"I have already experienced it, so what?"
Behind Li Xuan, the purple bamboo shadows gently swayed. The bamboo body appeared slightly bent under the pressure of Hao Qi, but its root system was firmly anchored in the ground, unshakeable.
Li Xuan’s body was the sa way. Under the red gold pillar of Qi that Kong Xiude had placed upon him, the imnse pressure was like a gust of wind passing by - it did not linger on objects and did not stay on his body. This allowed him to instantly relieve over half of the pressure he was under. The remaining pressure was dissipated by the Armored Taotie and the scroll of "The Song of Integrity".
Li Xuan’s internal injuries, the ruptured blood vessels, shocked internal organs, and fractured bones, were rapidly healed under his extraordinary recovery ability.
At this point, everyone in the courtyard wore different expressions. The students of the Guozi Bureau only reacted after Li Xuan spoke. The whole courtyard then buzzed like an exploded pot of oil with everyone whispering to each other, discussing fervently.
"The Purple Air ca from the east! It is the Purple Air!"
"Indeed, from extre red stems purple! His purple intent is slightly lacking, but it’s not because his Hao Qi is not pure enough, it’s only due to his inadequate cultivation, his lack of Hao Qi."
"This Dao Yi Dharma Phase, have you thought of anything?"
"So pure Hao Yi, no wonder he could kill Li Zhetian! This is equivalent to the Hun level of Wu Yi."
"No wonder he could gather everyone’s power, and rival with the Heavenly Level."
"This Dao Yi is also extraordinary! It has reached the Spirit Realm."
"Is this the current Hufa of Neo-Confucianism? Purely speaking in terms of talent, there is indeed none in the world that can compare."
Long Rui and Wang Jing from the crowd exchanged a glance. They both saw a trace of surprise in each other’s eyes. They both thought of the Zhuyi Tablet they had seen before.
But prior to this, they could not link Li Xuan with the Zhuyi Tablet no matter how hard they tried.
Sun Chuyun stood behind Li Xuan, looking up at Li Xuan with great admiration, her eyes glowing.
She realized that the so-called "Li Qian" was Li Xuan. No wonder he was so talented, no wonder he could write such beautiful verses like "Body without colourful phoenix wings, heart with psychic all understanding".
No wonder Li Xuan could beco the Hufa of Neo-Confucianism, Dao Yi Dharma Phase, the Purple Air ca from the east!
----Such pure Hao Qi, there are only a handful of people in this world who can surpass him.
Luo Yan, on the other hand, had a stern look on her face, her eyes ablaze with purple fire. A pair of Hongxiu knives appeared from her hands. People hardly saw Luo Yan make any movents, but the few house guards from Earl Huichang’s mansion who quietly approached, trying to capture Zhang Yue and Gong Xiaowu, were either injured or killed.
Even the Earl Huichang himself, Sun Jizong, temporarily stopped in his tracks, looking at this handso and dusty-looking Fumo Duyu with a serious look on his face.
Sun Jizong’s cultivation level, which was close to the half-heavenly level, made him instinctively sense danger.
Luo Yan then turned her murderous gaze on Duke Yansheng, Kong Xiude.
Her hands began to grow illusions, revealing the "Great Compassion and Great rcy Three Thousand Hands, Avalokiteshvara’s Thirty-three thod Bodies".
Although she was extrely resentful of Li Xuan’s leniency and notorious behavior, her anger was not easily quelled.
However, when Li Xuan was humiliated by Kong Xiude, when Duke Yansheng attacked Li Xuan with an overwhelming force, Luo Yan felt extrely uncomfortable, as if her chest was about to burst open, with an endless murderous aura welling up within her.
Kill!
But just as Luo Yan’s Hongxiu knives were about to strike, a golden light descended from the sky, covering an area of thirty feet around Li Xuan and Duke Yansheng, Kong Xiude. It was like a golden mbrane, that separated the two from the outside world.
"Heaven and Earth Fetal mbrane?"
Luo Yan couldn’t help but frown as she recognized that this was a powerful immortal treasure refined from the ’fetal mbrane’ at the beginning of the creation of heaven and earth. Several years ago, by a fortunate coincidence, she had seen sothing similar.
She imdiately looked up at the source of the gold light. And then she saw a girl in golden armor standing in the air three feet high, which made her pupils shrink slightly.
Heavenly Level-
The girl in the golden armor coldly watched the people below and Luo Yan in the crowd.
The rules of the Zique Heavenly Palace did prohibit using force against mortals, but there were many ways to work around it.
For example, at this mont, she was not able to directly kill Li Xuan, nor was she able to stop Luo Yan, but she could employ the use of the immortal treasure on Kong Xiude and Li Xuan’s bodies, eliminating all external interference.
Inside the golden mbrane, Kong Xiude’s aura was cold and heavy, and his eyes were flickering with uncertainty.
He could sense that Li Xuan’s Dao Yi Dharma Phase had locked onto him from afar, and that unmatched murderous intent made Kong Xiude’s Primordial Spirit feel bursts of pain.
And that two-foot-tall Fumo Vajra behind Li Xuan also held its sword in front of its body, ready but not unleashed.
Kong Xiude realized that if he were to move even a step forward, he would face Li Xuan’s desperate counterattack.
The dilemma of a Confucian cultivator is exactly this - if they cannot suppress their opponent with Hao Qi, then even a martial cultivator with much lower realm can pose a fatal threat to them.
Kong Xiude could forcibly extract the Hao Qi from the myriad students of the Guozi Bureau present to serve him, and the grand power would be enough to directly confront those half-heavenly level. But even so, he was not sure he could survive Li Xuan’s sudden attack within ten steps.
At this mont, he finally rembered Li Zhetian, who was killed by Li Xuan’s hand. This made beads of sweat seep out from the tip of his nose.
But this slight fear, which was born deep in his heart, sent Kong Xiude into a rage, his pupils widened in anger and nurous bloodshot veins appeared in his eyes.
"Impudent!"
At that mont, the massive Qi column around him expanded again, continuing to inflate. The extraction range of the Qi also extended to the entire Guozi Bureau, encompassing thousands of students within its grasp.
A larger half promptly restrained their Qi, due to their disagreent with Kong Xiude’s actions, and unwillingness to lend their power to the present Duke Yansheng.
But just a portion was already enough to condense Kong Xiude’s Qi, transforming it into a formidable vermilion golden pillar that seed to shake the stars and the galaxy.
"Kneel to !"
Boom!
In that instant, the ground around Li Xuan sunk by three feet once more, countless cracks propagated from the center, then spread in all directions like a spider’s web.
The corner of Li Xuan’s lips bore a trace of blood, yet he still stood tall and straight like bamboo.
A thousand hits still tough, leaning to the breeze of north, south, east, west!
"Kneel?" Li Xuan let out a scoff, the chill in his eyes deepening by three-fold: "I kneel to heaven, earth and my parents, who do you think you are to demand I kneel to you?"
Under Kong Xiude’s torrent of Qi, not only was Li Xuan’s intention of the sword not dispersed, it was even more condensed under pressure, sharper, and far more dangerous.
Thin bamboo leaves scattered, blending into the vermilion golden pillar, they were light as a feather, seemingly harmless, but within a mont, Kong Xiude’s clothes were torn open with dozens of cuts.
Li Xuan’s ’Bixue Leique Sword’, was also unsheathed by a portion at this mont, the sharp cold light from the blade causing nearly everyone who saw it to feel a piercing pain in their eyes.
Kong Xiude, who was in the direct line of attack, felt a chill run down his spine. The skin on his neck was also marked with blood under the threatening and unparalleled Yi of the sword.
At that mont, almost everyone had a feeling that the mont Li Xuan’s sword was drawn, would be the ti the head of the Duke Yansheng would be severed.
Kong Xiude’s face twitched slightly, then with a flick of his sleeve, slips of aquamarine bamboo flew out from inside his sleeve, hovering beside him.
A commotion arose from the crowd off in the distance.
"What’s that?"
"Its Qi is vermilion gold, resonating with heaven and earth."
"It’s Master Dong’s ’Chunqiu Fanlu,’ the number one treasure of Confucianism!"
As a result of the First Emperor’s Book Burning and Burying of Scholars during the Pre-Qin Dynasty, many of the Confucian treasures had been destroyed. Therefore, since the Tang Dynasty, the ’Chunqiu Fanlu’ copied by Master Dong, has been regarded as the number one original work of the present age.
The Jijiu of the Guozi Bureau among the crowd watched the scene with a cold expression, then suddenly spoke, "Everyone, fall back a hundred feet!"
Many people were imdiately startled and looked over, including the young lady in golden armor high above. The Jijiu of Guozi Bureau, however, remained expressionless and flicked his sleeve: "Anyone who disobeys will be expelled from the Guozi Bureau."
Upon hearing this, Wang Jing and Kong Rui were the first to retreat a hundred feet away. They both knew that the Jijiu was secretly assisting Li Xuan.
Sure enough, when the students of Guozi Bureau all retreated, the Qi forcefully drained from them by Kong Xiude almost returned to nothing. This caused the vermilion golden pillar sent out by Kong Xiude to instantly wane, losing at least thirty percent of its power from its peak.
Kong Xiude glared angrily at Jijiu of Guozi Bureau, and then returned his icy gaze to Li Xuan.
The next mont, he lifted his hand and held a golden seal in his grasp. Under the docile glory of the seal, one could vaguely see the seal characters ’The Great Sage King Wenxuan’. At this mont, Kong Xiude’s Qi also transitioned from waning to a resurgence.
Although it was slightly lesser than before, it was still formidable, shaking the mountains and rivers.
"I have indeed underestimated you."
Kong Xiude coldly fixed his gaze on Li Xuan: "But I want to see how long you can hold out with your current cultivation? Based on your arrogance and disrespect, I must take back your Wenshan Seal!"
Li Xuan’s face turned dark, his eyes a bit dim.
What Kong Xiude said was the truth, and he could not refute it. The consumption of the Zhuyi Knife was massive, one swing could deplete ninety percent of his real Zhenyuan Qi.
At this mont, Li Xuan was rely holding the sword unsheathed, allowing him to maintain his vitality.
But in the confrontation with Kong Xiude, his Zhenyuan Qi was being continuously depleted. Li Xuan estimated that he would only be able to maintain the Yi of the sword for half an hour.
However, he was not without plans. He could exhaust his Life Elent to drive the ’Wenshan Seal’.
This was an Immortal Treasure of Neo-confucianism that could rival the original "The Song of Integrity" and enough to change the outco of a battle. But every ti Li Xuan uses this object with his current cultivation level, it would cost him at least a year of his lifespan.
Unless it is like the battle between the Guozi Bureau and the Tianshi’s mansion, where he can gather everyone’s power to drive it —— but right now, he does not have such prestige.
After a short while, Li Xuan took a deep breath, diverting a portion of his focus into his inner self.
He felt that it was too much of a loss to sacrifice his lifespan at this mont, but in addition to this, Li Xuan had another thod, which was to enhance his own Qi Cultivation.
After a Confucian cultivator reaches the sixth house level, they need to imprint a Confucian classic deep into their Shenpo as a foundation and break through with this as the core to achieve ’The Burning Heart’.
Li Xuan’s Shenpo cultivation was enough and his Qi had reached the peak of the sixth house level.
But due to previous hesitations, he hadn’t been able to take this step.
Li Xuan disagreed with many of the principles in Confucian classics, and he did not know what kind of results his ideas would yield once realized.
But today, Li Xuan knew that he had no room for hesitation.
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