Fang Yun wrote those thousand characters extremely slowly. Anyone else could have finished fifteen hundred characters in that time.
Fang Yun continued at his original pace. After he finished twelve hundred characters, three Wolf Demon Marquises appeared, and one of them belonged to the royal race!
The Linked-Poem Assassin, the White Horse General, and the White Horse Hero-the three beings conjured from war poetry-were swiftly killed. Before dying, they killed all the earlier wolf demons, leaving only the three new Wolf Demon Marquises.
Seeing these three Wolf Demon Marquises, Fang Yun understood why many Hanlin Academicians had to hone themselves for so long before passing the first hall. Even he, with his strength suppressed, had absolutely no chance of carving the remaining six hundred characters in front of these three Wolf Demon Marquises.
It was not that he lacked the strength or intelligence, but that he lacked enough literary qi!
Yet Fang Yun was not discouraged. Instead, he smiled faintly and abandoned the carving altogether!
Next, Fang Yun fought the three Wolf Demon Marquises with his Tongue Sword and war poetry. With his mind free of distractions, he calculated every attack and planned every war poem. Not once did he attack recklessly; every move accounted for all the factors concerning himself and his enemies.
His enemies' race, habits, demonic arts, height, charging speed, normal speed, pouncing distance, jumping height, wind resistance, level of demonic power, degree of coordination, and the subtle effects of their injuries, as well as his own war poems' power, range, and literary qi consumption, his Lip Spear and Tongue Sword's speed, angle, and control, the strength of his literary guts, his total literary qi, his war poems' release speed, their destructive power, and the defensive capabilities of his protective war poetry...
In a single battle, Fang