After thoroughly analyzing his first battle, Fang Yun made another attempt at the First Hanlin Hall.
The First Hanlin Hall primarily tested the Lip Spear and Tongue Sword, with calligraphy as a secondary component. Thus, Fang Yun began as before, using beings conjured by War Poetry to contend with the weaker demons while he concentrated on engraving the Yan Qinli Stele. He carved at exactly the same speed as before, further solidifying his fundamentals.
This time, as he carved, Fang Yun felt clear improvements in every aspect.
Once the Demon Marquises appeared, Fang Yun stopped using offensive War Poetry and fought purely with his Tongue Sword, supporting it with a Swift March Poem and Protective War Poetry.
The results were poor this time. He killed only two of the four Demon Marquises. Relying solely on his Tongue Sword ultimately put him at a disadvantage.
After his second battle ended, Fang Yun replayed the process once more, looking for mistakes or oversights in his sword control and calligraphy.
Once he finished this analysis, Fang Yun immediately began his third attempt at the First Hall.
By his third attempt, Fang Yun had absolute confidence that he could pass, but to hone his Yan Style Regular Script and Lip Spear and Tongue Sword, he still chose not to clear the trial and fought with his Tongue Sword.
Four attempts, five, six, seven...
On his ninth attempt at the First Hall, Fang Yun successfully killed all the Demon Marquises with his Tongue Sword alone.
After the four Demon Marquises died, another three Wolf Demon Marquises appeared-one of the Sacred Race and two of the Royal Race. Fang Yun exhausted his Literary Qi and Literary Guts and had no choice but to end the attempt.
Fang Yun replayed his ninth battle and discovered that he