After the Meng family left, Ye Hongyu was about to speak when another great scholar in a purple robe flew over from not far away.
"Hongyu, I haven't seen you for a long time. I hope you are well." The visitor was Jiang Hechuan, the Minister of Culture of Jing State.
"Mr. Hechuan!" Ye Hongyu is more than ten years younger than Jiang Hechuan. He once fought bloody battles with Jiang Hechuan against monsters and received Jiang Hechuan's guidance. So even though Ye Hongyu's literary rank is equal to Jiang Hechuan's, he still treats him as his elder.
Jiang Hechuan had white hair draped over his shoulders, his white eyebrows slightly raised, and he nodded slightly, saying, "Are you here to verify the matter of the ancestor of poetry?"
"Yes, Lord Dongsheng said that the sooner the better. I just took out the "Book of Law" and the "Book of Songs" today, and I hurried over." Ye Hongyu said.
Hearing the names of "The Book of Law" and "The Book of Poetry", everyone, including Fang Yun, held their breath. Even Ao Huang's eyes lit up and he muttered to himself excitedly: "This trip was not in vain! I'm afraid it will open my eyes!"
Fang Yun was grateful to Dong Sheng in his heart.
It would be impossible to verify the Poetry Ancestor and enter the Void Holy Garden so quickly. It would be impossible to start without two or three months of preparation. After all, apart from the canonization ceremony, the Void Holy Ceremony was the most important gift. As the human race was a behemoth, such a thing would inevitably require a long period of preparation.
Once Fang Yun becomes a Virtual Saint, his family will be a true Virtual Saint family. Even if Fang Yun dies, the Holy Academy will choose someone from the same clan to inherit the mantle of the Virtual Saint family. Every year, they will receive valuable divine objects and resources from the Holy Academy, which will be enough for the Fang family to become a wealthy family in a short period of time.
The most important thing is, Fang Yun is a virtual saint. Once he is punished by the Moon Tree God, all living semi-saints of the human race must protect him!
This protection should be done within one's ability. A semi-saint can use less than his full strength, but he must use at least half of his strength. Otherwise, it would be a great disrespect to the entire human race, and the human race's luck cannot do anything to a semi-saint. The punishment will be imposed on his descendants.
Fang Yun's chance of survival under the Moon Tree's divine punishment is one in ten thousand, but if he becomes a Virtual Saint, the chance of survival will reach one percent. Although this number is small, it is a hundredfold increase and has great significance.
Jiang Hechuan smiled and glanced at Fang Yun, and said, "Hongyu, verify the Void Saint. Using the three treasures is a big deal, so why not let Jingguo prepare a little bit, and the etiquette cannot be abandoned."
"That's great." Ye Hongyu's expression changed slightly, as if he understood everything.
Fang Yun bowed to the Minister of Literature in the sky to express his gratitude.
The Minister of Literature stood high in the sky, looking down at the capital, and said with thunderous tongue: "Fang Yun discovered the beauty of war poems and created a new poem in Denglongtai, which became the only 'Sword Calling Poem' in a thousand years. It helped the world's Jinshi to gain another sword of words, strengthened the prestige of our Jing country, and promoted the fortune of our human race, and made an unprecedented achievement! Today, the great scholar Ye Hongyu from the Holy Academy came to the Holy Academy to verify the ancestor of poetry. Test it with the three sacred treasures. If it succeeds, the ancestor of poetry will shine in the ten countries. The whole world will celebrate!"
Jiang Hechuan's voice instantly spread throughout the capital, and then spread in all directions at a hundred times the speed of sound. Soon after, it spread throughout the entire Jing Kingdom, and even several states in Wu and Qing, which bordered Jing, heard the voice of the Prime Minister.
Jiang Hechuan finished speaking. He flew close to Ye Hongyu and whispered a few words. Ye Hongyu hesitated for a moment, nodded, and then said: "Verifying the ancestor of poetry is a great gift, and the gift cannot be abolished. I hope the royal family of Jingguo will prepare it quickly."
Fang Yun didn’t know why Jiang Hechuan was delaying, but it should be a good thing.
The Meng family members looked at each other, feeling helpless. As long as the Poetry Ancestor Ceremony was not completed, they would not dare to threaten Fang Yun, otherwise they would be obstructing the Holy Academy.
When faced with such a situation, families like the Confucius Family or the Second Sage Family would dare to confront the Holy Academy, but the Meng Family would never dare to do so.
Meng Tong sighed. Once the Poetry Ancestor Ceremony was completed and Fang Yun's Virtual Saint Statue entered the Virtual Saint Garden, the Meng family would be even less able to deal with Fang Yun. Fang Yun would even have the opportunity to use his identity as the Virtual Saint to eliminate the enemies of the aristocratic families, unless more aristocratic families stood up to support the Meng family.
Fang Yun looked at the Minister of Literature and found that Jiang Hechuan nodded to him. Then he looked in the direction of the Holy Academy. A hint of worry flashed in his eyes, but then his gaze became extremely firm, and finally he left with Ye Hongyu and others.
Fang Yun was confused. Jiang Hechuan's behavior was too strange. It seemed that he was worried that something unusual might happen in the Holy Temple. But if something obviously happened, why did he delay the ceremony
"It's going to be a good show! Hehehehe... I didn't expect that I would have the chance to see the three treasures appear together. The third treasure should be the holy treasure of Lord Dongsheng, right?" Ao Huang said with a smile, "My grandfather Longsheng is the Dragon Saint of the East China Sea, and can also be referred to as Dongsheng. Lord Dongsheng is also called Wang Jinglong. This is a confrontation with my grandfather Longsheng. No wonder every time Dongsheng goes to the East China Sea, he will be beaten up by grandfather Longsheng. Hehehe..."
Ao Huang had a wicked smile on his face and didn't notice anything unusual about Jiang Hechuan.
Fang Yun turned around and walked back, and found that Yan Gui had actually crawled out of the threshold of the study and was crawling out stealthily. When he saw Fang Yun coming back, he was stunned and stared at Fang Yun blankly.
Nunu was staring at Yangui not far away.
"Stupid turtle! You're so stupid, even worse than me! You want to eat a whole dragon turtle? What a waste! Fang Yun, why don't you let me eat this dragon turtle? Maybe I can become a great demon king right away, and becoming a semi-saint is just around the corner!"
The turtle was so scared that it quickly retracted its head and limbs into its shell, fearing that Ao Huang would really eat it.
Fang Yun shook his head, bent down to pick up the inkstone turtle and went back into the house, then placed an inkstone taken from Xiongjun Yinjiangbei in front of the inkstone turtle.
Fang Yun weighed the Yin Jiang Bei and thought that the Meng family was too stingy. The effect of the Yin Jiang Bei was not as good as the great scholar's literary treasure, but its price exceeded that of the great scholar's literary treasure. This thing was originally rare, and it was too difficult to transform it into the talent Yin Jiang Bei that the human race could use.
Fang Yun sat in the study, thinking and writing on paper.
Meng Family, Meng Saint, Xiong Jun, Lei Jiu, Lei Family, Lei Zu, Zong Sheng, Miscellaneous Family, Xun Family...
After writing a series of words, Fang Yun crumpled the paper into a ball and began to prepare for the Jinshi examination.
The examination method of the Jinshi examination is also different from the previous imperial examination.
The boy's exam mainly tests memory and analysis, the scholar's exam adds understanding to the boy's exam, and the juren exam adds policy essays to the scholar's exam, which can be said to be more practical.
The Jinshi examination also tests poetry, classics and policy essays, but the depth and breadth of the examination far exceed those of the previous ones. If one is lacking in any aspect, the candidate will be directly eliminated by the three semi-saint examiners.
Moreover, the imperial examination is divided into two parts: the joint examination and the palace examination. No matter how well you do in the joint examination, if you don’t do enough in the palace examination to become a county magistrate, you won’t get a very good ranking and it will be difficult for you to become the top scholar.
Before entering the Denglong Terrace, Fang Yun even heard that some semi-saint families such as the Xun family wanted to snipe him in the palace examination and the later "Sea of Learning" and "Fighting for the Head of the Country", and were preparing to pardon some criminals in the ancient land and allow the talented candidates among those criminals to participate in the Jinshi examination of the Shengyuan Continent.
Fang Yun had been cautious before, but now facing the punishment from the Moon Tree God, he no longer took these things to heart.
Because he had studied the "Way of Life" of the saints, Fang Yun was no longer so afraid of death. He quickly calmed down and began to study the classics of the saints.
Ao Huang immediately coiled in the air obediently. He listened to Fang Yun reading scriptures and watched Fang Yun writing articles. Sometimes Fang Yun closed his eyes and thought. He didn't know what Fang Yun was thinking, but he could feel it quietly.
The reason why the dragon clan sends its elites to study among the human clan is not only to learn human knowledge, but also because the dragon clan can learn on their own, and being influenced by the human atmosphere is the most important thing.
Study in a small academy, be a good person in a big academy. This is a well-known saying among scholars.
At lunch time, Shangshe Jinshi, who was familiar with Fang Yun, led a group of the best students in the academy to visit and congratulate Fang Yun.
They knew Fang Yun was preparing for the imperial examination and it would be inconvenient for him to come at other times, so they chose noon.
These people were particularly curious about Ao Huang, and often secretly looked at this little yellow dragon. Ao Huang used to like crowds very much. But since he was tricked by his sister, he hated being watched the most. He simply floated behind Fang Yun, closed his eyes and rested, without moving.
Everyone was reasonable and after chatting for a quarter of an hour, they found excuses to leave.
Fang Zhunyun took them out of the door. Before these people had left, they saw Yan Daxueshi from Dongsheng Pavilion coming.
Fang Yun stepped forward with a smile and said, "My student greets Master Yan."
Grand Scholar Yan smiled and said, "Don't be polite, Saint Fang Xu, let's talk inside. Is this Lord Ao Huang Ao?"
Ao Huang nodded and said nothing. If he hadn't felt that Master Yan had the aura of a semi-saint, he would have ignored him.
Fang Yun made a gesture of invitation and walked with Yan Daxueshi while saying: "The matter of Xu Sheng has not been confirmed yet, so this title is inappropriate."
"It's okay. Do you know why I'm here?" asked Academician Yan.
"Could it be for the things I deposited in the East Saint Pavilion?"
"exactly."
The two men walked into Fang Yun's study, and Academician Yan handed a Yinjiangbei to Fang Yun. Ao Huang stretched his head to look at it.
Fang Yun took the Yinjiangbei, which had the seals of Dongsheng Pavilion and Li Wenying's literary talent on it. It was not damaged, which showed that no one had ever opened it.
Fang Yun destroyed the brand and used his divine sense to check, and found that everything inside was still there.
"Thank you, Master Yan. Please also thank Master Dongsheng for me."
"It's good that the things are still there. But... do you know about the Moon Tree Divine Punishment?" Grand Scholar Yan said solemnly.
"I already knew that." Fang Yun said.
"Are you ready?"
Fang Yun sighed and said, "Let it be. During these days, I will spend half of my time preparing for the imperial examination, and the other half compiling what I have learned over the years into a book. It may not be useful to the human race, but I think it will be helpful for the children of the Fang family to read it."
"Fang Zhenguo is too modest. What you left behind... That's it, let's not talk about it. You must not lose heart. Lord Dongsheng has been trying to find a way for you. He believes that your talent exceeds that of the Dragon of the Kong Family and that you are likely to become the future sub-sage of the human race. He will definitely help you with all his strength."
Fang Yun sighed and said, "Please tell Lord Dongsheng that I am very happy, but the Moon Tree Divine Punishment is no different from others. I hope Lord Dongsheng will not force it."
The Moon Tree Divine Punishment once severely damaged the Sub-Saint King Zhou Wen, and the Half-Saint was vulnerable to the Moon Tree Divine Punishment. Even if the East Saint tried his best, it was possible that the East Saint would die first and Fang Yun would die later.
"You should have heard of Lord Dongsheng's temper. I'm afraid... I can't say much about this matter, but Lord Dongsheng will definitely help you. Minister Wen asked you to verify Xusheng in the evening for your own good, but it is very likely to cause twists and turns." said Grand Scholar Yan.
Fang Yun was about to ask, but he found that Master Yan suddenly kept silent. Realizing that it was not appropriate to say more about this matter, he said: "For me, no matter how big the setbacks are, can they be greater than the punishment of the Moon Tree God?"
"That's right." Grand Scholar Yan sighed.
The two chatted for a few more sentences before Academician Yan left.
After seeing off Grand Secretary Yan, Ao Huang followed Fang Yun into the study room and said, "I know you got a lot of treasures in the Holy Ruins. Tell me what they are. I will trade my treasures with you."
Fang turned around, pushed Ao Huang out of the door by the head, and then closed the study door. (To be continued...)