Without a Heroic Spirit, I Can Only Hand-Craft a Mythical Version of Myself – Chapter 72

Ch 72: The Eighteenth Sage

The Bordered White Banner Iron Army was undoubtedly an earth-shattering force, composed of eight thousand Innate experts, with no shortage of Heaven-Human Realm cultivators among them. They formed military formations that even withstood the aftershocks of the previous terrifying storm…

But under the radiance, they were powerless to resist! Easily erased…

Shaken, terrified, dazed…

Among the Eight Banners, the morale of the unassimilated armies like Hooge’s completely collapsed, and a great rout began.

Even the Bordered Blue Banner, controlled by Dorgon, was now, due to the orders Dorgon issued before fleeing, forming a terrifying queue, both confronting and desperately fleeing.

However…

“Can you escape?” Chu Mo continued to write. He casually took out the content he had written earlier and gently tossed it into the distance. The words on the white paper seemed to come alive at this moment, each character containing the weight of the Great Dao.

Dorgon, who had already fled far away, had a drastic change in expression.

He was shocked to find five characters surrounding him: Capital, Resources, Wealth, Affluence, Collection. These five characters were precisely the name of the book, seemingly containing some ultimate profound truth! Possessing the power to obliterate everything, constantly interweaving and converging…

“What kind of Sage’s Way is this?!”

“You bastard… you monster! What exactly is this?!”

Dorgon struggled desperately, terrifying black fire swirling around him, but it couldn’t even stop the advance of those five characters. Within the brilliant divine radiance formed by the five large characters, his body abruptly exploded into black mist.

Dorgon, who had once dominated the world and was about to make great contributions to the Manchu Qing’s entry into the Central Plains…

Died!

But his death was only the beginning, because those words written inside the book also came alive.

At the same time, Chu Mo used the Heart-Mind Technique, adding a touch of Eternal Night intent to these words. The words fell from the sky, flashing with black light…

No matter where they fled, as long as the demon soldiers fell within a five-meter radius of the black characters, they would naturally be entangled by the black light and then gradually perish amidst screams and howls.

The scene was silent.

The Qin army, which had been utterly defeated by the demon army before, felt their scalps tingle, as if they were dreaming.

Although they had realized that this war would inevitably be won when they saw the demon army routing, seeing the victory so decisive, not only defeating the top experts on the other side but also wiping out the army… they were still overwhelmed with emotions.

And on the walls of Kyoto, countless civil and military officials, with gazes of either daze, fear, worship, or disbelief…

After only a short incense stick’s time, those demon soldiers struggling in the distance of the Forbidden City, entangled by black light, had all lost their life force.

As for the front of the Forbidden City, it was frighteningly clean.

After all, the terrifying white light that descended from the phenomenon before had directly obliterated all the corpses of the demon soldiers…

Not to mention completely annihilating the demon army, but at least, more than ninety percent of the demons were slaughtered by Chu Mo’s indiscriminate attack.

“Imperial Ancestor, long live the Imperial Ancestor!!”

“What Imperial Ancestor, that’s a Sage… a contemporary Sage!”

“Two hundred years, and another Sage has been born! My Literary Path will flourish greatly.”

Countless civil officials knelt on the ground, bursting into tears at this moment. There were even many who lost their composure, crying and laughing…

Sun Chuanting forced himself to calm down, gazing expectantly at the sky, hoping to see Chu Mo descend. However, what he saw was that Chu Mo was still wielding his brush in the sky.

“This is?!”

“…It’s all our fault for being too incompetent!” Sun Chengzong suddenly spoke, his face bitter.

“Yes, if it weren’t because we were so vulnerable against the demon soldiers, how would we need the Imperial Ancestor to protect us and forcibly leave seclusion?” Shi Kefa murmured, his fists silently clenched, “What if we affect the Imperial Ancestor’s attainment of Sagehood…”

Luo Yangxing finally couldn’t listen anymore and laughed out loud, “It’s not that I’m saying… are you ministers overestimating yourselves a bit too much?”

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“Look at how easily the Imperial Ancestor solved the enemy… writing the Sage’s Way while easily slaughtering ten Celestial Phenomenon experts! Could those ant-like things possibly affect the Imperial Ancestor’s attainment of Sagehood?”

“…” Sun Chuanting was briefly silent, then nodded, forced to admit that Luo Yangxing made a lot of sense.

“Then what should we do now?” Shi Kefa asked.

“Wait!” Sun Chengzong said in a low voice, “Wait for the Sage of my Great Ming… to be born!”

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Above the sky.

Chu Mo looked stern, he was still allocating points. Because slaughtering fifty thousand demon soldiers at once directly caused his lifespan balance to break through a million… and therefore, no matter how difficult it was, it was destined that Chu Mo could continue to cultivate in this world.

【203,600 years, you successfully broke through to the peak of the Celestial Phenomenon Realm. There is no way forward! The road is broken.】

You vaguely glimpsed a corner of a thousand years of history, seemingly seeing someone standing in Jinling a thousand years ago, speaking with divine authority, ordering an unparalleled expert to sever the Dragon Vein of heaven and earth!】

“…Zhu Yuanzhang.” Chu Mo chewed on this name in his heart. Liu Bowen severing the Dragon Vein, according to imperial records and his own deduction, he might have faced something far beyond just a Black Emperor in Zhu Yuanzhang’s era.

It should still have been an era when gods could descend into the world!

Zhu Yuanzhang was unwilling to accept that humans were inferior to gods, unwilling to accept that imperial power was subject to heaven. So he ruthlessly chopped down with that blade… even though he knew that this blade would also greatly harm the top experts of the Great Ming, completely severing their path forward, but for the sake of humanity, and also for the sake of his descendants forever sitting on the throne, he still made that decision.

Only…

The appearance of the Black Emperor ultimately proved that his blade… only made the interference of gods more difficult! Rather than completely resolving it.

In a sense, Zhu Yuanzhang could be considered an accomplice to the world’s degradation. Even if he subjectively, perhaps, didn’t think that way…

【210,000 years, you began to re-cultivate!】

【440,000 years, amidst bitter training, you once again stepped into the peak of the Celestial Phenomenon Realm. You vaguely felt that your strength had indeed gained a certain increase. You were immediately even more delighted…】

【1,040,000 years, you carried out the fifth re-cultivation. You already felt that you could go a step further, even if it wasn’t breaking through to the next realm, it was also half a foot across, but you restrained your desires.

Because you felt that you still had room for improvement! You could spend more time making the foundation even more solid!】

【Lifespan】: Demon Lifespan 70,000 years, Human Lifespan 700 years.

At this moment, Chu Mo wrote down the last character.

Capital, Resources, Wealth, Affluence, Collection! Complete!

At this moment, the book written by Chu Mo emitted a brilliant, unimaginable divine radiance.

The purple qi that spread across the entire sky finally moved at this moment, half returning to Chu Mo’s body, half merging into the Capital, Resources, Wealth, Affluence, Collection.

Chu Mo lightly exhaled, the divine radiance in front of his forehead was brilliant, the Confucian-Taoist Method was completed at this moment, his soul strength soared tenfold out of thin air, “A step to heaven… is this what a Sage is?”

Chu Mo could perceive that the world in front of him was already different in his eyes. He smiled silently, slowly landing on the city wall, calmly overlooking his many subjects…

Silently, everyone knelt on the ground, bowing deeply.

What they were bowing to this time was not the Imperial Ancestor symbolizing imperial authority, but the Human Path Sage symbolizing the pinnacle of human wisdom!

Following Confucius, Yan Hui, Zengzi, Zisi, Mencius, Xunzi, Dong Zhongshu, Shao Yong, Zhou Dunyi, Zhang Zai, Cheng Hao, Cheng Yi, Zhu Xi, Lu Jiuyuan, Zhen Dexiu, Wei Liaoweng, Wang Yangming—

The eighteenth Human Confucian-Taoist Sage who triggered a phenomenon in the world, is born!

Scratching his head, adding an extra emphasis, this is just a Confucian Sage. There are other Sages in other schools… and although there are many people with controversy inside, or rather, many have controversy, but the setting of this book is that becoming a Sage before the Ming Dynasty was not as outrageous as it is now （Only Wang Yangming came out as a Sage in the Ming Dynasty, now plus the protagonist ）