Ch 101: The Confucian Sage’s Movements Attract Attention from All Sides

“…It’s over?” Zhu Yuanzhang looked blankly as Chu Mo released his wrist. If it was this quick, why make such a serious show of it earlier?!

Just touching a wrist, did that really require deliberately choosing the evening? When we left the meeting earlier, a touch would have sufficed, right? It made it seem like it would take half the night.

“If you want to stay, I don’t have much of an opinion.” Chu Mo’s voice was indifferent.

Zhu Yuanzhang’s expression stiffened for a moment, and he gave an embarrassed smile, darting out as if fleeing.

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The following period of time…

Chu Mo mainly focused on reading the books of this era and began to formally compile teaching materials. Li Shanchang and others were curious why he didn’t directly start teaching people… Chu Mo found it laughable. How many people could he teach by directly teaching?

Even a figure like Confucius only taught three thousand disciples in his entire life. And most of these three thousand disciples only heard him lecture, and perhaps never even spoke a single word to him.

What Chu Mo wanted to do was to compile teaching materials that could educate for the next five hundred years, to set the outline and foundation for the education of future millennia.

He pondered that, in the current era, promoting the industrial revolution would be very difficult. On the one hand, the basic physical conditions were not met, and on the other hand, the martial power was too high. It could even be said that even if they developed to the Third Industrial Revolution… they still wouldn’t be able to accomplish many things that high-level Confucian scholars could.

Chu Mo didn’t think that he could forcefully promote it successfully this time. And the gods in the sky… also made him feel a sense of crisis and unease!

He couldn’t say for sure when he would be inexplicably targeted by the methods of the gods in the sky. In that case, he could only leave behind a spark… hoping to ignite the future! Even if that future wasn’t created by him.

In the blink of an eye, three months passed.

【Tenth year, you completely digested the content you wrote and read during this period. Coupled with your already existing Transcendent Sixth Realm foundation, your Sage spiritual power successfully broke through the Transcendent Fourth Realm.】

【Thirtieth year, your spirit successfully broke through the peak of the Transcendent Sixth Realm.】

“It’s still faster for a Sage to break through.” Chu Mo said with emotion. He wasn’t used to not spending tens of thousands of years of lifespan.

But after thinking about it, Chu Mo felt it was normal. His physical talent might have problems, but Sages relied on their spirit. Sages didn’t have the issue of aptitude; they could reach the peak of the world through effort alone.

If Sages also needed thousands of years to cultivate, that would exceed their lifespan. Then it wouldn’t be accurate to claim that one could touch the peak of the world while alive… Not to mention, he had already stepped into the Transcendent Sixth Realm and had insights into that realm!

“Then, next.” Chu Mo stood up and finally walked out of the library.

Then, a terrifying radiance bloomed from his forehead, shooting straight into the sky, illuminating the vast heavens. Countless scenes surged—

That was a vision of the future, an industrial society created from corpses and flesh. Countless industrial behemoths were churning, roaring, and screaming.

At this moment, the expressions of the people of Chuzhou changed drastically.

“What happened… a miracle! It must be the City God manifesting!”

“No, no, no… impossible, even if it was the City God!”

“It must be the Jade Emperor!”

“The people in that heavenly world are so rich, everyone is big and strong… they must all be able to eat their fill, right?!”

“That must be the Heavenly Realm!”

Many people even knelt on the ground, kowtowing with pious expressions. The scholars didn’t kneel, but their eyes were filled with astonishment and confusion.

It was because of the Confucian path they walked that they could feel the coexistence of righteousness and evil, the overwhelming power that seemed to crush everything, and the profound and unimaginable spiritual realm that was as noble as a deity.

“This, this is a Sage?!” An old scholar tremblingly opened his mouth, tears streaming down his face at this moment. “Having heard the Dao in the morning, one can die content in the evening!”

Chu Mo rose into the air, and at this moment, a terrifying blood qi suddenly erupted, radiating in all directions.

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The General’s Mansion.

Zhu Yuanzhang, Tang He, and the others, who had hurriedly rushed out of the mansion, were all shaken to an indescribable degree. However, no one spoke, and the scene was frighteningly quiet…

After a long time, Li Shanchang stiffly said, “General, this… isn’t this a bit off?!”

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Isn’t that a Confucian Sage? Why is his blood qi also so awe-inspiring and terrifying?!

Li Shanchang almost suspected that he had encountered the Ming Court’s peerless Demonic Lord! Only those terrifying beings who had traversed the world, and were even supported by the Great Emperor’s Demonic Ritual, could have such glorious blood qi…

As far as he knew, that Old Master shouldn’t be over sixty years old yet? More importantly, a large part of his life should have been spent in dormancy, focusing on awakening his past life’s memories!

He had only awakened not long ago… This kind of thing!

Li Shanchang’s teeth chattered. What was most outrageous was that, according to his senses… the spiritual light and blood qi displayed by that Old Master seemed to be at the same level… In other words, that person’s Confucian path seemed to have also reached its end.

How many years? He had reached the peak in both the martial and Confucian paths! This could no longer be described as terrifying… Even in the Former Song Dynasty, there had never been such an unimaginable existence!

Zhu Yuanzhang didn’t speak, only staring blankly at the sky. Suddenly, his pupils dilated, or rather, it wasn’t just him; the expressions of the many generals present also changed.

Because they heard a calm voice in their ears, it was Chu Mo’s voice, “You gather the army and head north. I’ll take the first step… First occupy Zhang Shicheng, then swallow Chen Youliang.”

Then, that terrifying figure in the sky headed north, stirring up boundless air currents…

After a brief silence, Zhu Yuanzhang’s face suddenly became stern, his gaze like cold arrows, sweeping around, with astonishing pressure.

“What are you still waiting for? Haven’t we been waiting for this day! Quickly muster the troops… If you delay and miss our Father’s great plan, you will be executed without mercy!”

The crowd knelt down and responded loudly, scattering in all directions.

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Jiangbei.

Gaoyou.

Zhang Shicheng stood with his hands behind his back, his brows tightly furrowed, with a vague hint of fear and worry. He suddenly looked at Li Hangsu beside him, “Has the news of the Sage not been sent back yet?”

“It’s basically confirmed that the Sage’s first manifestation was in Haozhou.” Li Hangsu, his chief civil official, cupped his hands with a troubled expression.

“Haozhou… the Red Turban Army’s territory?” Zhang Shicheng’s brows furrowed tightly, his voice a little hoarse. “He… has already joined them?”

Li Hangsu first nodded, then shook his head. “Perhaps that Sage is still in Haozhou, but even so, the most likely possibility is that the Sage’s hometown is in Haozhou! As for joining the Red Turban Army… you really overestimate them.”

Li Hangsu sneered. “Sages are extraordinary and detached, with lofty states of mind. For them… perhaps they might participate in resisting the Demonic Race’s conquest of the world, which involves matters of great righteousness! But they will naturally remain aloof from the normal struggle for power among heroes.”

“Because, no matter who wins… they must all try to win over a Sage!”

“So, we only need to conquer Haozhou in the future. How that Sage treats those Red Turban Army now is how he should treat us in the future!”

“…In other words, we don’t need to worry about him? But we also won’t get his help in the short term!” Hearing this, Zhang Shicheng instead felt extremely uneasy. He paced back and forth, suddenly gnashing his teeth. “But if we don’t get the support of that Sage, how are we supposed to deal with the enemy from the Northern Yuan Court?”

Zhang Shicheng was only at the Transcendent Fourth Realm. To his west, Chen Youliang, who was at the same realm as him, was biting him tightly. The behemoth to the north made it difficult for him to breathe!

The Red Turban Army was trash, an enemy that was not worth mentioning in his eyes, but he now didn’t even have the time and energy to conquer that small Haozhou…

Only because he had already received the news that Chancellor Tokto’a of the north was officially leading an army of two hundred thousand Demonic Race, and even millions of auxiliary troops, south.

This was clearly the north having completely made up its mind to sweep across the world… and destroy all enemies!

Transcendent Sixth Realm, Chancellor Tokto’a. His authority was shocking, and his martial power was also shocking.

It was rumored that he even possessed the possibility of threatening the imperial power, and was deeply feared by that Great Emperor in Dadu…

If at the first moment of the peasant uprisings in various places, they had let this Chancellor Tokto’a, or that Prince of Runan, lead troops out of Dadu…

Perhaps the Yuan Dynasty’s world would have stabilized.

But the first reaction of the Yuan high-ranking officials in Dadu upon encountering the peasant uprising was… internal strife!

Continuous internal strife, coupled with Liu Futong causing chaos in the north, allowed them to develop with difficulty in the south…

But now… had the good days finally come to an end?!