Chapter 189: Pressed for Time
He did feel something was wrong. With more and more knowledge flooding in, the True Qi within his body also surged into his head.
In addition to True Qi, blood also rushed to his head.
He withdrew from his Sea of Consciousness, feeling his eyes redden as blood filled his eyeballs. He felt his head grow hotter and hotter, and many strange, useless pieces of knowledge were crammed into his mind.
For example, the animal with the most teeth is actually a snail.
What the hell kind of cow is a snail, and why does it have so many teeth?
And what can I even do with this knowledge?!
Can it make me stronger or help me break through the Heaven’s Barrier?!
At this moment, even if he was foolish, he knew he had fallen for a trap!
But it was too late. He felt dizzy and uncomfortable, unable to stand steady as if he was drunk.
My head hurts, my head hurts, my head hurts!
He couldn’t help but pound his head, letting out groans of pain.
Finally, with a “bang,” he felt something fly out of his forehead, and the pain vanished.
He was dead.
The thing that flew out was his brain.
Shi Feizhe watched the Sacred Heart Cult martial artists within the Φ domain with an indifferent expression as their heads exploded with “bang, bang, bang” after being force-fed useless knowledge.
Brains, white and splattered with blood, hit the ground with a “splat,” resembling the corpses Shi Feizhe had seen in Jicheng.
No one understood the 《Sacred Heart Manual》 better than Shi Feizhe. While contemplating how to deal with the Sacred Heart Cult, Shi Feizhe recalled the intellectual torture he had faced from Hua Xiaomei last time.
So he changed his approach, utilizing the cultivation method of the 《Sacred Heart Manual》 and upgrading it with Supreme Wisdom to unleash the useless knowledge from his mind.
Under the Φ domain, when martial artists absorbed useless knowledge, they would unconsciously mobilize True Qi and blood to concentrate in their heads, ultimately leading to their demise.
Moreover, subversive knowledge itself was inherently impactful.
For instance, many people still couldn’t accept the fact that humans lived on a giant sphere.
The only thing that exceeded Shi Feizhe’s expectations was that these martial artists, instead of becoming idiots after absorbing excessive knowledge in a short period, had their heads explode first.
The Jianghu is truly a strange place.
With the “bang, bang” sounds of heads exploding, a large swathe of True Realm martial artists from the Sacred Heart Cult fell, but not all of them.
There were still those who withstood Shi Feizhe’s intellectual onslaught. These individuals were truly formidable and the enemies Shi Feizhe had to face.
There were four of them, each a Heaven’s Barrier realm martial artist!
A woman with snow-white hair, a thin man, a refined man, and the man with a face full of malice who had just killed Shi Yulin.
Although they were still standing, the short burst of useless information they had received made them quite uncomfortable, even leaving some in a daze.
But they could still fight!
Shi Feizhe hadn’t expected to completely defeat them with the Φ domain; otherwise, he wouldn’t have needed them to act, and he would have killed Shi Yulin himself.
Not for himself, but for all those who had died in Jicheng and Yangzhou.
Their deaths couldn’t be in vain!
Shi Feizhe kept this debt in his heart.
Shi Yulin had given him a chance to escape, and he could have fled.
He also had the opportunity to save Shi Yulin, but he didn’t act. He watched Old Demon Shi die.
As long as he killed these four Heaven’s Barrier realm martial artists, he could unify the Sacred Heart Cult in Yangzhou and completely transform it.
Even though these four were Heaven’s Barrier martial artists weakened by the Φ domain, they were still not opponents Shi Feizhe could handle.
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But he still had to try.
Therefore, while these martial artists were still in a daze, Shi Feizhe took the initiative to attack the refined-looking man.
Based on his perception, this man was the weakest!
Pick the weakest persimmon first.
This refined-looking martial artist was named Zhou Sipei. Initially a Confucian scholar, he was later ostracized and expelled from the academy, wandering the Jianghu until he reached Yangzhou.
He had planned to open an academy in Yangzhou. After years of hard work, he finally built it, only to have it confiscated and turned into a garden when the City Lord of Yucheng, Yangzhou, changed. Years of effort were wasted.
He was furious but helpless; he couldn’t fight back! He had to endure it temporarily until the 《Demon Heart Manual》 gave him hope for revenge.
Years of accumulation made him one of the few Heaven’s Barrier martial artists in the Sacred Heart Cult.
Now, he was dizzy and confused by the Φ domain, his thoughts disjointed. It didn’t matter that he couldn’t understand all that useless knowledge; the scary part was understanding half of it, like him.
“…And I have heard that those who enjoy praising people to their faces also enjoy slandering them behind their backs…”
“…The most esteemed figure in the world is the Yellow Emperor, but even he couldn’t achieve perfect virtue and fought in the Battle of Zhuolu, with blood flowing for a hundred miles. Yao was not benevolent, Shun was not filial, Yu was crippled, Tang deposed his ruler, King Wu attacked King Zhou, and King Wen was imprisoned in Youli. These six figures are esteemed by the world…”
Just these few words made his scalp tingle, compelling him to listen further and expend more mental energy to ponder.
Excessive mental exertion led to dizziness and confusion.
By the time Shi Feizhe’s sword light arrived, he finally noticed, but it was too late.
Fortunately, he managed to roll away, dodging the sword. It only grazed his arm.
He was about to retaliate when he was suddenly bombarded with more knowledge.
“…The so-called virtuous men in the world are none other than Boyi and Shuqi. Boyi and Shuqi refused to serve the ruler of Guzhu and starved to death on Mount Shouyang, their bodies left unburied. Bao Jiao, adorned with conduct that was out of sync with the world, embraced a tree and died. Shentu Di remonstrated but was ignored, carrying a stone and throwing himself into the river, becoming food for fish and turtles…”
“How can this be?” he couldn’t help but utter. This knowledge completely contradicted the Confucian classics he had learned, forcing him to question.
But there was no answer. Shi Feizhe raised his hand, unleashing boundless waves of sword energy. Within the sword waves, several faint “Cut the Intestines” flickered. Shi Feizhe glanced at the three figures not far away; he had to finish this quickly!
Zhou Sipei was about to fight back when he suddenly received the second half of the sentence.
“…The so-called loyal ministers in the world are none other than Prince Bigan and Wu Zixu. Zixu drowned in the river, and Bigan’s heart was cut out. These two figures are considered loyal ministers by the world, yet they ended up being laughed at by all…”
Upon hearing this, he felt as if struck by lightning, momentarily forgetting to retaliate.
He couldn’t tell whether the shock from the knowledge or the damage from Shi Feizhe’s sword moves was greater!
The loyalty and virtue he had diligently studied since childhood were stripped bare, a shock greater than being expelled from the academy or having his own academy stolen.
“Is this true?” he asked, his body sliced into several pieces by “Cut the Intestines.”
He was about to die, and he needed to know the truth.
“I don’t know what you’re talking about, I’m pressed for time!”
Shi Feizhe didn’t know what he was asking either. He couldn’t control what knowledge was being instilled; otherwise, why would he bother teaching so diligently?
Some people have given feedback saying they don’t understand why Shi Feizhe didn’t save Old Demon Shi. I’ll post this chapter now!
