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At noon, Fang Yun met Yun He and learned that the Abundant Source Cloud Family and the Nie Family would each contribute one Metropolitan Graduate, two Provincial Graduates, five Academy Students, and a hundred private soldiers.
The Cloud Family's Metropolitan Graduate was Yun Dan, whom Fang Yun had seen at the restaurant before. The Nie Family's was Nie Cheng. Both were close to Yun Ao.
This was an internal matter for the Cloud Family, so Fang Yun said little and simply waited to depart for Axe Mountain the next day.
As long as he received half the dragon-pattern rice and blood jade, everything else could be negotiated.
Early on the morning of November fourteenth, Fang Yun rose before dawn, washed, and headed for the main hall.
Dressed in white Metropolitan Graduate robes and black cloth shoes, Fang Yun stepped through a doorway and looked up at the sky.
Time in the Bloodmang Ancient Land was reckoned according to the Saint Origin Continent, because the Bloodmang Ancient Land itself had neither day nor night. Blood-colored clouds and a faint bloody mist shrouded heaven and earth, leaving it forever dim, but never truly dark.
While still far from the main hall, Fang Yun heard a low jumble of conversation.
Turning a corner, he saw dozens of scholars standing in the courtyard before the main hall: Metropolitan Graduates, Provincial Graduates, Academy Students, and Licentiates.
When Fang Yun entered, many scholars of lower literary rank hurriedly cupped their hands in greeting.
"Good morning, Cousin Yun Fang!"
"Good morning, Brother Yun!"
"Good morning, honored Metropolitan Graduate!"
Fang Yun merely cupped his hands once, then