My cultivation disguise has been exposed by Xiao Sizi.

Ning Xiu gave a bitter smile, preparing to lie down and wait to die once again.

But Li Chen changed the subject.

He glanced at the several large wooden crates of books in the corner of the room, which had been rummaged through, and a strange light flashed in his eyes.

"Although you can't be a brute."

"But seeing how many books you've read, you're actually more suited to taking a different, unprecedented path!"

Li Chen pointed at Ning Xiu's nose, his voice suddenly rising.

"The Confucian path!"

"Confucianism and Taoism?"

Ning Xiu's cloudy eyes twitched slightly.

He had studied for twenty years, but in this world that only revered cultivators, scholars were the most useless trash.

"What is Confucianism and Taoism?" Ning Xiu asked subconsciously.

"Confucianism and Taoism are the highest path for scholars to cultivate themselves!"

Li Chen stood up, put his hands behind his back, and began his Oscar-worthy persuasive speech.

He casually picked up the settings from those Confucian and Taoist online novels from his previous life and described them in a magnificent and epic way.

Those who cultivate Confucianism and Taoism do not seek spiritual roots, nor do they inquire about immortality!

"It relies on reading to understand principles and empathizing with all things! It relies on expressing one's true feelings and cultivating a righteous spirit!"

Li Chen got more and more into it, his eyes becoming incredibly deep.

"As long as you are deeply cultured."

"Then words become law! A battle of wits!"

"A single war poem can summon a thousand armies! A policy for governing a nation can draw the attention of Heaven, causing it to bestow its holy light!"

"No matter how powerful a Golden Core Ancestor or Nascent Soul cultivator may be, in front of a true Confucian or Taoist master, he is nothing more than a mere martial artist."

"You only need to drink it, and you'll terrify them!"

boom!

These words were like a magnitude 12 earthquake.

Ning Xiu's lifeless heart was shaken to the point of frantic beating.

Could a scholar really possess such boundless power?!

Words become law? A war of words?

This is simply the supreme path tailor-made for him!

"Dear teacher!"

Ning Xiu, as if possessed, suddenly lunged forward from the ground, grabbing Li Chen's trouser leg tightly, his head banging against the ground repeatedly.

"I beg my esteemed master to impart to me the great principles of Confucian cultivation!"

"I am willing to serve my esteemed teacher like a slave, even unto death!"

Looking down at Ning Xiu, who had fallen into complete frenzy.

Li Chen scratched his head, his lips twitching uncontrollably.

He inwardly groaned.

"Holy crap, that was way too much of a show-off."

"As a student who only completed nine years of compulsory education and is considered a poor student, what am I supposed to learn about Confucian or Taoist cultivation methods from, besides memorizing a couple of Tang and Song dynasty poems?"

"This is a world of cultivation, there's no such thing as 'literary energy' here at all!"

Li Chen originally wanted to tell the truth directly.

But when he lowered his head...

When I saw the desperate look in Ning Xiu's bloodshot eyes, the look of madness in his eyes as he grasped at the only light of hope in his despair.

Li Chen sighed heavily in his heart.

"Fine, let's go all the way and leave him with something to remember us by. Let's tell a white lie, it's better than him hanging himself right now."

Li Chen cleared his throat, adopting the aloof demeanor of a highly accomplished sage.

"The great principles should not be lightly transmitted."

Li Chen said in a deliberately profound tone.

"Today I will impart to you the essence of Confucianism and Taoism, but how much you can comprehend depends entirely on your own destiny."

"If you can't understand it, it only means you're not destined for Confucianism and Taoism."

"Disciple understands! Disciple will definitely sit in meditation and comprehend it, and will never disappoint Master!" Ning Xiu was moved and grateful.

"Okay, listen carefully."

Li Chen began pacing around the room.

He took all the online novel settings he had read in his previous life and mixed them together into a bowl of highly toxic chicken soup.

"The method of Confucian self-cultivation lies in refining literary style."

"How to condense Qi? By benefiting the local people, educating the masses, and inspiring reverence in their hearts, Qi and fortune will naturally arise."

"Or, write books and establish theories, producing unparalleled articles that resonate with the Heavenly Dao, and the Heavenly Dao will bestow its Daoist light, which is what is known as the recognition of the laws."

Ning Xiu listened with rapt attention, as if a door to a new world had been opened for him.

Seeing his state, Li Chen decided to go all the way and gave him a "General Introduction to the Basics".

"This is the 'Treatise on Righteous Qi,' so please memorize it carefully."

Li Chen made it up on the spot:

"Heaven and earth give rise to righteous energy, and ordinary people cultivate a noble spirit."

"Without roots or immortal bones, yet with a heart that supports the heavens."

"One act of righteousness gives rise to a thread of truth, and countless acts of righteousness forge a divine abyss."

"Its abundant power fills the eight directions, and evil spirits dare not advance."

Ning Xiu was overjoyed and kept repeating these few lines of doggerel.

He had completely fallen into a state of frenzied thinking and dazedness.

Li Chen looked at his fixed gaze.

I feel this chicken soup might not be thick enough.

He simply walked to his desk, picked up a calligraphy brush, and dipped it in some cheap ink.

With a flourish of his pen.

He directly wrote down the first few lines of Wen Tianxiang's timeless masterpiece, "Ode to Righteousness".

"Heaven and earth possess righteous energy, which manifests in various forms."

"Below are rivers and mountains, above are the sun and stars."

"In man, it is called 'vast and righteous,' overflowing and filling the vast sky..."

After finishing writing, Li Chen felt it wasn't enough.

He then added a few random quotes he had memorized in philosophy class in his previous life.

"Heaven and earth were born together with me, and all things are one with me."

"Its qi is extremely vast and strong, filling the space between heaven and earth."

"Flowing in harmony with heaven and earth!"

"My heart is filled with boundless righteousness, my life will endure as long as heaven and earth!"

......

Finish this last stroke.

Li Chen threw down the calligraphy brush.

Looking at Ning Xiu, who was still kneeling on the ground, his eyes fixed on the still-wet ink on the Xuan paper, completely lost in a trance.

Li Chen shrank back guiltily.

"Get out of here before he wakes up and realizes he's been fooled."

Li Chen stood on tiptoe.

Without even saying goodbye, he tiptoed out of the thatched hut.

He's going to the big cities right now to look for clues about teleportation arrays.

If the scholar were to wake up from his daze and discover that the Confucianism and Taoism he learned in his previous online novel were completely uncultivable, he would be filled with despair.

I can't stand it anymore, I'd better run away first!

……

Most of the day later.

Li Chen followed the ancient loess road and arrived at a large and bustling city.

Qingyang City.

As soon as we entered the city.

Li Chen saw a large crowd of onlookers and cultivators gathered at the crossroads ahead.

He curiously squeezed into the crowd.

On the city wall, a huge wanted poster was displayed.

The painting depicts two masked assassins, a man and a woman.

"A reward offered by the Zhou family?"

Li Chen looked at the text on the notice and stroked his chin.

"A large reward will be given to anyone who provides clues about the assassin or captures him, and the Zhou family will also grant them one favor within their power."

See the last condition.

Li Chen's eyes lit up instantly.

"The Zhou family sounds like a prominent family in Qingyang City. If we can get them to help us find clues about the interdimensional teleportation array, it will be much better than me wandering around like a headless fly."

Li Chen walked to a roadside stall next to the notice and ordered a bowl of plain noodles.

He ate with slurping noises while secretly making plans in his mind.

"But that's not very realistic."

Li Chen sighed, turned his head to the side in a sarcastic tone, and began to complain to the air beside him.

"In this vast sea of ​​people, I don't even know what those two assassins look like. Where am I supposed to find them?"

"I can't just wander around the streets and ask everyone I meet, 'Hey, you're the assassin, right?' I'd probably get beaten to death for being a lunatic."

Just as Li Chen finished venting his grievances...

A sudden chill ran down his neck.

Li Chen's hand, which was holding the noodles, suddenly froze.

because.

A sharp sword, radiating a chilling killing intent, was suddenly and firmly pressed against his neck. The blade was even grazing his skin.

Followed by.

In the empty seat next to Li Chen, a young man and a young woman, dressed in ordinary clothes but with unusually sharp eyes, had sat down at some point.

The woman was holding a long sword to Li Chen's neck.

She lowered her voice, like an enraged mother leopard, staring fiercely at Li Chen's profile.

"explain!"

The woman's voice carried a deadly intent.

"How on earth did you find out who we are?!"