Then... what exactly were Father and Master Xu plotting...?
Zeng Anmin's eyes were filled with tangled emotions.
And with Father's temperament, he would never let Dean Qin fake his death and lurk in Myriad Demon Mountain for the rest of his life.
There must be another contingency—a way to bring Dean Qin back.
Zeng Anmin felt his mind descending into chaos.
He drew a deep breath, doing his best to calm himself.
Setting everything else aside, given how much Dean Qin cared for Wanyue, he could not possibly abandon his wife and child.
A sharp gleam flickered in Zeng Anmin's eyes.
So Father's contingency for bringing Dean Qin back...
Most likely lies with Grand Confucian Qin Li!!
All I need to do next is figure out how Grand Confucian Qin Li passed away in meditation at the end of the Han Dynasty, only to reappear seventeen years later within the Jiang Kingdom to spread his teachings.
Once I understand that secret, I can most likely guess Father's contingency for bringing Dean Qin back.
With that thought in mind,
Zeng Anmin hurriedly went to sleep.
That will do for today.
He could not keep thinking.
If he continued letting his imagination run wild, even the information he had obtained today would become a muddled mess in his mind.
As for what secrets the white necklace contained,
and how it had made golden light appear in his eyes, allowing him to glimpse the Confucian Sage's Manuscript...
he would set that aside for now.
The next day,
Zeng Anmin rode hard toward the Imperial Academy.
Yet after spending an entire day searching through the Imperial Academy's books,
he still found no further information about the Great Scholar "Qin Li."
That made sense.
The Great Sage Dynasty and the Jiang Dynasty had stood side