Cannons Against the Netherworld, a Surprise Assault on the White Lotus! (A Big Chapter to Repay My Debt)

The bright sound of reading rang across the entire Brocade Land.

Here was the Han Sacred Clan's place of study, as well as the Confucian Heart Realm of Sacred Hall Master Han Changli.

In this realm, talent was still important, but hard work possessed an astonishing power as well.

A Half-Saint had once judged that anyone who studied here diligently would see their potential increase by at least thirty percent.

In other words, someone whose talent would originally have stopped at the Fourth Rank could forge a future as a Third Rank Great Scholar here.

That was the wondrous effect of the "Realm of Diligent Study."

Engraved within this Confucian Heart Realm was Han Changli's sacred question: How does one advance in learning?

The answer was the rule of this Confucian Heart Realm—

There is a road through the Mountain of Books, with diligence as its path; the Sea of Learning has no shore, with toil as its boat!

In the previous dynasty, the two Half-Saints Sun Jing and Su Qin had evolved the rule Divine Abilities "Beam-Hanging" and "Thigh-Piercing," raising the potential of human scholars. But Han Changli was the first person to turn such an enhancement into the rules of a Confucian Heart Realm.

When he had become a Saint and opened the Brocade Land, Book Lord Yan Qingchen had personally written the sacred text "Exhortation to Learning" to suppress this realm—

"Three watch's lamp, five watch's cock—the finest time for a young man to study."

"Black-haired, he knows not that he should study early; white-haired, he regrets only then that he studied late."

At that moment, Han Changli was reading the first few chapters of Journey to the West beneath a ginkgo tree when he suddenly sensed something. He closed the book and looked ahead.

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