It was evening, so the crowds of students in the Imperial University were thinning. Though there were some students who would stay in the university long-term, most of them left around evening. After all, what happened in the mortal world created fetters that held tight onto the heart. Severing them wasn’t easy.4

At the moment, a group of people from the God-Merging School was making its way through the emptying university. They were clustered around their schoolmaster, who walked at a steady pace, looking very scholarly and refined. Given his status in the university, wherever he went, students would stop and salute him respectfully. He would look at them kindly and nod. When he encountered students from his own school of thought, he would stop, assess their cultivation, and give them some friendly tips. His words and actions conformed...13