After passing through the Infinite Battle Hall, Fang Yun had squeezed out every ounce of his own strength. Fighting without Literary Treasures or outside resources gave a scholar a deeper understanding of the essence of combat.
After sleeping soundly for twelve hours, Fang Yun returned to his usual routine, studying at Chongwen Academy and honing himself in Hanlin Hall or the Valley of Adversity on his days off every ten days.
On the first day of the ninth month, Fang Yun officially passed the Seventh Hanlin Hall, becoming a Seven-Palace Hanlin and reaching the very pinnacle of the Human Race's Hanlin Academicians.
The fifteenth day of the ninth month marked the Provincial Graduate Examination throughout the Human Race's lands.
Thanks to the changes in the Literary Star, the Human Race's Imperial Examinations admitted more and more candidates. The total number admitted this year was actually five times that of three years ago!
However, the Imperial Examinations could only confer ranks up to Metropolitan Graduate. Only when this cohort of Metropolitan Graduates advanced to Grand Academician, one after another, could the Human Race's strength be said to have increased substantially.
But that would take at least forty years.
The Provincial Graduate Examination began on the fifteenth day of the ninth month, with three consecutive days of testing. It concluded on the eighteenth, the results were posted on the nineteenth, and on the twentieth, every Provincial Graduate received the opportunity to ascend Book Mountain!
To avoid overlooking a single genius and help the new generation grow swiftly, the sages had spared no expense. As long as the Literary Star remained, no matter how much literary qi ascending Book Mountain and Crossing the Sea of Learning consumed, the Sacred Academy could continue accumulating literary qi.
Fang Yun had no idea what would happen