Chapter 471 (3): I Heard That You Wanted to Challenge Someones Swordsmanship
Atop Cloud Drape Mountain...
Mao Xiaodong greeted Forest Deer Academy, and only then were the scholars from the Great Sui Nation able to see Prince Gao Xuan who had come here to seek knowledge.
Otherwise, no one would dare to ask. It wasn't that they were afraid of causing trouble for themselves, since which scholar and teacher in Mountain Cliff Academy didn't possess the will and spirit of scholars? Rather, they were afraid of causing trouble for Gao Xuan who was staying in a foreign nation. They were worried for the imperial hostage from the Great Sui Nation's Geyang Gao Clan who had come here in place of his older brother!
Mao Xiaodong only left after seeing the prince.
The eleventh tier old ancestor from the Geyang Gao Clan didn't appear from the beginning to the end.
Gao Xuan looked at the most knowledgeable old scholars from the Great Sui Nation tearing up after bowing in respect to him, and the young man who hadn't felt especially aggrieved or wronged about coming here as an imperial hostage couldn't help but tear up as well.
Gao Xuan was extremely respectful toward the white-haired scholars from the Great Sui Nation, and he also bowed in respect to them as a junior Confucian disciple.
The old scholars straightened their collars and stood upright and solemn as they accepted his reciprocal gesture.
There was a scenic viewing spot in Forest Deer Academy called the Majestic Pavilion, and the old ancestor of the Geyang Gao Clan who had accompanied Prince Gao Xuan to the Great Li Empire was currently standing here with Mao Xiaodong and the elderly flood dragon, Cheng Shuidong.
The old ancestor from the Gao Clan took his leave after chatting with them for a short while.
He hadn't taken on the position of deputy mountain master at Forest Deer Academy, and he had instead concealed his identity and decided to become an ordinary teacher. The students in the academy all enjoyed his classes, and this was because the old man would talk about things beyond the textbooks and beyond mere knowledge alone. These were things that the students had never heard about before. For example, things about Fictionists and weird and wonderful stories about the White Paper Blessed Land.