Just as Ji Xiongying "fortunately encountered a rare opportunity," Lu Yang had also arrived at the most prosperous district of Tianjing City, the place with the greatest number of martial artists.
Haoran Academy.
This place, which held a volume of the Heavenly Book and had pioneered the fourth step of Martial Dao, had now faintly surpassed Daoism and Buddhism alike, becoming a sacred land of Martial Dao.
Yet strangely, ever since he had taken the fourth step of Martial Dao and spread its method across the land, Wang Boyuan, the headmaster of Haoran Academy and the "Sage-Heart Scholar," had gradually vanished from public sight. He became increasingly reclusive, and by now, even the academy's upper ranks found it difficult to see him.
"What a splendid geomantic treasure land."
To avoid attracting attention, Lu Yang had already dispersed his form, turning into a mass of invisible qi as he wandered through Haoran Academy with keen interest.
In his view, this academy could truly be called a place where outstanding people and spiritual lands came together.
In all of Tianjing City, only this place brimmed with Spiritual Qi. Even an ordinary person, if they studied here for several years, could develop a touch of wisdom and ingenuity.
What was even more marvelous was that this was not nature's work, but man-made. From the academy's overall arrangement to the location of every classroom, the placement of flowers, birds, fish, insects, and every kind of scenery—it had elevated the mundane arts of "geomancy" to a higher plane, faintly forming the prototype of a Spirit-Gathering Array!
From this alone, Lu Yang knew that the Sage-Heart Scholar truly had substance.
With that thought, Lu Yang took a single step and arrived directly at a study deep within the academy, intending to meet this famous native.
Then