All new students at White Deer Academy had to attend general lectures at first.
Once they had made some progress in their studies, they could learn alongside the academy's teachers.
Xiao Mo thought it was a little like university in his previous life.
Undergraduates attended large lectures, while graduate students studied under their professors.
Every day, Xiao Mo got up shortly after five in the morning.
Bai Ruxue had already woken up by then, heating water for him to wash up and preparing breakfast.
After breakfast, Bai Ruxue would walk Xiao Mo out of the courtyard.
Only after Xiao Mo had long since disappeared into the distance would Bai Ruxue slowly turn her gaze away and return to her chores, waiting for him to come back.
The nineteenth lecture hall on Three Provinces Peak was where Xiao Mo attended his lectures.
Each lecture hall had around twenty new students.
They came from different countries, and Xiao Mo even met a scholar dressed in Beimang fashion.
There were both men and women among the new students, though the women were fewer and the men more numerous.
What puzzled Xiao Mo, however, was that some of the students didn't seem very serious about their studies. They spent their days chatting and laughing, and sighed whenever their teachers assigned homework, as if they had come to White Deer Academy for a vacation.
Later, Xiao Mo learned that most of these men and women were children of the royal families of secular dynasties.
Aside from the Confucian Academy, the four great academies gave the ten human dynasties extra places, allowing the children of princes and nobles to come and study.
They would stay for four years at most, then leave.
If someone had a certain level of attainment in Confucianism and wanted to stay