Gained, Given [Third Update Complete]

"Where is this? Could this be the Scholar Forest of legend?"

Within a hazy expanse of mist, Han Yue's thoughts condensed into form. He walked forward, and whenever he touched the mist along the way, insights into the classics flowed out and entered his mind.

Such insights could not be found elsewhere, yet Han Yue also noticed that every time he came into contact with a wisp of mist and absorbed the classics and knowledge within it, a bit of the understanding deep in his consciousness was consumed.

That understanding was precisely the small realization condensed from his memories of laboring and farming over the past few days.

This realization had come from several days of hard work, but truthfully, even Han Yue himself had not noticed it. It was not because he was dull-witted; rather, many things could only be drawn upon when he truly left the Imperial Academy and dealt with concrete problems. Though he now possessed the memories, he still did not know where they could be applied. It was like a weapon—it would not be of much use before it reached the battlefield.

Of course, this so-called consumption did not mean that the memories and realizations vanished from his mind. Instead, a copy of the realization within them was made, then stripped away. The feeling was as though...

"Trading one thing for another? I gain understanding of the classics and insights from the mist around me, and in return, I have to give up a roughly equal share of my own realizations. Then what will happen once all the realizations in my heart have been used up?" As the thought arose, Han Yue began to savor the fragments of classical teachings the mist had conveyed in that short time.

Many of those teachings were things he