The eldest disciple under Mountain Lord Mo of Mochi Garden was named Kong Fancheng. At the age of sixty-two, he hailed from the Kong family of Qufu, making him a legitimate descendant of the Sage.
Having studied at Mochi Garden since the age of five, he was already capable of lecturing on behalf of his master by twenty-seven. From that time onward, both his scholarship and cultivation had consistently surpassed all other disciples.
He had reacted with the utmost calm to the fall of Mo Shanshan. Yet who could have predicted that on the twentieth day of the twelfth lunar month in the eighth year of Pingzhen—which happened to be the seventh day following his master's passing—this old man would ignore the obstructions of the Zhang Family and race all the way to the Northern Wei capital of Luoyang, swearing to execute the emperor to avenge her?
Chapter 189