When October arrived, the weather on the Saint Origin Continent grew colder, but discussions of a Metropolitan Graduate earning ten top grades burned so fiercely that they seemed to warm the entire continent.
Fang Yun began spending less time governing Ning'an County, because the county was already running like an efficient machine, orderly and smooth.
As the opening of the portal to the Three Valleys Ancient Land drew near, Fang Yun handled government affairs only in the mornings. He devoted most afternoons and evenings to practicing War Poetry and the Lip Spear and Tongue Sword, using Ao Huang as his War Poetry sparring partner and dragon horns to hone his True Dragon Ancient Sword. In Ao Huang's words, the dragon race truly had the worst luck imaginable.
Fang Yun read the Classics of the Sages only before bed, particularly the Six Classics compiled by Sage Kong himself.
Whether they studied the Confucian School as their primary or secondary discipline, human scholars had to read the Six Classics every day. Confucius's Six Classics were not only the chief source of growth for human scholars' literary qi, but also the texts best suited to stabilizing it.
Among humans, there was no Licentiate who did not read Confucius's Six Classics.
On the fifth day of October, Fang Yun received a written message from the Sacred Academy instructing him to go to the Temple of Sages early on the sixth. The Sacred Academy would use literary qi translocation to transport him to the Jing Kingdom Capital, after which he would travel through the Literary World to the Sacred Academy, then onward to the portal to the Three Valleys Ancient Land.
The Sacred Academy really is willing to spend this time, Fang Yun thought. The literary qi consumed by translocation was difficult to measure, and