Ch 262: Confucius! Mozi! Xunzi! Ying Zheng Declares War on the Qin State!

“Little one, where are your parents?”

“You came here… also to study?”

“Strange, you shouldn’t have started cultivating yet… If you haven’t started cultivating, how did you enter the Jixia Academy?!”

Male and female students of the academy were chattering and communicating. They stared at Chu Mo with different expressions.

Chu Mo raised his eyebrows. Before he could say anything, a sigh sounded.

“Master Chu, a pleasure to meet you… I am Mo Di! Of course, you can also call me… Mozi.”

At this moment, time and space seemed to stop. The many students surrounding Chu Mo found themselves unable to move, and a huge wave was set off in their hearts. Before they could panic, they realized what this sentence meant.

The students staring at Chu Mo, their pupils contracted slightly, Master Chu?!

Is… is that the one who travels around the states…?

But how is that possible? How could he be so young… Although that person’s appearance and form have never been revealed, just looking at his vast knowledge, one can know how powerful he is. He should be no weaker than the current masters of the Hundred Schools of Thought!

It is normal for a terrifying existence like Master Chu to live for hundreds of millions of years, or even longer… How could it be.

Or, is this gentleman just pretending to be young?!

A figure appeared silently in front of Chu Mo.

He was wearing a black robe, and although his face was ordinary, his temperament was extremely special and outstanding. He had an unspeakable charm. He looked Chu Mo up and down with a complicated expression. After a little thought, he turned his head and exchanged a glance with Confucius, who had a deep expression.

“Mo Di,” Confucius’s voice did not have the slightest emotional fluctuation, “Aren’t you going a bit too far by acting this way?”

His voice was sonorous and powerful, and every word contained an extremely mysterious power, branded in the void, collapsing the power of the Mohist laws that accompanied Mozi’s arrival and surrounded the area.

This was a scene of great terror!

Even if the two did not deliberately vent their power, nor deliberately confront each other… they still evolved a terrifying scene of the beginning of chaos. The void was gradually cracking, and wisps of primordial radiance were flickering.

The students who had been stopped suddenly found that they could move, gasping for breath, their foreheads covered with cold sweat. They stared in horror at the cracks in the void, and many people on the periphery quickly retreated…

After confirming that they were safe, they barely took a breath, and then looked at Mozi with some horror.

Although Confucius was a great figure in the world, he accepted three thousand disciples during his travels through the states. Moreover, he has been stationed in Jixia Academy for many years.

He was too magnanimous, too fond of teaching, and too close to his students… so that the students often forgot that this was a Confucian Sage who shook the world!

Mozi was different… One anger and the nobles are afraid!

During the heyday of the Mohist school, it deeply intervened in the changes of various countries… They supported the weak and attacked the strong! But it was precisely because of this that they were feared and suppressed by various countries.

Mozi had not walked in the world for a long time, and many people even thought… Mozi might have died. Although the Mohist school is still a prominent school, its trend is still inferior to Confucianism and Legalism…

The students had heard too many of Mozi’s great achievements, so, at this moment… with Mozi’s sudden appearance…

Their reverence and even fear of Mozi far exceeded that of Confucius.

“Too far? I just simply want to communicate with Master Chu!” Mozi smiled indifferently, and then a complex look appeared in his eyes. He sighed leisurely, “Master Chu, should be the teacher of the Mohist school!”

“Perhaps, as long as he wants… as long as he is willing… then, the Mohist school can truly become, comparable to Legalism and Confucianism, and even surpass the two…”

“You’re dreaming.” Confucius sneered, “It is obvious at first glance that you should have only read the Mohist doctrines he wrote, right? The Mohist doctrines he wrote are indeed above Legalism and Confucianism… but that’s just the old version… The two schools after his revision are much stronger than your Mohist school…”

The two were actually at loggerheads.

Chu Mo stared at the two with a subtle expression. Needless to say, Confucian doctrines have accumulated for countless eras. However, the Mohist doctrines can be strictly regarded as his physics… Of course, it has also been broadened, and it should be more accurately said to be science.

It contains various knowledge of creation, such as physics, chemistry, and even mathematics… Therefore, the Mohist school has indeed undergone an epic-level enhancement.

However, this kind of enhancement is actually a bit too advanced for the current era. On the contrary, the Confucian and Legalist doctrines, which are the culmination of all things, are more in line with the current era.

Most importantly, in this era… doctrines really possess power.

“…You.” Mozi frowned, repeatedly looking at Confucius, wanting to say something, but the words were all stuck in his throat. He found that he could not refute… because he really had not read the other two schools!

Confucius remained noncommittal and continued to attack, “Also, why not stay honestly in your Mohist mechanical city… What are you doing at Jixia Academy?”

“Listening to your words… people who don’t know would think! You created the Jixia Academy.” Mozi sneered after a brief silence.

The two were really at loggerheads.

“You two!” Chu Mo said calmly, interrupting the exchange between the two, “I came here… mainly for the books inside the Jixia Academy. If you want to fight… can you take me to the library first, and then you can slowly fight outside?”

The expressions of the two froze for a moment, and then Confucius returned to normal and made an inviting gesture, “Please!”

“No problem.” Mozi’s face changed, and finally he smiled bitterly, bowing slightly to apologize, “Sorry, after seeing the books you wrote… I was too excited! So… I made some inappropriate decisions.”

Mozi reacted at this moment. Although Chu Mo’s life force was immature and young, he should not really regard him as a teenager. Although he said before that Chu Mo could be a teacher of the Mohist school, his actions of arguing with Confucius and excluding Chu Mo… obviously did not seem like he really regarded Chu Mo as a teacher.

Mozi felt ashamed at this moment.

Chu Mo did not reply, but followed Confucius and quickly entered the Jixia Academy. Then, a bit of shock and admiration appeared in his eyes.

From the outside, this academy looks ordinary… but after really stepping into it, you will find that each classroom contains a world that is both virtual and real. These worlds are constantly evolving, and when they evolve to a certain point, they will collapse and then re-evolve.

Moreover, their evolution is clearly the various large and small countries that once appeared during the Warring States period… the history of creation and even destruction. Of course, Chu Mo also keenly saw that many influences of top experts were removed…

For example, these worlds cannot evolve the old ancestor of the Zhao State.

But, it is also very remarkable…

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This is almost truly engraving history into substance!

Finally.

Chu Mo arrived at his final destination. With Confucius opening the door, Chu Mo stepped out, as if entering a vast starry sky. Stars dotted the surroundings…

Chu Mo scanned, and his eyes were wrapped in a faint divine light at this moment. This was the Eye of the Heavenly Dao. After all, he had tried to ascend to the heavens, and part of his body’s state was still vaguely transformed towards the Heavenly Dao.

He saw that… those stars were essentially evolved from books, and countless textual information and great laws were hidden inside.

“…Amazing.” Chu Mo sighed from the bottom of his heart. He had already seen that the books that served as the core of the stars… were similar to the divine books he had once written that were favored by heaven and earth! But the number… was too terrifying.

Chu Mo was not very clear about the university education in Kyoto, Divine Province in the future… after all, he had not been there! But he was very sure that Jiangning Academy was definitely far inferior to Jixia Academy.

Perhaps in terms of the completeness of cultural information, the future will surpass this era. But… no one in that era could imprint and condense the laws of the Great Dao into such stars… allowing people to truly observe and experience them up close.

This is a method that is difficult to describe in words!

It can be called seizing the creation of heaven and earth! Turning the impossible into possible!

But it is also normal… After all, the one sitting in this academy is Confucius in the Quasi-Sage Realm! Before Lao Tzu left, he had also been stationed in it… He is also a Quasi-Sage… and even behind him stands that one…

This academy, which integrates their efforts, would be normal no matter how glorious and terrifying it is.

Even if it evolves again in later generations, at least the few that he paid attention to… are only at the ninth level! Only corresponding to the Great Luo of this era… Hmm?!

Chu Mo realized it later, his mind was shaken, and he muttered to himself, “That’s not right… If the heaven and earth after the great change of heaven and earth correspond to the heaven and earth of the Shang and Zhou dynasties!”

Then there is no reason why only Great Luo exists in later generations… However, Divine Province, as one of the strongest countries… the Three Sovereigns are only at the level of this realm! This can no longer be described as wrong…

Even from logical deduction, there must be Quasi-Sages and even higher-level existences in later generations.

So…

“…What I know now… is still not everything?” Thoughts surged in Chu Mo’s mind, “Also, it is known that Nüwa died, or rather, transformed into artificial intelligence… If Nüwa descended as a Sage, that is to say, her first form was the ninth-level Great Luo… If it was an incarnation, the first form would at least be Taiyi. Three awakenings should be able to reach Quasi-Sage!”

But even so, she still died, or rather, maintained that kind of weird state of neither life nor death… Considering that Heaven also appeared in later generations… Although it is not yet certain whether these Heavens are Heroic Spirit Awakenings, or have lived from ancient times until now… But their strengths are comparable to Sages!

Analyzing from this perspective, even if Heaven is awakened as a Heroic Spirit… the ultimate awakening must be at least a Quasi-Sage…

Even in the end, it is not impossible to truly possess the power of Heaven in its heyday and challenge the Sages…

So! The existence of the First Emperor and other ninth-level existences… is very strange! What exactly is going on with the weather in later generations?!

Chu Mo thought about the scenes he saw in the River of Time six hundred years ago, and made up his mind that after going back, he would either ask Zhu Yuanzhang and Ancestral Dragon, or use the Heavenly Dao Authority to analyze it.

At the same time.

Confucius’s body tensed up again. He lowered his head. When Chu Mo opened those eyes, he felt a familiar and unfamiliar power, and he couldn’t help but feel palpitations.

“If you need anything… you can call my name!” Confucius said respectfully, and then withdrew from this starry sky library.

At the moment when that vast and towering stone door slowly closed, completely isolating the inside and outside, Confucius breathed a sigh of relief.

“…Teacher!” Xunzi’s expression was strange. He inexplicably felt that… Confucius was a little afraid of Chu Mo before? It should be an illusion! He always felt that Confucius’s attitude towards Chu Mo should be respect…

“This one is more terrifying than I imagined.” Confucius seemed to be talking to himself, and also seemed to be narrating to Xunzi. His expression was complicated, “I originally thought… that his preparation to take that step was extremely bold… But now it seems that he is actually essentially… really qualified to take that step!”

Confucius shook his head and smiled bitterly, realizing that he had said something very stupid. He was not qualified to ascend to the heavens, no, even Lao Tzu, whom he regarded as a teacher, was not qualified… This Master Chu could make such a commotion, even if he was young, it all explained everything…

“…Is, is that so?” Xunzi was still confused.

Confucius was silent for a moment, took a deep look at Xunzi, and still did not mention the matter about the Heavenly Dao, and said softly, “Well… you only need to know that the more powerful the existence, the more they can feel his terror and specialness.”

“…Is that so?!” Xunzi was silent.

Confucius turned around and quickly walked out of the academy hall again, just preparing to continue the debate with Mozi. Then… his expression changed.

Because at this moment, the many students outside the academy were in an uproar, constantly discussing, with many emotions such as excitement, shock, fear, and anger coexisting and intertwined.

“Is it true… that news!”

“Crazy, it’s really completely crazy…”

“How dare the Zhao State? The current Qin State, after Shang Yang’s reforms… its national power has sublimated to an unimaginable extreme! Just a mere Zhao State…”

“After all, there is that kind of connection between them…”

Mozi stepped out and instantly appeared in front of Confucius. He sighed softly, “The situation has changed drastically… The Zhao State has officially declared war on the Qin State!”

“…This.” Xunzi, who realized what had happened at this moment, only felt his heart stop. He subconsciously looked at Confucius and opened his mouth.

Confucius did not speak. He slowly turned his head and quietly looked towards the west, as if he could see two huge countries, two vast worlds, colliding and competing at this moment…

“…If there are no accidents, these things should have happened because of that one,” Confucius opened his mouth, and then turned his head to look at the direction where Chu Mo was at this moment, and smiled bitterly, “This is really… causing me a huge trouble!”

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