Family Cultivation: My entire family are Villains

Chapter 278: 159. Ding Dian Rebels Against the Sect

"It seems to be... Ji Yanzhi!"

"One of the seven Mountain Chiefs of the Yangzhou Bailu Academy, Ji Yanzhi!"

Upon hearing Zhang Yuning's words, Moxuzi exclaimed in shock.

It is said in the world that Confucianism prevails in Yang and Yan, and the scholars come from Bailu.

The Confucian Sect is not strictly a sect but one of the three major schools alongside Buddhism and Taoism.

This school takes on the role of educating the masses, resolving doubts, teaching academics, fostering family values, venerates the Master as the supreme sage, and believes in education for all, aspiring for people to carry on scholarly family traditions.

In fact, the Confucian Sect initially was just one of the four veins of the Haoran Holy Sect: zither, chess, calligraphy, and painting. In the year 2752 of the Great Yu Calendar, the Master led his followers out of the sect and established the Confucian Sect's Dao Lineage. Later, the Master set forth the doctrine of "loyalty to the sovereign and service to the people," which was admired by Yu Shenzong. The entire world promoted this respected Confucian art, and the departed Confucians thereby rose to be one of the three great Ironies of the world.

In the later years of the Wuzong dynasty, with the world in great turmoil, the Master led the Confucian Sect, seizing the opportunity to occupy the lands of Yang and Yan. After more than a thousand years of development, it has truly become the foremost leader of The Righteous Path.

Being a school, its derived powers are innumerable.

Just as the Buddhist Sect has branches like the Brahman Zen Sect, the Great Snow Mountain Buddha Sect, and other temples, the Confucian Sect has many academies besides Bailu Academy, though most are located in the Zhengdao Seven States, with almost none in the six states of the Demon Path.

If one were to ask what could best represent the Confucian Sect, or the tradition of the Confucian school, it would undoubtedly be the Bailu Academy. After all, it was the first academy personally founded by the Master, whose strength and reputation are unbeatable within the Confucian powers of the world.

This is the origin of "Confucianism prevails in Yang and Yan; scholars emerge from Bailu" in the world.

It is well known that the Bailu Academies of Yang and Yan are branches of the same institution. Apart from the contemporary Master and the head of the academy, the highest position is that of Mountain Chief, with seven in Yangzhou and nine in Yanzhou.

Master, head of the academy, Mountain Chief; these are the absolute upper echelons of the academy.

After realizing this, Lian Ningxue, Master Yuan Fa, including Moxuzi, all looked at Ji Yanzhi with respect evident on their faces; while Master Yuan Kong and Zhan Taiqing, unlike the former three, showed respect in their eyes, but it was tinted with a subtle hint of melancholy...

"Junior pays respects to Master Ji!"

No matter what the six were thinking, at the moment when Ji Yanzhi arrived overhead, they all respectfully stood in mid-air, bowing ceremoniously to him.

A great Confucian and Taoist expert represents the Second-grade Dongming Realm, equivalent to the Martial Path's Disintegration Realm. Their current realm is the Yuan Dan Great Perfection Realm, and the next is the Yin Yang Holy Realm, followed by the Disintegration Realm.

In terms of cultivation, Ji Yanzhi was two major realms higher than them. In the cultivation journey, those who achieve it first lead; in front of him, the six could only call themselves juniors.

Ji Yanzhi's face was full of wrinkles, appearing like an ordinary person over a hundred years old, like an old man nearing the end of his life upon first glance.

Only the lean contours of his face vaguely retained some of the handsomeness of his youth.

Though aged, he was not hunched, his head full of silver hair tied with a bluish jade strip, complementing his erect posture, draped in a white Confucian robe, his demeanor elegant, truly resembling an evergreen silver pine.

The most striking were his piercing eyes, ignoring the six experts saluting him below, focusing intently on the bloody root in the sky.

More precisely, he was staring at Maiden Hong who was clad in a blood-red garment beneath the root. Seeing Maiden Hong slowly turning around, seeing her charming and lovely face, Ji Yanzhi's sharp gaze softened slightly, a look of reminiscence surfaced in his eyes, mixed with some guilt... and pain.

"Hehe, you are still, as ever... disgusting!"

Upon hearing Maiden Hong's cold laugh, the six below were startled, not understanding why she said those words, and then realized she was speaking to Ji Yanzhi. Their faces immediately displayed an odd expression.

Could it be that the Blood Demon was an old acquaintance of Ji Yanzhi?

Upon hearing Maiden Hong's words, Ji Yanzhi's expression became somewhat complex.

"After all these years, you still won't forgive me?"

This sentence was like lighting the powder keg in Maiden Hong's heart. A mocking look appeared on her face. Without saying anything, her head was crowned with myriad branches of the blood-red root, suddenly starting to wildly thrash...

A suffocating, wild demon qi instantly enveloped the entire city, even pressing down on everyone present.

The myriad branches extending from the blood-red root suddenly peeled from the sky, transforming into thousands of extremely sharp blood-red spears, all aiming at Ji Yanzhi.

Maiden Hong's eyes filled with sinister hatred, the dense spears in the air trembling slightly, mirroring her inner emotions, without a word, she just kept staring at Ji Yanzhi, her gaze suddenly intensifying...

Those blood-red spears, in a moment, fell like a torrential downpour from the sky, unlike the usual rain that moistens all it touches, instead, all spears targeted one person.

The myriad spears moved at extreme speed, stirring the surrounding air currents, like red meteors falling from the sky, creating black and red spatial rifts.

The area for hundreds of miles around immediately stirred up a huge storm, the whole space even felt somewhat unstable.

The people on the ground of the prefectural city below were alright, but the six great experts, facing this sky full of spears, were filled with fear, altering their expressions instantly.