Chapter 214: Life 73, Age 32, Martial Grandmaster Peak
As I sat on the platform next to Su Heng, the servants finished their preparations on the ground below us. They would occasionally shoot wary glances in our direction, but since we didn’t say anything and didn’t interfere with their work, they did their best to pretend we weren’t there.
Once everything was clean and the dirt was all swept back into its proper place, the servants departed and left Su Heng and me alone. While the situation seemed to be making the man a bit nervous, I just sat calmly and flipped through a few of the cultivation techniques I had picked up in the Su Clan to study what they offered their disciples in more detail.
About an hour later, the red double doors of the courtyard opened, and a young Martial Master led a large group of children inside.
Upon seeing us, he inhaled sharply, and his eyes widened in shock, but he didn’t address us. He just carefully guided the disciples to sit on the packed earth in straight rows and columns and ensured the spacing between each child was identical.
As he worked, this Master, just like the servants before him, kept glancing at me and Su Heng, looking for any signs of unhappiness or disapproval.
I put him out of my mind and turned to my companion.
“Su Heng, I have never studied these ceremonies before, and it has been a long time since my own. What can you tell me about them?”
“This… I only know what I’ve been told.”
He began twitching as he thought through how to answer me. Su Heng seemed far too nervous for a man of his standing. He had been like this with YuanFei as well. Maybe he just wasn’t good with authority figures.