On the night after the Debate Literary Assembly ended, the Discourse Ranking announced the list of all award recipients.
But to everyone's surprise, the sages believed the Debate Literary Assembly had been far more effective than expected. Aside from the two Half-Sage disciple slots, which remained unchanged, all other slots were expanded threefold!
Upon seeing this news, some Miscellaneous School scholars who had been secretly preparing to stir up trouble felt as if something were lodged in their throats, leaving them speechless.
According to the Miscellaneous School's plan, once Fang Yun announced the winners, they would question the fairness of the rewards and incite some debaters who might originally have received rewards to make a scene on the Discourse Ranking. After all, the rewards this time were simply too astonishing.
Yet Fang Yun had pulled off a remarkably clever move, drawing the firewood from beneath the cauldron. By directly tripling the rewards, no matter how much the Miscellaneous School tried to cause trouble, they could never build it into a wave.
But the Miscellaneous School refused to give up. They published an article selecting some outstanding debate responses and debaters who had not won awards, speaking up for them while insinuating that these rewards were unfair.
In the end, the replies were flooded with opposition. Most laughably, even the debaters the Miscellaneous School had listed as undeserving of exclusion admitted that they truly were inferior to those who had won.
Afterward, some of the winning debaters stated that their abilities were actually not much different from those of the debaters listed in the article. If the sages had chosen others rather than them, they would not have harbored any resentment.
Left with no alternative, the person who had published the article could only request that it be deleted.
But the