After giving some instructions to Chu Qingyun and the others, the Internal Affairs Deacon led them out of the Internal Affairs Hall, heading deeper into the academy.

The four of them bypassed two palaces, passed through a sea of bamboo and pine forest, and arrived in front of an ancient stone monument.

The stone monument, towering at thirty meters, had weathered the passage of a thousand years, its surface mottled and worn, with inscriptions that were difficult to discern.

Although Chu Qingyun did not know for whom the monument was erected or the story behind it, he could feel the solemn and heavy aura it exuded.