The Sage of Confucianism and Taoism

Fang Yun walked alone on the road to the Second Pavilion, thinking about something on his mind.

"This book mountain is really difficult. I used to think that even if I couldn't reach the fourth mountain, it would be easy to reach the third mountain and the third pavilion like the other four great talents. Now that I think about it, I underestimated the scholars in the world. The first pavilion If it’s so difficult, how can the Second Pavilion or even the Second Mountain be introspective? You must introspect yourself!”

Fang Yun walked to the second pavilion and found the two scholars from the semi-saint family staring at each other, looking extremely depressed.

Then the two people seemed to sigh, and then began to write on the paper.

Fang Yun was shocked. The two people were like this in the second pavilion. It showed that the second pavilion was not an ordinary difficulty. It was impossible for a scholar from a semi-saint family to be stumped by the first mountain. Even if he was unlucky, he could still get there. The third mountain.

Fang Yun looked up and saw two words written on the plaque above the second pavilion, couplet.

"Isn't that what's absolute?" Fang Yun thought to himself.

When leaving the first pavilion, the paper in front of Fang Yun disappeared. Now when he stepped onto the second pavilion, a new white paper appeared with questions on it. There were three couplets in total. Answering two questions correctly can pass the level.

Ordinary couplets are not difficult, and it takes some time to match them, but when Fang Yun looked at these three, he secretly thought that this couplet is really tricky, even better than the half-saint who was invited to choose the saint that day.

"This question must be because I don't know which half-sages leave it on the mountain of books after finishing it. Whoever encounters it will be unlucky. It is inherently difficult for half-sages to pose questions to scholars, just like the most difficult questions for asking the saints. Let's start with Let’s start with the first question. The first question is a palindrome couplet, and it’s a homophonic palindrome couplet with the same pronunciation but different words. It’s the same when you read it backwards. How difficult is this book!”

The green mountains are beautiful with light rain.

Fang Yun looked at the people in the second pavilion again, and found that the two people had been gesticulating on the paper, thinking about the second couplet, and looked down again. Thousands of people were crowded in the first pavilion.

"That's wrong. It used to be said that half of the people who climbed Shushan could get to the first pavilion, but now why are less than 20% of the people coming up? Could it be that this year's wind is particularly strong?"

Fang Yun didn't think much about it, and after a while, he wrote the second line on the paper.

The green mountains are beautiful with light rain.

The cedar blows the air with the fragrance of ancient cedars.

After finishing writing, Fang Yun continued to read the second couplet.

Undress me, feed me.

"This is the content of "Historical Records of the Marquis of Huaiyin". Han Xin said that Liu Bang gave him his own clothes to wear and gave him his own food to eat. He was very grateful to Liu Bang. If you use the content of famous books as a couplet, you must use famous books The contents are linked together, this is a collection of sentences. I guess those disciples from wealthy families are good at this because they read a lot of miscellaneous books."

Fang Yun thought for a moment. There seemed to be no sentences in the saints' classics that he had memorized that could be combined with each other. Since it was a couplet of collected sentences, it could not be too unknown. The second line must at least be a work by a great Confucian scholar. Now, he quickly read through the works of a great Confucian scholar. Look for sentences that can be used as second lines.

After half an hour, Fang Yun found a sentence that could be used as a couplet from "Shuo Yuan" by Liu Xiang, a great scholar in the Han Dynasty, and wrote the second couplet.

Undress me, feed me.

The spring breeze brings joy to the people, and the summer rain brings joy to the people.

The words "clothes, food, wind, and rain" in the two couplets are all nouns used as verbs, which can be said to be a clever pairing.

Fang Yun looked up and saw that there were four more people in the second pavilion, all from the All Saints family. Then he turned around and saw that the people in the first pavilion had hardly changed.

"Evil sect! There are really evil sects in Shushan this year. Logically speaking, this should not happen. It is said that there is a ray of Confucius' thoughts in Shushan. After passing the ninth Shushan, he will be accepted as a disciple and become the direct successor of Confucius. Other saints Just the descendants. If those descendants of Confucius's disciples have seen the Ninth Mountain, they will probably be called masters. Unfortunately, Shushan has restrictions on literary positions. Those who are too high cannot enter, and those who are too low are not qualified. I don't know. Which mountain can we reach at the end?”

Fang Yun continued to read the third first couplet.

Fish swimming in Shikong Qiujiang cold

At first glance, nothing special.

"The previous couplet is a homophonic palindrome couplet, a collection of sentence couplets. This couplet cannot be that simple. What kind of strange couplet is it? It's not a palindrome, it's not an embedded word, it's not a split word, it's not a hidden word, it's an unscripted epic word, what on earth is it?"

After thinking for a while, Fang Yun suddenly realized.

"These seven characters are all surnames! If you think this is a couplet that emphasizes artistic conception, you will definitely be fooled. Once you determine the answer, there is no way to go back on it."

So Fang Yun began to search for the surnames in Qishu Tiandi. Because Qishu Tiandi's thinking was faster, he quickly came up with a couplet.

Fish swim in Shikong, Qiujiang is cold.

The cypress trees are thick and the mountains are high in summer.

There is a fish in the river and a tree in the mountain. They are very neatly aligned.

"call……"

Fang Yun breathed a long sigh of relief. He looked up and saw that there were already more than twenty people in the second pavilion. The first pavilion was still a large area of ​​darkness, not to mention down the mountain. Thousands of people looked at the single-plank bridge eagerly and did not dare to approach. I can endure the strange wind, but I can't bear to leave. After all, there are benefits to staying in Shushan.

"This year's Shang Shushan is really a big tragedy. I don't know how many people will scold the examiner this time, although it actually has little to do with the examiner. I don't know who is the culprit. If you know, I will scold you too!" Fang Yun shook his head and said again Check to confirm the answer, then finish silently in your mind.

The second pavilion emits a white light that no one else can see, and it falls on Fang Yun.

This time the white light was denser than before. Fang Yun felt warm, and his whole body seemed to be melting. His talent increased again, and the increased talent had no hidden dangers at all. It was as stable as the talent he had slowly cultivated, as if It's like a godsend.

"The increase in literary courage is even greater. No wonder the disciples of the Saint Family will try to form a literary courage vortex before climbing the Book Mountain." Fang Yun couldn't help but think of Yan Yukong's literary courage. Once it was released, the grass and trees were crushed, but there was no murderous intent or aggressiveness.

Fang Yun slowly walked to the attic of the second pavilion and climbed to the third pavilion.

The scholars in front of the second pavilion raised their heads and looked at Fang Yun's back and couldn't speak. Some kept blinking, trying to confirm that they were not wrong.

These scholars knew the difficulty of the three couplets. With their knowledge, they would definitely be able to answer them correctly as long as they had enough time, but the problem was that it took too long.

But how could this Fang Yun be so fast?

All the people looked at Fang Yun silently, then looked at each other silently, and lowered their heads to continue thinking.

A scholar whispered: "If anyone dares to say that the poor children read few books in the future, I will not ask the Saint Judgment, I will ask Fang Yun to teach him a lesson! I hope he gets stuck in the third pavilion, so that we still have a chance to catch up."

No one heard what he said, but he knew that everyone was very depressed.

People on the mountain can't talk, but people below can.

"Look, Fang Yun is climbing up to the third pavilion! Haha, who said that there is no one among us poor students?" One person pointed at Fang Yun's back and shouted.

All the people below the mountain looked at Fang Yun together.

"No wonder he can kill people with his literary courage. This Fang Yun is really amazing."

"Maybe the questions in the Book Mountain exam this year are simple."

"Look at the disciples of the Saints' families. Some of them have more potential than the four talented people at the bottom of the ranking. Do you believe what you said?"

The man shut up. Now many people have noticed the changes in the Ten Kingdoms. With the continuous accumulation of talent, the number of Saints' classics has continued to increase, the base of human scholars has expanded, and there are more and more geniuses. The Saint Academy is also increasing the number of admissions. The doubling of the number of scholars this year is certainly due to the contribution of Wenqu Wudong, but it is inseparable from the accumulation of the human race.

Yi Zhishi, Lu Huaijiang, Yan Yukong, Li Wenying and other characters would become famous figures even in the time of Confucius. In the past, one appeared every few decades, but now there are several.

"Perhaps this is the era of the revival of our human race."

"The human race got rid of ignorance with King Wen and rose with Confucius. I just don't know who will be the leader of the revival of our human race."

In the Hall of Saints, the three semi-saint examiners looked at the light point representing Fang Yun in the shadow of the Nine Mountains and said nothing.

In the shadow of the Nine Mountains, the brightness of the light representing Fang Yun increased again, from two times at the beginning to three times.

After a long time, one person said, "Even if all three couplets are correct, it can't double the brilliance. It must be because his couplets are too wonderful."

"If he passes through the three mountains with a perfect posture, he may get the legendary top-grade 'writing quickly' literary mind. People like Yi Zhishi have never had a literary mind that reaches the top grade. They only have a chance when they are canonized."

"This is the first time I am so excited about Xiucai going to the Book Mountain."

"Do you want to send a message with your fingers and tell the other half-saints that they may not pay attention to Xiucai going to the Book Mountain." Mi Fengdian said with a smile.

"Wait a minute, wait until Fang Yun climbs the second mountain perfectly before talking."

As soon as the voice fell, the three half-saints suddenly raised their heads, and a white-haired old man appeared at the door of the Hall of All Saints. The man was skinny and looked like he was about to die. He walked slowly with three steps and staggered.

The three half-saint examiners stood up immediately.

"Mr. Wang." The youngest Mi Fengdian said immediately.

"Brother Jinglong." The older half-saint said.

"Lord Dongsheng."

The three looked serious. Wang Jinglong looked old and weak, and he was extremely thin, but everyone knew that he became like this because of the life-and-death battle with the demon clan semi-saint. In fact, he was a person with a very hot temper. Yesterday, it was his anger that turned winter snow. Other semi-saints were not so angry at all.

It is said that when Wang Jinglong was born, there was a faint dragon saint howling in the sky, as if frightened, so his parents gave him this name.

It's just that the old dragon in the East Sea always fights with him every time he sees him.

Wang Jinglong held the teapot in his left hand and leaned on a cane in his right hand, walking slowly. It was hard to imagine that he was a person with a hot temper.

"Don't be busy with the affairs of Dongsheng Pavilion. I'll come to see how my useless young man is doing."

The three semi-saints knew that every semi-saint could communicate with the Holy Court and obtain the Nine Mountains Phantom like the three of them, but it was not as good as the Holy Temples. Wang Jinglong obviously did not come for his descendants, but for Fang Yun.

The semi-saints who were awarded the title of the Four Saints in the Holy Academy have the highest status.

The Eastern Saint resides in the Holy Academy, the Western Saint sits in Liangjie Mountain, the Southern Saint plays in the human world, and the Northern Saint disguises himself as a demon and stirs up civil strife in the demon world.

In the current Shengyuan Continent, Wang Jinglong holds all the power and is also the strongest person.

He came here in person, indicating that the importance of this Xiucai Book Mountain is even greater than that of the Juren Book Mountain in previous years, and he may even be using his actions to warn all semi-saints.

Control your own descendants who want to embarrass Fang Yun!

If you can't control them, don't blame Wang Jinglong for controlling them!

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