Yueyao had just sat down when she saw a middle-aged man wearing a blue-grey robe and a square hat. The man had an ordinary appearance, but there was an air of scholarship about him.
The man felt someone looking at him and looked up in surprise at Yueyao. After asking a monk beside him, he looked back at Yueyao with a very strange expression on his face.
Master Xuan Tian came out, and everyone stood up.
This was the first time in two lifetimes that Yueyao had seen this famous Grand Master. Xuan Tian was dressed in a golden kasaya, his face round and kind. He had a smile that made him seem like Maitreya Buddha, exuding a warmth that was instantly endearing.
Master Xuan Tian lectured the monks for the entire morning, and Yueyao listened attentively. Rumor had it that Master Xuan Tian seldom explained the Buddhist scriptures, and though the lecture was primarily for the monks in the temple, the opportunity was rare, so Yueyao committed every word to memory.
