And so, everyone opened the post with thoughts of mourning and paying their respects, only to find its original author alive and kicking in the replies, constantly thanking those who supported him.
They reread the whole post. There was no mistake: it really was criticizing Fang Yun, accusing him of arrogance and brutality, destroying ancestral laws, provoking a contest of sacred ways, and so on.
A Metropolitan Graduate could criticize a Saint?
And so, an hour later, the most bizarre spectacle in the history of the Discourse Ranking appeared.
On the Discourse Ranking, apart from the posts most supportive of Fang Yun, every post bore exactly the same title.
They were all titled "Criticize the Fang Saint."
Watching everything that had happened on the Discourse Ranking over the past few days, many scholars once again felt something indestructible in their hearts crumble.
For an entire day, the Discourse Ranking became a wild dance of demons. Even many scholars who supported Fang Yun grew curious at the sight of "Criticize the Fang Saint" plastered everywhere.
The "Day of Criticizing the Fang Saint" began with tremendous momentum, but slowly, ever so slowly, many scholars grew tired of it.
The criticisms kept circling back to the same things, essentially falling into just two categories.
One held that Fang Yun had treated the human race too ruthlessly and killed many people who should not have been killed.
Many scoffed at this argument. Fang Yun had certainly done things that violated morality, but ever since Sage Kong executed Shaozheng Mao, the Confucian School had never truly been bound by morality. This did not mean that the Confucian School practiced false morality; rather, all its adherents believed that a certain degree of morality could be sacrificed for ideals of a higher realm.
Scholars even dared to