After Zhang Zongshi finished speaking, those who had never considered this possibility were greatly surprised, while those who had already vaguely sensed it nodded slightly.
"Since Brother Zhang has laid it all out, there's no need for us to keep dancing around the subject. The flattery in this poem leaps off the page. This Zhang Mingzhou has gone too far!"
"For his own selfish interests, he willingly became a dog of the Qing Kingdom. It makes one's blood run cold."
"To think he was viciously slandered back then and suffered so much in prison, only to sink this low now."
"Come to think of it, this poem is rather strange. With a powerful backer like the Kong Family behind Zhang Longxiang, why would he turn to the Qing Lord?"
"The Qing Lord? He would hardly think much of the Qing Lord. He's merely using him as a stepping stone! On the surface, he's praising the Qing Lord's sagely wisdom, but he's really talking about the man behind him."
"But the Kong Family is no worse than the Zong Family... ahem, no worse than that man's lineage."
"In recent years, the Kong Family has been far too free of worldly desires and rarely intervenes personally. At present, only the Half-Sages can truly help him shed his identity as one of the Literary World people. As you all know, although the head of the Kong Family possesses the power and standing of a Half-Sage, he has no true Sacred Way and probably cannot help transform his body. So perhaps he approached the Zong Family himself... no, perhaps the Qing Lord approached him and promised to reshape his body, allowing him to come and go freely on the Saint Origin Continent without restrictions."
"What? In that case, has the Qing Kingdom been supporting