"Elder Ji, Elder Meng, Elder Sun—you three are of towering virtue and immense prestige, with seniority beyond compare and profound literary foundations. If we are to make Qiu Yan bow his head, admit his mistake, and abolish that absurd Hundred Schools Sage Worthies Hall, you must take the lead."
As he spoke, a man who appeared to be in the prime of his life said these words. He was somewhat renowned himself: a Grand Confucian from overseas named Han Yuan. His academy had been established on an island, and it was said that his teachings had already reached Fusang. Known as the Sage Who Went East, he had personally returned to the Central Plains upon hearing the news.
These people were precisely the Confucian Grand Confucians who had gathered from all corners of the realm.
They had assembled here for no other reason than the Qi Manifestation revealed after the Sage Worthies Hall of Knowledge and Action Academy opened more than a month ago—
Yet unlike what they now claimed, when their disciples and descendants had invited them forth, what they had emphasized was that the Sage Worthies Hall of Knowledge and Action Academy could seemingly connect the Scholar Forest with ease and send people there. They had not dwelled much on the gathering of sages from the Hundred Schools within.
It could be said that, in the eyes of those who controlled academies, studios, and scholarly noble households, the portraits of the Hundred Schools sages did not constitute the true threat. What truly shook their foundations was the terrifying capability embodied by that Sage Worthies Hall—
If everyone could rely on that Sage Worthies Hall to enter the Scholar Forest with ease, Knowledge and Action Academy's influence among students would immediately soar beyond the heavens!
Of course, later investigations