Since the first issue of "Ming Pao" was released on the 21st, there are only three days left before the annual examination on the 25th.
These three days passed by in the blink of an eye, and soon the night of the 24th came.
Today, Nan Yi even went to the stir-fry restaurant to order a few stir-fry dishes and ate them to his heart's content.
After he received a silver dollar from the Song Dynasty as a thank you gift, he was no longer short of money in a short period of time.
But he didn't want to be too different from his original self, and he didn't overindulge in food. A while ago, he just ate noodles at a roadside stall every day.
Until today, he made a special tooth sacrifice for himself and bought a small piece of coarse cloth on the way back to the school.
Nan Yi planned to wrap the sharp knife from the Song Dynasty in a coarse cloth to serve as a scabbard. And with the scabbard, he can put the sharp knife on his leg or hide it in his boots after taking the exam.
As for tomorrow's annual exam, Nan Yi takes it seriously but doesn't feel nervous.
For him, the annual examination is mainly a good opportunity to escape from his lowly status. He can jump over the dragon gate and transfer to Chu County instead of being trapped in a small pond in Nanshan County.
But even if there is an accident, Nan Yi currently has other ways and means to change his household registration number and completely break away from the lowly registration in the mountain village.
Therefore, he is not nervous.
To be precise, not only was he not nervous, he actually had time to think:
The world of spiritual practice in this world is hidden behind the scenes of the mortal dynasty, but it is impossible for monks and mortals to have no interactions at all. As long as the circle you hang out in becomes more and more upper-class, you should be able to contact the world of spiritual practice through formal channels.
Then, all he needs to do is to work steadily, start with the formation of volumes, and then slowly figure out the mystery of cultivation.
The only uncontrollable factor is whether the medical officer Xu Luo has any malicious intentions.
From Nan Yi's point of view, the biggest hidden danger since his time travel is the medical officer Xu Luo - mainly Nan Yi wonders whether Xu Luo was allowed to use his ability to bewitch him before, and whether there is really any conspiracy.
If he can be sure that Xu Luo will not take action against him in the future, or simply get rid of Xu Luo, he will be on the right track in this life and will have no worries for the time being.
Nan Yi thought so.
But he forgot that, in the meaning of the word, only things that you don't know about, or are not sure will cause problems, can be called "hidden dangers."
Xu Luo, who might be spying in secret, was at most an overt "risk" due to his deliberate precautions.
Nan Yi didn't know that his real hidden danger actually lay in "The Legend of Two Dragons in the Great Li".
In this world, the gods are lurking, and many things are not as simple as Nan Yi imagined.
Before Nan Yi copied "The Legend of the Two Dragons of Dali", he was cash-strapped and reluctant to spend money on newspapers to study the popular novel themes in the market in Dali.
He just relied on his memory and after excluding the themes of legends of monsters and palace affairs, he determined that Dali had a legendary novel about martial arts warriors. And because he had the idea of writing a martial arts fan in his previous life, the inspiration was enough, so he decided to extend his love to Mr. Jin. Out of the devil's claws, Wen copied the devil and changed his martial arts novels.
But Nan Yi, who had not actually researched the market for martial arts novels in this world, overlooked one thing.
Mr. Jin's martial arts novels, even in Blue Star Tianxia, are called new martial arts novels, rather than the most traditional martial arts novels without personal settings. It is completely different from Dali's existing martial arts romance novels.
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Song Zhong fell on the couch, a little unable to sleep.
After confirming that regardless of his results in the annual examination, he would transfer to Nantian City next year and would no longer stay in Nanshan Academy to repeat his studies, Song Zhong had calmed down and was not nervous.
Logically speaking, he shouldn't be unable to sleep right now.
But it happened that he watched "The Legend of Two Dragons" a few days ago.
Knowing that this was written by Nan Yi, Song Zhong did not just study the illustrations like others, but read the text of the story carefully.
As a result, after reading it carefully, Song Zhong felt that this book was quite strange for some reason.
But he couldn't tell what was strange, so he kept it in his mind.
In the past few days, whenever Song Zhong felt that Nan Yi's performance had changed slightly compared to the past, he would deliberately divert his thoughts because of what his father Song Yushu said - and the way he diverted his thoughts was from thinking about Nan Yi. Yi changed his mind and started to wonder what was so weird about the first chapter of "The Legend of Two Dragons in the Great Li".
Regarding the chapter content of "The Legend of Two Dragons in the Great Li", when Nan Yi stayed up late to write, it was naturally impossible to write a super chapter that condensed forty chapters as in the revised version of the original work.
In fact, even Mr. Kim couldn't do it during the serialization period.
The serial version of "Shooting the Condor" has a total of 118 chapters, and the serial version of "The Condor" has a total of 110 chapters. On average, one chapter is more than 10,000 words. After Mr. Jin revised it later, he condensed it all into forty chapters, each of which is a super big chapter.
Nan Yi previously wrote 10,000 words and divided it into three chapters. In fact, it roughly corresponds to the story content of the first chapter of the revised version of The Condor Shooting.
The first chapter, except for changing the background of the story to Yan County in the northeast of Dali, mainly tells the plot of Qiu Chuji, Guo Xiaotian, and Yang Tiexin fighting over a misunderstanding.
In the eyes of Dali scholars, although the writing style of the first chapter of "The Legend of Two Dragons of Dali" is not bad, it mainly lays out the background and fictionalizes a story about the rivers and lakes that took place during the border war between the three kingdoms of Yanjun and Kanlizhen in the north. It is the so-called martial arts legend.
After reading only the first chapter, the reader has a sense of expectation for this story, but it is not great. It is far from exclaiming that it is a masterpiece after reading only one chapter.
Therefore, scholars in Nanshan County generally do not pay much attention to the plot of the novel, but study the illustration method.
But Song Zhong was very concerned about the content of the story.
At first, he wanted to get close to Nan Yi for convenience, but later he wanted to understand the inexplicable weird feeling in his heart and what the weirdness was.
He went through the plot of the novel in his mind again.
"There are people in the world who are extremely intelligent, talented in literature and martial arts, calligraphy, painting, music, chess, arithmetic, strategy, medicine, divination, astrology, and other magic arts. They are all knowledgeable and skilled in all of them! It's just that you can't see them."
When recalling what Qu San said in the book, Song Zhong's thoughts suddenly stopped.
"Martial arts? What is martial arts? The knowledge about martial arts?"
Song Zhongfu recalled the description of the fight between Guo Xiaotian and Yang Tiexin at the end of the first chapter, where they fought against the Taoist priest in coir raincoat, and he suddenly realized:
"Could it be that Brother Nan actually wants to focus on martial arts and fighting scenes in this work?"
It turns out that most of the martial arts legends on the market in Dali focus on people, describing grievances, love and hatred in the world.
However, "The Legend of Two Dragons of Dali" written by Nan Yi elevates martial arts and martial arts to a very high level, even to the level of knowledge. The style of painting is very different from the Legend of Dali Wufu.
However, "Ming Pao" has only published one chapter so far, and it is still relatively obscure and not very obvious. We have to wait until the second chapter, when the Taoist Qiu Chuji declares his family status and leads to the Quanzhen sect. The differences in martial arts and martial arts styles will gradually become apparent.
Song Zhong understood this section in advance and subconsciously found it funny at first: A crude martial artist only relies on the strength of his weapons to show off his ferocity and fight ruthlessly, so what else can he do without knowledge?
But the next moment, Song Zhong thought of the illustrations drawn by Nan Yi.
When Nan Yi draws story illustrations, they are not always in the form of comic strips. Sometimes they are storyboarded like comics to show the tension of the picture.
Recalling the illustrations in the book where the characters competed in martial arts, Song Zhong hesitated but lost his sense of resistance.
Although I still feel that Nan Yi’s juxtaposition of “martial arts” and “literary talent” overstates the status of a martial artist. But if you practice any skill to a deep level, it can indeed be called knowledge.
Song Zhong's doubts disappeared, his thoughts became clear, and he soon fell into a deep sleep.
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