Thus, a magnificent spectacle swept through the Human Race: everyone was writing poetry. The number of poems appearing on the Discourse Ranking soared, and many people found one poem insufficient to satisfy them and kept writing more.
Soon, some scholars of the Jing Kingdom discovered that scholars from the Qing Kingdom were secretly stirring up trouble.
Some Qing Kingdom scholars deliberately praised Fang Yun to the skies, stopping just short of declaring outright that he eclipsed all the Sages.
Others deliberately commented on the poor verses of people who were not even Licentiates, mocking how ridiculous those praising Fang Yun were.
Before long, some members of the Jing Kingdom's Fang Party passed this information to the kingdom's higher-ups.
Li Wenying was presiding over the literary assembly. After receiving the information, he swept his gaze over the Qing Kingdom scholars' seats and found that the Great Scholars and Grand Academicians were behaving well enough, but scholars of lower literary ranks were already mocking Fang Yun or the Jing Kingdom's scholars.
Li Wenying continued presiding over the assembly as usual. During a break, he shifted the topic and said with a smile, "This literary assembly spans all Ten Kingdoms, within and beyond the Human Realm, so good and bad will inevitably be mixed together. Let everyone present act as mighty waves and wash away some of that sand and silt. Next, I will select some outlandish poems from the Discourse Ranking, and you can choose the most outlandish of them all. I will provide its author with a hundred taels of silver to help him return to school."
Many people thought this sounded entertaining and began clamoring for Li Wenying to read those outlandish poems so everyone could enjoy a laugh.
Li Wenying coughed lightly and said, "I spared a glance at