Chapter 280: Confucianism for Peace
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Following the low shout of the great scholar, clear and soft rays of light bloomed from the Lakeside Academy.

The light was not blazing white at first, and it pales in comparison to the white light spewing out of the giant mountain ape's mouth.

But when the bright white beam of light spewed out of the giant mountain ape's mouth hit the Lake Center Academy, the pavilions and towers of the Lake Center Academy that were hit suddenly became blurred, like reflections in the water, allowing the bright white beam of light to pass directly through.

A bright white beam of light passed through the Lake Center Academy and landed in the vast Hong Lake, like a thunderbolt exploding in the water, forming a huge wave like a city wall, and even making a vortex-like hollow appear in the center of the lake. However, after the power was divided by the lake water, the huge wave could only form an impact rain curtain, without causing any damage to the Lake Center Academy.

At this time, many practitioners in the academy noticed the battle outside and rushed out of the room.

Li Jianhu and others also rushed out of their rooms and looked at the giant ape that looked like a small hill under the bright moonlight.

"What am I?"

Li Jianhu looked at himself in surprise, because he suddenly found that a clear and soft white light was also emanating from his body.

In addition to him, Cui Yu also emitted a soft white light, but teacher Mo Tianheng and others did not.

The gathering of these lights was like the lights of thousands of homes. At first, they were only dim, but they grew brighter and brighter, expanding with the thousands of students at the Lake Heart Academy as the center, illuminating the entire center of the Lake Heart Academy with a blazing white light that was far more majestic than the three-meter-thick white light coming out of the giant mountain ape's mouth.

"This is one way that my Confucian power of 'pacifying the people' is used."

Cui Yu explained to Li Jianhu casually.

Shi Yutong asked curiously, "Is it the same as the military formation of the military strategists? Can it be used as the center to connect the soldiers under its command?"

She had traveled extensively and had seen several military battles, but she had never seen the Confucian fifth-rank 'An Min'.

After the initial panic, Shi Yutong's voice became relaxed again after seeing the great scholar take action.

Although she had never seen the Confucian methods of "pacifying the people", it was well known that Confucianism was the most prominent school of thought in the world, and even if one was of the third rank, one could surpass one's peers.

Although this giant mountain ape has an extremely powerful aura and appears to be a third-grade exotic beast, it is unlikely that it can defeat a third-grade great scholar, even if this third-grade great scholar still has to protect the Lakeside Academy.

Cui Yu's eyes were still fixed on the mountain giant ape, and his expression was not relaxed at all. He replied in a serious tone, "It's different."

Before Shi Yutong was about to ask what was different, Yao Qin, the dean of Huxin Academy, showed An Min's true strength.

Under the shining bright light of the great spirit, every blade of grass, every tree, every pavilion and every tower in the Lakeside Academy seemed to come alive and turned into a part of Yao Qin's body, making Yao Qin, who was standing in mid-air, suddenly feel as if he was standing tall and in front of a giant mountain ape that was hundreds of feet high. It gave people the feeling that Yao Qin was superior.

At this time, Zhou Tieyi's gaze also passed through Li Jianhu and looked over from thousands of miles away.

With such a big incident, Li Jianhu of course immediately informed the old man "Panda" behind him.

"Let your own heart replace the heart of heaven."

Zhou Tieyi spoke in his mind the difference between the Confucian method of pacifying the people and the military method of forming military formations.

When fighting against Che Wenyuan, in order not to implicate the Tai Academy behind him, Che Wenyuan voluntarily gave up the official seal of the Doctor of Five Classics and did not use any method to pacify the people.

Now Zhou Tieyi instantly understood the principle behind it.

The method to pacify the people is a controllable 'method of disintegrating the devil'. When fighting with the Lord of Xishan Mountain, Wu used the method of divine descent to sacrifice himself, allowing his body to become a part of the ancestral qi of heaven and earth. During this process, Zhou Tieyi descended through Wu's body, and felt his own strength increasing every moment, from the ninth grade to the eighth grade in just one or two breaths.

However, this method of divine descent means sacrifice, the price of one's own flesh and blood, and spirit, and the result of complete integration into the heaven and earth.

Even as a divine being, if Zhou Tieyi does not return to his original body immediately after the witch's spirit, flesh and blood melt away, he will quickly be assimilated by the ancestral Qi of heaven and earth, eventually losing his self and becoming a part of heaven and earth. This is the power of the divine being's method of descent.

And the methods to keep the people safe have been further improved on this basis.

The Confucian spirit of righteousness is itself a force nurtured from the strong emotions of human beings.

The more distinct and stronger this emotion is, the harder it is to be assimilated by the ancestral qi of heaven and earth. After reaching a certain point, it can even assimilate heaven and earth in reverse. When Zhou Tieyi was chatting with his elder brother, he speculated that perhaps in the decades before the Confucian sage became enlightened, the six qualities of Confucianism were not "Haoran Qi". It was only with the Confucian sage becoming enlightened, ascending to the realm of the sun and the moon, and successfully suppressing heaven and earth with his own heart, that Confucianism changed part of its core of practice, and the whole path was moving towards the path of "replacing the heart of heaven with one's own heart".

"Establish a mind for heaven and earth, and a destiny for the people."

Zhou Tieyi sighed in his heart again. Although the feeling of being represented was unpleasant, he had to admit that it was a powerful force.

Following the precedent of Confucian sages, Confucianism also found a safe way to blend the ancestral qi of heaven and earth.

One of them is to limit the scope of the use of the ancestral qi of heaven and earth.

Like the method of divine descent, directly blending with heaven and earth can certainly mobilize more power in a short period of time, but it also means being eroded by the ancestral qi of heaven and earth more quickly.

While limiting one's own authority and power through official seals, one also divides the vast ancestral Qi of heaven and earth into small pieces through national destiny, and only uses the power of heaven and earth that one is most familiar with each time. This not only avoids the influx of a large amount of ancestral Qi of heaven and earth and erosion of one's own will, but also enables one to efficiently utilize the power in one's hands.

Therefore, Confucian practice must be combined with being an official in the world. If Confucian practitioners want to exert their strongest strength, it is best to do so within the scope of their own jurisdiction. So over the years, even though Confucianism in Daxia has gradually become stronger, the power of the great Confucian scholars will be sharply reduced if they penetrate deep into the enemy. The people commanding the troops on the front line can only be military strategists, not Confucianists.

The so-called Confucian generals were those who turned to military philosophy from Confucianism.

This is also what Zhou's mother said to Zhou Tieyi at the beginning, it is easy for a Confucian to become a military strategist, because after understanding how to pacify the people, training troops will be twice as effective with half the effort, but it is difficult for a military strategist to become a Confucianist, because Confucian scholars all over the world do not approve of it.

The second is to allow more people to share the erosion of the ancestral qi of heaven and earth.

This is what Confucianists call the will of the people. The spiritual will of one person can be easily eroded, but a spiritual wall composed of hundreds or thousands of people is enough to resist the wave-like erosion of the ancestral qi of heaven and earth.

Therefore, the more prosperous the country is under the rule of Confucian officials and the more the people will be on your side, the more power Confucianism will be able to draw from heaven and earth.

There was even a case where a virtuous official of the fifth rank borrowed the power of the people under his rule to disrupt the revival process of a third rank god.

And when the great scholar used his power to pacify the people, he was even more at ease. In just a few breaths of time, Yao Qin raised his own strength to the top level of the third rank.

The lights from thousands of students from Huxin Academy formed a bright and unobstructed torch, shining in Yao Qin's heart.

The world in Yao Qin's eyes also changed drastically at this time. Half of his expression was detached, and in one eye it seemed as if waves were gathering from the heaven and earth in all directions. He could obtain this power of heaven and earth at will, as if he could change the heaven and earth in a single thought. This powerful force would inevitably lead to a weakening of human nature, making him change from a human being into another more detached existence.

This kind of change is called "divine nature" in Shintoism, "Taoism" in Taoism, "Shang Brahma" in Buddhism, and "Heaven's Heart" in Confucianism.

At the same time, half of Yao Qin's expression was compassionate, and the other eye reflected the torch of the hearts of the people in Lake Heart Academy, just like the lights that a wanderer sees when he returns home, which can always remind Yao Qin of his existence as a "human" in the waves of heaven and earth, so that his spirit will not be completely assimilated with the ancestral qi of heaven and earth.

However, this state cannot be maintained for too long. Under normal circumstances, Confucians will not use this state to fight because it is too dangerous. After using this method to pacify the people, not only do they need to recuperate themselves, but they also need to restore the people's hearts.

But today is different. Prince Ning's mansion suddenly came to attack. Yao Qin didn't think that Prince Ning was unprepared. Just a giant mountain ape was enough to destroy the Lakeside Academy.

Therefore, he had to use his strongest attitude to deal with the giant mountain ape as quickly as possible to avoid being attacked from both sides.

Yao Qin raised his palm, and the righteous energy gradually became brighter and stronger to the extreme. It ignored the distance in space and directly condensed around the giant mountain ape, transforming into a white dragon of the same hundred feet in length. The dragon was full of spirituality and immediately coiled around the giant mountain ape as soon as it appeared.

Within the scope of pacifying the people, the great and righteous energy can be condensed anywhere in space. Combined with the Confucian ability to mobilize all kinds of ancestral energy of heaven and earth, it can naturally be deservedly called the sage's tradition.

The giant ape had strong muscles, and every hair on its bulging muscles looked like gold in the vast aura. The terrifying power directly caused the earth to shake. Even though they were thousands of feet away, Li Jianhu and others could still feel the ground shaking. They were horrified. They had often heard in storybooks before that the top three grades had the power to move mountains and fill the sea, but today they truly felt how powerful this force was. If it weren't for the great scholar from the Lake Heart Academy who protected themselves and others, in front of the mountain giant ape, the middle-grade practitioners would have difficulty even protecting themselves and escaping.

The dragon that was condensed with great righteousness was even more terrifying. The dragon's body was seen wrapping around the giant mountain ape, and at the same time, its lower body began to merge with the earth, as if it was sneaking into the earth veins.

As the dragon began to merge with the earth, the power of the giant mountain ape that could shake the earth was more evenly distributed among the layers of earth veins.

Even the most powerful force will gradually weaken if it penetrates dozens or hundreds of feet underground. The most direct reaction is that the degree of ground shaking felt by Li Jianhu and others has weakened.

As the giant mountain ape was entangled by the righteous dragon, not only was his own power dispersed by the earth, but he was also restrained on the spiritual level and had to constantly fight against the erosion of the ancestral qi of heaven and earth. For a while, he could not use any other means, and his resistance gradually weakened.

(End of this chapter)