"After nurturing your qi, you need to learn how to use it."
"Qi has endless wondrous uses."
"In a scholar's mouth, it can become spears of the lips and swords of the tongue, or arrows of metal and stone."
"In a Daoist priest's mouth, it can summon wind and rain, clouds and snow, thunder and lightning."
"In a monk's mouth, it can become sacred chants and Buddhist light, or the karmic flames of the red lotus."
"The Mohist School's mechanisms, the Agricultural School's nourishing rain, the Legalist School's decrees, the Medical School's hundred herbs..."
"Even novelists, painters, calligraphers, and the like can all put it to use."
At this point, Li Chungang said, "Why don't you give it a try and see what abilities you can use?"
"All right."
At those words, Lin Ke immediately calmed his mind and sensed the power of reform filling his body. A moment later, he cried softly, "Hear startling thunder where all is silent!"
Boom!!
Lin Ke opened his mouth and spat out a bolt of violet-blue lightning, which shot straight at Li Chungang.
Li Chungang raised an eyebrow at the sight. Without another word, he swept his broad sleeve, and the lightning vanished as though it had struck the surface of water.
"That actually reached mid-first-realm strength!" Butcher Zhang shouted from the sidelines. "But judging by your aura, you've only just entered the first realm!"
"And you really can use the Confucian School's power..." Li Chungang sounded somewhat astonished too.
"My dear disciple, this Reformer School of yours is something else!" Wang Lin stroked her chin as she studied Lin Ke, then smacked her lips. "Have you considered the Doujin School? It's a school I founded myself, mainly focused on two men..."
"That's enough, Master." Lin Ke hurriedly interrupted Wang Lin. "Do you