A First Rank Subdued the Northern Barbarians, Xu Qingxiao Took a First Rank as His Master, the Seven Great Systems! [Monthly Votes Wanted at Month's End]

Wu Ming's voice rang out.

Domineering and direct.

There was no hint of concession in his tone.

Sage Zhu's Lineage was to kneel outside Great Wei's Capital for three days and three nights and write a ten-thousand-word confession.

This was a monumental humiliation. To them, such humiliation was no better than death.

The entire Literary Palace fell deathly silent.

But after a brief silence, the Literary Palace's Half-Saint spoke.

"Sir, a Sage must not be humiliated. I can agree to all your conditions, but a Sage must not be humiliated."

"Otherwise, neither you nor I can bear the consequences."

"I can write a confession, but I cannot kneel."

The Literary Palace's Half-Saint spoke. He could agree to Wu Ming's demands, but kneeling was the one exception. He was a Half-Saint and had already stepped into the Sage Realm.

If he were humiliated, the matter would no longer be so simple.

Then it would no longer be a question of whether he wanted to cause trouble. The scholars of the world might very well take that irreversible step.

If things reached that point, it would be bad for Great Wei, Wu Ming, him, the Great Wei Literary Palace, and all the people of the world.

Of course, the others could kneel.

But making a Half-Saint kneel was impossible.

His voice reached the Chen Kingdom.

Wu Ming's actions had truly shocked the world and made everyone understand, once and for all, just how powerful a First Rank was.

A First Rank stood above everything.

Even a Half-Saint was powerless to struggle before a First Rank. Unless all the scholars of the world gathered together, they could not affect or harm a First Rank in the slightest.

"You may refrain from kneeling."

"But lend the twelve volumes penned by Sage Zhu himself to