The Dragon Gate gave a soft chime, responding once again.
At this sight, Lei Zhongmo and the others immediately recalled Fang Yun's exploits in the Sea of Learning. Back then, Fang Yun had formed a Dragon Boat in the Sea of Learning after composing this Poem on Exhorting Learning. But this was the Dragon Gate-how could a Dragon Boat appear here too?
"Absurd..." Lei Zhongmo no longer knew what to say.
The Sea-Calming Dragon King and the other Great Dragon Kings could only stare as the hundred-zhang Dragon Boat burst out of the water. Once it rose to the surface, torrents of water cascaded down from its gunwales like waterfalls, crashing and splashing.
The five little Flood Dragons were wildly excited, rolling and playing on the deck, while Fang Yun strode steadily forward and stood at the bow.
"There's a second poem." As Fang Yun spoke, he began reciting the second poem he had composed in the Sea of Learning, his Cherishing Learning Poetry.
"An inch of time, an inch of gold,
Lost in books, I knew not spring had grown old.
Had no fellow student come to draw a smile,
I'd still be seeking Zhou's spirit and Confucius's thought."
The radiance surrounding the Dragon Boat grew brighter. It was this poem that had made Fang Yun's fishing rod so formidable.
"The third is Wisdom-Learning Poetry."
"The ancients spared no effort in their learning,
Youth's labors bore fruit only in old age.
What comes from paper still feels shallow;
To truly know a thing, you must practice it yourself."
When Fang Yun had written this poem in the Sea of Learning, his Dragon Boat had lagged far behind those of many Grand Academicians. But as time passed, it had continued to grow, eventually forming a Dragon Gate Phantom that attracted