Chapter 1067 – Everyone Is Here (2/2)
Since he had been tacitly allowed to return to the capital, a discussion would be had between this master and disciple, whether it would end up in war or peace.
But who could have expected that Shang Xingzhou would go to Luoyang…
Master is not even willing to see me?
The cry of a goose broke Chen Changsheng out of his pensive mood.
Several garish red streaks flew over the tender green ivy and across the azure blue sky.
These were Red Geese, carrying messages.
”What's happened?”
Tang Thirty-Six walked up to his side. As he saw those Red Geese landing in different parts of the capital, he suddenly felt uneasy.
In a short time, Hu Thirty-Two came by and said, ”Everyone participating in the Grand Examination has arrived.”
This news did not dispel the unease in Tang Thirty-Six's heart. On the contrary, it worsened.
Although the Grand Examination was a grand affair, there was no need for the Li Palace and the Imperial Court to use so many Red Geese at the same time to send urgent messages.
”Just who has come?”
”The information I have received on my end is not complete.”
Hu Thirty-Two glanced at Chen Changsheng and continued, ”Quite a lot of people should have arrived.”
Not long after, Linghai Zhiwang hurried in from outside the Li Palace and declared, ”Everyone is here.”
Even someone as proud and emotionless as him couldn't stop his voice from trembling as he said this.
It naturally wasn't fear, but excitement.
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The students taking part in the Grand Examination came in from all parts of the continent to the capital, with many of them coming from the south.
The south had many sects, its noble clans all had deep resources, and it had numerous experts and masters. Over the last few years, as the Mount Li Sword Sect and Scholartree Manor rose in prestige, the number of cultivators it contributed to the younger generation far exceeded that of the Ivy Academies, which represented the northern powers. However, the capital was quaking today not because of the pressure brought by the students of the south, but because too many teachers and elders had come with them, and all of them were of resounding reputation!
Only two disciples from the Mount Li Sword Sect were taking part in the Grand Examination, but they were accompanied by ten-some people. This was in stark contrast to the light and easygoing manner in which Gou Hanshi's group had come to participate in the Grand Examination, and this current group of ten-some people also included the stunning young geniuses of the sword that were Gou Hanshi, Guan Feibai, Liang Banhu, and Bai Cai. As for the rest of the group, they were even more terrifying, as they were all upper level Star Condensation elders of the Sword Hall!
Only one disciple from South Stream Temple was taking part in the Grand Examination, but all the disciples of Holy Maiden Peak had come.
All the people of the capital were dumbstruck by the drifting white robes of the several hundred maidens.
The chief of Gentle Stream Monastery, the new Sect Master of the Blazing Sun Sect, and the experts of thirty-some other sects of the south had also entered the capital.
The Old Lady of the Mutuo clan and the head of the Wu clan, three years after the coup of the Mausoleum of Books, entered the capital once more.
On a certain mountain outside the capital, somebody had even seen the carriage of the Qiushan clan.
Linghai Zhiwang's words were extremely accurate.
Every expert of the south that anyone could think of, other than the Mount Li Sword Sect Master and those other elders who had been secluded for many years, had come to the capital.
No one knew that two Daoist nuns of ambiguous age had silently entered the capital and were now residing in the Prince of Louyang's old estate.
But people did know that Wang Po had come with his blade.
Because a crack had appeared on the Luo River.
In the space of a single night, the trees outside the Imperial Palace turned yellow as if transformed into ginkgo trees.