Great Scholar Stewart threw dignity to the wind, bounding after the floating scroll like a circus performer—even scaling walls without a second thought.
Don't let appearances fool you—the Confucian Order was one of the major cultivation sects. To earn the title of Great Scholar, one had to master the Six Arts.
Among these, archery and charioteering were martial skills. Excel in these, and you'd be a force to reckon with.
Yet no matter how high Stewart leaped, the floating poem remained just beyond reach, as if the wind itself was teasing him.
With a resigned sigh, Ethan Lockwood found himself copying the old man's ridiculous wall-jumping. He now suspected this aerial display was Stewart's scheme to stiff him on payment.
The academy's rear courtyard held five towering monoliths in a wi
