Chapter 715: Origin

Red Mountain Academic Palace, as Li Muyang stepped out of the library under the setting sun, he saw Jiang Yunhe, the ritual officer of the academy, standing outside the doorway.

Seeing Li Muyang emerge, Jiang Yunhe greeted him with a slight smile and a cupped-hand salute: "Mr. Jie Zijiu, my respects to you."

Within the Red Mountain Academic Palace, everyone is cultured and elegant; although known as the sacred ground for Puppet Masters, it resembles an academy even more.

This ritual officer, Jiang Yunhe, embodied the virtue of propriety to its utmost, exuding the aura of a scholar in every movement, with salutations at every meeting.

Li Muyang, a layman, truly found this set of intricate and formal etiquette somewhat unbearable.

Yet he had no choice but to return the salute and then asked: "Were you waiting for me, ritual officer?"