The members of the Miscellaneous School looked at one another, only then realizing how clever Fang Yun had been.
Fang Yun's aim had been clear from the outset: unite the various schools to take charge of the Bloodmang Realm, while severing the hand the Miscellaneous School had stretched toward it. Had he obstructed them outright with the fiercest language, however, it might have backfired. Instead, in a sudden stroke of divine inspiration, he proposed the highly feasible "separation of criminal and legal law." It made everyone feel that his words were eminently reasonable, achieving the effect of loving the house and even the crow upon its roof, so that they also felt everything he had said earlier made sense.
Once he deployed this tactic, the Miscellaneous School felt as though it had nowhere to sink its teeth. To refute Fang Yun, it first had to oppose the separation of criminal and legal law. Yet the slightest misstep in opposing it could touch upon a contest of sacred ways, and the Ritual Hall and some members of the Legalist School would inevitably counterattack.
Given enough time, the members of the Miscellaneous School could certainly have defused Fang Yun's tactic, but time was in short supply.
The greatest problem was that even the Miscellaneous School found Fang Yun's proposal for separating criminal and legal law highly feasible. Nothing could be more suitable than using the Bloodmang Realm as a testing ground, and they lacked sufficient grounds to oppose it.
After all, although the many reforms Fang Yun had introduced during the Palace Examination were astonishing, every one that could be tested in the short term had produced excellent results. Voices of doubt had grown increasingly scarce.
Before long, once everyone's discussions had largely run their course, Yan Ningshan, head of the Clan