The sight left not only the students of Purple Sun Academy bewildered, but the Southern Border's Demon Sect as well.
Bathed in the vast fortune of the Confucian School, the Devil Lord of All Living looked less like a lord of the Devil Dao than a Confucian sage.
Master Dong seemed to realize something. "In the Southern Border, this Devil Master built schools and taught the people of its old tribes to read and write."
"He made carts run on the same tracks and books use the same script. That was what the sages of Purple Sun Academy advocated."
Even Purple Sun Academy itself had failed to achieve that. In the end, the territory under its authority was too small.
Learning could not spread beyond the Academy's lands. Like a tree without roots, it could do nothing, no matter how fervently the sages urged it.
Yet for such a feat to come from the hands of a Devil Master seemed especially strange.
And still, the signs had been there all along.
The Devil Master was most often seen dressed in a Confucian robe.
His disciple Tian Jingxu also looked like a scholar, and someone had once seen him use methods of the Confucian Way.
They had assumed Tian Jingxu simply favored the Confucian Way. Only now did they learn that its roots lay with the Devil Lord of All Living.
Shock filled the Ultimate Dao Elder's face. "Devil Master, you truly are unfathomable."
His seniority was immense. Within the Demon Sect, those of his generation were now as rare as phoenix feathers and qilin horns.
He and the Devil Lord of All Living had entered the Demon Sect in roughly the same generation. Both had been unrivaled in their brilliance, and in those days, he had still seen the man