The entire Qing Kingdom went mad with curses at the Jing Kingdom!
The Discourse Ranking was thrown into chaos.
Scholars from every nation expressed both astonishment and gloating.
Everyone reacted with remarkable unanimity: this had absolutely been a plan Fang Yun had laid out in advance!
Let alone Li Wenying—even Zhang Poyue, that king of saucy talk and shameless rascal, would at most dare seize Yong Prefecture. He would never have had the nerve to seize Ling Prefecture.
Many scholars exclaimed that the entire Jing Kingdom now carried a kind of Fang Yun temperament.
If they were not courting death, then they were on the road to courting death.
Not only foreign scholars, but even Jing Kingdom scholars were stunned by the Grand Secretariat's plan. Aside from shaking their heads with bitter smiles, they did not know what else to say.
In a sense, Sage Fang killing the Qing Lord had at most looked spectacular; its actual impact had not been great. After all, many people had known for years that once Fang Yun attained Saint Enfeoffment, he would never spare the Qing Lord.
This time, first seizing the prefecture of a Second Saint Family, then surrounding the prefecture of a Half-Sage—the consequences and impact of this far surpassed killing the Qing Lord.
Upon receiving this news, many people were filled with worry.
Contests of Sacred Ways below the Half-Sage level were manageable. If matters truly became irreconcilable, a single order from the Sacred Academy could settle them.
But when Half-Sages personally took part in a Contest of Sacred Ways, every move they made shook Heaven and earth.
The Contests of Sacred Ways involving Half-Sages that had occurred throughout Human Race history had all been sealed away by the Sacred Academy, leaving only rumors among the common people.
Every Contest