Reaching the stone table, the Divine Empress began drinking tea, there were clearly no servants here, yet unknown when, the teapot had tea inside; upon pouring into a cup, there was still steam visible.
It was unknown as to where the Black Goat had wandered off to, or what it was currently eating.
Her gaze went across the steam and fell upon the dividing wall beyond the autumn woods.
That wall belonged to Orthodox Academy.
Chen Chang Sheng wasn’t in the library; he was in his own room in the small dorm. He was sat beside the window, a book in one hand, with the other hanging outside the window, receiving Starlight descending from the night sky.
The Archbishop’s declaration had roused a hail of gossip within the Capital, this hail became a storm and traversed the walls of Orthodox Academy; no matter how he tried to ignore what was happening beyond the windows, the sounds of the storm was too fierce and couldn’t be blocked out of his ears. His current mood was thusly, rather sombre; he didn’t know what intentions the Archbishop had, he didn’t know how the Archbishop came to know of his need to achieve first place upon the First Banner, and he equally didn’t know what meaning was there to him participating in the Grand Examination when he couldn’t achieve Purification.
The Starlight landed upon his palm; his meridians were clear, yet there were no changes.
He could clearly sense the position of his star within the deepest reaches of the night sky, that fleeting connection gradually calmed him down again.
The book he had in his hand was the Four Classics of Meditation, he had spent the last few days researching the various principles behind the Meditation Realm, to help prepare for Luo Luo and Tang Thirty-Six’s life-and-death endeavour to break through into the Ethereal Opening Realm. He didn’t let up on his own cultivation however, spending countless nights guiding Starlight for Purification, alas, his body didn’t undergo any changes, leading to him feeling tired and despaired.
Yet, at this moment, within the Four Classics of Meditation, he saw a passage that made him think of a certain possibility.
His five fingers were slightly outstretched and the Starlight fell through the gaps, landing upon the window screen.