Chapter 7: Book Fragrance Energy

The capital city.

Imperial Palace, Taihe Hall.

The night wind blew gently.

Zhou Emperor Ji Feng sat at the desk, holding a brush to correct the memorials. He was extremely careful with every memorial he reviewed, often pondering for a long time before moving his hand to correct it.

Fifty-year-old Ji Feng ascended the throne at twenty-one.

He had been on the throne for twenty-nine years, working diligently and conscientiously to manage the government. He was a famous diligent monarch, and the only thing that made people criticize him during his reign was the "marriage alliance with the demon race."

In those years, the late emperor died suddenly, and the Great Zhou Dynasty was in turmoil, with internal and external troubles, and the demon and barbarian races were eyeing them covetously.

Zhou Emperor Ji Feng was forced to seal several palace maids as princesses, using the method of marriage alliance to stabilize the demon race.

Even now that the country was stable and there was no longer a need to marry alien races, Ji Feng still felt guilty, feeling that he had failed the ancestors of the Great Zhou Dynasty.

Ji Feng picked up a memorial again and gradually became engrossed in it, his face occasionally showing a smile, nodding frequently and praising it as good.

Even when the head eunuch reported that Empress Jiang had arrived, he didn't hear it.

"Your Majesty, what is making you so happy?" Empress Jiang handed over a bowl of "Tremella and Pear Soup," saying softly: "The weather is dry, drink some pear soup to moisten your throat."

"Hahaha, Empress, look at the joint memorial from Li Maotong and Wang Fu." Ji Feng took the soup bowl, drank two sips, and put it down, unable to contain his joy:

"This scholar named Lv Fang is truly a pillar of the country!"

"Song of Slaying Demons..." Empress Jiang chanted the entire lyric, and after reading the content of the memorial behind it, she immediately understood why Ji Feng was so happy.

Ji Feng's wish was that during his reign, he could make the Great Zhou Dynasty prosperous, to prevent the situation when the late emperor died suddenly from happening again.

Even if he couldn't destroy the demon and barbarian races, he couldn't let the power of the demons and barbarians rise.

The prophecy of the demon race's prophet "King of Ten Thousand Trees" was exactly what Zhou Emperor Ji Feng wanted.

Now there was another scholar named Lv Fang who was so outstanding; it was no wonder he was so happy.

"He should be rewarded!" Ji Feng stroked his beard and laughed.

He wanted to reward Lv Fang with a title, but after thinking for a moment, he felt it was inappropriate.

Lv Fang was indeed a talented scholar, writing an idle elegant script and condensing a Book Spirit, and composing an image-level Song of Slaying Demons.

But he had no merits, so sealing a title would be unjustifiable.

"Let him enter the Wenyuan Academy first. Pass the oral edict to let..."

The next day, the "Great Zhou Wen Bao" in the capital announced to the world the prophecy of the demon race's prophet "King of Ten Thousand Trees," the demon race's assassination of the prophecy person, and the imperial court's demon-slaying action.

A heroic and ambitious "Song of Slaying Demons" was born, making the people of the capital clap and praise.

Another elegant script, "Liaozhai Zhiyi: Nie Xiaoqian," appeared in the Wen Bao.

People who read this elegant script had mixed reviews.

But for this scholar named Lv Fang, they all couldn't help but give a thumbs up.

"Hehehe..."

Lv Fang looked at the colorful, silk-like book fragrance energy winding around his hand, laughing from ear to ear.

Waking up early in the morning, just as he was racking his brains on how to get more people to see "Liaozhai Zhiyi: Nie Xiaoqian," a large amount of book fragrance energy appeared out of thin air.

This proved that quite a few people had read "Liaozhai Zhiyi: Nie Xiaoqian."

'What's going on?'

Lv Fang couldn't figure it out. Two hours had passed, and the book fragrance energy was still increasing continuously.

Seeing the first foot-long strand of book fragrance energy complete, the second strand of book fragrance energy split into eighteen "colored threads" and began to entangle continuously, showing no signs of stopping.

"Young Master!" Xiao Tao shouted at the top of her lungs, reaching out to shake Lv Fang vigorously, "Young Master, are you okay?"

"If you keep shaking me, I'll really have something wrong."

Lv Fang said unhappily, not afraid that Xiao Tao could see the book fragrance energy; this thing could only be seen by himself.

Yesterday, Lv Fang had returned to the Lv manor from the county office and even brought back Li Yu, who counted as a personal bodyguard.

Last night, Lv Fang shamelessly slept on the floor in Lv Ling's bedroom and chatted a lot with his sister, such as the prophecy of the King of Ten Thousand Trees, and the fact that the Li family would definitely have to move to the capital in the future.

As soon as the sky brightened, Lv Ling went to busy herself with selling the Lv family's farmland and business.

"Young Master, you were just giggling and looking at your hand. I thought you... Young Master, don't be angry; you know I'm stupid."

Xiao Tao sheepishly withdrew her hand.

"You're stupid?" Lv Fang looked sideways at the playful "little round face" in front of him and reached out to pinch her cheek and lift it up.

Xiao Tao was pinched on the cheek by Lv Fang, her pair of pitch-black eyes blinking, full of disbelief.

"Ouch!"

It was a coincidence that at this moment, Xiao Tao's foot slipped, and she rushed forward, "head-butting" Lv Fang's face.

Lv Fang seemed to have expected it, reaching out to press on Xiao Tao's head.

Xiao Tao was stunned, laughed dryly twice, stepped back two steps, and repeated the trick with another accidental head-butt attack.

As a result, she was pressed on the head by Lv Fang again. He teased, "Xiao Tao, you were stupid when you were little, but you're not stupid at all now that you've grown up. Is your bad luck aimed at this young master? Don't do it again in the future."

"Young Master, how come I don't understand what you're saying."

Xiao Tao played dumb.

Lv Fang didn't care. He estimated that this method was thought up by Lv Ling; how could there be such a thing as bad luck every time he met his predecessor.

After being infused with talent energy, whether someone was doing it on purpose or by accident, how could he not understand clearly.

Last time, after eliminating the evil ghost, he was bumped by Xiao Tao, and Lv Fang understood it completely, just didn't want to expose it on the spot.

"If you don't understand, forget it. Go have someone buy two jars of good osmanthus wine."

Lv Fang instructed.

The female scholar Li Yu liked to drink osmanthus wine, so he had Xiao Tao buy some to send over and get close.

He felt familiar when he heard Li Yu's name earlier.

It was only when chatting with Lv Ling last night that he remembered this female scholar was a famous talented woman in the Great Zhou Dynasty.

The "Ru Meng Ling: Last Night's Rain Sparse and Wind Sudden" she composed at sixteen was read by him in his previous life, and he had joked at the time: "If I could drink and talk with such a talented woman, how pleasant it would be."

There was no chance for Li Qingzhao in his previous life.

Lv Fang accidentally arrived at the mysterious Great Zhou Dynasty and met Li Yu of this world, which could be considered fulfilling his wish.

After Xiao Tao left with a guilty conscience.

Lv Fang sniffed the book fragrance energy on his hand; it had no smell at all. He pinched it into a small pill and put it in his mouth, where it melted instantly.

In an instant, a powerful energy seeped into his limbs and bones.

He only felt spirited and full of strength.

"Eating just a little book fragrance energy doesn't seem to be able to break through the realm, but the effect of restoring physical strength and 'momentum' is significant."

Lv Fang muttered to himself.

After composing the Song of Slaying Demons, he was infused with talent energy and Haoran Zhengqi, and he directly skipped Ninth Rank, First Stage and Second Stage, arriving at Ninth Rank, Third Stage.

He could use individual sentences of poetry and lyrics to use Haoran Zhengqi to manifest attack and defense formations.

Perhaps it was because the Song of Slaying Demons wasn't truly composed by himself; even if it was an image-level lyric, the talent energy and Haoran Zhengqi condensed were very little.

Hearing Li Yu say that this situation was very rare, he wasn't very clear about what was going on.

This also cut off Lv Fang's thought of using poetry and lyrics that didn't exist in the Great Zhou Dynasty to improve his realm.

Not to mention that there weren't many such poems and lyrics, even if there were, only being able to condense so little talent energy and Haoran Zhengqi, he estimated he couldn't improve much in realm.

This time, being able to skip two realms was also because the Ninth Rank's "Writing Flowers" realm didn't require much Haoran Zhengqi.

Calculating it this way, it was better to wait for a good opportunity to become famous with one poem or lyric.

'With so much book fragrance energy, I should be able to draw out a second book.'

Lv Fang stretched, went to the bed in the outer room, closed his eyes and lay down, reciting "Ink Brush Realm" three times in his mouth.

In the blink of an eye, he fell asleep.

Lv Fang appeared in the Ink Brush Realm in a daze, and the Book Spirit Yan Chixia also appeared by his side. At this moment, the Book Spirit had already improved to Eighth Rank, Third Stage.

The Book Spirit would improve along with Lv Fang's realm; in the future, it could be a powerful thug.

Lv Fang arrived in front of the seven-colored ink horizontal stroke, gritted his teeth, and took out all the book fragrance energy, pinching it into a "bait" the size of a ping-pong ball.

He summoned the ink rod and placed the bait on the ink hook.

Having bait made of book fragrance energy was indeed different. As soon as it was thrown above the book people, three book people jumped up at the same time. As soon as they touched the book fragrance energy, the book people froze in mid-air.

"Yi Hui Xin Er."

"Wood Stone Former Alliance."

"Even wine cannot be drunk, women cannot be thought of, and when people bully you, you cannot fight back. What is the point of being a person? It would be better to die early; that would be refreshing."

The words spoken by the three book people seemed somewhat familiar.

"Eh?" Lv Fang discovered that he couldn't move the ink rod again and could only move within a small distance among the three book people.

After studying for a while, he reached a conclusion: he could only choose one from the three book people frozen in mid-air. ===== CHAPTER 8 =====