Chapter 6: Spirit Vein
Pu Liuxuan nodded slowly. "Correct. But do you know why, once students from all over the world turn eighteen, they can never enter the Academic Palace again?"
"This disciple does not know."
Li Ang honestly shook his head, waiting for his teacher to reveal the answer.
The solemn expression on Pu Liuxuan’s face slowly faded as he spoke softly, "Because what the Academic Palace Professors teach the students isn’t just the classics of Confucianism, poetry, and songs, or how to construct roads, improve agriculture, and other such principles of heaven and earth."
"The Academic Palace also teaches the Way.
The true Way.
The Way of Cultivation."
Li Ang’s heart suddenly skipped a beat, as if he were standing on a cliffside plank path, fraught with unknown possibilities and dangers. "The Way... of Cultivation?"
"Exactly."
Pu Liuxuan nodded. "Flying through the sky and burrowing underground, Controlling Clouds and Driving Mist, crossing rivers and seas, and even, like in the storybooks, summoning a copper ball flying sword to take an enemy’s head from a hundred miles away within a hundred breaths..."
Li Ang unconsciously asked, "Not a thousand miles?"
"COUGH, COUGH."