An attack, which began well but ended badly, came to an end. The gifted scholar of Yanling Confucian Temple kept out of harm's way while Zhou Xuance was not injured seriously. In this way, the Confucian Temple actually lost nothing in the attack. However, two things would spread through the world.
Needless to say, the reappearance of Lin Hongzhu, the principal of the demonic sect, would bring fear into all major Confucian academies in Yanling. After the fall of the demonic sect, learned Confucian scholars in many academies had issued papers to blame Lin Hongzhu betraying the Confucianism and a lost soul of the Confucianism But the papers were issued only after the Confucian scholars learned the news that the principal had died. The timing was subtle, and it made people clapping their hand
