Chapter 1051 Three Lineages of Confucianism

"You don't know this."

Ji Lai shook his head and said: "The Twelve Cities recruit masters from all over the world, and the regulations are not as strict as those of the Immortal Cultivation Sect. As long as you are not a monk from the same Seven Mountains and Twelve Cities, even if you have joined another sect, Or direct descendants of the cultivation family can choose to join in one of the cities."

“So that’s how it is”

Liang Yan nodded and remembered the "Bihai Palace" that Song Ru mentioned before. It seemed that it was also a force in Wushuang City.

"Actually, I came here this time under the orders of my master, but until now, except for the matter of participating in the selection and assessment, I don't know anything about the remaining tasks." Ji Lai said with some annoyance.

"You don't even know?" Liang Yan looked strange and asked, "Then why did I send you here?"

"He gave me three tips and asked me to open them one by one at the appointed time. He also said that he had set a ban and would never let me peek in advance!"

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Liang Yan was speechless for a moment. This Sanchi Shen was even weirder than expected, making people confused.

After a long while, Liang Yan finally spoke slowly: "Since your master's privacy is involved, it is inconvenient for Liang to ask any more questions. By the way, I remember that you were not with Murong Xuewei? Why didn't she? Coming with you?"

"Don't mention it." Ji Lai sighed softly and said, "The ancestor of the Murong family seemed to have some trouble with her cultivation, and was forced to open the secret forbidden area in the family. She went into seclusion herself, and took a fancy to a few The younger generation were also brought in, Murong Xuewei is one of them."

Liang Yan felt relieved after hearing this. Others didn't know it, but he knew it very well. Murong Hanqiu suffered the loss of Master Lianxin, and now this so-called "culprit in cultivation" is probably due to his own immortality.

"By the way, Brother Liang, you're here just in time. In a few days, there will be the 'Hundred Flowers Club' in Wushuang City. Then you can go with me." Ji Laihu said.

"Hundred Flowers Club? What is that?"

"The Hundred Flowers Club was founded by the 'Zhenjun Sanhua' of Wushuang City. No matter the cultivation level, elegance is the only thing discussed at the meeting. The venue is located at the 'Guhai Peak'. There are all kinds of exotic flowers and plants, rare birds and animals on the top of the peak. There is also an extremely rare fairy fruit wine, and all young talents who have been practicing for no more than five hundred years are invited."

Listening to Ji Lai's slow words, Liang Yan couldn't help but frown.

Since leaving Nanchui Island, his horizons have gradually broadened, and he knows that the human continent is vast and there are as many human monks as crucian carp crossing the river.

These people each have their own personalities, and not all of them are devoted to cultivation. Some of them like to be literati and elegant. This is not surprising.

But with Liang Yan's character, he would not waste time going to such a place.

"Sorry, Liang is not interested in this kind of occasion. I'm afraid I will disappoint Brother Ji." Liang Yan shook his head at Ji Lai.

Ji Lai seemed to have expected this answer for a long time. He didn't look depressed at all when he heard this. Instead, he smiled and said:

"Brother Liang, don't refuse so early. It seems that you really know nothing about this selection and assessment. In fact, the assessment has already started before the selection day arrives."

"oh?"

Liang Yan raised his eyebrows and became interested instantly.

This wasn't the first time he heard this. Not long ago, the man in charge of registration also said similar words.

"What does Fellow Taoist Ji mean by this?"

"Haha! Brother Liang, you don't know something. The selection for Wushuang City is held every five years, and each time there are four rounds of assessments. Although the content of these assessments is completely determined by the examiners themselves, in every assessment in the past, There is a round where you need to form a team to pass.”

"There is such a thing!" Liang Yan's face changed slightly, and he said curiously: "This is strange, don't monks like us rely on our own magical powers to control the world? Why do we still set such rules?"

"Brother Liang's words are wrong."

Ji Lai shook his head and said: "Wushuang City is not like ordinary immortal cultivating sects that are passed down from generation to generation. The city has absorbed many forces and is divided into many factions, including not only Buddhism, Demons, Taoism, and Confucianism, but also miscellaneous sects from other sects. It can be said that a hundred flowers are blooming. And many tasks issued by Wushuang City need to be carried out in the form of a small team. In this case, communication and cooperation between each other are particularly important."

"I see!"

After hearing what Ji Lai said, Liang Yan immediately came to his senses. Aren't people like Fang Liren and Buwen Jushi an obvious example?

These two people are inseparable every time they go on a mission. One of them is good at killing magical powers, and the other is proficient in defensive spells. Together, the two of them can defeat enemies several times their own every time.

After all, Wushuang City is also a huge monk organization. The monks in the city exchange for the resources they need by performing tasks. The higher the efficiency, the better.

If you think about it this way, the rule that you need to form a team to pass the assessment seems understandable.

"Hehe, I just said that the assessment has already started before the selection day. You need to find the most suitable teammates within this month, and then convince them to form an alliance!"

"Are you forming an alliance?"

Liang Yan reached out and knocked on the stone table in front of him, and suddenly asked: "If the ally you are looking for doesn't even pass the previous assessment, then when it comes to teaming up, won't there be no teammates?"

"So, when looking for teammates to form alliances, the stronger the better!" Ji Lai said leisurely while tasting wine.

Hearing this, Liang Yan suddenly felt like he was on a pirate ship. He glanced at Ji Lai with a strange look on his face, and then said, "You have told me so much, have you considered me as your ally this time?" ?”

"That's not true!"

Ji Lai laughed and said, "Others may not know Brother Liang's abilities, but Ji knows a little bit about it. You brought it to me this time, so the two of us will naturally form an alliance!"

After hearing this, Liang Yan smiled softly.

Now that he has achieved Hunyuan and has sword pills in hand, he is confident that even if he meets the monks in the middle stage of Tongxuan from the Seven Mountains and Twelve Cities, he will not be without the capital to fight. But against the ordinary cultivators in the early stage of Tongxuan, it will be like killing a chicken. Dog-like.

These so-called masters of the Golden Core Realm no longer pose a threat to him, so they can use it to build friendship with him and lead him to form a team to pass the test.

Liang Yan's silence was tantamount to acquiescing to the alliance between the two. Ji Lai's face lit up, he drank the wine in the glass, and continued: "But it's not enough just the two of us, we need to find helpers. "

"How many more people are needed?"

"It's better to be more sophisticated than too many. According to the previous assessment content, team assessments usually take place in groups of three, so we only need one more!"

"Oh? It seems you already have a goal?" Liang Yan asked with interest.

"That's natural!"

Ji Lai chuckled and said: "According to my investigation, there are 113 monks who came to participate in the selection and assessment this time, including you and me. These people are all top masters in the Golden Core Realm, and their cultivation levels are at least above The late stage of Jindan. Among them, the most famous and powerful ones are the three major families and the five major casual cultivators."

"We don't need to worry about the monks from the three major families. These people are all direct descendants of the family. They all have their eyes set on top and are unwilling to pay attention to casual cultivators like us."

When Liang Yan heard this, he couldn't help but smile slightly and said, "It seems that you have set your sights on those casual cultivators."

"Not bad!" Ji Lai nodded and said, "What I am interested in is Cang Yueming, the 'Nanhai Swordsman' who ranks first among the five major casual cultivators. This person's realm has reached the peak of Jindan, and his cultivation is Confucianism. Sword skills, a sword cultivating magical power can be said to be unfathomable, if we can get this person to form an alliance, the chance of passing the test will be greatly increased!"

"Confucian chivalry? Sword techniques?"

Liang Yan suddenly became interested when he heard this. He has met very few sword cultivators since he started practicing Taoism. Now he actually met a sword cultivator at the peak of the Golden Core. He also wanted to see the other person's style.

Moreover, when he was at the place where the Ghost Division was sealed, he had heard Fang Liren mention that the city lord of Wushuang City was practicing the Confucian hegemony lineage. Now that he heard about a Confucian chivalrous lineage, he was really curious.

"Cang Yueming is also a swordsman? What is the Confucian chivalry?" Liang Yan couldn't help but ask.

"Cang Yueming is naturally a sword cultivator."

Ji Lai shook the folding fan in his hand and said slowly: "Today, Confucianism is divided into three. There are three different systems, namely Fa-Confucianism, Ba-Confucianism and Chivalric-Confucianism."

"Among them, the Confucian lineage has the oldest origins. The exercises they learned were created by the sage masters of the Confucian sect in ancient times. In the prehistoric era, foreign tribes invaded, human tribes fought within themselves, and wars raged on the continent. The Holy Master believed that if you want to resist foreigners, you must first control internal strife. Therefore, he advocated the rule of law among human beings. The rules in the sect were strict and the hierarchy was orderly. After the Holy Master ascended, later generations of Confucians not only strictly restrained his own disciples The disciples even wanted to implement the law throughout the world, but were eventually resisted by other sects."

When Ji Lai came here, he sighed softly and said: "Now that the human race is pacified and the world is at peace, Confucianism has been passed down for countless thousands of years, but the old-fashioned style has not changed. They claim to be orthodox Confucianism and treat the Holy Saint The Kung Fu books passed down by the previous masters are regarded as the Bible, but they disdain the magical powers created by the talents of later generations, and all they practice and learn are Confucian Kung Fu from ancient times."

"I see."

When Liang Yan heard this, he couldn't help but nodded and said: "It seems that this line of Dharma and Confucianism is the longest line of inheritance. They attach so much importance to the ancient saints' skills that they will not spread it easily, but they don't know the rest. What about the tyrants and chivalrous scholars?"

Ji Lai lowered his head and took a sip of the fairy brew, then laughed and said:

"Hegemon Confucianism values ​​self-respect in heaven and earth. They despise etiquette and seek the true self. They do not have the red tape and rules of Confucianism and act only according to their own preferences. Therefore, there are many extreme people in the lineage of Hegemon Confucianism. Some people pray for the common people, and some are just. Slaughter the city in anger! It can be said that right and wrong, good and evil, all depend on their thoughts!"

"The domineering lineage arose from the later generations of the Confucian sect. Most of them could not stand the strict laws of the Confucian sect, and finally rebelled against the sect and established their own sect. Therefore, what they cultivated and learned were the achievements of outstanding people of later generations. The method is completely different from that of the sage. The tyrants and the tyrants are like fire and water, the tyrants look down on the techniques created by the other side, and the tyrants are not willing to learn the magical powers of the sage."

When Liang Yan heard this, a thoughtful look appeared in his eyes. Although he had been practicing Taoism for nearly a hundred years, he had spent most of his time on Nanchui Island and the closed hell.

Now after listening to Ji Lai's introduction, I suddenly felt that what I knew and learned was very limited. There were still many things that I didn't know about the vast continent of the human race.

"What about the chivalrous scholars?" Liang Yan asked again.

"Xiaru Confucianism is more moderate. They are willing to learn the Confucian skills of ancient times, and are also willing to accept the magical powers created by outstanding people in later generations. They are even good at arithmetic and heresy. It can be said that they learn everything and use everything."

"These monks tend to be free-spirited and spontaneous. They like to travel around the world and do chivalry and justice. Most of them are from the same line. One master leads several apprentices and never establishes a sect."

"Oh, I understand!" Liang Yan showed an expression of sudden realization and said with a smile: "Your master Shen Sanchi should be of the lineage of chivalrous Confucianism, right? He is already a monk in the Transformation Tribulation Realm, but he has not established a sect. Instead, he has Taking on a young apprentice like you, isn’t this the same as what you just said?”

"My master?" Ji Lai smiled awkwardly and said, "In our lineage, we are fortune tellers. My master is like this, and so am I. I should not be included in the three paths of Confucianism."

Liang Yan shook his head, with an expression like "I believe you have ghosts!" Shen Sanchi was very scheming and could predict things like a god. He had a clear mind and many tricks in planning. The old and the young didn't look like them at all. Simple role.

"So, the last teammate we are looking for this time is this knight-errant Cang Yueming?" Liang Yan said leisurely after taking a sip of wine.

"Yes, that's why I want to find you to go to the Hundred Flowers Club!"

Ji Lai unfolded the folding fan in his hand and said with a slight smile: "According to the information I inquired about, Cang Yueming likes drinking and composing poems, and he will never miss a grand event like the Hundred Flowers Club. In fact, he is not the only one who has come to Wushuang City to participate in the selection assessment. Most of the monks will go there. After all, there are still many people who have not found allies. This Baihua Festival is a perfect opportunity for everyone to observe other competitors and choose the most suitable partner for them."

"So that's it." Liang Yan saw Ji Lai's smile on his face and couldn't help but nodded: "It seems that you have already thought of a countermeasure in your mind. You will definitely be able to win over this 'South China Sea Swordsman' by then?"

"Hehe, although I dare not say 'certainly', the success rate is very high!"

As he spoke, he stretched out his hand and actually took out two bottles of "Tai Qing Hong Yun Pulp" from the storage ring!

"These two bottles are the only treasures left in my master's collection. I stole them all. That's Cang Yueming's good wine. I'm just going to let him have his way!"

Liang Yan looked at the two bottles of fairy brew on the table, his eyes suddenly jumped, and he covered his storage ring almost subconsciously.

"This Sanchi Shen. Did he commit any evil in his previous life?"

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