"I was born human, yet know neither ritual law nor filial duty. I am no better than a beast!"
"Literary brilliance and the teachings of sages-these are the true light of wisdom!"
"I realize that today I am right, and yesterday I was wrong!"
On the spot, many Puppet Masters underwent a sudden change of heart, their wills wrested away.
"Wake up, all of you! Our Puppet Dao is the true light of civilization, the seed of wisdom!"
"The Dao of the sages is nothing beyond the daily lives of ordinary people; the Dao of heaven and earth is nothing beyond the creation divine art. All outside these are evil fiends!"
He Changnian and several other Puppet Master Grandmasters snapped out of it. Their vast wills enveloped the entire city, their warning words striking like a cudgel to the head and awakening the Puppet Masters whose resolve had wavered.
Under the all-pervading Confucian light, some Puppet Masters whose attainments were shallow, or whose faith in their own Dao Paths was lacking, were about to disgrace themselves on the spot. In severe cases, their Dao Hearts might even fall, turning them into followers of the Outer Dao.
There had been cases in the past of Puppet Masters converted by the Confucian Dao, willingly serving its bidding as traitorous insiders and bringing immense destruction upon the Puppet Dao.
But the Confucian Dao valued loyalty, trustworthiness, filial piety, and fraternal respect. Among such people, it still placed some value on those with high status and great influence, or took them to the Other Continent to spread the arts of craftsmen. Those of low standing and little strength, however, were treated as nothing more than dogs and swine.
Yet even knowing they were unwelcome, those people still savored it like honey, breaking all the