Dong Wencong asked enviously, "Could you tell us how Memory Retrospection works? It takes at least a Great Scholar to master such an ability. I have only heard of it and know nothing of the specifics."
The others all looked at Fang Yun curiously, eager to learn what made this ability so extraordinary.
Fang Yun smiled without saying anything.
Just moments earlier, Fang Yun had used Memory Retrospection. Closing his eyes, he had seemed to return several hours into the past.
In the world of his memories, it was a little past seven in the morning. The sun shone down on the earth from the east. Fang Yun stood before the Temple of Sages, with many officials standing on either side of him. He faced the gates of the Literary Academy, outside which stood many yamen runners. They were divided into teams of four, with a long line of scholars waiting before each team.
Only time stood still, and heaven and earth were frozen.
Fang Yun slowly rose into the air. Everything within his field of vision at the time was no different from the ordinary world. But the places he had been unable to see then, such as those hidden behind the Literary Academy's walls, were pitch-black.
Fang Yun blinked, and everyone began to move. Everything played out again.
As a Grand Academician, Fang Yun had no blind spots above, below, or in any direction and could see the entire panorama. Yet he could not see the students hidden behind obstructions.
Several breaths later, Fang Yun closed his eyes within the world of his memories, and the range of his perception suddenly expanded. Those unseen people who had been shrouded in darkness took shape in his awareness as figures of light. They all looked identical because Fang Yun could