Confucianism had developed for nearly a hundred years. After Confucius, another great sage of Confucianism had appeared.
In the past hundred years, the Confucian Academy had produced several great Confucians. Now, these great Confucians had already become the Headmasters of the various academies and were in charge of the writing of the country.
But this Great Sage of the scholarly faction was completely different from the other Great Confucians.
This man's surname was Meng Ke.
Meng Ke was initiated at the age of three. By the time he was twelve, he had already finished reading all the works of the Sages. At the age of fifteen, Meng Ke entered the academy. In just ten years, he had completely mastered the essence of Confucianism. His Great Spirit made the capital of the Four Quarters Court feel inferior.
At the age of 40, Meng Ke became the new dean of the academy, and the academy once again embarked on the path of rapid development.
Under Meng Ke's push, the academy gradually went deep into the local areas and set up Meng academies in various countries to help those children from poor families who were willing to study to be enlightened. After that, the talented ones were selected and accepted into the academy for training.
Under Meng Ke's manipulation, the status of Confucius, the Saint of Confucianism, rose once again, surpassing the status of a king. At the same time, the existence of the academy completely surpassed the imperial power and became a transcendent existence.
All the literati in the world only respected Confucius, the sage, and did not respect ghosts and gods.
All the monarchs in the world govern the country according to the Confucian way.
Mortal cultivators only cultivated the Great Spirit and not the Celestial Way.
When Meng Ke was 90 years old, his Great Spirit had reached completion and he followed the Confucian Saint.
The kings of the various countries came to the academy and respected Meng Ke as a quasi-saint, ranking below the saint Confucius.
At this point, the position of the scholarly faction in the human world was completely stabilized.
Even though dynasties changed, the scholarly faction remained unmoved.
At the mouth of Guanjiang River.
Inside the sealed cave, the spiritual energy fluctuated intensely.
At this moment, rays of light appeared between Yang Jian's body. From the depths of his body, ancient and obscure energy surged out.
Yang Jian opened his eyes abruptly.
The halo around his body gradually converged.
The aura on his body soared.
His physical body cultivation had finally improved from its original foundation.
Although he was still some distance away from the fifth circulation of the mystic technique, his physical cultivation had already officially stepped into the mid-stage Zenith Heaven Golden Immortal realm.
A mid-stage Zenith Heaven Golden Immortal might not be as powerful as a Sage-to-be, but in the Primordial World, he was enough to be a magnate.
Among the twelve Golden Immortals of Chan School, the strongest was only Guang Chengzi, who was at the late-stage Zenith Heaven Golden Immortal Realm. Most of the others were only at the mid-stage Zenith Heaven Golden Immortal Realm. From the time they transformed to now, there were at least millions of them.
For example, Guan Yin Bodhisattva, who had betrayed the sect and joined the Buddhist Sect, was only at the late-stage Zenith Heaven Golden Immortal realm.
Moreover, he had forcefully broken through with the help of the Buddhist Golden Body Sarira.
With the physical cultivation of a mid-stage Zenith Heaven Golden Immortal and the Primordial Spirit cultivation of an early-stage Zenith Heaven Golden Immortal, Yang Jian's current combat strength was enough to fight a late-stage Zenith Heaven like Guan Yin Bodhisattva head-on. It was difficult to determine the winner.
As for the Heavenly Court, he could defeat anyone except Haotian and Yaoji.
He calculated that in an era where Sages did not appear, there were only a few people in the Primordial World who could really threaten him.
Time!
Yang Jian stood up and looked at the cave abode.
Now, what he lacked the most was time.
If he could live for tens of thousands of years, he would be able to dominate this era. Other than the Saints, he was not afraid of anyone.
He had been in seclusion for ninety years.
The merit points he had accumulated had been mostly used up.
However, after the incense from the mortal world was converted into merit by the system, his merit increased instead of decreasing.
Now, the merit accumulated in the system had reached hundreds of millions.
Moreover, the Joss Flames coming from the lower realm continued to increase every day. The rate of increase was much faster than the first few decades of his seclusion.
Feeling something in his heart, he used his Heavenly Eye to look at the lower realm.
When he saw the statue next to his statue in the Confucian Temple, he understood.
Mencius was born.
In history, Confucianism flourished during the Han Dynasty. During the reign of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, under the influence of Dong Zhongshu, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty abolished all schools of thought and only respected Confucianism. From then on, all scholars in the world only respected Confucius and Mencius.
However, because of him, the Confucianists had exerted their strength in advance. Coupled with Mencius's push, the Confucianists had already firmly rooted themselves in the Warring States Period and become a transcendent existence.
In addition, there was an academy that mastered the Haoran Dao. All the scholars in the world studied Confucianism and cultivated the Haoran Qi. They respected him, the Confucian Saint.
Looking at the human world and observing Meng Ke's life, Yang Jian always had the illusion that Meng Ke might not be a mortal, but the reincarnation of a Primordial Immortal God.
Moreover, this person had a very deep understanding of his Confucianism and Haoran Taoism. The key was that he did not have any hostility towards him.
If this person was from the Heaven or Buddhist League, he would definitely do everything he could to remove the Confucian Saint from the Confucian Temple and cut off his incense offerings. However, not only did this person not do so, but he was also trying to raise the status of his reincarnation and increase his influence in the human world.
Who could this person be?
He used immortal techniques to deduce, but in the end, he did not find any clues.
In this way, he confirmed his guess. This Meng Ke must be the reincarnation of some immortal god. Moreover, there must be a terrifying existence standing behind him.
Thinking about it, not only was he unable to calculate Meng Ke's background, even those Sage-to-be, or perhaps the two Sages of the Buddhist Sect, could not calculate Meng Ke's background.
Could it be the work of the saint of Mount Shouyang?
Such a guess appeared in Yang Jian's heart.
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