The rain was heavy. The humans fought and retreated, while the monsters advanced slowly, leaving corpses all over the ground. There were fewer and fewer survivors.
When the number of demons decreased from 150,000 to 100,000, the three thousand demon generals did not take any action.
When there were only 50,000 barbarians left, the three thousand demon generals still did not take action.
More than three hundred Jinshi looked at the fifty thousand monsters in front of them.
The reduction in the number of monsters is something to be celebrated, but in the eyes of everyone, these 50,000 monsters are more powerful than the previous 150,000 monsters.
Because, except for Fang Yun, the talents of all the new scholars will soon be exhausted!
Each person can now only write two Jinshi war poems!
Hundreds of newly promoted Jinshi scholars have stopped fighting, and even verbal battles are no longer acceptable, because the amount of their talent is exactly the danger line for the Jinshi scholars, and they must conserve their talent to use rapid war poems to save their lives.
The talent of a young Jinshi is at most two inches left, or at least one inch, which is far more than that of a newly promoted Jinshi.
The middle-aged scholars were better, with talent ranging from three inches to four inches. They controlled their talent extremely strictly because the lives of their comrades had taught them how to fight.
Except for Fang Yun, every new scholar was silently reciting the saints' classics that he had studied most deeply, because this could speed up the recovery of talent. However, no matter how fast it was, it could not be faster than the orthodox "rectifying the mind and meditating quietly" of scholars. Moreover, reciting the saints' classics at this time was not only physically tiring, but also required guarding against monsters and wild beasts, which was the most troublesome.
After all the new scholars were silenced, the monsters' attacks suddenly became less fierce than before, as if they had lost their fighting spirit.
Sun Renbing cursed, "The other side must be commanded by a master. The demons would never think of this. They weakened their offensive, not because they wanted to let us go, but because they wanted to follow us in this way and wear down our bodies and wills!"
Ma Zhaoming smiled bitterly and said, "The problem is that we don't have the ability to counterattack now. We can only let them drag us down. There are 50,000 demon barbarians, and they are the most elite ones. Not to mention the 3,000 demon commanders, there are tens of thousands of demon generals who are obviously stronger than the other demon generals. Some of them are even members of the Thirteenth Army, and they are looking for an opportunity to deal a fatal blow to us."
"Can we bypass them and kill the monsters on the mountain?" asked a newly promoted scholar.
"Impossible! If we did that at the beginning, we would be attacked from both sides because we were too close to the Monster Mountain. If we do that now, not to mention that our energy is not enough to support us running all the way, even if we get there, we will not be able to break through the monsters' defenses in a short time and will still be attacked from both sides. We can only kill these monsters, then calm down and recover our energy before going up the Monster Mountain again."
"Alas, if the Semi-Saint was still here, he would definitely not allow them to unite. But now that the Semi-Saint is no longer controlling them, once they unite, there will be too many of them. Now, not only are they outnumbered, but they even have a master to command them. It will be even more impossible for us to defeat them."
The demon barbarians did not attack, but only threatened, and the scholars hurriedly discussed countermeasures.
Ji Shouyu looked at the corpse of the monster on the ground in front of him, his brows frowned even more tightly, but he said nothing.
"If we can kill these monsters in one go, we may have a chance to climb up the Monster Mountain. But... if we use the power of the stars to kill them now, there is no chance of climbing up the Monster Mountain at all."
"I wonder if we can kill all those 50,000 monsters without using the stars."
"Absolutely impossible!"
"I never thought that we would die here just to hone our skills and compete for the top ten rankings. I just don't know if after we die, the countries will still be allocated quotas for the Imperial Academy according to their current rankings."
"If you hadn't told me, I would have forgotten the real purpose of our coming to the hunting ground. Since the monsters and barbarians are very concentrated, and my ten countries have joined forces to kill the monsters and barbarians, this year's ranking value will be much higher than in previous years. I calculated that after the ten countries joined together, we encountered a total of four tribes, killed nearly 90,000 monsters and barbarians, and then killed 100,000 of the 150,000 troops, which is almost 550,000 ranking points. Adding the previous ones, just two days exceeded the three days of previous years."
"Let me check the rankings. Qing is still in first place, but Jing has jumped to fourth, surpassing two powerful countries."
"The one hundred newly promoted scholars all need to rely on the power of Fang Xusheng's mist butterfly. Every time a new scholar from another country kills a monster, some of them will be counted as killed by Fang Xusheng. Naturally, Jingguo's ranking value will increase at an astonishing rate."
"If nothing unexpected happens, Jingguo will probably be among the top five in this spring hunt. Hey, why did Jiaguo drop to eighth place?"
"I was just looking at the Spring Hunting Rankings. There was a period of time when Jia Country's ranking value skyrocketed. It seemed that Lei Li and his group encountered a tribe and killed them all. But since then, Jia Country's ranking value growth rate has been much lower than that of other countries, which means that the five people of the Lei family have not killed monsters since then."
"Humph, Lei Li was so arrogant before. Originally, Jing Country was 10,000 behind Jia Country. But now? Jing Country has surpassed Jia Country by nearly 20,000!"
"Forget it. Our lives are uncertain, so let's not worry about ranking."
"That's wrong. We are all going to die, and before we die, we naturally have to consider our ranking. If we don't, we will never have another chance. Perhaps, if we are mentioned by others in the future, they will probably say that we are the ones who died in the hunting ground. If we can improve the ranking of our country, others will naturally talk about us differently. Isn't it what scholars like us want to leave our names in history?"
"well… "
"makes sense."
Ma Zhaoming said: "If my Jing country can rank among the top five, I will die without regrets."
Qiao Juze sighed softly, "It doesn't matter if I die, but if Fang Xusheng died here, I would really be unwilling to accept it."
"We still have a chance!" Fang Yun said.
Ji Shouyu suddenly screamed, "Evacuate immediately! Otherwise it will be too late, quick! To... that direction!"
Ji Shouyu suddenly pointed in a direction far away from the Demon Mountain.
Everyone was stunned. Why did they suddenly evacuate for no reason
Fang Yun hurriedly said: "Listen to Brother Shouyu, everyone use the Galloping Poem immediately and run away!"
The middle-aged scholars were the first to react and immediately wrote the Jinshi Fast Poems.
However, those newly promoted Jinshi had little talent and could only write poems of Juren in a hurry.
After more than 300 people finished writing, they ran at an extremely fast speed in the direction pointed by Ji Shouyu.
Sun Renbing sighed helplessly, and saw a military book appear in front of him. A ball of white light exploded from the book, and then a faint white light appeared on the legs of each Jinshi.
Everyone's speed suddenly increased to the extreme, leaving all the monsters behind.
The monsters were stunned for a moment, then started chasing after them, roaring loudly.
While running, Fang Yun looked around.
From the wounds of the monster corpses in the distance, green threads suddenly emerged, gluing the monsters' broken bodies together. Then the dead monsters stood up, their skin had a faint green tint, and their eyes were blood red.
The resurrected monster desperately chased in the direction of the human Jinshi, and its speed was faster than that of a normal monster.
When the fifty thousand living monsters saw the newly resurrected monster, they made way for him as if he were their natural enemy, fearing that they could not escape him.
Fang Yun recognized what these were.
Plague zombies!
This is a very famous ability of the Plague Lord. I didn't expect that the Plague Lord's clone could also use it.
Even powerful plague zombies could not attract Fang Yun's full attention. What was even more strange made Fang Yun look towards the entrance of the hunting ground.
More than fifty thousand monsters are rushing over!
The leaders were not demon marquises or demon commanders, but five Jinshi! (To be continued...)