The Jinshi from Jing State had fought three battles in a row and his talent, physical strength and spirit had been overdrawn. He was not suitable for fighting at night, so he began to rest. The talented Fang Yun and several middle-aged Jinshi took turns to keep watch.
In the early morning, Fang Yun and another person finished their night watch and took over the shift with two middle-aged scholars. However, he did not go to bed immediately. Instead, he practiced his talent and ancient sword a little away from the camp. After his talent was only half left, he silently recited the classics of the saints and did not fall asleep until four o'clock in the morning of Shengyuan Continent time.
The two scholars who were on guard looked at each other with sincere admiration. Only then did they understand that there is no false reputation under a great name. A person can concentrate on studying at such a time. Even if he is not talented, this quality alone is enough to make him a leader of the human race.
Early in the morning, all the Jinshi got up, and the first thing they did in the morning was to open the Spring Hunting Ranking. The result made many of them embarrassed.
It turns out that the scholars from many countries did not sleep or slept very little.
Jingguo dropped directly to the eighth place. The ranking values of the old powerful countries and medium-sized countries have exceeded 100,000, but Jingguo has only a ranking value of more than 90,000 after destroying three tribes. As for the long-weak Guguo and Shenguo, their ranking values are both more than 50,000. Obviously, it is difficult to continue to destroy only two tribes.
The gap between countries has widened completely. If Jing State had not had good luck, it would probably be ranked around 50,000 or 60,000 like Gu State and Shen State.
Currently, the first on the list is neither the most warlike Wu Kingdom, nor the most united Yun Kingdom, nor the oldest Shu Kingdom, but Qing Kingdom!
The ranking value of Qing Kingdom has exceeded 120,000. It has obviously massacred at least four large tribes. The number is still changing, and it is very likely that it is fighting against the fifth tribe.
Jia Kingdom also surpassed the powerful and steady Yun Kingdom and ranked fifth.
Seeing Qing ranked first, Zhang Zhixing couldn't help but mutter, "They are really crazy. Without Fang Zhenguo's Mist Butterfly, we are only at the level of 60,000, and the four major powers should also maintain a level of 100,000. Qing has directly reached 120,000. It must have paid a heavy price!"
"Let's not get angry with them and proceed step by step."
"Either Qing Kingdom has something to rely on, or it really is willing to do anything at all costs."
"Of course they will fight hard. They were crushed so badly by Fang Xusheng in the Ten Nations Competition. If they lose again this time, it will be a national shame. It was really gratifying to see my Jing Nation take the seventh place that day."
"Fang Xusheng, your "Arrow in the Stone" already has a poetic soul, and has also gone through the process of natural poetry. "Arrow in the Stone" has already reached the third realm, right?"
Fang Yun knew that there was no need to hide this matter. He replied, "I have indeed entered the third realm, but I have never had the opportunity to use it."
"Your second-level 'Arrow in the Stone' has the power to split rocks, and the third level may be able to split mountains. Even the dragon-type turtle demon commander may have his shell pierced by your arrow. Every time the battle poem is upgraded to a higher level, its power will be qualitatively improved. I just don't know how your third-level 'Arrow in the Stone' will perform."
Fang Yun had already tested the power of the third level "Arrow in the Stone" and said with a smile: "We will know when the time comes."
"Then I'll compare it with Brother Chao Ming's "Yuanmen Arrow". One is the archery saint of the Han Dynasty, and the other is the god of war of the Three Kingdoms. I wonder whose archery skill is better between the two."
Ma Zhaoming said modestly, "I am so humble. Fang Xusheng's "The Arrow in the Stone" has the aura of a treasure handed down from generation to generation, and it has captured the essence of Xusheng Li Guang. He himself is the ancestor of poetry, Xusheng, and his poetry must be far more powerful than ours. Today you have also witnessed his strength."
Fang Yun didn't say anything. After the Tianyan Battle Poem, he did get a "Poetry Tripod" because of Xu Sheng.
At first, only a part of the word "poetry" on the tripod glowed, but many days ago, the whole word was already emitting light. Fang Yun sensed it naturally. He could use the power of the Poetry Tripod to enhance his own war poems. However, it takes many days for the Poetry Tripod to recover after one use, and Fang Yun could not grasp the specific time. So he was reluctant to experiment before, and would use it when he encountered danger.
Seeing that Fang Yun didn't say anything, everyone stopped asking. After all, this was related to Fang Yun's most powerful strength. Once it was leaked, it would be very dangerous if he was targeted by monsters.
After dinner, everyone took a short break, released several mechanical birds to investigate the monsters, and then ran towards the Monster Mountain.
The mechanical bird didn't find any trace of the monster. After an hour, everyone discovered that there was a giant tribe ahead!
There are actually 30,000 monsters there!
There are no wild tribes in the surrounding areas.
This is a hunting ground, so this giant tribe has no demon lords. If it were in the grass barbarians or the demon world, the 30,000 tribes of demons and barbarians would have multiple demon lords, and there might even be a demon king or a barbarian king.
"Damn it. Why did the demon barbarians suddenly become so cunning? There are traces of our human military tactics. I never thought that besides the military saint, there is someone else who can do this."
Fang Yun said: "Fortunately, the Yaoman's organizational ability is poor. If we act completely according to the mysterious Yaoman's strategy, I'm afraid we will be in greater danger."
"Organizational ability?" A Jinshi was a little confused.
Fang Yun calmly tried to remedy the situation, saying, "The word 'organization' comes from the 'Ganmao' in the Book of Songs. As we all know, there are three kinds of flags represented by Ganmao in this poem, all of which are woven with white silk threads. The original meaning of 'organization' is weaving. The so-called organizational ability is the ability and efficiency of a group to do things. Any group should be like weaving, with orderly silk threads 'organized' into cloth and silk. After the 'Book of Songs', the great Confucian scholar Gao You of the Han Dynasty and the semi-sage Liu Xie of the Qi State also mentioned it in 'Wenxin Diaolong'."
After Fang Yun finished speaking, he secretly breathed a sigh of relief. Fortunately, he was proficient in the classics of the saints, otherwise he would not even have the ability to explain the words.
"This is a wonderful saying. Organizational ability and weaving ability are very appropriate whether describing politics, military affairs or business affairs."
Fang Yun immediately brought the topic back and said, "Even if this tribe of 30,000 monsters was formed in a hurry, the monster army flag cannot be underestimated. Once we get close, we will definitely be discovered. If we don't fight, the scholars from other countries will most likely get there first. What should we do?"
"If we can kill all the demon barbarian commanders, we won't be afraid of any more demon barbarian generals. But, we can't do that now, we can only attack with force. If we are surrounded by demon barbarians, at least three or four newly promoted scholars will be seriously injured and sent out of the hunting ground by the semi-saint power of the hunting ground..."
At this moment, suddenly there was a sad sound of spring thunder passing by everyone's ears.
"My fellow writers, be careful! I am Xun Cong from Qing State. A newly promoted scholar from Qing State was just accidentally killed by a demon! There will be a big problem with this spring hunt, so be careful!"
The thirty Jinshi scholars from Jing State looked at each other, and then their faces became gloomy.
"Someone's dead! Someone's actually dead! How many years has it been since someone died during the spring hunt?"
"No one has ever died outside the Monster Mountain!"
"This is very strange. Not to mention the semi-saint, even the great scholar could easily rescue him! Could it be that the semi-saint didn't know what happened here? Could it be that the power of the semi-saint to protect the hunting ground has lost its effect?"
"Something must have happened in the outside world, so that the semi-saints have no time to care about us or even no ability to care about us! If the saints had known that it is possible to die outside the Monster Mountain, they would have told us in advance!"
"What happened today, the changes in the hunting grounds, is definitely not a test for the Half Saint!"
"No wonder Ji Shouyu said there would be a disaster during this spring hunt!"
"Then what should I do?"
The thirty scholars fell silent again. (To be continued...)