The highest-ranking official in Ning'an County was not the county magistrate, but Geng Ge, Director of the Mi Prefecture Transport Office.
A superior had used Tongue Blossoms Thunder to question the county magistrate, shaking the entire city.
Even ordinary citizens utterly lacking in political sensitivity realized that today, the two sides had torn off all pretense.
In inns and restaurants throughout Ning'an County, thousands of Medical School members gathered. Upon hearing Geng Ge's Tongue Blossoms Thunder, they instinctively rose to their feet and walked toward the windows.
The sky was clearly cloudless for ten thousand miles, yet everyone felt that wind and rain were on their way.
Inside an Earth-Grade Room at Highrise Inn, several scholars dressed in Jia Kingdom Literary Rank robes held wine cups as they gazed out the window with smiles on their faces.
"I had not intended to attend this Medical Way Literary Assembly, but I heard there would be a good show, so I came Walking the Blue Clouds, traveling through the night at breakneck speed."
The speaker was a middle-aged Hanlin Academician whose face made him appear to be over fifty.
"Mr. Lei Lu, as the Medical Commissioner of the Jia Kingdom Imperial Medical Academy, you oversee all Jia Kingdom medical officials. For you to come here personally is giving Fang Yun far too much face. His Sainthood is hollow, while your position as the foremost imperial physician of a kingdom is real. You are merely over forty, yet you have sacrificed many years of your life treating others. In terms of medical virtue, how could Fang Yun possibly be mentioned in the same breath as you?"
Lei Lu smiled and nodded without saying anything.
"That Fang Yun, for the sake of his own fame and for the mere Palace Examination, slandered a kingdom's