Third Mister spoke slowly, his tone carrying a measure of heaviness and disappointment. "You obtained Mister's Corpse Liberation Method. We thought you would devour the corpse qi he left behind and, through Statecraft Learning, completely end his influence over Great Qi. Who would have thought..."
His face was sorrowful, his voice low. "Who would have thought that you still walked Mister's old road. You single-handedly created the Nine Great Surnames, erased Mister's method of corpse liberation anew, and used marriages between the Lineages' surnames to perpetuate the corpse qi."
Su Jing remained calm at his words, neither confirming nor denying them.
Had Third Mister not been confined within the Academy year after year and never gone out, he might have discovered this long ago.
Though what Su Jing had done was secretive, some among the Nine Great Surnames had already noticed.
For instance, the Xie Clan's brothers, Xie Hong and Xie Ling.
And the Li Clan's two pillars of the state.
The Nine Great Surnames had indeed been founded by his own hand. The rise of the powerful clans was merely the continuation of the Corpse Liberation Method.
Third Mister said, "As long as the Nine Great Surnames do not wither away, you can continue shedding your corpse."
"Even if the Nine Great Surnames perish, so long as their descendants rise again in later generations, you can shed your corpse once more."
Su Jing merely sighed. "Mister's Corpse Liberation Method was far too thorough. He infused corpse qi into Great Qi, the Academy, and Confucian learning throughout the realm."
"As long as Great Qi did not fall, the Academy did not collapse, and the Confucian School did not die, the Master would exist forever. It was almost flawless. The six rebirths of corpse liberation were a method as steady as