Yin-Yang Mutual Growth Art

Han Qi did not pursue the matter further.

When the day's lessons ended, Li Shun returned to his courtyard.

He immersed his mind in the matter and, upon examining it, finally understood the source of the disturbance in his puppet, Fang Han.

That towering murderous intent, bent on avenging a hundred lifetimes of wrongs, was not directed at him.

It stemmed from the Creation Realm cultivation that others had stripped from Fang Han through a secret art before he became a puppet.

Li Qing had gone to Qingyuan County himself and uncovered the whole affair.

The Fan Clan had used Fang Han's blood essence, obtained years earlier, to perform a secret art and steal his Creation Realm cultivation. They then presented this "gift" to Shao Lingxu in exchange for the chance for Fang Han's cousin, Fan Cheng, to go to the Sacred Capital and become Shao Lingxu's disciple.

But all of that belonged to the puppet's life before death.

Li Shun did not feel particularly outraged.

He had not forgotten it entirely, but neither did he regard it as a blood feud demanding immediate vengeance.

He would wait until the time was right and settle it when the chance arose.

In theory, a puppet could not affect its master, no matter what happened.

Yet that had changed when Li Shun began studying the Sole Righteousness branch of the Confucian School at the Imperial Academy.

As Han Qi had said, Li Shun believed in the principles of Sole Righteousness from the depths of his heart.

Only because of that could he bring spirit and text into harmony and advance a thousand miles in a day.

During the month he devoted to study, reciting the writings and essential teachings of Sole Righteousness day and night, his thoughts had subtly shifted.

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