The Sage of Confucianism and Taoism

At noon, Fang Yun and Li Wenying went to the Confucian Academy.

Fang Yun did not expect that after getting off the bus on a street near the Confucian Academy, Li Wenying took him through the streets and alleys to a food street, and then tasted the food on this street.

Li Wenying is no longer the all-powerful Lord Sword-Mei, but is like a nostalgic old man. He not only brings food to the party, but also talks about the things he studied in the Confucius Academy and the Holy Academy without any preaching, like an old man. Introducing everything here to the juniors.

"The original owner of this noodle shop was a fat man, and the portions he gave were very generous."

"Look at this stone slab. It is said that it is more than five hundred years old and it is still very strong."

"What do you think of the calligraphy on this plaque? It was written by me as a Jinshi."

"Look at the lady selling bean curd, I gave her a love poem back then, alas..."

"Hey, Mr. Zhou, are you still there? Why don't you go home to retire?"

Along the way, Li Wenying occasionally chatted with acquaintances from back then. Those people treated him the same as before. They said what they should say and were not polite when they should laugh and scold him. They even exposed his embarrassing things in front of Fang Yun.

However, Fang Yun found that Li Wenying missed Li Wenying very much, and there seemed to be some special past events hidden in his heart.

Fang Yun and Li Wenying ate a lot of delicious food on this street before heading to the Confucius Academy.

Li Wenying said as he walked: "I can't remember what the Shushan test is about, but I know a little bit about other holy places. For example, the Badou Wen Hall unique to the Confucius Mansion not only tests combat ability, but also focuses on strategy, while Xuehai focuses on talent. , the Holy Tower focuses on understanding, but holy places such as the Holy Ruins and the Dragon Clan, which are closely related to the demon clan and dragon clan, are dangerous in one word. If you are not strong enough, you will die even if you enter, so you have to arrange a Holy Ruins road for the final step. "

"Of course." Fang Yun said.

"There are many secrets in the Holy Ruins, but life is the most important thing. You must not throw away your life for some treasure..."

Li Wenying gave some more instructions, and Fang Yun listened carefully.

The two entered the Confucius Academy and walked for a long time before arriving at a separate courtyard called Renyong. Fang Yun guessed from the name that it should be a quote from the Analects of Confucius: "A benevolent man must be brave, and a brave man does not have to be benevolent."

This villa is as large as the other villas, like a small square, with a flat stone slab as the ground.

There is a row of tall literary halls in the innermost part, full of ancient style, as if they were built during the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period. There were more than a dozen old Confucian scholars standing at the door of the Literary Hall, including the Confucian scholar whom I had met yesterday at the Mid-Autumn Festival Literary Meeting. These dozen people were chatting in low voices, occasionally looking at the crowd opposite them.

There seemed to be an invisible line dividing the crowd into two parts in the courtyard.

The first group of people were very close to the entrance of the Wen Palace. They were either wearing scholar uniforms or juren uniforms.

The other group of people stood more than ten feet away, wearing clothes from various countries, and seemed to be here to see people off just like Li Wenying.

Fang Yun knew that other people from Jingguo who participated in the holy market would go on the road together and took a sea ship to Kongcheng. He took a look, but there were too many people and they were all carrying him, so he couldn't find anyone from Jingguo.

The two walked into the crowd, and Li Wenying said: "Go in, I believe you can pass smoothly."

"Then student, take your leave." Fang Yun said, walking towards those people.

As Fang Yun walked, he looked at the thousands of people in front of him and found that there were many machine beasts or petite spirit beasts in the crowd. Machine beasts and spirit beasts were their partners, and they would also encounter dangers in the holy ruins. If you wanted to bring them with you, When entering the Holy Ruins, you must pass through the Holy Ruins.

The most eye-catching one is a huge machine elephant, which is more than ten feet tall. It is wearing black iron armor and looks very much like a normal war elephant. If its teeth were not two sharp metal cones, others would not be able to tell that it is a machine. elephant.

A young man who looked to be less than twenty years old was sitting cross-legged on the organ elephant, closing his eyes and concentrating.

"Just one person can own such a large machine elephant, and such a large machine elephant must be loaded with Jiangbei. The owner of the war elephant should be an important figure in the Mo family. The value and power of this war elephant far exceeds any other Jinshi Wenbao is probably comparable to Hanlin Wenbao.”

Afterwards, Fang Yun glanced around and found that many of them had particularly special temperaments. Some were flamboyant, some were indifferent, and some were chic, but they always attracted attention.

Before Fang Yun could approach, he saw Li Fanming and a dozen people approaching him quickly. Qiu Chi, the governor of Qi State, was the most enthusiastic. He strode over and said, "Fang Yun, we have been waiting for you for a long time. Many people are waiting for you." Discussing your three poems last night, now that I think about it, it was truly an honor to witness them with my own eyes last night.”

Li Fanming glanced at Qiu Chi helplessly, knowing that he was trying to curry favor with Fang Yun, but it was hard to tell him off since he was a friend.

"Brother Qiu, you're welcome." Fang Yun said and looked at Li Fanming curiously, and saw that his back was slightly arched, with two animal claws on his shoulders, and he didn't know what he was carrying behind him.

Fang Yun was wondering if it was the stupid rabbit Li Fanming mentioned yesterday. He saw two rabbit ears rising from behind Li Fanming, and then revealed a chubby rabbit head. The rabbit's eyes were very intelligent. He glanced at Fang Yun curiously, and then He retracted again, and then patted Li Fanming's right shoulder with his right paw.

Li Fanming looked helpless, stretched out his hand to touch the Hanhu shell, and a carrot appeared in his hand. He handed it behind him, and the rabbit fell from him, squatted behind him, held the carrot with his two front paws and slowly ate it. Get up and make a crisp sound.

After seeing the rabbit in its entirety, Fang Yun discovered that the rabbit was twice the size of an ordinary rabbit and was so fat that it almost looked like it was blowing.

"This...is your spiritual beast?" Fang Yun couldn't help but compare the rabbit with Nunu, but soon realized that he didn't want to compare.

Li Fanming looked ashamed and said: "Oh, I was fine at first. When I was a child, I was cute, well-behaved, and very capable. But I don't know what happened. This year, I suddenly ate and drank like crazy, became disabled, and was very lazy. If I teach him a lesson It, it just pretends For the sake of the holy market, he can only be well fed and cared for. The veterinarians don’t understand. Now he doesn’t want to take a few steps out, so he has to either take a carriage or let me carry him on his back. If you have feelings, just let it go..."

The rabbit hummed a few times to express dissatisfaction and continued to eat carrots.

Fang Yun often came into contact with Nunu, looked at the rabbit, and asked Li Fanming: "Have you ever talked about the Holy Ruins with others in front of it?"

Li Fanming was stunned, and the rabbit immediately turned its head and looked at Fang Yun warily.

"When you said that, I remembered that I did tell it about the Holy Ruins in front of it, and it changed drastically not long after." Li Fanming said.

"That's it. It's afraid of dying in the Holy Ruins, so it eats more before it dies. It won't have anything to eat after it dies." Fang Yun said.

The carrot fell to the ground with a snap. The big rabbit looked at Fang Yun with his mouth wide open. Then with tears in his eyes, he ran a few steps and rushed to Fang Yun. He held Fang Yun's legs and raised his head, extremely excited, as if to say: You understand me! You are the only one in the world who understands me!

Fang Yun couldn't help laughing. He knew it was a rogue rabbit at a glance. He said to the rabbit: "Actually, you are reluctant to let go of Fan Ming. Otherwise, you would have run away long ago. Otherwise, you would not have stayed with him even though you knew the danger of the Holy Ruins."

The rabbit looked shocked at first. He didn't expect that someone in the world could understand it so well. Then he wiped his tears with his paws aggrievedly, showing a sad and touching expression that no one knew about today.

Li Fanming felt uncomfortable and sighed softly: "Forget it, if you are scared, just go home. If you don't want to stay at home, you can go outside. I won't stop you anyway."

Big Rabbit wiped away his tears and raised his head, looked at Fang Yun reluctantly, and then reluctantly walked to Li Fanming, saying that he would not leave.

Li Fanming laughed angrily and said, "What? Do you think Fang Yun is better than me?"

Big Rabbit nodded immediately without thinking, then looked sideways at Li Fanming, curling his lips, as if to say that you don't know why I changed for so long, you don't care about me at all!

Li Fanming pointed at the big rabbit and said: "Look, how can you raise this spiritual beast? It's like an uncle!"

The big rabbit rolled his eyes at Li Fanming, picked up the carrot on the ground, wiped it, and was about to put it in his mouth. He blinked and handed the carrot to Fang Yun, as if asking: Do you want to eat it?

Li Fanming rolled his eyes in anger and said, "Eating everything inside and outside! You heartless rabbit!" Everyone laughed.

Fang Yun smiled and declined: "Thank you, you can eat it."

Big Rabbit nodded, then glanced sideways at Li Fanming, and began to eat slowly, making a crunching sound in his mouth.

Qiu Chi smiled and said: "What a smart rabbit. This is a spiritual beast. We don't have one. What else are you dissatisfied with?"

Li Fanming said helplessly: "Let's go, we will start walking on Shengxu Road in a quarter of an hour."

There are four to five thousand people who want to participate in Shengxu Road, and most of them are standing here at the moment.

Fang Yun glanced around. There were too many people and he couldn't see anyone he knew, such as Yan Yukong and Liu Zizhi.

Only a few people are as relaxed as Fang Yun and others. Most people are a little excited, hoping that they can pass the Shengxu Road. The Shengxu is too famous and has too many benefits. As long as they can leave the Shengxu alive, there must be something Achievements.

People came one after another. A quarter of an hour later, a Hanlin at the door of the Wen Palace said: "The Holy Ruins are composed of weak water, strange winds, changing fog, etc. Among the people, the first 80 people who pass through the Holy Ruins will be qualified to enter the Holy Ruins." . Among the scholars, regardless of whether they pass through Shengxu Road, take The top twenty people who get the furthest will be eligible to enter the Holy Ruins. In addition, the faster they pass, the more moonlight they will get when they enter the Holy Ruins. The top ten will get an additional five points. If you make it, you will get 20% more for the first thirty years, and there will be no additional income for the other thirty years.”

There was some commotion in the crowd, because there was no reward for Yuehua on Shengxu Road in the past. It seems that this time Shengxu Road is really different from the past, and we must fight for it with all our strength.

The atmosphere at the scene suddenly became tense. We were not only competing for the top 100, but also the top 30, and even the top ten!

Li Fanming whispered: "Among the top ten, the Kong family and the six major Yasheng families account for at least seven. The remaining three candidates basically belong to those geniuses, Yan Yukong, Feng Yang and others. You must know their names. I heard it. By the way, you seemed to have had a conflict with Yan Yukong at the Dragon Boat Festival? But he was very generous. He praised you many times and praised you for being far inferior to your poems. He didn't slander you like other Qingguo people. "

"Well, Yan Yukong is different from those Qingguo people. He doesn't hold a grudge for losing to me in the Dragon Boat Festival. His literary courage has already reached the first level, and he can enter the second level at any time. I'm afraid he will be the first in Shengxu Road this time. People." Fang Yun said.

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