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Chapter 436 My Yin-Yang School has no Feng Zhuli!

The Xueting Prefecture in Xianyang City, as its name suggests, is the department responsible for managing the academies. As the venue for the second phase of the Hundred Schools of Thought competition, this department also has a supervisory function. The referees needed for the duels and martial arts contests among the disciples of various schools are the people from the Xueting Prefecture.

Besides coordinating issues and presiding over the competition, Xue Tingfu had another very important function: during the Hundred Schools of Thought period, it selected those qualified to enter the second stage.

Although all schools can enter the Academy Pavilion, the actual booths within the pavilion are limited. Whether they can have their own booth within the pavilion or remain below the stage and question schools that have booths depends on the strength demonstrated by the Hundred Schools of Thought.

Those who can shoulder such a heavy responsibility are naturally the top elites from various schools of thought in Xueting Prefecture, including even the leaders of schools at the Sun and Moon Radiance Realm.

However, normally, most of the time they don't need to make their own assessments.

Gan Sheng, the current chief calendar administrator of the Yin-Yang School's Five Elements School and one of the eight Yin-Yang School's Sun and Moon Realm experts, was at Xue Ting Mansion at this time. As the school in charge of calendars, they had a very close relationship with the government. This big shot, who could be considered the head of the Yin-Yang School, had to come here to act as the pillar of stability.

As he casually flipped through the news compiled yesterday, Gan Sheng couldn't help but linger for a moment on the entry "Feng Zhuli's guidance on the Han Zhangjing".

"Feng Xue, the Shenxiao Sect... I've never heard of such a school within the Yin-Yang School? And a calendar master at that? Is becoming a calendar master so easy? My Yin-Yang School has barely two dozen calendar masters! And this young calendar master has suddenly appeared? Could he be a fraud? But to have two Sun and Moon Shining Together cooperate with him in this charade... one of them even willingly acting as a maid, indeed, I need to observe him closely. However, he didn't participate in the Hundred Schools of Thought yesterday, I wonder about today..."

As Gan Sheng was pondering this "family member" he had never heard of before, he suddenly heard a series of hurried footsteps. He immediately knew that something big might be happening, so he straightened his appearance, resumed his serious demeanor, and waited for the person reporting to knock on the door.

"Tuk tuk tuk..."

"Enter!"

With a soft shout, the door opened, and the soldier in charge of reporting spoke immediately before Gan Sheng could even speak:

"Gan Zhuli! Feng Zhuli of the Shenxiao Sect, he..."

"What Feng Zhuli? I've never heard of such a 'Zhuli' in the Yin-Yang School!" Gan Sheng's brows furrowed, and he sharply interrupted the soldier's report. This soldier was a sensible man; knowing he shouldn't get involved in sectarian disputes, he immediately changed his tune:

"Feng Xue of the Shenxiao Sect displayed her achievement called the Seven Luminaries Star Instrument, causing a great sensation. People from the Military School, the Mohist School, the Historian School, the Craftsman School, and the Yin-Yang School all came forward, some even using communication platforms..."

"A communication station?" Gan Sheng suddenly stood up, his face filled with shock.
Are you sure? Which company is it?

"It's the farmers guarding their fields, they've notified the Grand Minister of Agriculture..." The messenger immediately responded, but Gan Sheng gasped in shock.

The Grand Minister of Agriculture? Isn't he farming in the Baiyue region? What important matter could require his personal involvement?
Thinking of this, Gan Sheng's initial suspicion of Feng Xue instantly turned into intense unease. At this moment, he desperately hoped that she was a genuine master of the calendar, otherwise, even if it was found that she was a fraud, his Yin-Yang School would be severely tarnished!
but……

"You mean the Seven Luminaries Instrument? What's that? Let's talk about it as we walk!"

Gan Sheng simply stepped over his desk, grabbed the soldier, and in the blink of an eye, they were outside the Xue Ting Mansion. The soldier had just begun to speak when he said, "It's an instrument that simulates the movement of the Seven Luminaries and the Earth. So far, no one has discovered any flaws, but its contents are too terrifying..."

Upon hearing this, Gan Sheng immediately frowned. The movement of the Seven Luminaries wasn't a major issue. After all, as early as the Warring States period, the Gan Shi Star Classic had already marked the movement patterns of the five planets (Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn). As for the Sun and Moon, their achievements were everywhere, so it wasn't anything alarming. Therefore, he directly said:
"Terrifying? How terrifying?"

"In his astrolabe, all the stars and the earth are spheres, with the sun at the center of all the stars, the earth less than a fraction of the sun's size, and the moon even smaller..."

"Absurd! No, that's not right!" Gan Sheng wanted to refute this absurd theory, but as someone who was in charge of the calendar, just hearing about it made him involuntarily imagine that star chart in his mind. Then, his heart candle wavered because his knowledge was telling him that this theory was correct!
"Impossible! There must be some error here! How could the Earth not be the center? If the Earth isn't the center, then what are these star charts from the past thousands of years?"

Although they belong to the Five Elements school, the Yin-Yang school ultimately makes its living from astronomy, which is why they are even more sensitive to this issue.

The agriculturalists, military strategists, artisans, and Mohists all disregarded star charts; they only cared about the accuracy of the changes in the seasons. As long as it was accurate, even if it was wrong, it didn't matter. But the Yin-Yang School was different.

Gan Sheng was furious and immediately said:

Where is his platform?

"Donghua Street..."

Before they could finish giving the address, the two moved again. The soldier felt dizzy and his vision blurred. When he opened his eyes again, he was already in a crowd. Gan Sheng, disregarding his image, pushed through the crowd and rushed to the booth.

He breathed a sigh of relief when he saw the instrument. With his knowledge, he could spot more than a dozen oversights at a glance. But when his gaze drifted to the sheet of Xuan paper next to it and he saw the huge numbers, the words of reprimand he wanted to utter stuck in his throat.

One by one, data points were uncontrollably fed into the calculations, and the star map in his mind became more and more concrete. The planets even began to rotate unrestrained by his imagination, and all the knowledge he had acquired in his life was poured into this small star map.

That's right!

That's right!

That's right!

The changes in calendars and the shifts in celestial phenomena recorded in history books are one thing, but when those celestial phenomena he personally observed and only recorded in his own notes were all matched up, Gan Sheng could only admit that this astronomical instrument was correct!
"Then, was I wrong?" Gan Sheng felt his heart wavering. The astrological observations summarized by countless predecessors seemed to have become a joke. The mysterious laws governing the movement of stars were now as laughable as a frog in a well looking at the moon in the sky.

As his candlelight flickered, his resolve wavered, but then a calm voice reached his ears—

"Senior, there is no need to be distressed. This is the movement of the seven luminaries, not the movement of the star chart. The sun is the heart of the seven luminaries, but not the heart of heaven and earth. This sun, which is incomparably huge to us, is but an ant in the entire universe. On such a scale, the star chart seen with the sun as the heart is actually no different from that seen with the earth as the heart."

(End of this chapter)