Before the Zong and Lei Families could reach a conclusion, Fang Yun used Tongue Blossoms Thunder. "There are many literary hearts this time, but I imagine most of you here want to consume them yourselves. If you take them out, you must hand one over to the Sacred Academy. Your options are probably limited."
Many people nodded slightly. The Sacred Academy had granted special permission to take fish out this time, but the first fish certainly would not earn a particularly good reward. Only the second could be exchanged for something they wanted.
Most people here could barely scrape together enough for one lower-grade literary heart. Their surplus consisted only of scattered little fish a few inches long. Even if they took those out, they would not fetch much-at most, a Provincial Graduate literary treasure. A complete lower-grade literary heart, however, could be exchanged for at least a Hanlin Academician literary treasure.
Fang Yun smiled faintly. "If you sell them instead of using them yourself, your own strength won't increase at all. In this great age of the Literary Star's descent, you'll lose your last support. What will you have left to compete with geniuses?"
Everyone nodded again.
Fang Yun swept his gaze over the crowd and continued, "But I have too many literary heart fish, and I'm only interested in superior literary hearts. Unless absolutely necessary, I won't use middle-grade literary hearts, because they would affect my future power. Of the more than eighty thousand literary heart fish I have left, only a few hundred are small ones. The rest are all at least lower-grade literary heart fish. I simply cannot use them all myself."
Some scholars vaguely guessed what he meant and nodded vigorously.
"But I'm somewhat reluctant to give them to you for nothing. Yet if I