The Confucian Way to Sagehood
Chapter 708

Mingqi Reappears

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"Since we were determined to repay the Human Race, what did it matter if we died in the Hunting Grounds!"

The demon barbarians finally charged close.

The Human Race Academy Students' War Poetry, Song of Yishui, had a very short attack range, but Arrow in the Stone reached far beyond the range of ordinary demon arts.

Even a Demon Marquis's demon arts only carried power within twenty zhang. Beyond that distance, their strength plummeted, because most demon barbarian arts were formed entirely from qi and blood and did not draw upon the world's vital energy.

The Human Race was different. As Literary Rank rose, the attack range of all kinds of War Poetry and lyrics also increased enormously. An ordinary Metropolitan Graduate's Lip Spear and Tongue Sword could even fly a hundred zhang away.

The newly promoted Metropolitan Graduates buried their heads in writing Wind-and-Rain Dream Battle, while the young and middle-aged Metropolitan Graduates used War Poetry related to wind and rain to attack from fifty zhang away. All manner of strange things came whistling forth: arrows formed from rain, blades forged of ice, water monsters and sea beasts, icy spears and halberds...

"Roar..."

The Demon Generals at the front and Demon Marshals behind them immediately unleashed demon arts in unison. Relying on their overwhelming numerical advantage, they canceled out the Metropolitan Graduates' War Poetry and even created residual shockwaves that counterattacked the Metropolitan Graduates.

But once they had finished writing, the Metropolitan Graduates immediately retreated. This was the basic method by which the Human Race fought demon barbarians: maintain distance.

Among the young Metropolitan Graduates of the Ten Kingdoms, several were Zhuangyuan and possessed Walking the Blue Clouds. However, the Sainthood's power restricted them during the Metropolitan Graduate Spring Hunt, forbidding the use of Walking the Blue Clouds, so

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