Third-Realm Chess Way, Falling Stars Form an Army

The moment he heard Qu Hange's first sentence, Fang Yun understood: before the Literary Battle, Qu Hange had received the power of the Saint Zong Star Position!

Yet the Sacred Way Qu Hange had chosen was Shi Jiao's—the Way of Shizi among the Hundred Schools.

Shizi had not only been acquainted with Shang Yang, but had also been one of the principal enlighteners of the Miscellaneous School. He had praised Confucius and Mencius as well, yet for various reasons, he had failed to attain Saint Enfeoffment. Later, Lü Buwei absorbed Shizi's ideas and fused the Hundred Schools into The Lüshi Chunqiu, achieving Saint Enfeoffment in one stroke and becoming the Miscellaneous School's first Half-Sage.

All directions above and below were space, called yu; ancient past and present future were time, called zhou. The concept of the universe had been proposed by Shizi.

However, because the Miscellaneous School greedily sought breadth and completeness, it was unable to bring the Way of the Universe to its utmost limit. The School of Historians could trace time itself, the Legalist School could imprison all things, and the Craftsmen School could create an entire realm. In many respects, they had already surpassed Shizi's Sacred Way.

Though the Shizi Sacred Way was a path the Miscellaneous School was bound to study, very few had mastered it. Even the Saint Zong had not devoted his full efforts to researching it. Yet when this Cosmic Sacred Way was paired with the power of the School of Historians or the Legalist School, its effects were exceptional; when paired with the Chess Way, it was even more extraordinary.

However, the Shizi Sacred Way was merely one Sacred Way direction of the Miscellaneous School. Like most Sacred Ways, it was incomplete, still vastly inferior to the Sacred Ways established by the