Crossing the River, Ferrying Others, Ferrying the Self

Wu Fan's information was treated with great importance. Once it had been confirmed as genuine, the Buddhist Teaching immediately notified the others.

The Federation was not something any single teaching or faction could contend with, and the Fifth World Gate was of immense importance. No matter what, it could not be taken lightly.

Had they received news of the Fifth World Gate in the past, the Buddhist Teaching might well have suppressed everything, monopolized the World Gate, developed the Buddhist Teaching, and turned it into a Buddhist kingdom upon the earth.

But with the Federation's pressure bearing down on them now, all such petty thoughts were cast aside.

The matter quickly received responses from the Daoist and Confucian Teachings as well.

Wu Fan could sense the space around them compressing in an instant. Then several figures appeared before them.

Dongming, a practitioner of the Confucian mythological martial art Endless Sea of Learning, was among them. The ability that had compressed space earlier was precisely one of the divine abilities within Endless Sea of Learning, Near Yet Far.

Endless Sea of Learning emphasized investigating things to attain knowledge. Its essence was much the same as the Bell and Cauldron Studies Scripture, both primarily concerned with studying the principles of heaven and earth. Yet Endless Sea of Learning differed from the Bell and Cauldron Studies Scripture in one respect.

Every generation of practitioners could develop one or more divine abilities through their research, then record them in Endless Sea of Learning. By now, dozens of major and minor divine abilities had been recorded within it. As long as successors comprehended them, they could learn them, and even teach them to other students.

Thus, among the Three Teachings, the Confucian Teaching held the greatest influence, because it had the largest number of disciples.