Junzi Academy, the Scholarly Debate Hall.
As the largest building in all of Junzi Academy, where every inch of land was worth its weight in gold, the Scholarly Debate Hall was also its most important building aside from the Second Sage Hall.
It was also among the academy's earliest buildings.
Although the wood of the Scholarly Debate Hall now looked somewhat aged, it had actually undergone many rounds of renovation.
Yet beneath its aged exterior, the hall's interior possessed a different sort of "golden splendor."
Countless Great Confucians, once renowned throughout the Confucian world and immortalized in history, had left their calligraphy here, all written in neat regular script.
Most were passages encouraging learning and teaching people to do good.
But these were not honors belonging to Junzi Academy; they were honors belonging to those Great Confucians.
They were also honors that the many students of Junzi Mountain longed for.
In its early years, the Scholarly Debate Hall had indeed served as a place where different ideas and arguments could meet and clash, especially during the period after the Second Sage's death.
Debaters had flocked there.
Their aim was simple-to refute the Second Sage's principles and become renowned throughout the world.
Why had they specifically chosen the time after the Second Sage's death? The reason was equally simple-how could they possibly have beaten a living Second Sage in debate?
The Second Sage was dead, his theories were still fairly new, and his disciples might not truly have inherited his mantle perfectly.
If they happened to win, then even if their names could not rank above the Second Sage's, ranking just below his was not impossible.
But Junzi Mountain had never lost a scholarly debate.
Once the Second Sage's principles had spread far and wide and come to be regarded as