Realm Guardians

As Ji Zhibai pondered how to take revenge on Fang Yun in Ning'an County, three hundred Metropolitan Graduates donned their graduate sword robes and entered the main hall of the Temple of Sages one after another.

The Temple of Sages at Jing Kingdom Academy was the largest in Jing Kingdom. Its hall was illuminated by glowing night pearls, and ahead stood the Saints' Statues. The air seemed to hold an invisible force accumulated over a thousand years, so dense it could not be dissolved, making everyone feel as though they were underwater, placing a strange resistance upon their minds.

Rumble...

The great doors closed. The three hundred Metropolitan Graduates faced the Sacred Images with their heads lowered, solemn and dignified beneath the glow of the night pearls.

A faint sound rang out. Then the entire capital and the lands within a thousand li of it trembled gently. An orange pillar of light dozens of zhang thick descended from the heavens, carrying the power to guard Heaven and Earth as it struck above the Temple of Sages.

At the same time, Literary Qi descended from the heavens upon the other eleven academies, including those of Qi Kingdom, Qing Kingdom, Wu Kingdom, and Kong City, as well as certain Ancient Lands beyond the Saint Origin Continent. The spectacle was immense.

Fang Yun had received the blessings of Before the Sages as a Licentiate, Academy Student, Provincial Graduate, and Metropolitan Graduate. This was his eighth Literary Qi baptism!

The total amount of Literary Qi Fang Yun had obtained was far less than that of a Great Scholar, but the number of times he had received it had already surpassed a Great Scholar's!

Only Half-Sages could receive an eighth Literary Qi baptism!

Fang Yun felt a vast and strange torrent descend from the heavens,