At the same moment, within the same Literary Web, many things were unfolding.
"Young man, you say Qiu Yan is your father-in-law? But as far as I know, he has no daughter." In one corner of Donghua's Literary Web, Zhou Dongyi of Nine Abyss Academy in the Eastern Capital spoke to a young scholar with a smile on his face.
The scholar said, "I would not dare deceive a great sage. Though my wife is not Lord Qiu's biological daughter, her coming into this world was truly granted by Lord Qiu. She serves him with the rites due a father, so I call him my father-in-law."
"Forget it. I have no mind to concern myself with such matters. But as a Confucian scholar of Donghua, how could you worship the teachings of another continent? Besides, what this man studies was never the proper path..." Zhou Dongyi shook his head as he spoke and turned his gaze forward.
Though this was also a part of the Literary Web, its scenery differed from where Cui Sujing was. Here stood ranges upon ranges of deep mountains. Deep within them, a man sat cross-legged atop a stone platform, Yin-Yang aura circulating around him.
The man looked no older than thirty-something, but upon hearing Zhou Dongyi's words, he spoke in an exceptionally aged voice. "What do you mean by that, brother? Our Yin-Yang School has been passed down from ancient times and is an orthodox branch of the Human Path. The Primordial Beginning Continent where I come from even developed Human Path dynasties from the Yin-Yang School. Yin and yang revolved, worldly affairs remained clear—how was that not the proper path?"
Hearing this, Zhou Dongyi smiled. "I will not expose you outright, but Eastern Radiance Continent also has the inheritance of the Yin-Yang Dao. Yet