if he fails to become a Jinshi.
Later, Fang Yun devoted more of his attention to verbal sparring and poetry competition with the Jinshi scholars, and indirectly strengthened himself by resolving the Jinshi scholars' attacks.
From beginning to end, Fang Yun did not use the power of the Mist Butterfly.
At the same time, a piece of news spread among the saints' families that a drop of Confucius' true blood had mysteriously disappeared from the Confucius Mansion.
October passed and November came, and snow had already begun to fall in Jing State, which was close to the northern barbarians.
However, the people of Jing did not wear too thick clothes, because the Shengyuan Continent had sufficient vitality and ordinary people were very strong. After obtaining a literary position, they were even more immune to cold and heat.
On the morning of the third day of November, the Dragon Saint's decree came from the Dragon Palace in the East China Sea, ordering those humans who were qualified to participate in ascending the Dragon Platform to go to the Dragon Palace in the East China Sea.
A quarter of an hour later, Fang Yun hurriedly bid farewell to his family, embarked on Guo Zitong's meteoric rise, and flew to the Dragon Palace in the East China Sea together.
When passing by Tuming Mountain, thousands of demons suddenly attacked, among whom there was even a demon king at the same level as the Grand Secretary.
Fang Yun was horrified but remained calm.
Guo Zitong casually took out a page of a great scholar's text and recited it, killing thousands of monsters. Finally, he killed the monster king with his own hands with a verbal battle. When he passed by the next city, he sent a letter to the officials to deal with the corpses.
Half an hour later, when passing by the Bohai Sea, the second group of monsters attacked, and Guo Zitong killed all the monsters again.
After flying for three hours, we encountered four attacks.
When they arrived at the East China Sea, two poisonous dragon demon kings over 20 feet long suddenly rushed out and simultaneously activated the power of a drop of demon saint's blood.
The Great Demon King is equivalent to a great scholar, and with the help of the holy blood, he is enough to kill Fang Yun and Guo Zitong in the blink of an eye.
At the critical moment, a golden semi-saint true text flew out from Guo Zitong's arms, rising a hundred feet in the wind, like the sun rising in the east, illuminating the world, and seemingly lightly flew towards the two poisonous dragon monster kings. Before the semi-saint true text came close, the two poisonous dragon monster kings exploded into pieces. (To be continued...)