Spring Breeze and High Spirits

Zhou Mi seemed to have planned this long ago. The ferryboat on which the two stood remained unchanged, but everything beyond it—the Taoye Ferry carrying the boat, the Great Quan Dynasty around the ferry, Tongye Continent, and even Vast Heaven and Earth—seemed to turn into a Great Void Realm. Only the sun and moon hung overhead like two lamps, illuminating a lone, empty boat as two Immortals stepped through the void together and crossed the River of Time spanning countless ages.

Scenes flashed past the ferryboat like lantern slides, blooming with the Seven-colored Glazed Color unique to a River of Time scroll. Their light made the two scholars facing each other shine like ancient divine beings, silent and without thought.

Qi Jingchun stood at the bow of the floating boat and looked around at the many River of Time scrolls that appeared and vanished in an instant. In life, this green-robed scholar had traveled little. Of all the direct disciples of the Literary Sage lineage, he had seen the fewest mountains and rivers. He had studied as a boy and pursued scholarship as a young man. Later, he had merely accompanied a senior brother who wanted to take up Practice Sword, wandering Central Divine Continent together to clear their minds. The journey had lasted only a few years, and they had not visited many celebrated landscapes. Then calamity struck their Literary Vein. Cui Chan, the Embroidered Tiger who had broken from the Literary Sage lineage, chose Treasure Bottle Continent and became the Great Li National Teacher. Qi Jingchun appeared to turn against him, opposing him at every turn. He took two Registered Disciples of the Literary Sage lineage, Mao Xiaodong and Ma Zhan, to Treasure Bottle Continent, where the three founded Cliff Academy, one of the Seventy-two Confucian Academies, in