The Confucian Way to Sagehood
Chapter 992

The birth of Historical Records

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"Fortunately, the second volume is History of the Azure Mountain Ancestral Emperor. The Azure Mountain Ancestral Emperor belonged to the Giant Clan, but he was a wild giant of the lowest order. At birth, he was equivalent to a Demon General, among the weakest of the Giant Race. Yet he eventually grew into an Ancestral Emperor, the equivalent of an Ancestral God among the demon barbarians or a Saint of the Human Race like Sage Kong."

As Fang Yun thought of the Azure Mountain Ancestral Emperor, reverence welled up in him, even though this was someone of another race whom he had never met. He was not merely an Ancestral Emperor, but the first Ancestral Emperor of the ancient demons. He had risen during their dark age after the Prison-Suppressing Evil Dragon was subdued, growing step by step until he finally ascended to Ancestral Emperor. He had held the famed Azure Mountain Plain and driven back the many Saints of the Dragon Race, ushering in the Year of Dawn and giving the Ancient Demon Clan the conditions to flourish-or, perhaps, merely to cling to life.

The Azure Mountain Ancestral Emperor was not the strongest ancient demon, but he was the Ancient Demon Clan's eternal spiritual leader.

While planning History of the Ancient Demons, Fang Yun had already been moved by the Azure Mountain Ancestral Emperor's deeds.

Fang Yun withdrew from his Literary Palace and discovered that the first volume of the first part of his History of the Ancient Demons had already been bound into a book by an invisible force. Waves of strange energy radiated from it, brimming with mysterious power.

Since the Book of Documents and the Spring and Autumn Annals both fell within the category of historical works, accounting for a third of Confucius's Six Classics, the

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