At the summit of Ink Wash Peak, Cao Heavenly Monarch looked up at the sky and asked, "Master, has Yu Xuan achieved Dao Integration?"
Lu Chen needed no celestial observation to know the result. He nodded. "He has."
The Daoist tradition had gained another Fourteen Realm Cultivator. What great fortune.
Cao Rong did not withdraw his gaze for a long while.
Lu Chen muttered softly, "That old scholar truly loved teaching others. No wonder he favored his Final Disciple. In this regard, Chen Ping'an was the most like that old scholar."
The Literary Sage lineage's incense had never burned brightly. Among its few Direct Disciples, Cui Chan and Qi Jingchun possessed learning of no ordinary magnitude. Zuo and Jun Qian were somewhat inferior by comparison, and neither much enjoyed reasoning with others. Cui Chan had only a handful of so-called inner disciples, few enough to count on one's fingers, nowhere near the point where peach and plum trees said nothing, yet a path formed beneath them. Although Qi Jingchun had founded Cliff Academy in the Great Li Dynasty and brought it into the Seventy-two Academies, he had soon afterward gone to Pearl Cave Heaven and become a teacher at a village school. So when it came to loving the role of teacher, Chen Ping'an truly resembled the old scholar most.
The mountain stood high, and the moon rose small; the moon was small—how bright it shone.
Cao Rong could not help sighing. "No one could surpass Literary Sage Teacher when it came to protecting his own."
As Lu Chen's Direct Disciple, Cao Rong in fact had quite a good relationship with the Literary Sage lineage. Otherwise, he could never have asked Cui Chan for a Hua Ya seal. In truth, not long after Cliff Academy had been established, Cao Rong