Before Demon Mountain

"Everyone, stop discussing. Restore your Literary Qi at once. We still have to climb Demon Mountain!" Sun Renbing said.

"Brother Sun is right."

Everyone immediately began Calm Mind and Still Thought.

More than three hundred Metropolitan Graduates practiced Calm Mind and Still Thought together, forming a strange resonance that increased everyone's Literary Qi recovery speed by ten percent.

After a while, the Literary Star Fragment in Fang Yun's Literary Palace glowed slightly brighter, its invisible radiance spreading outward and boosting most people's Literary Qi recovery speed by fifty percent.

Yet a small number of people, such as Ji Zhibai and the Zong Family's Metropolitan Graduates, did not receive the favor of the Literary Star Light.

Before long, Fang Yun opened his eyes and found that all the Metropolitan Graduates were still practicing Calm Mind and Still Thought.

Fang Yun did not rise immediately. Everyone could tell that his Literary Qi had been exhausted; if he stood now, they would see that his recovery speed was dozens of times that of ordinary people. That would be far too shocking, and they might guess it was related to the Literary Star Light.

With his eyes closed, Fang Yun carefully reviewed everything that had happened since entering the Hunting Grounds. The purpose of this Hunting Grounds trial was chiefly to test the Human Race Metropolitan Graduates' combat ability, so Fang Yun also focused on gaining insights from battle.

Not long after, the Metropolitan Graduates' Literary Qi was restored, and they rose one after another.

Fang Yun rose as well.

Qiao Juze smiled. "Have you looked at the Spring Hunt Ranking?"

"I haven't." Fang Yun held his Official Seal and examined it carefully, then found himself speechless. Jing Kingdom's figure exceeding four million was simply too conspicuous.

"Time waits for no one. What should