Chapter 164: The Slovenly Daoist, Zhang Shouzhu
Li Qiuchen had not known until now that the county school had a head of the academy.
In theory there should have been one, but no one had ever seen the person, and they certainly hadn't come out to address the new students at enrollment.
This was understandable, of course. If inner hall students couldn't pass the illusory realm trials, they were no different from outer hall students. There was no reason to waste time meeting anyone who hadn't cleared that threshold.
Following Master Qin through the pavilions and galleries of the inner hall, they made their way to the rear hall.
Here too was a vast open square comparable in scale to the one at the inner hall's main entrance, clearly the activity grounds for the upper-year students.
To the left of the square stood a three-story building whose visual style was slightly at odds with everything around it.
Most of the academy's structures were brick and timber. This building was constructed entirely of bluestone, without a single piece of wood.
This was the legendary Hongwen Hall, said to house six thousand volumes.
Six thousand volumes, not six thousand books. To be precise, over six thousand collections of cultivation manuals and related texts on various subjects.