"...you may even have a chance to leave your names in the Sacred Academy's Qilin Pavilion. Gentlemen, in the past five years, only Fang Yun, Void Sage Fang, has earned a place in the Qilin Pavilion-and he has merely qualified. No Half-Sage has yet personally inscribed his name there. The last person before him to earn that honor was the present Literary Grandmaster, Yi Zhishi."
Chen Ben's voice was powerfully stirring. Almost everyone looked delighted, especially those from the Literary World, whose eyes burned with fervor.
In the Literary World's thousand-year history, not a single person had entered the Qilin Pavilion.
Their physical bodies were scattered throughout Two Worlds Mountain. The people near them noticed their excitement: their chests heaved violently, and they could barely contain their emotions.
Apart from the Great Scholars, everyone, whether Grand Academician or Hanlin Academician, became an ordinary person unable to control his emotions at that moment.
The Spring and Autumn Annals, one of the human race's supreme sacred books, was also known as the Unicorn Classic or Unicorn History, simply because it recorded that, in the fourteenth year of Duke Ai of Lu's reign, the Western Hunt Captures the Qilin.
The Book of Rites, meanwhile, recorded: "The qilin, phoenix, tortoise, and dragon are called the four sacred creatures."
The Qilin Pavilion stood within the Sacred Academy, a hall honoring the most outstanding members of the human race. Since no one could enter the Qilin Pavilion after Saint Enfeoffment, even some Half-Sages had never entered it.
Entering the Qilin Pavilion while still alive was the human race's highest honor.
Everyone knew Chen Ben was using the Qilin Pavilion to inspire them, yet none could resist its immense allure.
Once someone earned a place in the Qilin Pavilion, the Sacred Academy would support his family for