The Myriad-People Literary Platform looked as though it had been cast from bluestone, roughly ten feet to a side, and hovered steadily beneath the cloud of literary qi.
A few faint lines marked the lower edges of the Myriad-People Literary Platform's four sides. These were literary platform cloud veins. The stronger a literary platform became, the more cloud veins it bore. Once they covered all four sides, and its owner had advanced to Great Scholar, he could merge his star position into the platform and eventually temper destiny.
Destiny was a power discussed repeatedly in the Confucian classics. Records concerning it appeared in the Book of Documents, the Book of Songs, The Analects, the Spring and Autumn Annals, Xunzi, and many other works.
Fang Yun quietly studied the literary platform.
Opinions on literary platforms varied, but most scholars believed they were the most primitive form of the sacred way foundation, used to bear the power of the Sacred Way.
How should I forge my next literary platform?
Fang Yun pondered. The Myriad-People Literary Platform could not inflict great damage on its own, but paired with other powers, its might would surpass every other literary platform.
The Myriad-People Literary Platform belongs to the Confucian School, so I need not forge any more Confucian literary platforms. The School of Historians, the Legalist School, the School of War, the Craftsmen School, and others are all options. With my Dragon Race power and ancient demon inheritance, I could also create two related kinds of literary platforms myself, just as Lei Zhongmo forged his Flood Dragon Literary Platform. Of course, I would never forge a platform as low-tier as a flood dragon's.
*Since the Myriad-People Literary Platform has only foundational power and no formidable offensive ability, my second literary platform must make up for my