The faint morning light had just pierced the clouds when the Peach Trees of Peach Blossom Spring Academy woke first, rustling and swaying. Dawn light scattered down, making the thousand branches and countless twigs seem as though they had been gilded with a thin layer of gold.
Ye Lingling pushed open the dormitory door and welcomed the first ray of morning sunlight, immediately feeling the thriving vitality of Peach Blossom Spring Academy.
Perhaps in that moment, even she felt as if she were dreaming.
This Soul Master Academy, clearly much smaller in scale than Heaven Dou Royal Academy, had Peach Blossom Trees and Red Maple Leaves planted throughout the courtyard. It was breathtakingly beautiful.
It gave her a sense of peace and comfort. Very few places could make her feel this way.
Several senior brothers and senior sisters who had enrolled before her had already begun their morning exercises early.
Morning exercises were not about pursuing high-intensity physical exertion, but about awakening the body that had slept through the night and grown sluggish after meditation, stirring up the energy for the day. This was what Teacher had taught them.
Teacher Su Ran encouraged himself alongside his students. All of them rose at the hour of Mao, and he had already performed a set of sword techniques below the classroom.
The sword technique Su Ran practiced today was slow and unhurried. Ning Rongrong, Zhu Zhuqing, and Meng Yiran could not understand it, but Xiao Wu stared at it with unusual focus and cried out in surprise:
"Teacher's sword technique today is very similar to my Tai Chi! Did Teacher apply Tai Chi to swordsmanship?!"
Ye Lingling did not understand the mysteries of martial arts. She only felt that it was profound and unfathomable. These senior brothers and senior sisters all seemed