The Analects contained over ten thousand characters. Even reading it aloud would take others an hour, yet after Fang Yun had recited for an hour and a half, he was already nearing the end.
Everyone present had stood there quietly listening for over an hour.
"...a joy is it not, come afar from friends have. a pleasure is it not, them review timely and learn: said the Master."
In a slightly hoarse voice, Fang Yun recited the final character backward. The entire venue fell silent as a graveyard.
Such monstrous talent was simply too astonishing. Compared to Fang Yun, those prodigious children and geniuses of Jiangzhou before him were ordinary beyond ordinary.
The Half-Sage remained silent for a long while before finally asking, "Do you have a teacher who has formally taken you as a disciple?"
Several hundred blazing gazes fell upon Fang Yun.
A person had three kinds of teachers: the first teacher who transmitted the Way, the benefactor teacher who imparted learning, and the teacher who resolved doubts.
Of these, the first teacher who transmitted the Way referred only to Confucius. A benefactor teacher who imparted learning was one who formally accepted disciples, and one generally had only one such teacher. Teachers who resolved doubts, however, could be many. Fang Yun's private school teacher, County Magistrate Cai, Cai He, who had taught him to compose Classic Interpretation essays, and even this unknown Half-Sage all counted as teachers who had resolved his doubts.
Fang Yun froze. This was an excellent opportunity, but the problem was that he had previously claimed that he had suddenly become "gifted" because of the guidance of a mysterious teacher. He already had a benefactor teacher who had imparted learning.
If he changed teachers and became this Half-Sage's disciple, it would not only leave a