Everyone's attitude was exceedingly humble, not because Yi Zhishi was a Literary Grandmaster, but because he would become a Half-Sage in a few years.
Yi Zhishi glanced around, then walked straight over to the chair Fang Yun had occupied earlier and sat down.
"Please, everyone, sit. Today's leading figures are Void Sage Fang and Zhang Mingzhou. I've been looking forward to this day for a long time." Smiling, Yi Zhishi picked up a mooncake from the table and broke it in half, keeping one half and handing the other to the dumbstruck Big Rabbit.
Big Rabbit had never expected such an important figure to offer such a tasty treat. Immediately rising, Big Rabbit accepted it with two large paws, then bowed respectfully, exactly like a person.
Yi Zhishi smiled and began eating the other half of the mooncake.
Everyone watched Yi Zhishi curiously. In their eyes, someone so distinguished ought to be above the smoke and fire of mortal life, yet here he was, eating a mooncake in public just like them. It was a truly novel sight.
Yi Zhishi's movements were exceptionally refined, as though he were defining the very phrase "a gracious gentleman."
The eyes of several Baling City women in the distance shone. Yi Zhishi was the very picture of a handsome man: tall and straight-backed, with an elegant, scholarly bearing, neither too rugged nor too frail. His eyes reflected the starry sky, mysterious and deep, as though they could steal a person's soul away.
Many women blushed and felt their hearts race merely looking at Yi Zhishi's profile. Their gazes clung to his face; everything from his fine black eyebrows to his straight, handsome nose-even the curve of his lips-held them spellbound.
Only the Wu Lord curled his lip and muttered, "I always hated this manner