At first, the Great Scholars of the Agricultural School read carefully, gleaned some useful points from it, recorded them, and submitted them to the Eastern Sage Pavilion. They acknowledged that Fang Yun's words made sense and could raise the evaluation of the agricultural subject, for the three Half-Sage examiners to consider.
But as Fang Yun's wild and fanciful ideas grew more numerous, two of the three Great Scholars from the Agriculture Hall became somewhat impatient. They gave up reading the documents recording Fang Yun's words and deeds and handed everything over to Great Scholar Xu Shi.
Xu Shi felt utterly helpless. The things Fang Yun proposed were simply too unbelievable. Contradictorily, they did have some basis, yet could not be verified at once. Perhaps only Half-Sages could swiftly obtain results by expending Sacred Power, but Half-Sages were so busy, constantly consuming Sacred Power to do things, that they could not possibly verify whatever Fang Yun said.
Thus, the value of Fang Yun's ideas could not be determined. By ordinary reasoning, pondering Fang Yun's words was mostly a waste of time.
Xu Shi hesitated for two days before deciding to keep reading. First, he did not want to bury Fang Yun's talent. Second, he hoped to discover something useful, allowing his Lineage to remain forever at the forefront of the Human Race and not be surpassed by other Agricultural Schools.
After discussing it with the family head, Xu Shi selected several theories that could be verified within a few years and handed them to members of his own Lineage to carry out.
For the Xu Clan, verifying an agricultural technique was not only easy, but also their duty, because the Xu Clan possessed the Human Race's largest crop and livestock bases. Nearly half of the Human Race's finest grain, vegetables, fruits,