Chapter 56 - 54: One step is one realm, 6 steps into a Great Scholar! (2 in 1 - )_2

Hearing Second Elder Yang Qingdao’s words, the Great Elder on the stage didn’t speak, clearly implying his acquiescence.

Bai Yunzi beside him also didn’t speak. He wanted to say something, but he didn’t voice it out.

This kind of high-level meeting was not something he could intervene in.

Moreover, the matter was indeed justified.

"Hahaha! Good! That’s really good!"

Upon seeing the crowd’s reactions, Chen Chang’an laughed heartily, standing on the stage, laughing uproariously.

Hair disheveled, he was laughing, but there was a trace of anger in his laughter.

Chen Chang’an was indignant for his master Yang Han.

The decline of Dao Cang Mountain was due to the Demon Land.

Back then, to retrieve this piece of land from the divine abyss, almost a generation of people from Dao Cang Mountain perished.

In the end, only the youngest, Yang Han, managed to survive because his senior brothers knocked him unconscious to save him from his injuries.

Yang Han survived, yet he was severely wounded by Dao.

He was once a powerful being of the Fourth Realm, yet he was now gravely injured, unable to even execute basic Sword Flight.

He could only sit alone in the setting sun, growing old in solitude.

After the Demon Land was retrieved, it was transferred to the Tianshui Sect for public use by Master Yang Han.

For hundreds of years, it has been functioning as the cornerstone of the Tianshui Sect.

And now, just because an invincible Sword Immortal appeared, it had to be given away willingly?

All that was left in Chen Chang’an’s heart was fury!

"Elders, may I make a request?"

In the next moment, Chen Chang’an stopped laughing. He then looked at Great Elder Li Xuandao on the stage and asked coldly.

"?Go ahead." Li Xuandao nodded.

"As a disciple, I request, the return of the Demon Land, to place it back under the Mountain Gate of our Dao Cang Mountain!"

"Chang’an, do you realize what you are saying?"

Hearing Chen Chang’an’s words, Li Xuandao furrowed his brows in inquiry.

At this moment, the rest of the people in the main hall were also looking at Chen Chang’an in confusion.

They didn’t believe that Chen Chang’an was unaware of the implications of his decision.

Once the Demon Land was chosen, they were bound to directly contest against an invincible Sword Immortal in the future!

An invincible Sword Immortal — what kind of being was that?

A single disciple of theirs, with just a sword, had already beaten their Sect to near surrender.

It was hard to imagine, if the Sword Immortal himself were to come, who could stand against him!

"Yes, I know." However, amidst the astonished gaze of everyone, Chen Chang’an nodded.

He has gone mad, mad for sure!

"Chang’an, you should know..." Li Xuandao furrowed his brows even deeper, opening his mouth to say something more.

However, he was cut off before he could finish by Chen Chang’an.

"Elder, I am aware of everything you said."

"But, what does that matter?"

With that, he shook his head, and a folding fan appeared out of nowhere in his hand.

With a casual flick of the folding fan in his right hand, he took a slow step forward.

Instantly, around him, a massive surge of Literary Qi boiled.

Next, this surge of Literary Qi gathered above Chen Chang’an’s head.

In the blink of an eye, a Literary Seed condensed and formed.

He had directly entered the first realm of the Confucian Path!

"It’s just a Sword Immortal. If I refuse, then I refuse!"

Then, under the shocked gazes of everyone in the main hall, Chen Chang’an took his second step.

The Literary Seed disintegrated and turned into a sea of Heavenly Aura, spreading outside his body, swirling around him!

The second realm of the Confucian Path, achieved!

Chen Chang’an didn’t stop, after entering the second realm of the Confucian Path and amidst the continued shock of the crowd, he took yet another step forward.

"The Demon Land is the blood and flesh won by our ancestors. Not to be given or yielded, as per our ancestor’s oath."

"We, their descendants, should uphold their will and intent, to be stronger against the strong, and to conquer destiny with determination!"

As soon as the words fell, the third realm of the Confucian Path, achieved!

Boom~!

In that instant, a massive rush of Heavenly Literary Qi spread throughout the main hall.

The third realm of the Confucian Path, having already formed the Heart of the Confucian, ’Confucian Scholar’ is admitted to the pavilion!

Following that, Chen Chang’an’s expression remained unchanged.

He casually flicked the folding fan in his hand again and took yet another step forward.

"You all lack courage in your hearts, treating the blood spirit of our ancestors as nothing, burying our splendid land, it’s preposterous."

Fourth realm of the Confucian Path, achieved!

This was not the end, Chen Chang’an kept walking.

"An emperor guards the gate of the country, a king dies for his nation. In the absence of our ancestors, our Sect dared to go to battle."

Fifth realm of the Confucian Path, achieved!

Then, in the eyes of the hundreds of shocked people in the main hall, he took his sixth step.

"Furthermore, in this life, there’s me, a descendant unworthy of our ancestor’s expectation protecting our Sect. Others have no right to be presumptuous!"

Boom~!

Suddenly, an extremely frightening scene happened.

Right in front of Chen Chang’an, a large patch of Heavenly Aura exploded.

It exploded violently, spreading onto the vast heaven and earth, boundlessly and unendingly.

In an instant, it filled the whole Tianshui Sect.

Then, in the sky above Tianshui Sect, an illusory figure, thousands of feet tall, materialized.

The figure towers thousands of feet in height, perched atop the sky above Tianshui Peak.

Purple Qi arrives from the East!

It’s the Confucian Saint, it’s the phantom of the Confucian Saint!

At this moment, the sky tilts.

Boom~!

The great hall of the Tianshui Sect also crumbles thunderously.

It collapses with a bang due to its inability to accommodate this pure Heavenly Aura filling the sky!

The Six Realms, the Great Scholar has emerged!

"So, esteemed Elders, can I take over this Demon Land or not?"

Chen Chang’an takes six strides, folding up his fan, and looks up at the numerous Elders above him.

The corner of his mouth curls into a smile.

Smiling at an Elder, this is a great disrespect.

Yet, no one at the scene dares to rebuke his smile.

If for nothing else, just look at the towering figure of Heavenly Aura above Chen Chang’an’s head.

Silence!

A deathly silence!

At this moment, within the great hall of the Tianshui Sect, from the Great Elder Li Xuandao to the various Mountain lords and the normal disciples at the gate.

No one speaks.

Speechless, is the only word they can use to describe the shock in their hearts at this moment.

Each and every one of them silently gazes at the graceful figure in the center of the stage.

Stranger as pure as Jade, a Peerless Gentleman.

Exhaling a breath of Heavenly Aura, he collapses half of Tianshui.

This, truly, is Peerless!

My god, how can there be such a person in the world?

"Chang...? Chang’an? You...?"

Finally, it’s Li Xuandao who reacts first, he looks at Chen Chang’an under the shroud of Heavenly Aura and asks in bewilderment.

"Great Elder, so, do I now qualify to take over the Demon Land?"

Chen Chang’an doesn’t explain anything, but asks instead.

Li Xuandao falls silent.

After a long time, he finally speaks.

All he says is: "You May."

"Thank you, Elder." Chen Chang’an bows to Li Xuandao.

Then he turns and starts to leave.

"Girl, let’s go, let’s go back."

"We won’t be coming back to this filthy place for tutoring for a while."

"We’ll use our own place."

Chen Chang’an turns to Mao Ruxue and tells her.

"Mm, Senior Brother, I’ll listen to you."

A smile breaks through Mao Ruxue’s tears, she looks at Chen Chang’an joyfully.

"Senior Brother, come, I’ll take you."

Next, Mao Ruxue takes out the Flying Boat, and enlarges it.

Then she invites Chen Chang’an aboard.

"Mm, let’s go."

Chen Chang’an doesn’t refuse, he steps onto the Flying Boat and leaves.

"Is... is it over?"

Only when the figures of Chen Chang’an and Mao Ruxue have disappeared into the clouds, people on the ruins of the great hall react.

They look towards the direction where Chen Chang’an and Mao Ruxue left, murmuring.

"El... Elder?"

Bai Yunzi comes to the side of the Great Elder Li Xuandao, asking uncertainly.

"Sigh~!"

"Bai Yun, after some time, when Dao Ran steps out, tell him I’ll be secluding myself in the back mountain from now on."

"Unless the Sect encounters a catastrophic disaster, I won’t come out."

Li Xuandao glances at Bai Yunzi, then looks in the direction where Chen Chang’an and Mao Ruxue departed, sighing deeply.

At this moment, he seems to have aged decades in an instant.

"Great Elder, we...?"

Now, the Second Elder Yang Qingdao also comes over.

He looks at the Great Elder, his gaze still distant.

One Realm for each step, six steps to becoming a Great Scholar,

The momentum of Chen Chang’an just now truly terrified him.

At that moment, he truly felt a threat infinitely close to death!

So real!

So urgent!

"Qingdao, come with me to the back mountain." Li Xuandao looks at Yang Qingdao, sighs and says.

"Perhaps what Li Daoran said before wasn’t wrong."

"Sigh, we old folks have grown old, we no longer have the ancestors’ vigour, it’s time to leave."

"It’s time to hand over the Sect to the youngins to play around with."

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