Family cultivation: I will create a family of sword immortals

The former land of Qiyou is now within the Li family's Annan Road.

In almost every town, there is the sound of reading. The Xia people living there all wear Xia clothes and speak the Xia language in their daily lives.

Li Yang's figure quietly appeared in the former royal court of the Minghuang tribe. This was the location of the royal court of the successive dynasties of Xieyou in the past, and now it has become the capital of Annan Province.

The largest Jixia Academy was also built here.

Even in recent years, due to the strong Confucian atmosphere, many great scholars in Lingnan Road voluntarily went here to carry on the unique knowledge of the sages and educate the people.

This is something that was absolutely unimaginable before, but now it really exists.

Even Confucianism was flourishing, far exceeding that in the Central Plains.

Li Yang restrained his breath and walked into the academy. Many Confucian scholars were studying here. Most of the disciples who had fled everywhere because of the turmoil in the academy fled to the Shiwan Mountains and Jiyou. After the establishment of the Jixia Academy, they came here one after another to build the academy together.

Although Li Yang's cultivation aura was restrained, his bearing and the temperament he exuded from the inside out were by no means comparable to that of ordinary people. So when everyone saw him, they couldn't help but perform the etiquette as a junior.

Li Yang was quite satisfied, thinking to himself, "He has the noble spirit of the ancient Confucian scholars. Although the academy had it before, the difference between the two is still too obvious. Those people in the Lijiang Academy are more like ascetics in the guise of Confucian scholars, rather than real Confucian scholars. This kind of pure spirit is rare now."

He walked towards where the chief academic officer of the academy was, and the current chief academic officer of the academy was none other than Li Jiangzhu.

"Greetings, old ancestor!" Li Yang walked into the study quietly, and Li Jiangzhu immediately sensed the old ancestor coming.

Li Jiangzhu did not return for the previous meeting at the Li family, so she did not meet Li Yang.

Li Yang came this time to meet Cai Yanzhi, and he also wanted to take a look at the latter's Hedao place to ensure that there would be no mistakes.

"Get up, we are all family, no need to be so polite." Li Yang said calmly.

"I'm sorry for not coming to greet you, old ancestor. When you returned home before, Jiangzhu was unable to go to pay you a visit. Now I'm asking you to come in person. I hope you'll forgive me." Li Jiangzhu said with a little guilt.

It was somewhat against the rules for a younger generation of the family like himself not to go and pay a visit but to let Li Yang come in person.

Li Yang waved his hand and said, "It's okay. Since it's all for the family, there's no need to stick to these rules. Besides, the style of study here is far superior to that of Lingnan Dao. You have made an indelible contribution."

Li Jiangzhu immediately said, "Jiangzhu only thinks about Confucian narratives, that's how it should be. The ancient sages have left behind a model. Although we are inheriting the unique knowledge of the ancient sages, we must also adapt to the times and reduce some selfish behavior. This is the way of the sages."

"The way of great virtue is that the world is shared by all. When the sage first founded Confucianism, it was for all living beings in the world. Later, with the changes of the times, more and more cultivators mixed in things that should not be there, which made Confucianism deviate from its original meaning and become no longer pure." Li Yang nodded. As a cultivator who once practiced with the founders of the three religions, and even above Confucianism, he understood Confucianism much better than the cultivators of the Lijiang Academy before.

Li Jiangzhu listened to Li Yang's words very respectfully. He did not expect that Li Yang could have such insights into Confucianism.

"But there is something in you that contributes to the prevalence of Confucianism today, and this is also one of the reasons why Confucianism is so prosperous in Annan Dao." Li Yang suddenly changed the subject.

Li Jiangzhu looked puzzled, as if he had no idea what Li Yang was talking about.

But the next moment, Li Yang's finger had already touched his forehead.

"Now!" Li Yang shouted, and immediately golden ripples spread out between Li Jiangzhu's eyebrows. Li Jiangzhu fainted under the impact of this powerful force.

Just as he fainted, a golden stone slab emerged from between his eyebrows. It was the Xiping Stone Classics that carried the destiny of Confucianism in the hands of the chief priest of the Imperial Academy.

When the Xiping Stone Classics appeared in the world, the rich and majestic aura originally in the city of Annan seemed to converge towards the stone tablet.

"Long time no see, Sword Master."

On the Xiping Stone Classics, an image of a young Confucian scholar holding a scroll appeared, bowing respectfully towards Li Yang.

"Long time no see, Fellow Daoist Xiping." Li Yang responded.

This Confucian scholar was the spirit of the Xiping Stone Classics, and was also the embodiment of Confucianism's destiny. However, for some reason, he seemed to have been sleeping before this and rarely appeared in the world. Even the high priest seldom saw this Confucian predecessor.

The great sage of Confucianism, Sun and Moon, preached beside the stone scriptures. Their great teachings were then ingrained on the stone scriptures, which, under this circumstance, evolved into the treasure of the religion that carries the destiny of Confucianism. After the three founders of the three religions expelled the ancient gods from the Yanhuang world, they each left behind their own treasures of the religion.

Li Yang summoned the ancestral sword and brought Xiping into the small world inside the ancestral sword.

The scholar Xiping looked around at the scene and couldn't help but sighed, "Sure enough, the arrangements made by the three founders of the religions were not wrong. The sword master has indeed accomplished what the three founders hoped for. This new small world is the prototype of the Heavenly Dao, and you, the sword master, are the most likely to become a new Dao realm cultivator."

Li Yang asked in confusion: "Isn't this just a small world? How can it be the prototype of Heavenly Dao? And where is the key to entering the Dao realm?"

Li Yang is now completely confused about the arrangements left by the founders of the three religions, especially the small world within the ancestral sword. He has not yet discovered the whole truth. Where it came from and to what extent it will evolve are all unknown.

As for Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva, he once tried to enter the underworld, but found that the rules of the underworld seemed to resist him and prevented him from entering.

"Back then, you were ambushed by the two emperors, Tai Shi and Tai Chu, who used their own great ways to constantly wear down your sword dao, which caused you to die directly. Your soul and spirit were scattered in the aftermath of the war in the myriad worlds. After the war, the clones left by the three founders of the three religions merged most of your sword dao and soul, allowing you to reincarnate." Xiping and Li Yang explained: "Later, at the last moment, the clones of the three founders of the three religions used all their energy to deduce and saw a corner of the invasion of the extraterritorial demons. In the end, they could only put the source of the heavenly way that had not yet been fully condensed in the imperial court into the ancestral sword, hoping that your reincarnated body could complete it and become a new Taoist cultivator."

In the ancient heaven, apart from the one who is the most worthy of the title of "Heaven" in the human world, the next are the Five Emperors formed by the five innate Tais, namely Taichu, Taishi, Taisu, Taiji and Taiyi. Each of them has the cultivation of Tao realm, and below them are the lords of the heavens and the main gods of each department.

Although the Sword Master's original realm was infinitely close to the Dao Realm, he himself did not know much about the Dao Realm. In fact, apart from the three founders of the three religions, no other living being in the world had comprehended the mysteries of the Dao Realm. Therefore, this one-step distance was like the difference between heaven and earth. He did not even have the qualifications to glimpse the scenery of the Dao Realm.

The great way is one.

Even if the founders of the three religions wanted to teach the world the mysteries of the Tao, they could not do it.

Everything can only be understood through intuition. All the immortals in the ancient heaven are unable to take this step without exception.