The Confucian Way to Sagehood
Chapter 641

Thirty Thousand Literary Ink

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Fang Yun's Classic Interpretation essay from the Provincial Graduate Examination, Heaven's Mandate Lies with the People, had been the first piece to enter the ranking, even triggering a Heaven's Will Recitation. Yet the Strategy for Pacifying the Barbarians that followed had not been included in the Literary Ranking, and no one had mentioned it again. It was likely concealed by the power of the Sacred Academy.

Afterward, Fang Yun's Butterflies in Love with Flowers, <Remembering the Sacred Ruins Brothers on Double Ninth>, Edge-Concealing Poem Chang Dongyun Goes to the Frontier, the poems and essays he composed in Lingyan Pavilion, those from the Ten-Kingdom Competition, those from Dragon Ascension Platform, and the famous Three Pieces from Prison all appeared on the Literary Ranking.

As for On the Six States, Fang Yun was certain that it had directly entered the Great Scholar A Ranking. After all, its essence was opposition to the Sacred Ways of the Miscellaneous School and the School of Diplomacy. If not for the aid of the Sacred Soul of Jia Yi, the Half-Sage author of Discourse on the Qin, he simply would not have been able to finish it.

Today, due to the Snow-Plum Literary Gathering, the A, B, and C Rankings remained unchanged, while the Ding Ranking temporarily displayed only works from the Snow-Plum Literary Gathering. After tomorrow, it would return to normal.

The Literary Ranking Literati were ranked according to the amount of "Literary Ink" they possessed.

Fang Yun stared at his own name and soon saw a tiny carved mark shaped like a drop of ink behind it, followed by a string of numbers.

Thirty-eight thousand and seventy-one.

On the Literary Ranking, a Transmitted Under Heaven work earned ten thousand points of Literary Ink, a Nation-Quelling work earned one thousand, a State-Ringing work one hundred,

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