Compared to courses such as Music and Hundred Beasts, the "compulsory courses" like Talismanic Sword Thought Body underwent even more significant changes.
Sword Study Master Cui Yixian and Mind Study Master Xi Yangyu did not return to the Academic Palace after the New Year holidays, leaving both courses temporarily in the charge of other Doctors and Instructors.
The explanation given internally by the Academic Palace was that both Masters had important matters to attend to, without specifying what those matters were, nor how long they would be away.
