Everyone had the strange impression that this was not the Mid-Autumn Literary Gathering hosted by Jing Kingdom, but the Mid-Autumn Literary Gathering in Kong City.
Crack...
The sharp sound of Literary Guts cracking carried for hundreds of miles.
Everyone turned toward the sound and saw a Hanlin Academician official from Qing Kingdom vomit blood and topple headfirst from his chair. A Qing Kingdom official beside him reached out to help, only to jerk his hand back halfway as though struck by lightning.
Everyone froze for a good while before some realized the reason and began whispering.
"He was actually frightened enough to crack his Literary Guts!"
"Well, that's a novelty."
"As expected of the Kong Family. They merely stood up, and two young men casually said a few words. None of those venerable Great Scholars even opened their mouths, yet they frightened a distinguished Qing Kingdom Hanlin Academician into cracking his Literary Guts."
"No, no, no. The Kong Family's appearance was like the final straw that crushed a Great Scholar to death. That Hanlin Academician already had dust-covered Literary Guts. The news that Void Sage Fang was Zhang Longxiang shook his Literary Guts, and now that Void Sage Fang has exposed a certain person and provoked the Kong Family's fury, he simply couldn't hold on any longer."
"The final straw that crushed a Great Scholar to death? An amusing expression, but 'crushed him' would be better than 'crushed him to death.'"
"Who knows how many allusions will be born after today's Literary Assembly?"
"This has certainly broadened my horizons. Tsk, tsk, as expected of the Kong Family. Usually they're so quiet you'd think they were clay statues, but at the crucial moment, not a single person in the entire clan backed down."
"Exactly. If the other aristocratic families suspected that