Poetry Cauldron!

Orders flowed from the councils of elders of the four great lineages—the Zong Family, Lei Family, Meng Family, and Sima Clan—carefully inquiring into the conditions of their own people.

Before long, the elder councils of these four great lineages received their reports.

The Sima Clan had not been a main force in attacking Fang Yun. They were merely closely connected with the Lei Family and Zong Family. Most of their people had benefited, and they had suffered no other losses.

The Zong Family, Lei Family, and Meng Family, however, stood with Fang Yun like fire and water. Almost no one had benefited. Worse still, among every Academy Student of these three lineages, from the main branch to the collateral branches, so long as their names appeared in the clan genealogies, not one had formed a Literary Guts Vortex!

Tens of millions of Academy Students had formed Literary Guts Vortices, yet the Academy Students of these three families had not!

"Vile wretch! He has humiliated my Lei Family!" An elder of the Lei Family slammed his palm onto the table.

Curses rang throughout the Meng Family.

Only the Zong Family remained relatively calm, because Saint Zong was still alive. So long as Saint Zong remained, nothing was a problem.

If Saint Zong truly became a Second Saint, the people of the Clan of the Sage Zong would inevitably receive a great number of additional Imperial Examination admissions at once, and afterward they would receive a fixed number of extra admissions every year. This was one of the greatest advantages enjoyed by the Second Saint Family and the Sage Kong Aristocratic Clan.

Yet increasingly worse news arrived from the three families.

After the Academy Students of these three families learned that other Academy Students had all gained Literary Guts Vortices, the Literary