The people of Qing Kingdom had left, Tong Li had left, but the celebration banquet at Pacifying Sea Tower continued.
Seventeen years of pent-up resentment had been released in a single day, and no one could control their emotions.
The people inside Pacifying Sea Tower were drunk, and so were half the people of Jade Sea City.
Fang Yun could no longer tell whether this was a celebration banquet or a drinking banquet. In any case, people kept toasting him, and he kept drinking. If not for the Literary Qi within him, he would have long since collapsed beneath the table.
As the celebration banquet was about to end, Prefect Dong brought out the rewards for this Dragon Boat Literary Gathering: two Provincial Graduate Literary Treasures, a Dragonblood Ink Stick, and a Mountains-and-Rivers Go Board.
One of the Literary Treasures was the Canglang Brush, which used Literary Qi to transform Canglang Journey into surging waves. The other was the Mountain Inkstone, which bore the power of Mountain Rhapsody and could turn into the strength of mountains to protect its owner.
That Mountains-and-Rivers Go Board was more precious than the other three items combined.
There had been six people participating in the dragon boat race. Fang Yun had contributed the most, and he did not stand on ceremony, choosing the Mountains-and-Rivers Go Board.
However, the other five absolutely refused the remaining three items. They said Fang Yun had washed away the shame of the entire city, and had even given up his moment in the spotlight so that Provincial Graduate Qian could seize the brocade. If they dared accept the rewards, they would not merely have their spines poked by the whole city—before they even left Pacifying Sea Tower, those old scholars would probably splash them with ink and pelt them