The Grand Academicians and Great Scholars swept their smiling gazes over the scholars of the School of War and shook their heads gently, as though laughing at their youth.
Only they knew just how powerful this Martial Temple Literary Platform was. Fang Yun's experiences along the way had been extraordinarily rich. Though he had fought fewer battles than the veteran scholars who had served at Two Worlds Mountain, his combat experience was unquestionably on par with a Great Scholar's, and his understanding of the School of War's Sacred Way was no less profound than that of its Great Scholars.
This Martial Temple Literary Platform was tied to the past sages of the School of War. A powerful grasp of its Sacred Way alone could not forge it. It also required something that even a military genius could not achieve: an immense tally of military merits!
After Fang Yun became the Lord of the Yangtze, even the stubborn members of the Zong Family and Lei Family had been forced to admit that his military merits had reached the level of Sainthood.
Only military merits of this magnitude could resonate with the wills that generations of the Human Race's military sages had left between heaven and earth, allowing one to forge the Martial Temple Literary Platform.
Moreover, forging the Martial Temple Literary Platform was only the first step. Awakening the statues in the Martial Temple afterward was even harder than everything that came before. Even with Fang Yun's experiences, he could awaken only a handful of past sages. For anyone else, awakening Grand Duke Jiang alone would mean their ancestors had amassed a wealth of virtue.
In other words, the Martial Temple Literary Platform was practically tailor-made for Fang Yun. Even a Grand Academician with the potential to become a Half-Sage would