Nation-Quelling Duke!

"This is what it means to be a Void Sage! This is not a matter of saving face, but a matter of 'great ritual.' Back when Duke Huan of Qi campaigned against Chu Kingdom and formed an alliance with Qu Wan, his pretext was, 'Your tribute of bundlegrass has not arrived.' Merely because Chu Kingdom had not sent a certain kind of thatch to the Son of Heaven of Zhou, it was judged to have violated ritual, forcing the other feudal lords to dare not aid Chu Kingdom. And when Sage Kong said, 'Without learning ritual, one cannot stand,' he meant that disciples of the Confucian School who did not follow the Sacred Way of Ritual were unworthy of being scholars!"

Ao Huang continued indignantly, "You are a Void Sage, bringing blessings to the Human Race. It is only natural for the Lei Family to resent you, but no matter what, they should have followed the Human Race's Sacred Way of Ritual. At the very least, they should have offered congratulations in the name of the Lei Family, rather than in the personal name of the Lei Family head. Hmph, the Lei Family is far too arrogant—even worse than this dragon!"

"You know quite a lot about the Human Race's Classics of the Sages?" Fang Yun asked with a smile.

"Of course!" Ao Huang proudly raised his head. "This dragon can even understand why you differed before and after. 'Fang Yun as himself' does not care whether the Lei Family violated ritual, but 'Fang Yun the Void Sage' must uphold the Sacred Way of Ritual! If you turned a blind eye, then this conduct of 'Fang Yun the Void Sage' would be tantamount to proclaiming to the world that the Lei Family did nothing wrong! You, too, would be violating