The three hundred Metropolitan Graduates were brimming with fighting spirit. Before deciding to attack, Fang Yun consecutively wrote the Second Realm Edge-Concealing Poem, "Sword Chant." Because this poem consumed too much Literary Qi, Fang Yun used it only on thirty Metropolitan Graduates with powerful Lip Spears and Tongue Swords.
Afterward, Fang Yun used the Military Text Deceiving Heaven to Cross the Sea to conceal their tracks, and they swiftly made their way toward the giant tribe of thirty thousand Demon Barbarians.
Only when they came within ten zhang of the tribe did the battle flag overhead suddenly spread a beam of bloody light, breaking the effects of Deceiving Heaven to Cross the Sea.
The Demon Barbarian guards shouted at the top of their lungs, and countless Demon Barbarians began howling.
The Metropolitan Graduates said nothing. More than three hundred Lip Spears and Tongue Swords streaked through the sky like three hundred beams of light, weaving into a dazzling radiance. Wherever they passed, Demon Barbarian heads flew up in droves, and foul-smelling Demon Barbarian blood erupted like fountains.
Then the Metropolitan Graduates attacked according to their prearranged plan.
More than a hundred newly promoted Metropolitan Graduates used only their Lip Spears and Tongue Swords to attack Demon Generals and lesser Demon Barbarians; they were forbidden from attacking Demon Marshals. Nearly half of the young Metropolitan Graduates were chiefly responsible for attacking Demon Generals. The rest were elites from Half-Sage Families, and nearly every one of their Lip Spears and Tongue Swords had been infused with Flood Dragon Bones. They were mainly responsible for Demon Generals and secondarily for killing Demon Marshals.
In particular, the Lip Spears and Tongue Swords of renowned young Metropolitan Graduates such as Zhang Zhixing and Ji Shouyu were even stronger than those of many middle-aged Metropolitan Graduates.