CH 309

The Hanlin Academy is brimming with talent, and the top-ranked individual is none other than the agricultural genius Hanlin Scholar Xu Banlong. The reason he isn't on the Grand Academician list is that he rarely participates in battles against the Demon Barbarians and bears them no particular enmity. If he spent just a bit of time each year slaying demons and eradicating barbarians, he would certainly break into the top hundred of the Grand Academician list. It is said that his mastery of agricultural techniques is so profound that he can plow the land with a breath and summon rain with a frown, truly miraculous feats that even Grand Academicians cannot achieve.

Ranked second is also no simple matter; he is one of our Mohist clan, my own uncle, who specializes in the study of mechanical arts and spends most of his time in the Twin Realms Mountain, having improved many of the city's defensive mechanisms there," said Mo Shan.

Li Fanming, drunk and swaying, waved his hand and slurred, "No, no, no... Eh? What was I going to say? Oh, right, you... you all only talk about current abilities, forgetting the potential for the future, and also forgetting Fang Yun's enmity with the Demon Barbarians! Fang Yun indirectly caused the fall of a Barbarian Saint, such a deep grudge makes it impossible for him to remain unnoticed on the Hanlin hunting list."

"Hatred is hatred, the hunting list is the hunting list; they should not be confused. The reason why the Dragon of the Kong Family became the top of the Grand Academician list is not only because he was the King of Stars but importantly because he was a member of the Kong Family! The Kong Family influences half of the ten nations, and although that might be an exaggeration, the full support of the Kong Family in nurturing a genius is enough to alarm all the saints in the Demon Realm."

"Fang Yun, are you really the King of Stars?" Li Fanming asked.

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