To the entire Human Race, Fang Yun's proposal was even more shocking than the earlier eligibility requirements for council elders, and its implications were greater still.
In name, the Law Hall was a subordinate branch of the Bloodmang Hall, but everyone knew it was actually the Human Race's testing ground in the Bloodmang Realm. Once the Bloodmang Law Hall proved effective, the Sacred Academy would inevitably establish a Law Hall on the Saint Origin Continent.
If the Bloodmang Law Hall truly selected its members in the manner Fang Yun described, the Sacred Academy's Law Hall would do the same.
No one present had ever imagined allowing every social stratum to participate in legislation. As for allowing women to participate, that was a tale from the Arabian Nights. Although the Jing Kingdom's empress dowager was present, she was merely the monarch's shadow; she could not sit here in her capacity as empress dowager.
Many even suspected that the earlier discussion of council elder candidates might have been a feint, and that Fang Yun's real objective was the selection of Law Hall members.
Ignoring the many people signaling him, Yan Ningshan said with a pained expression, "What other views does Void Sage Fang have regarding the Law Hall? You might as well share them all."
Fang Yun said calmly, "For example, mandating that commoners receive thirty percent of the seats. Or limiting Law Hall representatives to two consecutive terms, each lasting five years. Since Law Hall representatives hold high positions and great power, members of their nine degrees of kinship should be barred from selection to the Law Hall for three generations, to prevent hereditary succession from developing behind the scenes."
Many looked at Fang Yun with complicated expressions, utterly unable to understand how his vision could reach so far-seeing straight through