Only a small half of the sun was left as it set, and the sky seemed like a huge paintbrush, painting the azure blue into dark blue, and finally into pitch black.
In front of the holy temple, Huang Long led the way, with the carriage following behind, and everyone retreated.
Fang Yun looked out the window at the group of scholars from Jing country with a smile on his face. These people's sense of pride was unprecedentedly high. Huang Long being a soldier made the people of Jing country more proud than Fang Yun becoming the first Jinshi among the ten countries.
Ao Huang felt extremely depressed along the way, and he felt that crowded places were simply dragon graveyards.
When the car reached the outside of the Temple Square, everyone consciously walked to the sides, leaving a wide road for others.
Fang Yun and Yang Yuhuan held hands and looked out the windows on both sides of the car. All they saw were scholars.
There are light blue willow leaf robes for boys, dark blue bamboo leaf robes for scholars, black robes for successful candidates, white robes for jinshi, and so on, all the way up to the purple robes for great scholars, all colors are available.
A young scholar suddenly shouted: "Huang Long pulls the cart! Huang Long pulls the cart!"
The others didn't know what was going on and were immediately misled by this sentence.
"Who is that? Even the king is not qualified to let a yellow dragon pull his carriage!"
"Could it be the head of the Kong family?"
"Could it be Chen Sheng?"
"That carriage is a special carriage for the upper-level scholars. It says First House on it. It must be Fang Yun's carriage."
"As expected of Fang Zhenguo..."
Ao Huang almost vomited a mouthful of dragon blood, then turned his head and looked. Wasn’t he just in front of the carriage, so how did he become the dragon pulling the carriage
Ao Huang twisted his body and turned into a three-meter-long dragon, but he was unwilling to give up. He took a deep breath, and the dragon power gushed out. His body became thicker and longer again, a full five meters long. Standing upright, it was as tall as a five-story building.
"This dragon..."
Ao Huang only said two words, and Ye Hongyu, who was standing in front of the holy temple, suddenly said, "Quiet!"
A force of heaven and earth descended from the void, covering the entire Holy Temple Square. Everyone was silenced by the power of the great scholar's words and righteousness. No one could speak. The square was silent.
Ao Huang kept blinking and didn't understand for a long time how he could have arrived at such a coincidence. When he was about to explain, his mouth was sealed.
Ao Huang looked around and saw countless people with expressions that said, "This Huang Long has grown bigger and is pulling the cart really hard." Ao Huang was so angry that he was waving his claws and teeth. But he couldn't make a sound. When he saw the carriage stop and Fang Yun get off, he reluctantly shrank back ten feet and followed Fang Yun sullenly.
Nunu made a face at Ao Huang, and small meteors quickly spun around Fang Yun.
Ao Huang gave the little fox a cold look.
Fang Yun and Yang Yuhuan walked forward together and came in front of Ye Hongyu.
The table in front of the temple was set up, and there was nothing else except the incense burner used for daily sacrifices. Fang Yun was a little surprised. He thought that Minister Jiang Hechuan would have people decorate the place more solemnly. It seemed that the Minister delayed the virtual sanctification ceremony until night not to make the ceremony more solemn.
Ye Hongyu nodded and said, "The auspicious time has not yet arrived." After that, he turned his head and looked towards the south.
Fang Yun looked curiously, but there was nothing.
A thousand miles south of the city, three great scholars in purple robes and more than a dozen university scholars were flying rapidly on Pingbu Qingyun.
One of the great scholars and three university scholars had an additional official script word "刑" on their robes. The rest were not from the Holy Academy's Criminal Hall.
The group suddenly stopped.
Five great scholars in purple robes flew over from the capital.
Jiang Hechuan was in the middle. He bowed slightly and said, "Jiang Hechuan of Jing State. Respectfully welcome the special envoy of the Criminal Court. Those who have no connection with Jing State, please leave Jing State immediately. Jing State will not see any guests today!"
An invisible force emerged from Jiang Hechuan and spread in all directions like a huge ripple.
The great scholar in the Criminal Hall frowned slightly, and a university scholar even pressed his temples with his hands, suffering from a terrible headache.
A dark-faced scholar with a beard said, "Lei Jiu suffered an unexpected disaster in Denglongtai, and Fang Yun did not save him. As a member of the Lei family, I should participate in the investigation of the Criminal Hall."
Jiang Hechuan looked at Lei Tingyu kindly, and said softly without any anger: "Go away."
Jiang Hechuan's voice was very gentle, and others heard his words unchanged, but the word "get out" sounded like thunder in the ears of the people on the opposite side who were not from the Criminal Hall.
The two great scholars did not move at all, and saw those university scholars tremble and their faces darken.
Lei Tingyu's expression remained unchanged as he said, "Since the Lei family is here, there is no reason for them to leave. What about you, Brother?"
The great scholar Zong Wenxiong raised his eyelids slightly, glanced at the five great scholars of Jing State, and finally his gaze fell on the head of the Chen Sheng family, the great scholar Chen Mingding.
"Brother Mingding, you were defeated by me three times seventy-four years ago, sixty-two years ago, and forty-three years ago. You must fight me again today."
Zong Wenxiong had a fair face and no beard, and his voice was as gentle as Jiang Hechuan's, but it contained the power of the Miscellaneous School, which the five great Confucian scholars found harsh.
Chen Mingding smiled calmly and said, "I can lose, but Jingguo cannot! Wenxiong, let the younger generation handle their own affairs. We old men should just move forward slowly, quietly wait for them to surpass us, and then watch them leave."
"Fang Yun took the wrong road." Zong Wenxiong said calmly.
Everyone was in the sky, and there was a village not far below. The houses in the village were in a mess, the roads were crisscrossed, and a winding road led directly to the outside world.
After Zong Wenxiong finished speaking, the whole village suddenly shook, dust flew, houses moved, roads changed, babies cried loudly, dogs barked, chickens flew around, and many villagers ran out with their families.
But after a moment, the vibration disappeared, and the houses in the village were neatly arranged. The roads were straight, either east-west or north-south, and even the roads leading to the outside world became straight.
"It's your clan that has taken the wrong path!" Chen Mingding said bluntly.
"Oh." Zong Wenxiong agreed nonchalantly, and suddenly bowed in the direction of Qingguo and said, "Please show me the way, Father."
The great scholars were unmoved, but the university ministers were all shocked. These great scholars were so ruthless that they actually skipped the literary battle and directly asked for the power of semi-saints. They were so decisive and experienced that they didn't say a word of nonsense.
Suddenly, there were subtle changes between heaven and earth, as if a summer night with chirping insects and birds suddenly became silent, or as if a windy and rainy autumn day suddenly stopped in an instant, except that the dark clouds in the sky were still there.
All the university scholars felt like this place was like a steamer and they were sweating profusely.
Bursts of rumbling thunder came from the direction of Qing Kingdom, and a five-colored rainbow crossed the sky, paving a road in the sky that continued to extend straight into the capital.
"Please give me the holy object!"
Chen Mingding reached out and took out a scroll of calligraphy and painting from the Yinjiangbei in his sleeve and threw it into the sky.
The holy painting cracked, the brush and ink turned into spring rain, and the world took on new colors.
The mountains are moist and full of vitality.
The area within a hundred miles changed silently from winter to spring, as if the four seasons were passing without a trace.
The front end of the five-colored rainbow appeared in the Baili Spring Rain Area, and its speed dropped suddenly, but it still moved forward.
The spring rain is like cotton, and the rainbow is like a cone.
There were no landslides, no violent storms, and the two forces were competing silently.
All the great scholars and grand secretaries lowered their heads, not daring to look at the place where the five-colored rainbow and the spring rain collided.
A young minister from the Criminal Hall could not help but take a sneak peek, then smiled with extreme joy.
“I have attained enlightenment! I have attained enlightenment…” After saying this, his body silently turned into dust and scattered between heaven and earth.
The rest of the people lowered their heads and did not move. (To be continued...)
ps: Sorry, it’s late. The plot arrangement has been readjusted and everything has been changed.