Early Spring Literary Gathering

Fang Yun flipped through the transmitted letters as he replied to his friends. Only after dealing with more than half of them and receiving Qiao Juze's reminder did he remember that there was an extremely important Literary Assembly today.

Jing Kingdom lay in the north of the Saint Origin Continent. Outside the city in the first month, the spring chill still bit to the bone; no tender buds or fresh branches could be seen in the woods, nor were there busy farmers in the fields. Yet a faint wash of green had already appeared within the city.

To scholars who valued Literary Qi and literary fame, spring was an excellent season. It represented the sprouting of all things, casting off the old and welcoming the new, and the beginning of something better.

Every year, on the fifteenth day of the first month—the day of the Metropolitan Graduate Spring Hunt—Lantern Festival Literary Gatherings were held throughout the land.

Then, on the day after the Ten Kingdoms Spring Hunt ended, the night of the eighteenth day of the first month, Early Spring Literary Gatherings were held everywhere. They also marked the start of spring's Literary Assembly peak. From that day until the Beginning of Summer, scholars who had lain dormant all winter began to stir.

Because spring rain affected the year's harvest, Rain Prayer Literary Gatherings were held continuously throughout the land every year. This led to an overflowing abundance of Literary Assemblies, becoming a springtime sight among the Human Race that had continued unbroken for hundreds of years.

The Early Spring Literary Gathering was held around the beginning of rain water, one of the twenty-four solar terms. This solar term affected rainfall throughout the Ten Kingdoms, aside from the northern regions, and thus affected each nation's crop yields. Therefore, the annual