Inside the Liuyang Palace, it was completely and utterly boiling over.
Everyone scrambled for the letter paper in Chen Xinghe’s hand.
The ten great talents of the ten countries were now certain of one thing: if the letterhead contained a thousand ancient poems, it would prove that Xu Qingnian was truly astonishingly talented.
However, if the paper did not contain a thousand famous poems, it would prove that the Great Wei had faked and leaked the questions in favour.
If not, they would have lost the competition today.
Especially when they saw that Chen Xinghe was determined not to take it out, they were even more certain of this idea, so they simply started to rob it.
The people and literati of Great Wei were also a bit nervous, not that they didn’t trust Xu Qingnian, but they couldn’t afford to gamble, in case the questions were really leaked, or if it was really the Great Confucian of Great Wei.
Their future face would be lost.
So even if they were stronger, even if they made the gang resentful, they couldn’t go for the gamble, in case they lost? They wouldn’t be able to hold up their heads for the rest of their lives.
Thinking of this, the crowd frantically protected Chen Xinghe and could not even let the ten great talents of the ten kingdoms open these letters even if they died.
But the more they did so, the more excited the crowd became, the more they ran over to fight for them, more convinced that there must be something odd about this.
“Don’t grab them, don’t grab them.”
Chen Xinghe was on the verge of tears as he guarded the letters to death for two reasons.
First, he didn’t know if there was a thousand ancient poems in them, the odds were that there was, but if it wasn’t a thousand ancient who knew?
Secondly, Xu Qingnian had explained a million times that he could not open them, he did not dare.
The crowd was really a bit overwhelmed.
“Stop fooling around!”
“Give me silence!”
At this moment, Sun Jing’an completely erupted with the aura of a great Confucian, a terrifyingly vast and righteous aura that overpowered all the literati and people present.
“What do you want to do when you are so reckless at the banquet? Do you want to rebel?”
Sun Jing’an was furious, he was really furious.
It was almost as if he was gnashing his teeth and roaring.
The voice rang out like thunder, all the literati were silent, and the people did not dare to scramble.
But just then, the ten great talents of the ten kingdoms were still unconvinced and frowned.
“Sun Ru, it’s not that we’re not defeated, it’s just that Xu Qingnian even wrote seven letters and no one came and won today’s poetry competition, we’re not convinced, if there’s nothing fishy in this, wouldn’t we be fools?”
“That’s right, no one is here and yet they can win the poetry competition? We are really not convinced, not at all.”
“Seven letters and exactly one successful bet on the question, this is too impossible.”
The great talents of the ten kingdoms were already completely on top of their game, they didn’t care about some of the logic issues here, the main thing was that Xu Qingnian was too humiliating, people could win without even being there.
Sealing the talent within the letter paper, it was infuriating.
They were indignant.
And there was no way the Great Wei literati would back down, either.
“You chose the questions yourselves, and now you’re actually saying that the questions were leaked? Do you still have any shame?”
“Don’t even have any shame.”
“This is disgusting.”
“You’re not even talented? You are more like a turd.”
“What’s most amazing is that you have deliberately split up the wind and moon, and this poem does indeed split up the word wind and moon.
The Great Wei literati shouted, thinking that there was something really wrong with this group of people, and that at this point in time, they were still not convinced? How on earth could they be convinced?
“Shut up!”
Sun Jing’an once again admonished, silencing the Great Wei literati, before his gaze fell on the Ten Kingdoms’ great talents.
“What will it take for you to be convinced?”
Sun Jing’an said in a calm tone.
“We will be convinced if we open the other envelopes.”
Someone spoke up, demanding to open the remaining six letters or else they would not be convinced.
But once this was said, Sun Jing’an looked at the other party and said.
“Open them and be convinced?”
Sun Jing’an asked.
“After opening them, if each one is a famous poem of a thousand years, we will be convinced!”
“Otherwise, this is falsification.”
The Great Talents of the Ten Kingdoms spoke indifferently, their attitude incomparably arrogant.
But in the next moment, a voice from the literati of Great Wei rang out.
“BullSh*t, every single one of them is a famous poem from a thousand years ago? Even though Brother Xu is a great talent, it’s not like every single one of his poems is a thousand years old, right?”
“If that were true, would you ten countries be qualified to read them?”
This voice rang out, really extremely angry.
D*mn you, opening letters and still not convinced that every letter must be a thousand ancient famous poems? My name is your master, how is this possible?
Seven thousand ancient famous poems, plus the general’s wine, that’s eight letters of thousand ancient famous poems, huh?
How can we do that? Who did it? D*mn, it’s really disgusting, really disgusting.
But as soon as the man’s words left his mouth, Sun Jing’an’s voice rang out again.
“Old man has already said, silence, and you are still here hurling abuse, my Great Wei is a state of etiquette, where is your connotation as a scholar, or a reader of my Great Wei Palace of Literature?”
“Someone, fork this man out and drive him out of Li Yang Palace.”
Sun Jing’an cursed angrily, this situation now, the Ten Kingdoms Great Talent was set to make a scene, so he had to convince the public, but he didn’t expect his own people to still shout here, they were really disrespectful and arrogant.
This was all because of the style brought out by Xu Qingnian.
“You!”
“Sun Ru! As a scholar of the Great Wei Literary Palace, I once respected you immensely, but I never imagined that you would repeatedly favour these foreign literati.”
“It is true that Great Wei is a nation of etiquette, but it also depends on who the other party is. They have treated Great Wei with such disrespect and disrespect, and yet you are so defensive. If Sun Ru insists on this, then today, I will withdraw from the Great Wei Literary Palace.”
“I destroy the will!”
The latter spoke, his face red and veins bursting out, perhaps because he had drunk a little wine and looked a little flushed.
“How dare you!”
“Arrogance!”
“Instead of learning the modesty of the saints, you’ve picked up that routine of Xu Qingnian, someone, fork out!”
Sun Jing’an was utterly furious, this was a Confucian student of the Great Wei Palace of Literature, I didn’t expect this, not listening to command, and even blackmailing himself like this, then get out of here.
“Sun Ru!”
“No!”
Several great scholars from the Great Wei Literary Palace spoke up at the first opportunity, they had already sensed that the literary palace readers were somewhat disobedient and had developed resentment, although Sun Jing’an was trying to maintain the image of a great nation, the problem was that he had also broken the hearts of his own people.
So they hope that Sun Jing’an will not be so tough, his own people more or less have to take into account some feelings, after all, there are outsiders present, if it is their own people okay, scolding a few words, but there are outsiders in the end some bad.
However, Chen Zhengru did not say anything and sat quietly.
But the next moment, the latter laughed out loud, followed by the Hao Rang Qi leaking out from his body, while he even roared.
“Today, I, Li Shouming, destroy his clear intention, degrade myself to the eighth rank, and from now on, I will no longer be a Confucian student of the Palace of Literature if I do not respect the intention of Zhu Sheng.”
His voice was full of determination, and the next moment, he waved his sleeves and left, not needing anyone to fork away at all.
The next moment, he waved his sleeve and left, not even needing to be forked over.
Not everyone had the courage to do so, they envied it, but they did not dare.
The prestige of the sage was too great, and what was the concept of destroying one’s own clear will? It almost meant that he would never set foot in Ming Yi again in his life, and offending the Great Wei Literati Palace would not make his future career path any easier.
At this scene, the Great Wei literati dared not speak out in anger, while the great talents of the ten kingdoms were incomparably comfortable inside, so comfortable that they could not help but stretch their toes a little.
“Self-degradation!”
Sun Jing’an’s voice was incomparably cold as he said, not caring that a person had destroyed his own clear will, but instead feeling that the other person had degraded himself.
The next moment, Sun Jing’an continued.
“Hand over Xu Qingnian’s correspondence.”
He opened his mouth and looked towards Chen Xinghe.
“On what grounds?”
Chen Xinghe said with a cold gaze.
Hand it over when you tell me to? You are nothing?
“This matter concerns the face of Great Wei, if you don’t hand it over, I’m afraid that after today, everyone in the world will laugh at Great Wei.”
Sun Jing’an used the country’s dynasty to suppress Chen Xinghe, he knew Chen Xinghe wouldn’t hand it over voluntarily even if he didn’t obey, so he used this method.
“The clearer the clearer, senior brother has already said that no matter what, he cannot open the second seal, Sun Ru, today’s matter has already pa*sed, the poetry fight my senior brother has already won, it is getting late, Chen has to go back.”
Chen Xinghe spoke up and said so.
But the next moment, the voice of the Ten Kingdoms’ great talent rang out.
“Heh, the clear one is clear? I’m afraid that you guys are afraid, right?”
“Xu Qingnian is also fainthearted, and you are even more so.”
“If the clearer is really clear, why don’t you dare to unwrap it?”
“If you don’t open it, you are leaking the questions, you are faking, and we will not admit our results today!”
The ten great talents of the ten countries spoke up one after another, they just thought that Xu Qingnian would never be able to produce so many famous poems of a thousand years, so they had this confidence and courage.
“What a joke! A bunch of frogs at the bottom of the well, just know how to shout here, if you open these envelopes, I’m afraid you won’t have the face to see the world in the future.”
Chen Xinghe sneered, while the other Great Wei literati were also eager to speak up, but under Sun Jing’an’s gaze, each one dared not speak out in anger.
They were stifled, extremely stifled, and even said that they wanted to follow Li Shouming’s example and simply destroy their own bright intentions and leave, but they could not do so, and could only take a deep breath and try to suppress the anger in their hearts.
“Hand over the envelope, don’t make things more intense, otherwise, don’t blame old me for taking it directly.”
Sun Jing’an said in an icy voice.
His meaning was simple, he was going to take it by force straight away.
“Sun Ru, you are a bit overbearing, aren’t you?”
Chen Xinghe really wanted to curse a Sun dog, but he still didn’t dare to say this, after all, the other party was a great Confucian, and having been on top before, calling out an old Sun was already considered the limit.
If he really cursed a Sun Dog, he would also be out of luck.
“The clearer you are, if you are really not afraid, why don’t you dare to take it out? Xu Qingnian is a scholar of the Great Wei, and he is also an official of the court of the Great Wei, a minister of the Ministry of the Household, if he were here, I am afraid that he would also obey the old man’s wishes.”
“It’s impossible to let the great talents of the ten kingdoms misunderstand? It would not be good for anyone if Great Wei lost face at that time.”
Sun Jing’an said, “Xu Qingnian is not here anyway, what is a mere Chen Xinghe worth?
But when these words were spoken, the literati of Great Wei were really angry.
The people of Great Wei were really angry.
And what is the other side? He demanded that all the envelopes should be famous poems from a thousand years ago?
Whatever he says? We will take them out if he wants us to? We may be a great nation, but isn’t the gesture of a great nation to not explain?
Why do we have to explain?
The crowd was harbouring fire in their hearts, they were having a hard time, a very hard time.
It was too ungrateful, too uncomfortable, too disgusting.
“Brother Chen, take it.”
It was also at this moment that Mu Nanping took a deep breath, he too was full of anger, but he understood the situation at the moment even better, unless Xu Qingnian himself came over.
Otherwise, no one could do anything in the face of Sun Ru, and the rest of the people could actually say a few words, but the problem was that this was the Taiping Poetry Festival, and the Great Wei Palace of Literature was presiding over it.
In that case, if the great scholars of the Great Wei Palace did not say anything, they could not say anything either.
They could only put their heads together.
“I’ll tear it down!”
Chen Xinghe opened his mouth, he understood what Mu Nanping meant, at the moment this was all he could do, after all, who let the other party be a great scholar?
But the demolition had to be done by himself, what if the other party demolished it all in one breath?
Maybe one of the poems is really a famous poem for the ages?
Two poems would be fine.
“No! We have to let Sun Ru do it, who are you?”
“Yes, let Sun Ru come, we trust Sun Ru.”
“Sun Ru knows what is right, we believe in Sun Ru.”
“Sun Ru, even if this Xu Qingnian is really faking, we will not blame the Great Wei Palace of Literature, because you have shown us what fairness means and what a great scholar is.”
“Yes, yes, we only respect Sun Ru.”
The great talents of the ten kingdoms spoke up, they would not allow Chen Xinghe to demolish them, they had to let Sun Jing’an come, and all sorts of praise rang out.
After all, this was Great Wei, and after all, they were also scholars and respected the Zhu Sheng lineage, and Sun Jing’an was the best of the Zhu Sheng lineage, a great scholar, so they did admire Sun Jing’an.
The reason why they were not convinced was because they thought that the Great Wei Imperial Family or the court was faking, but they still respected the Great Wei Palace of Literature, plus Sun Jing’an had indeed been helping them, so it was only natural for them to praise him a few times.
As soon as he said this, Sun Jing’an’s heart was overwhelmed with joy. To receive such praise from the Ten Kingdoms’ great talents, what he had done today had been rewarded.
Thinking of this, Sun Jing’an spoke directly and said.
“Leave it to the old man.”
At these words, Chen Xinghe could not help but squeeze the envelope tightly, and the Great Wei literati could not help but look at the Ten Kingdoms’ Great Talents one by one viciously.
The latter, on the other hand, all revealed a bland smile, but what this smile hid was a kind of smugness, a contempt and disdain.
It was as if they were saying, “Fighting with me? Your own people have come to my aid, what are you?
This kind of gaze made people feel sick, and this kind of attitude also made them extremely angry, but unfortunately, unfortunately, it was a pity that Xu Qingnian was not there.
At this moment, everyone hoped that Xu Qingnian would appear and later stage another angry rebuke of the great Confucian.
“Brother Chen.”
Mu Nanping patted Chen Xinghe’s shoulder and told him not to argue, the situation at hand was indeed such that he could not argue any more.
“I have a condition!”
Chen Xinghe suddenly opened his mouth to make a sound.
When this was said, the crowd became somewhat curious.
“Speak.”
Sun Jing’an said calmly.
“If all of these six letters contain a thousand ancient poems, I want the Ten Kingdoms Talented Scholar to kowtow to my senior brother and admit his mistake.”
Chen Xinghe said so.
His face was arrogant.
Why do I have to open them when you tell me to? What? You are saying that my senior brother is faking? If I really haven’t faked it, can I kowtow to my junior brother and admit my mistake?
As soon as this was said, the faces of the ten great talents of the ten kingdoms turned pale.
“You’re dreaming!”
“Delusional.”
“Kowtow and admit your mistake? Do you think this is a child playing house? This is ridiculous.”
“I, a scholar, only kneel to Heaven and Earth, the king, parents and teachers, but to Xu Qingnian? What kind of virtue does he have?”
The Ten Great Talents said so, all laughing coldly.
Kneeling to Xu Qingnian? You’re dreaming, aren’t you?
Indeed, it was outrageous to make a scholar kneel and kowtow, said Sun Jing’an, shaking his head indifferently.
“That’s impossible, it’s degrading.”
He replied directly on behalf of the Ten Kingdoms Talented Scholar.
However, Chen Zhengru, who had remained silent, spoke up.
“What’s wrong with that?”
“I think it’s fine, the Ten Kingdoms Great Talent has already lost, yet they have to falsely accuse my Great Wei of faking and falsely accuse Xu Qingnian of faking, then if Xu Qingnian produces evidence to prove that he didn’t falsely fake.”
“What can you do if you kowtow and admit your mistake? Can I, the talented son of Wei, be wronged for nothing?”
“If you do not dare, this matter will end here, but if you are still discontented, all I need to do is learn that I will personally go to the middle of the Palace of Literature and use the Vermilion Saint’s Weapon to suppress the Ten Kingdoms’ talent luck for thirty years.”
Chen Zhengru’s voice was calm as he came out to speak.
Presiding over justice.
Once this was said, the Great Wei literati were at last a little less angry, otherwise they would really have to suffocate to death.
For a moment, the great talents of the Ten Kingdoms were silent, not knowing whether they should take it or not.
But finally, someone from the Ten Great Talents spoke up.
“If these six letters are all famous poems of the past, we will accept them! At tomorrow’s feast, we will kowtow to Xu Qingnian and admit our mistakes.”
“After all, if we are to kowtow and kneel, the seven poems should at least be correct for the next three days, right? Otherwise what’s the use of not getting the questions right?”
He opened his mouth and said through clenched teeth, kowtowing and admitting his mistake was indeed a big game, but he didn’t think Xu Qingnian could be that talented, and at the same time added a setting that the selected questions had to be right!
“OK!”
“We admit it.”
“We are convinced when there is really such a great talent and can still bet on the questions.”
“That’s right, when there is really such talent, we also admit it.”
“Seven famous poems from a thousand years ago, a sage is no better than that, right?”
The great talents of the ten kingdoms took it up, they did not believe Xu Qingnian at all, after all, one person composing a thousand ancient poems was already something exaggerated, leaving a name for a thousand years.
Seven poems? Add to that the famous words, parallelism and quotations that preceded it, and the sages probably couldn’t even do it.
They took it.
Without hesitation.
“Good!”
Chen Xinghe didn’t say any more nonsense and directly let the guards hand the letter to Sun Jing’an, he was too lazy to go up and hand it over, he was really disgusted by Sun Jing’an.
And Sun Jing’an took the letterhead.
His expression was calm.
But he also did not believe that Xu Qingnian could make seven songs, this is simply impossible ah, looking at the people and the Great Wei literati eyes a trace of expectation.
There was only indifference and disdain in his heart.
As a great Confucian, he knew clearly how difficult it was for one person to write seven famous poems, and how much more difficult it was to bet on the right questions.
It was almost impossible.
It is as difficult as climbing to the top.
It is only these people at the bottom who have a glimmer of hope.
There would indeed be miracles in this world, but this miracle could never be Xu Qingnian.
Thinking of this, Sun Jing’an didn’t say anything and directly took out the selection booklet and displayed it to the public.
When the selection book appeared, everyone’s eyes, could not help but look away.
The first title was [Woman].
Under the banquet, Chen Xinghe clenched his fist to death, he guessed it, and bet on the second question, very good, very good.
The second question was entitled [Reason].
Another guess? Chen Xinghe took a deep breath, he was a bit confused himself, together with the previous question, this was three in a row.
This ！！！！
The third question was [Sorrow]
Chen Xinghe: “……”
He had frozen dead in place, and there was another person in the same boat, that was Mu Nanping, who had watched Chen Xinghe’s bet on the question, and was now shocked to see this scene.
The fourth and alternative question was entitled [Jian You].
The fifth and alternative question was [Silent].
The sixth and final alternative question was [Looking at the Mountains
This was the next question on the test, with an alternative and a theme, which would be moved around according to the situation.
But among the crowd, Chen Xinghe was completely frozen.
His mind went blank, feeling that it was all a sham! It was all an illusion.
Mu Nanping was also dumbfounded, seven questions, all of them won? Who the hell was Chen Xinghe? He could even guess this?
To be honest, if he didn’t know who Chen Xinghe was, he would have thought that Chen Xinghe had colluded with him.
All in!
What the hell is going on?
Chen Xinghe was dumbfounded, yet Sun Ru didn’t say anything.
He opened the first letter straight away.
Boom!
Originally, there was a lot of talent qi filling the hall, but at this moment, a constant stream of talent qi poured in, and a golden light filled the entire hall.
Each word was more blinding than the sun, and each word was as heavy as ten thousand pounds; if Sun Jing’an were not a great Confucian, he would have been unable to stand in this moment alone.
Before Chen Xinghe was able to hold it because Xu Qingnian had added the Confucian secret method, which allowed Chen Xinghe to open the first letter unaffected, but the second letter was different.
“Guan Guan Ju is on the river. My fair lady, the gentleman is good at martyrdom.”
“The waterlily flows from side to side. My fair lady, the gentleman seeks her at ease.”
Xu Qingnian’s figure reappeared as he stood with his hands in the air, his voice carrying through the Liyang Palace and the radiant golden ancient characters that hung above the dome of the sky.
One thousand-year-old poem illuminated Great Wei’s Kyoto like daylight, and two thousand-year-old poems brightened it up completely.
The Qi of talent whistling in the hall surged like a fierce wind, blowing many people’s bodies to shake.
And the people were all dumbfounded, staring at it all.
In particular, the great talents of the Ten Kingdoms were all silent.
They really didn’t expect that Xu Qingnian would actually produce two poems that were famous for a thousand years, this was too unbelievable, right?
The most amazing thing was that the poems were exactly the same as the betting questions, and they were about women!
It was a successful bet and a successful poem, this …… This is incredible!
“Open the third seal! I don’t believe that he, Xu Qingnian, would have such talent.”
“Open the third envelope! The third seal!”
“Impossible, impossible, how could there be such a talented person in the world?”
“Another Thousand Ancient, another Thousand Ancient, this is impossible!”
The great talents of the ten kingdoms were shocked silly, they looked shocked, they really couldn’t believe it!
Their faces were ugly, this new thousand ancient poem was as if a slap in the face had hit them hard.
Not to mention them, the six ministers, the great scholars of the Palace of Literature, and the deans of the four academies were also completely shocked.
They did not expect …… Xu Qingnian had such a talent.
Hearing the shouts of the great talents of the ten kingdoms, Sun Jing’an came back to his senses, took the second letter and opened it again.
The second question was the reasoning.
At this moment, Xu Qingnian’s voice rang out again.
I have refined my body like a crane, two letters of scripture under a pine plant.
I have come to ask the Tao without remainder to say that the clouds are in the green sky and the water is in the bottle.
Xu Qingnian’s voice rang out, accompanied by a terrifying influx of literary qi.
Boom!
The literary qi was as vast as a river, the previous literary qi had not yet been digested, and this came in so much more?
The purple literary qi coalesced together and flooded the place, and once again the daylight in Kyoto was so bright that the people literally dared not look any further for fear of being blinded by the light.
The Palace of Liyang was also a bit shaken, after all, the Qi of talent was so terrifying that a single poem of a thousand years old could gather a lot of Qi.
How much more so when one poem is written in one breath?
Silence! Silence! Silence!
The great hall shook and everyone froze in place.
Did this famous poem of the ages cost nothing?
Does talent cost nothing?
And the best part is that he’s hit the mark again!
The most amazing thing of all was that the poem had been chosen again!
This …….
This is incredible ！！！！！！
It’s impossible, it’s not possible!
The ten great talents of the ten countries were all wide-eyed, their eyes full of bloodshot, simply unable to believe it.
How could there be such a person!
This is simply impossible!
“The fourth seal.”
Someone came back to his senses, looking already mad, his gaze filled with shock, this was the number one talent of the Chen Kingdom, who looked incomparably mad as he demanded the opening of the fourth seal.
His voice was hoarse!
Xu Qingnian had smacked them in the face time and time again, so they had to go mad!
Sun Jing’an took a deep breath, but the hand that opened the letter, too, trembled.
But soon, he calmed the surprise in his heart.
Still opening one letter after another?
With a direct wave of his hand, he opened all three of the remaining letters.
“Sun Ru! No!”
“We can’t open them, if we do it again, the Liyang Palace will collapse.”
“Run, don’t linger.”
“Gentlemen, hold the Liyang Palace steady, don’t hurt the people.”
The great scholars of the Great Wei Palace of Literature spoke up, the four thousand ancient poems had already made Liyang Palace shake, if it was torn down any further, it would really be the end.
But what they didn’t expect was that Sun Jing’an would really dare to demolish it.
In the next moment, Chen Zhengru shouted and told the crowd to gather their Hao Rang Qi to stabilize the hall and tell the people to leave quickly, otherwise, something big would happen.
And Sun Jing’an had already opened all the letters.
At this moment, light enveloped everything, and Xu Qingnian’s voice, appearing to overlap, resounded throughout the Liyang Palace.
If life is only like the first time we see each other, what is the matter with the autumn breeze and the painted fan.
The heart of the old man has changed, but the heart of the old man changes easily.
There is a secret sorrow and hatred, but no sound is better than a sound at this time.
We are all fallen people at the end of the world, why should we have met before?
The clouds rise in my chest and the birds return in my eyes.
When the sky is at the top, the mountains are in full view.
The three voices overlapped, but the poetry was so extraordinary that the light drowned everything.
The palace shook as the literary energy stirred.
The talented scholars of the ten kingdoms were dumbfounded, each one as if they were demented, each poem was a famous poem of the ages.
And the most amazing thing was that every single poem was a hit.
This is incredible.
Unbelievable!
They were dumbfounded.
They couldn’t believe it all.
But at that very moment.
The voices of Chen Zhengru and the others rang out again, full of anxiety, telling them to leave quickly ah.
Otherwise the palace would collapse and no one would be able to come out alive.
At that moment, the guards were the first to come to their senses and led the people away, for the Liyang Palace was indeed shaking violently and was about to collapse at any moment.
Several great scholars stepped in and temporarily stabilised the Liyang Palace as the people fled the palace, and the Great Wei literati followed them out.
But when the people walked out of the palace, in an instant, all the talent was gone.
Everything disappeared.
The light dissipated.
It was a little too sudden.
“What’s going on?”
“Where are these talents?”
“Where did the talents of the party go?”
“Why is it suddenly gone?”
In an instant, the crowd became somewhat curious, but no matter how curious they were, the shaky Li Yang Palace, they still didn’t dare to stay any longer and came out first.
Not only them, Chen Zhengru and the others were also a little curious.
The appearance of four thousand ancient poems was already terrifying, why was there no reaction at all to the appearance of these seven thousand ancient poems?
They were curious, and there was a look of puzzlement in their eyes.
The crowd did not dare to speak either, while the talented sons of the ten kingdoms, on the other hand, were still in a dazed state and had not come back to their senses for the time being.
Everyone was led out of the Liyang Palace by the guards, who were afraid that it would collapse.
They were afraid that the palace would collapse. Who would be able to stand up to it if someone was killed?
After Chen Zhengru and the others had walked out, the poem on the dome of the sky also disappeared, the big golden letters died out and the light dissipated instantly.
It had been daytime in Great Wei Kyoto, but now it was back to night.
It made people curious.
“What’s going on here? Chen Ru?”
“Sun Ru, how come the good talent Qi is gone?”
“Brother Chen, why has this talent suddenly disappeared?”
“Was it just a flash in the pan?”
People were curious and asked Chen Zhengru, Sun Jing’an, including Chen Xinghe.
But the three of them couldn’t explain it clearly at all, they frowned and looked at the sky, honestly not knowing what had happened.
Chen Xinghe was also in a state of confusion, he was not confused about Xu Qingnian’s poem A Thousand Years, but his own ability to bet on questions, why was he so strong?
Why was he so good at betting on the right one?
But why was it that when he bet on the size, he would definitely lose?
And yet.
One hour ago
Inside the Drunken Immortal Building.
High Mountain Pavilion.
A table full of feasts, steaming with heat, Xu Qingnian and Gu Yan settled down.
A slight bell sounded, the sound of the Li Yang Palace.
The sound of the bell signified the start of the feast.
“Shouren, is there really no harm in that?”
Gu Yan frowned slightly and looked at Xu Qingnian with some curiosity, his eyes still held worry, after all, it was reasonable that Xu Qingnian should be inside the Li Yang Palace.
If the other shangshu knew about this, they would probably scold him to death, and if he failed in the poetry battle today, then he would be finished.
So it was impossible to say that he was not worried.
“No harm.”
“Lord Gu, later on all matters will be spoken by Qingnian, no matter what, you should not open your mouth to answer anything, as long as you don’t open your mouth, even if Qingnian is wrong, it won’t matter.”
Xu Qingnian was not worried at all about the Taiping Poetry Competition.
Instead, he was more concerned about facing the three merchants of Great Wei later.
The Jin merchants of Guangling!
The North Lake Huizhou merchants!
The Nanlin Gan merchants!
There were thousands of merchants in Great Wei, but only five of them were the largest, and the materials most needed for the waterwheel project were in the hands of these three.
Therefore, Xu Qingnian was eager to see what purpose these three merchants had brought to the capital.
It was also at this moment that the sound of some footsteps rang out.
Soon the door of the elegant pavilion was slowly pushed open and three figures appeared in Xu Qingnian’s eyes.
All three were of an advanced age, with white hair, but in good spirits, and were dressed in a somewhat understated manner instead of being aristocratic, but of course the fabric of their clothes was no ordinary thing.
“We pay our respects to Minister Gu and to Squire Xu.”
When the three men saw Gu Yan and Xu Qingnian, they could not help but bow at once, looking incomparably respectful.
They were merchants after all, and Gu Yan and Xu Qingnian were officials of the Great Wei court, so they naturally had to be respected.
“All of you take your seats.”
Xu Qingnian smiled faintly and motioned for the crowd to fall into their seats.
The three men glanced at Xu Qingnian and sat down directly without saying much.
“Shang Shu Gu, we are late, so I hope that Shang Shu Gu will not be angry.”
The old man sent by the Jin merchant spoke up and apologised towards Gu Yan.
However, Gu Yan nodded, but did not say anything, he was a Shang Shu, what were these merchants in his eyes? If their materials were not needed, would they be qualified to eat at the same table with himself?
“Come, we will drink a toast to Shang Shu Gu, and to Little Friend Xu as well, as an apology.”
The old man from the Huishang School poured his wine and got up, saying that he addressed Gu Yan as Shang Shu, while calling Xu Qingnian a young friend, inexplicably carrying some ……. other meanings.
Only with their age, it was not excessive to call out a young friend.
Plus with a smile on his face, if he really wanted to get angry, he would look petty.
Gu Yan used his afterglow to glance at Xu Qingnian, who was not half angry and instead poured himself wine.
At that moment, everyone raised their gla*ses and Gu Yan and Xu Qingnian took a shallow sip, while these three drank it down in one gulp.
After drinking, the old man from Gan Shang couldn’t help but frown, “I heard that young friend Xu is an excellent drinker, what is the meaning of the shallow half sip? Is it because the wine is not good? Someone, serve the wine.”
He spoke, not blaming Xu Qingnian for taking a shallow taste, but blaming the wine in the tavern for being unattractive, this was how clever the merchant was, displeased in his heart, saying it in a different way.
“That’s not necessary.”
“Xu Mou drank a lot some days ago and did something wrong, His Majesty has decreed that I am not allowed to continue drinking, but today I am meeting with the three of you, so Xu Mou has a shallow taste to show my appreciation.”
Xu Qingnian said with a smile.
And the three did not continue to force anything.
They just kept toasting towards Gu Yan.
After three rounds of wine, Gu Yan glanced at Xu Qingnian, who understood what was meant, and spoke up at once.
“Gentlemen, today, Lord Gu has come to discuss with the three of you, the matter of water and oil vine and wood materials.”
“Now that we’ve had three rounds of wine, why don’t we just chat freely?”
Xu Qingnian opened his mouth, leading the conversation to the water-oil vine wood.
However, the three of them looked at me and me at you, and finally the representative of Gan Shang spoke up.
“The three of us came in a hurry, some relevant letters have not yet been read, and we have already asked our family man to fetch them, they were given to us by the clan chief.”
“Without the family letters, we wouldn’t dare to speak out of turn.”
The Gan merchant representative laughed bitterly, but the ghost believed this?
Three people didn’t bring it with them? It was obvious that they were just stalling for time.
In an instant, Gu Yan’s face changed slightly, but Xu Qingnian smiled and said, “It doesn’t matter, there is still time anyway, so what can we do if we wait for a while.”
Xu Qingnian smiled, and the three nodded, praising the sea.
And then the three basically kept patting Gu Yan on the back, while to Xu Qingnian was just having a chat, somewhat deliberately cold.
But Xu Qingnian kept a good heart, and since the other party was ignoring them, Xu Qingnian didn’t bother to pay any attention to these three.
Their intentions were obvious, they were just trying to delay themselves so that they could not go to Li Yang Palace.
Unfortunately, they were wrong in their calculations.
After all, these three people were talking about nothing but the water carriage, which made him feel annoyed, plus the matter of Liyang Palace.
He was really afraid that something would happen.
When he reached this point, Gu Yan’s voice rang out.
“Shouren, since you have to wait so long, why don’t you go to Li Yang Palace, I have arranged for a special sedan chair to take you to Li Yang Palace.”
Gu Yan spoke.
With just one sentence, a hint of difference flashed across San Shang’s eyes, then Gan Shang’s representative got up and said, “Lord Gu, I will go and ask.”
He opened his mouth, to get up and ask.
And Gu Yan nodded and didn’t say anything more.
Just as Gan Shang got up, suddenly, the sky outside was like daylight, with an intense golden light that made the windows shine brightly.
“What’s going on?”
“Is it some kind of fireworks?”
“This?”
The three merchant representatives were somewhat curious, and they even got up to open the window, and all of a sudden, the blazing and incomparable light was thrown into the elegant residence.
The next moment, accompanied by the sound of Xu Qingnian’s poem rang out.
The famous poem of a thousand years was revealed again.
The golden words, in large letters, coalesced above the dome of the sky, and several people’s faces couldn’t help but change abruptly.
The purpose of their coming here was to delay Xu Qingnian, a task explained from above, but what they didn’t expect was that Xu Qingnian had come and actually managed to overpower the great talents of the ten kingdoms in Li Yang Palace.
This! It was a bit unbelievable.
“Lord Xu? Is this the poem you composed? How come by the sound of it, it’s so similar?”
The emblematic merchant representative was somewhat curious and looked at Xu Qingnian.
“I have already prepared the poem and asked my senior brother to bring it to the Liyang Palace for me, perhaps it is because my senior brother has bet on the question correctly.”
“Gentlemen, if you like the poetry session, why don’t I take you to the Liyang Palace and enjoy it?”
Xu Qingnian spoke blandly.
And the scene outside, including what Xu Qingnian said, made Gu Yan completely relieved.
To be honest, he was really a bit scared, afraid that because of the affairs of the Household Ministry, he would delay Xu Qingnian.
But fortunately, Xu Qingnian had actually left such a hand, he had really underestimated Xu Qingnian.
“No, no, we have heard of your talent.”
Several people smiled and returned to their seats, while the Gan merchant representative left his seat and went to fetch a letter from his family.
It was also at this moment that the rolling Talent Qi didn’t enter his body, leaving Xu Qingnian somewhat helpless ah.
He did not need talent energy now, what he needed was public opinion.
But the public opinion in his body was not much, it was too far from the public opinion two days ago.
It was really a bit less.
But it didn’t matter, there was enough public opinion in his body anyway, so he couldn’t really take out a holy weapon, could he?
After about two quarters of an hour.
Finally, the other party fetched the family letter and handed it to the remaining two, one for each.
The three old men read the contents of the letter.
And Xu Qingnian was calm.
But the three of them looked more and more strange. Xu Qingnian and Gu Yan did not know what the contents of the family letter were, so they were slightly curious.
Another quarter of an hour pa*sed before the three of them finally put down the letter, folded it and put it back into the envelope.
Then the representative of the Jin merchants spoke up.
“Shang Shu Gu, the clan has sent a letter that the local people do not want to harvest early, but the clan has negotiated with the people, as long as the price negotiated before is followed by ……”
He opened his mouth, before he could finish.
Suddenly, the golden light outside, more intense.
At this moment, Xu Qingnian frowned slightly.
“How come the second poem was unwrapped?”
“Or is it that someone else also made the famous poem of a thousand years?”
Xu Qingnian was slightly curious in his heart, but as his own voice rang out, Xu Qingnian understood that it was the second letter that had been opened.
“This!”
The representative of the Jin merchants looked out and gave a deep breath before preparing to continue, but suddenly, the golden light became even thicker and a rumbling sound rang out.
At this moment.
Xu Qingnian could not help but stand up and personally open the window to look out at the Great Wei Kyoto.
The entire Kyoto was bathed in golden light, and the three famous poems of a thousand years on the dome of the sky were like three suns, reflecting everything.
“What’s going on?”
Xu Qingnian frowned, he had purposely sealed his poetic talent, originally planning for Chen Xinghe to come up with one, and after he won, he would come up with another one tomorrow, almost three famous poems of a thousand years old to finish.
But he had already taken out three poems in one breath?
This was a bit odd.
Before Xu Qingnian could react, the fourth famous poem of a thousand years appeared.
“No!”
Xu Qingnian cried out in her heart, four famous poems of a thousand ancient times appeared, only to fear that Li Yang Palace would collapse.
More to the point, he didn’t need so much talent anymore.
The more talent energy one had, the more troublesome it would be for one’s cultivation.
Thinking of this, Xu Qingnian used his sacred weapon, the Eight Desolate Bells, to suppress all the talent qi with his own Haozheng Qi, lest he make a big mistake.
The terrifying talent qi was instantly incorporated into Xu Qingnian’s body, this could not be viewed by the naked eye and even the great Confucian could not detect it.
But less than a moment later.
Xu Qingnian’s face abruptly turned extremely ugly.
“All of it split apart?”
Terrible talent qi, in a situation that could not be viewed with the naked eye, was like an ocean of water gushing towards his body.
The Spring and Autumn Brush, the Persuasion Ruler, the Eight Desolate Bells, the Book of Words, and the Junzi Sword absorbed all these talent qi at the same moment.
But this talent qi was too terrifying.
It was enough for seven thousand ancient poems.
“D*mn it!”
Xu Qingnian didn’t know what had happened, but he was sure it couldn’t have been caused by his own senior brother.
Someone had forced his senior brother to open the letters.
Such a terrifying amount of talent surged into his body that it almost caused Xu Qingnian to break through to the realm of the Great Confucian directly.
Breaking through to Great Confucian directly without the establishment of a book was not a good thing, it belonged to the wrong name and was a huge hindrance to the future.
Moreover, after becoming a great Confucian, one would presume to raise one’s cultivation, and suppressing the demon seed would be extremely terrifying, making one’s cultivation as difficult as ascending to heaven.
“No! It cannot be suppressed!”
In the end, Xu Qingnian was really out of options, he couldn’t suppress so much talent qi, unless he sacrificed the holy weapon inside his body, otherwise, the only way out was to forcefully break through to Great Confucianism.
But this was impossible.
Thinking of this, Xu Qingnian could only reluctantly release the talent qi.
He would slowly absorb it in later.
It was impossible to waste it, but Xu Qingnian could not absorb so much talent qi at once.
The only trouble is that later on, I’m afraid there will be a ……. super vision.
But there was nothing that could be done about it.
Boom!
And as Xu Qingnian released the Talent Qi after.
Inside the Liyang Palace.
The Great Talents of the Ten Kingdoms had come back to their senses.
They were silent to each other, not daring to raise their voices any more.
But with the discovery that the vision had disappeared, suddenly, minds began to come alive once more.
Even at the end, someone suddenly thought of a possibility and shouted out directly at that moment.
“Fake, fake, everything is fake, I understand completely, all the visions are artificially created.”
“It was a great Confucian of Heaven and Earth, but unfortunately, he was also unable to maintain such a terrifying vision.”
“Yes, yes, all the thousand ancient poems, are all fake, everything is artificially created visions, it is true that paper cannot hold fire.”
“That’s it, how can one person make seven thousand ancient poems in one night? I don’t believe it!”
“Man-made visions! It’s possible!”
It was not known who shouted out this fallacy, and they calmed down for a while after seeing the vision in the sky dome disappear completely.
But after a while, they found that all the visions had indeed disappeared.
Only then did they dare to continue to speak their minds.
They did not believe it! Not believing means not believing!
And when these words were uttered, they were instantly recognized by all the talented scholars of the Ten Kingdoms.
Even the literati of Great Wei could not find a suitable reason to reply for a while.
Because it seems …… there was really a possibility of this.
But for Chen Zhengru and the others, such a theory, was simply absurd, for even the great scholars of heaven and earth could not create such a vision.
Unless one had come into contact with the Holy Dao.
But why would all the visions suddenly disappear?
They were also very curious.
But the next moment.
Suddenly, a voice rang out.
“Look, you guys! What is that thing to the east?”
A shocking voice rang out, and the next moment, all eyes, in unison, looked towards the east.
The rushing all ocean-like talent Qi was surging towards the capital of Great Wei.
It stretched endlessly, as if it was three thousand miles long.
Three thousand miles of talent qi came from the east!
At this moment, the capital of Great Wei …… was quiet.
