Persuading Surrender

Kong Detian said, "De Lun and I both have Righteous Heart Seats."

Kong Delun, beside him, also took a straw mat emanating faint Holy Light from his River-Drinking Shell.

Kong Delun was a newly advanced Metropolitan Graduate who had once fought shoulder to shoulder with Fang Yun in the Sacred Ruins.

"As expected of the Kong Family." Several people murmured their praise. Even such young Metropolitan Graduates possessed Righteous Heart Seats.

Although the Half-Sage Former Residence could Sanctify items, it was ultimately limited and far inferior to the Sage Kong Aristocratic Clan. Ordinary Half-Sage Families generally possessed only a dozen or so Righteous Heart Seats, all used by Grand Academicians and even Great Scholars. Even important direct descendants could only use them occasionally.

The members of the Second Saint Family also took theirs out one after another. In the end, twelve Righteous Heart Seats were spread across the fortress's open ground. If they squeezed together, they could seat seventy or eighty people.

The Demon Barbarians drew ever closer, and everyone swiftly made their assignments. Since the more Literary Qi one had, the faster one recovered it, and since different people used Literary Qi with different levels of efficiency, they were divided into five ranks. Their rank determined how often and how long they could use the Righteous Heart Seats.

The sixteen Blood-Bathed Warriors and Fang Yun were the most important. They could use the Righteous Heart Seats at any time and were placed in the first rank. The middle-aged Poem Maniac was in the second rank. Ordinary middle-aged Metropolitan Graduates and the Sacred Academy's seven Metropolitan Graduates were in the third rank. The remaining young Metropolitan Graduates and those with Flood Dragon Bones were in the fourth rank, while the newly advanced Metropolitan Graduates were in the fifth.

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