After the Mid-Autumn Literary Gathering, the human race suddenly had two large-scale battlegrounds for literary contests.
The first was the Qing Capital. Over ten thousand scholars and the Wu Lord arrived ahead of the others and began holding all manner of literary assemblies, literary contests, and literary duels. They all showed restraint, however, and held no literary battles involving life and death.
The second battleground was somewhere many people would never have expected: Baling City.
The temporary Sea Eye had long since vanished, but only a tiny number of scholars had immediately returned to their respective kingdoms. Most remained in Baling City, climbing Yueyang Tower and touring Dongting Lake, planning to travel to the Qing Capital with Fang Yun in a few days to watch the great showdown between the scholars of the Qing Kingdom and the Wu Kingdom.
People from all Ten Kingdoms had come to Baling City this time. Those from the Qing Kingdom had already left, but those from the other kingdoms remained, and each kingdom had its own conflicts with the others.
Scholars from ten regions-the Wu Kingdom, Qi Kingdom, Shu Kingdom, Cloud Kingdom, Jia Kingdom, Yue Kingdom, Jing Kingdom, Gu Kingdom, Shen Kingdom, and Kong City-used Baling City as their battleground and began holding literary contests and duels.
In the morning, scholars from the Wu Kingdom went to the tavern where the Qi Kingdom's people were staying to compete in poetry. They had barely stepped outside when they encountered scholars from the Shu Kingdom heading off to trouble the Cloud Kingdom's people. In the afternoon, the Yue Kingdom's people went to pick a fight with those from the Gu Kingdom, only to find that the Shu Kingdom's people had arrived first. Those from the Yue Kingdom could only wait in line...
Baling City descended into