The Mountain and Sea Realm truly was a wondrous place.
Unexpected yet profoundly meaningful reunions had happened more than once.
As far as Jiang Wang was concerned, when Zhuang Kingdom had named Lin Zhengren the National Academy's chief disciple to take part in the battle of prodigies among the states, of course he had paid attention. What concerned him was not only Lin Zhengren's information, but even more so—where Zhu Weiwu was!
Since Zhuang Kingdom had Zhu Weiwu, a prodigy capable of representing Zhuang Kingdom, who else could it be?
How could there have been a day for Lin Zhengren to take the lead?
The news spread by Zhuang Kingdom was that Zhu Weiwu had colluded with the enemy and betrayed his country, fleeing far away, his whereabouts unknown.
But which enemy he had colluded with was never clearly stated.
What acts of treason had he committed? Not a single piece of evidence was offered.
Even Zhu Weiwu's final act in Zhuang Kingdom had been to seize ten enemy cities for Zhuang Kingdom, nearly exhausting himself to death.
Before that, at the Four-Sided Conference, Zhu Weiwu had utterly suppressed the prodigies of Yong and Luo.
And before that...
All along, Zhu Weiwu had been the unquestioned foremost prodigy of Zhuang Kingdom's younger generation.
From the City Daoist Academy to the State Daoist Academy, he had been first wherever he went.
Within the kingdom, he was peerless; beyond it, he won glory for his country.
The monarch favored him, the State Chancellor valued him, his fellow disciples admired him, and those who came after worshipped him!
He had fought for his kingdom when Zhuang Kingdom was weak, yet during the war between Zhuang and Yong, when Zhuang Kingdom rose powerfully and stood at the height of its glory like the noonday