Evil Authors

While everyone was filled with doubt, golden characters began to appear on the curtains surrounding the arena, gradually replacing the previously dense black characters and spreading at an extremely rapid speed, squeezing out the black characters.

"Good heavens! It's already half full!" exclaimed one of the authors, looking at the curtain with half gold and half black text.

"And judging from the situation, the congestion will likely continue," a nearby author said, frowning.

If more than a third of the space is compressed, it means that this Epic-grade- quality book is not up to standard, and Xun Ling's hope of becoming Fourth-rank Author will be dashed. Another author said with some worry.

The primary criterion for evaluating whether an author can advance in their career is the quality of their writing. In a battle of wits, if one author's book is squeezed to less than a third of its original size, it indicates that the book is of very poor quality. Even if it has reached that level, it is because it has relied too much on external forces and lacks sufficient intrinsic value.

The external force here refers to Sheer Force improving the quality of books by using paper, brushes, ink, etc., but the content of the books themselves falls far short of that quality.

In this situation, it can be concluded that the author's writing ability has not actually reached this level, so the Author Assessment Guild will not pass the assessment. The author needs to go back and continue to study diligently to improve their writing ability, and take the assessment again when their ability is sufficient.

However, it seems that Master Scribe Xun deliberately restrained the use of brushes, ink, paper, and inkstones to prevent this situation from occurring during the calligraphy competition, so there shouldn't be any problem, right? Some authors also have some information about Xun Ling's writing base and believe that this situation is impossible.

However, the golden characters on the curtain were increasing in number and continued to spread, squeezing out the black characters and exceeding half their size.

At this moment, Xun Ling also became restless. He glanced at the curtains around him, then at the Epic-grade- quality book in front of Ma Feifei, his eyes filled with doubt.

As the onlookers just said, he has strict control over the writing materials for this book, calculating the best materials to use to enhance the quality of his book without letting it be squeezed to less than a third of the size by other books of similar quality in a competition.

It can be said that his calculations were based entirely on a perfect-level Epic-grade book. Even if the other party is a perfect-level Epic-grade- quality book, it is impossible for it to reduce his book to less than one-third of its original quality.

But now...

Ma Feifei appeared calm, but inside he was panicking, not only because of the author Badge incident, but also because of the panic he saw on Xun Ling's face.

In fact, Ma Feifei really intended to help Xun Ling this time. His plan was to help Xun Ling pass the author's exam, so that Xun Ling would be grateful to him and become his friend. Then, Ma Feifei would take this opportunity to ask Xun Ling for a few Book Slave and rescue Li Chenzhou. That way, everyone would be happy.

Since Xun Ling didn't recognize Ma Feifei after using supernatural powers to change his appearance and physique, this approach was entirely feasible.

But now Ma Feifei saw panic on Xun Ling's face, as if something bad was about to happen. How could Ma Feifei not be panicked?

Where exactly did the problem lie? Ma Feifei looked around, finally fixing her gaze on the curtain.

At this point, most of the curtain was covered by gold lettering, leaving nearly a third of the space for black lettering.

"No! Impossible, impossible!" Xun Ling cried out in panic, getting up from his seat and standing in front of Ma Feifei's Epic-grade- quality book, staring at it with disbelief.

Suddenly, with a crisp sound, the curtain shattered, the black and white flowing light pillar disappeared, and Xun Ling's Epic-grade- quality book exploded out of thin air, turning into ashes and vanishing without a trace.

No! Xun Ling rushed over, reaching out his hands to try and catch his books, but ended up holding nothing but air.

A beam of red light emanated from Xun Ling's hand and shot towards Ma Feifei's Epic-grade- quality book.

The Book Spirit devoured it!

This is the glory of the victor!

Xun Ling's books have been destroyed!

It's a pity that such an Epic-grade- quality book was wasted. If one could enter the world within its pages, they would surely gain many benefits.

The general public began to lament, expressing their regret over the Epic-grade book written by Xun Ling.

"It's a pity that Xun Ling, the scribe, failed to advance to the Fourth-rank Author." The old man slowly closed the book, sighed softly, and said.

"Impossible, it's impossible to fail!" Xun Ling muttered to himself, his face grim.

Ma Feifei was also a little surprised, opened her mouth, and said: This...

In the end, not knowing what to say, he could only remain silent and take back the Epic-grade- quality book. Ma Feifei noticed that the book seemed a little different from the one before, but he couldn't quite put his finger on what was different. He would have to wait until he got back to study it further.

"Impossible! "Xun Ling suddenly stood up, turned to stare at Ma Feifei, and asked with a gloomy face, "Please show us your author Badge, Master Scribe."

When Ma Feifei saw Xun Ling suddenly speaking to her like that, her temper flared up, and she said in a deep voice: You have no right to.

"Ha! "Xun Ling sneered, "You don't, do you?"

Ma Feifei remained expressionless and silent.

"Steward Elder, you must be familiar with the materials used in that Epic-grade- quality book. Even a perfect Epic-grade- quality book couldn't compress it to a third of its original size, so I think there must be something wrong with it. "Xun Ling stared at Ma Feifei, a malicious smile creeping across his lips. His path to Fourth-rank Author had been cut short by Ma Feifei today; how could he let Ma Feifei get away with it?

"Xun Ling, what do you want to say?" The Steward Elder frowned, glancing casually at Ma Feifei, and asked.

As far as I know, books written by the Evil Author are not only filthy and full of miasma, but in a battle of wits, books written by the Evil Author are definitely superior to those of the same level. Therefore, I highly doubt the identity of this Master Scribe. Xun Ling actually directly labeled Ma Feifei as Evil Author.

"Is Xun Ling, the scribe, biting people in a fit of rage?" one of the scribes asked in surprise.

Who knows? Maybe the other party really is Evil Author! After all, he doesn't have an author's Badge.

Indeed, we just saw the brushes, ink, paper, and inkstones that Xun Ling used when writing his book; they were just ordinary, medium-quality materials. In theory, they should have been able to withstand the pressure from perfect-level books of the same quality. Some people, like Xun Ling, also expressed doubts about Ma Feifei's identity.

What are you guessing for? Just keep watching and you'll understand!

Listening to the onlookers' discussions and considering Xun Ling's earlier words, Ma Feifei looked puzzled and couldn't help but ask, "May I ask what you mean by 'Evil Author'? Is it the kind that writes Human Book?"