Green Peak Mountain stood between the capital and Jade Sun Pass. It was not large, stretching no more than fifty li and rising no more than a hundred zhang. Situated west of the official road, it normally attracted little attention.
With a furious shout of "Treacherous minister, meet your death!", more than three hundred scholars charged out of the mountain.
There were Metropolitan Graduates wearing White-Clad Sword Garments, Hanlin Academicians wearing White-Clad Ink Plum Garments, and Grand Academicians dressed in blue, standing on white clouds. At the rear of the group, there was even an elderly Great Scholar in purple robes, walking slowly with his hands clasped behind his back.
The Great Scholar walked very slowly, yet every step seemed to land upon everyone's hearts, making every man in the Left Prime Minister's army struggle to breathe.
The other scholars rushed out swiftly. Only the elderly Great Scholar moved as though taking a stroll. He clearly did not appear to be attacking, yet everyone felt that he was anchoring the formation!
The Dumb Great Scholar, Tian Songshi.
Among the scholars who had recently participated in Crossing the Sea of Learning, he had been the only Great Scholar. He had given Fang Yun his high-grade Steady as Mount Tai Literary Heart Fish, taking only a mid-grade Spring-Autumn Accumulated Sequence Literary Heart Fish for himself.
Seeing so many scholars bristling with murderous intent, the officers and soldiers of the Left Prime Minister's guard felt their legs go weak with fear. For a moment, they did not know what to do. The disparity between the two sides was too great. There were over a dozen Grand Academicians alone, and more than forty Hanlin Academicians. Even among all the officials of the Jing Kingdom, they could not find so many people of such high