Chapter 428: Saint's Legacy
After giving temporary reassurance to the major families in Taihang Mountains, Zhou Tieyi welcomed two new guests.

The bridge of imaginary numbers goes directly through the courtyard. Because Gongshu Ting had sent the message before, Zhou Tieyi and Miaoyu stood at the entrance of the hall waiting.

Two people came down from the invisible bridge. One of them sat on a suspended mechanism with gray hair. In his empty left eye socket, an imaginary eye was looking at the surrounding environment. After all, Gongshu Ting had never seen a way to change the nature of the surrounding space just by existing.

The other person was wearing simple Mohist clothing, with a ruler of the Mohist master on his waist. He was the new generation of Mohist master.

Zhou Tieyi first looked at this new giant. Unlike Tian's father and Mo Jian, he did not maintain the appearance of a young man. Instead, he looked like a middle-aged man. He appeared extremely masculine and heroic, similar to Sun Shiheng, another Mohist figure Zhou Tieyi had met.

Zhou Tieyi had met this second-rank Mohist when he was in Mo City. He was slightly different from Tian Fu's school in the Mohist school, and placed more emphasis on chivalry.

"Meet Master Gongshu, Xu Tiangong."

Although this second-rank Mohist master already had a Mohist ruler on his waist, he had not yet announced it to the world and officially inherited the position of the great master, so Zhou Tieyi called him Tiangong.

After Zhou Tieyi and Miaoyu, two younger generations, saluted, Xu Wugui quickly returned the salute.

After the ceremony, the four of them sat down. Zhou Tieyi first asked Gongshu Ting, "Teacher Gongshu, what is the current situation of the Six Ring Mechanical City?"

Gongshu Ting's expression showed no emotion, and he spoke in a matter-of-fact tone, "Thanks to the help of Tian Sheng, and we had anticipated this, so we were able to capture all the traitors this time."

"Take them all?"

Zhou Tieyi's tone was a little hesitant, not because he doubted Gongshu Ting's calculations and abilities, because during the war, not only did the Gongshu family not have to support his side, they also got help from Tian's father. It would be unreasonable if Gongshu Ting still couldn't grasp the overall situation.

However, based on his understanding of Gongshujia and the subsequent inventory of Dazhi Zen Temple, he also realized that the person who started the rebellion in Gongshujia was most likely Gongshu Ting's younger brother.

It would be understandable if Gongshu Ting let his own brother go like Tian's father did.

Gongshu Ting heard Zhou Tieyi's tone and sighed, "My useless brother knew that he was doomed to fail, and he was sure that you could lead the Gongshu family through this great struggle, so he took the initiative to enter Nirvana and asked me to bring this thing to you."

After saying that, Gongshu Ting took out a relic from his arms. This relic was emitting colorful light. However, unlike ordinary colorful relics, this colorful light surrounded the relic and formed layers of twisted and changing space like a Rubik's Cube, which made people dazzled at just one look.

Zhou Tieyi took the relic and pondered for a moment, "It's just a dispute over the path. If everyone in the world can become a scholar in the future, I will find a successor for this path."

Hearing Zhou Tieyi's words, Gongshu Ting smiled and said, "That's good."

Then he said in a serious tone again, "I have suppressed the rest of them in the Six Rings Mechanical City. If you want to fill the mouths of those people in the Tianjing court with slander when you return to the capital this time, then kill them and send their bodies to Tianjing."

Gongshu Ting's tone was extremely cold. Although Shintoism was involved in the Moshi case and the Western Paradise was blamed, it was impossible not to involve the Gongshu family and the Mohist school.

The Gongshu family had a very close relationship with the Zhou family. When Zhou Tieyi needed to be dealt with impartially, Gongshu Ting would certainly not undermine Zhou Tieyi's backing. Gongshu Ting's brother died, and a group of traitors of the Gongshu family were killed. This was enough to give an explanation to the people of the world.

Zhou Tieyi did not refuse. Now was not the time to talk about benevolence, righteousness, and morality, but the time to give an explanation to the people of the world. Only then would the people of the world believe that he could enforce the law impartially and raise the sword of people's hearts to stab the Great Xia court at the same or even sharper angle.

Zhou Tieyi nodded slightly, and Xu Wugui interrupted, "The saint is still too merciful."

There was a hint of solemnity in his tone, and the saint he was referring to was Tian Fu of the Mohist school.

Although Tian Fu only found a holy path, he even entered Nirvana while walking on the holy path.

But who says that one must follow the holy path to be considered a true saint?
Zhou Tieyi had anticipated this and had even discussed it with Gongshujia and Mojia. This time when he returned to Tianjing, he would take the newspaper as a sharp weapon, and carry the welfare and hearts of the people in the three states of Taihang, one state of Xiluo and four states, to make Tianfu a true saint!

Even a dead saint is still a saint!
As long as Tianfu is made into a saint, then Mohism, Gongshujia and Zhou Tieyi will have the righteousness of the world! This is the great etiquette dispute! What they are fighting for is the orthodoxy of the world and the people's hearts!
Sometimes the dead are indeed more useful than the living. Even though Zhou Tieyi hated this method in his previous life, he had to admit that in this special situation, morality is always the last thing to consider, and Taoism is far more important than morality.

And what Xu Wugui meant by Father Tian's kindness was that Father Tian and Mo Jian had never thought of affecting other members of the Mohist school from the very beginning, which saved the Mohist school an experience of tempering in blood and fire. All the blame was borne by Father Tian alone.

Xu Wugui continued, "I plan to officially change my name to 'Wugui' at the succession ceremony, and I will hunt down the traitor Mo Jian to the death!"

Zhou Tieyi showed some surprise, because since the saint Tianfu paid the price for the Mohist School, the leaders of this generation of the Mohist School only needed to go with the flow and enjoy the saint's legacy in the alliance of several parties.

But Xu Wugui clearly proposed the purge, which showed that he at least gambled his own path.

Zhou Tieyi thought about it and did not deny Xu Wugui's determination to change his name. After all, every generation of masters has his own way, and the Mohists are not the kind of pedantic people who must follow the path of the previous generation of masters. He cannot interfere with other people's ways casually.

Seeing that Zhou Tieyi did not say anything to stop him, Xu Wugui continued, "Mr. Gongshu and I came here for two things, which are actually the same thing."

Xu Wugui glanced at Gongshu Ting, and Gongshu Ting motioned for him to continue.

Xu Wugui continued to talk about a plan that was considered a world-shaking event in the past, "Mo City and Liuhuan Machinery City want to choose a new place between the two places and build a new city specifically for the study of steam machinery."

Zhou Tieyi showed an understanding expression. In the past, if the Gongshu School and the Mohist School had reconciled, it would probably have caused chaos among their disciples.

But this time is different.

First, the sage of the Mohist School took action to rescue the people of the Six-Ring Mechanical City from the underworld. No matter how much resentment the Gongshu family had towards the Mohist School in the past, at least in the past few years, for the sake of Tian's father, the Gongshu family had to give in to the Mohist School a little. With the promotion of the head of the family, Gongshu Ting, it was natural to build a new city. This was the legacy of the sage, which was enough to settle the marriage entanglement that had lasted for thousands of years.

Second, this new city does not follow the Mohist tradition or the Gongshu school tradition, but instead follows the steam engine tradition alone. This is a new path that can be different from the Gongshu school and the Mohist school, allowing the two paths to have a plan to merge and move forward, rather than separating again after the favor has been consumed.

Gongshu Ting and Tian Fu had wanted Zhou Tieyi to do this before, but now, Zhou Tieyi has made up his mind to return to Tianjing, so Xu Wugui was left to plan the construction of this new city.

"When I announce the establishment of this new city, I will also announce my succession to the Mohist school. I hope Lord Zhou will be present at the ceremony."

Zhou Tieyi smiled and nodded, "This is as it should be. When the time comes, I will present a great gift to congratulate the two families on eliminating the thousand-year-old grudge and participating in the great path of saints together."

When Zhou Tieyi said the word "great gift", the time and space in front of Gongshu Ting and Xu Wugui changed, and they saw a long river of pure black Taoism gushing out from Zhou Tieyi's body and attacking them mightily.

They looked at each other in surprise. This was because Zhou Tieyi did not hide the secret. And because this really concerned the orthodoxy of the Mohist and Gongshu schools, the leaders of the two schools had such obvious feelings.

Just this feeling was enough to make the two of them understand how important Zhou Tieyi's "gift" was. You know, even when Gongshu Ting gave away his younger brother, a second-grade relic, there was no such change!

After seeing off Gongshu Ting and Xu Wugui, at dusk, Zhou Tieyi, who was meditating, felt the power of the earth veins around the courtyard change again, trying to break through the courtyard and come directly to him.

Zhou Tieyi was stunned for a moment. At this moment, there should be no one in Shantong Mansion who dared to test him directly. Shinto had just suffered a great defeat, and knowing that he now held the power of the Holy Way, they should not dare to come easily. There was only one force that dared to test him blatantly at this time, and that was the person from Tianjing!

Zhou Tieyi stretched out his palm and grasped the changing earth vein power. The flowing earth vein power suddenly transformed into gold and became extremely solid. Even the space within it began to separate inside and outside. The person who moved through the earth vein power was sure of Zhou Tieyi's strength and kept saying, "Marquis Zhou, the emperor's secret order, the emperor's secret order!"

Zhou Tieyi stretched out his hand and lifted it up, and saw Su Xibi's figure being lifted directly into the courtyard. However, because he did not fully control the power of the earth veins this time, Zhou Tieyi intended to give Su Xibi a little pain, so when he lifted Su Xibi up, he let go of him just in the middle, causing half of Su Xibi's body to sink into the ground and the other half to be exposed outside.

"Eunuch Su, there is a gate in my courtyard but you don't go through it. What's the point of going underground? Fortunately, I found out quickly. What if I mistakenly thought it was an assassination by a demon and hurt Eunuch Su?"

Half of his body was sunk into the ground. With Su Xibi's strength as a third-rank Feng Shui master, it would have been easy for him to break free. However, when he actually entered the courtyard, Su Xibi realized something was wrong, because this courtyard itself gave him the feeling of a closed small world.

But this feeling of closure was completely different from the secret space treasure condensed by the kingdom of God. He looked at Zhou Tieyi. In the eyes of this Feng Shui master, Zhou Tieyi was the aggregation product of countless black lines, and in the courtyard, the outlines of all tangible objects were extensions of Zhou Tieyi's black lines, as if the surrounding space existed only because of Zhou Tieyi's existence. This was far beyond the mysterious method that Zhou Tieyi used when he performed the [Five Finger Mountain].

Outside of Zhou Tieyi's black line, the vitality of the entire courtyard, or all the aura, came from white. These white colors finally gathered on Miaoyu, who was sitting next to Zhou Tieyi and practicing with her eyes closed.

Su Xibi's pupils shrank, but he was a person who served the Great Xia Emperor for many years, so he reacted very quickly. He quickly bowed to Zhou Tieyi and begged for mercy, "Lord Zhou, you misunderstood. Because this is a secret decree from the Emperor, and there are many people outside your courtyard, so I wanted to meet you directly."

Zhou Tieyi walked to Su Xibi with a sincere smile on his face, "It turned out to be a misunderstanding. I wrongly blamed Eunuch Su. I really shouldn't have done that."

As he said that, Zhou Tieyi took action himself, grabbed Su Xibi's arm and pulled him out of the ground.

After standing up, Su Xibi sighed in his heart.

When Zhou Tieyi first started to make his mark, he had a conversation with Yuchi Pojun in the Right General's Mansion. Although the exact content of their conversation was not revealed, the Right General's Mansion released some information in the previous few months in order to help Zhou Tieyi become famous. The most talked-about part of the conversation was the sentence "Although the pawns are small, if they can cross the river, the old commander will take notice of them."

And Zhou Tieyi has indeed crossed the river now. He crossed a river at the hands of Yuchi Pojun, crossed a river at the hands of Confucianism, and now he is even about to cross a river at the hands of the emperor.

Even at this critical moment, His Majesty has to use a secret decree to test Zhou Tieyi's strength first.

Because Yuan Meng is now pressing on the border, His Majesty is facing external threats, but Zhou Tieyi's father occupies Miaoshan City, which can be used as a strong reinforcement. In addition to being able to influence the battlefield in the north, the Zhou family is now in the same boat with the Mohist and Gongshu schools, and is also closely connected with the Taoists. In terms of strength, they hold the holy power left by Mohist Tian's father and can suppress the three states of Taihang.

To put it bluntly, if Zhou Tieyi disobeyed the imperial order now and wanted to be the King of Taihang, the court would really be in a dilemma. Therefore, even though the court wanted Zhou Tieyi to return to Beijing immediately, after three days of discussion, they could only send this secret envoy to test Zhou Tieyi's attitude and leave room for easing the situation.

After Zhou Tieyi pulled Su Xibi up, he did not put on any unnecessary airs and stuck to the point. He said that he had embarrassed him just now to warn him of his tentative move, and it was not directed at Su Xibi as a person.

"Eunuch Su, what is the emperor's secret order? Do you want to set up the incense table?"

When Su Xibi heard that Zhou Tieyi was going to set up an incense table, he felt relieved and said quickly, "No need. The emperor has ordered that because the case of the inkstone in Taihang Mountain involves a lot of people and a great Mohist leader was martyred, Marquis Zhou is requested to return to the capital to report on his work."

Zhou Tieyi nodded, "It is my duty to report my work, but now the Moshi case is being sorted out, the leader of the Mo family sacrificed himself for the people of Daxia, and the new leader has a simple succession ceremony. In the next few days, please ask Eunuch Su to report to the emperor and give him seven days' grace. After seven days, I will return to the capital to report my work."

If Zhou Tieyi's answer were given by an ordinary minister, it would have been considered extremely arrogant. However, considering the power and influence Zhou Tieyi currently possesses and his influence on the world situation, he was actually willing to respond as soon as the imperial edict was issued. This was already a sign of his loyalty.

Su Xibi said, "I will go back and report to His Majesty."

(End of this chapter)