For any nation, the Imperial Examination mattered most. Its importance surpassed even the administration of officials, farming, military affairs, and everything else, because as long as the examination could select outstanding talent, none of those other affairs would pose a problem.
Thus, after the sovereigns and grand secretaries of the various nations discovered how formidable Ji County and Ning'an County were, they secretly dispatched large numbers of people there to learn.
After this Metropolitan Graduate Examination, the Saint Origin Continent alone gained fifty thousand new Metropolitan Graduates. Counting all the other regions, the Human Race's ranks of new Metropolitan Graduates swelled by a hundred thousand!
Then Fang Yun received good news from the Two Worlds Mountain Ministry of War: ten thousand Metropolitan Graduates would arrive at Two Worlds Mountain after the new year. Following rigorous training, they would fight collectively in battalions of a thousand, becoming a fresh fighting force at Two Worlds Mountain.
Fang Yun's eyes lit up at the news. With a single command, an army of ten thousand Metropolitan Graduates could unleash ten thousand swords, primary and replica alike. Every Demon Barbarian below the rank of Demon King would surely perish.
Demon Kings were powerful. A Metropolitan Graduate's Lip Spear and Tongue Sword could not even leave a mark on their Blood-Qi Armor. But if all the Metropolitan Graduates used Sword Burial on their replica swords and concentrated their attacks on one spot, they could kill a Demon King!
Moreover, ten thousand Metropolitan Graduates could summon tens of millions of War-Poem Soldiers. Against such an army, no enemy below the rank of Demon King could stand.
The Human Race was not as powerful as the Demon Barbarians, but it kept advancing!
And this was only the beginning of the coming year. By its end, there would probably