Challenging a Grand Confucian, Unity of Knowledge and Action: Xu Qingxiao Established His Conviction, Southern Yu Was Turned Upside Down [Bonus chapter for Most Innocent]

Throughout Southern Yu Prefecture.

One could have heard a pin drop.

Almost everyone wore the same expression.

They were all dumbstruck.

Zhang Heng had provoked Xu Qingxiao again and again.

Yet Xu Qingxiao had remained silent throughout. Everyone had thought his spirit had been crushed, leaving him discouraged and miserable.

They had even felt sorry for Xu Qingxiao.

But at this very moment.

Xu Qingxiao had produced a piece of parallel prose that stirred the soul, drew upon the classics, and painted exquisite scenes with its words. Some of its expressions were unheard of, yet utterly sublime.

The splendor of things held heaven's treasures; Exceptional People and Blessed Land.

The sunset clouds flew alongside a lone wild duck; the autumn waters shared one hue with the boundless sky.

Words like these truly embodied the beauty of the world, the pinnacle of the world.

More astonishing still, his writing had shaken All Under Heaven and summoned auspicious signs. The entire Southern Yu New Pavilion bathed in rosy light, like a pavilion of immortals.

Literary qi surged into the great hall like mighty rivers, pouring into Xu Qingxiao's body.

This piece of parallel prose.

Deserved to be called unparalleled.

For a moment, people truly did not know what to say.

They looked at Xu Qingxiao as though he were a monster. A man who had only just begun his studies had already produced a Timeless Verse and an unparalleled essay. Now, at the Tower Banquet, he had composed on the spot.

And produced yet another piece of parallel prose that would endure through the ages.

Moreover, this parallel prose was unparalleled even among unparalleled works.

It had even summoned such a wondrous manifestation. The tower shone like a treasure, reflecting rosy light, as magnificent and exquisite as a heavenly palace.

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