Across the Ten Kingdoms, whether upon snowy peaks, at the bottom of lakes, inside thatched huts, or amid bamboo groves, various Half-Sages and Great Scholars were making calculations, but the might of the Literary Star was supreme and yielded no results.
No one knew for whom the Literary Star had stirred.
A guardian Half-Sage of the Sacred Academy flickered a finger, and a strange sound spread across the Saint Origin Continent. Setting aside a few who could not leave, all Great Scholars and Half-Sages headed toward the Sacred Academy.
They gathered to deliberate in the Hall of Hundred Saints.
Wild Demon Mountain, Shocking City Peak, Dreamwander Palace.
An extremely bizarre figure sat upon a throne. This person had the ears of a fox, the eyes of a cat demon, and the mouth of a wolf. His left arm was not that of an ordinary human, but rather a dragon claw twice the length of his right arm, looking extremely grotesque.
Beneath the throne stood many members of the demon race and literati. Every single one of those literati was dressed just like the figure on the throne, wearing dark blood-red robes that had originally been white, completely stained by blood.
"Lord Feng, I must ask you to thoroughly investigate this matter! Although that Literary Star Stirring cannot elevate one's literary rank, it represents a person's potential. Since the one who achieved the five stirrings is neither a Half-Sage nor a Great Scholar, it was undoubtedly triggered by a Newly Advanced Grand Academician. His potential approaches that of a Second Saint, and he is bound to be enfeoffed as a Half-Sage."
"If my guess is correct, once he gains the Literary Star's five stirrings, his literary qi will inevitably undergo a substantial transformation, rising from literary qi like mist to literary