The Heart-Questioning Sword, an Unparalleled Half-Saint, and the Literary Palace's Second Sage Take the Stage!

Xu Qingxiao's voice rang out.

Heaven and earth fell utterly silent.

Indeed, the silence reached its absolute limit.

The earlier First Sword of the Gentleman had stripped the scholars of the world of their literary qi.

The Gentleman's Second Sword had left them in unbearable agony.

And this third sword was the Heart-Questioning Sword.

This sword shook the ages, questioning the heart of a gentleman.

Once the Heart-Questioning Sword appeared, it scattered throughout heaven and earth, and a Heart-Questioning Sword materialized before every scholar.

No one was exempt-not Chen Zhengru, not Wang Xinzhi, not even the scholars of the Great Wei Literary Palace.

A Gentleman's Sword appeared before each of them. Apart from Half-Saints, every scholar would face the punishment of the Heart-Questioning Sword.

Of course, it was not necessarily a punishment.

If your conscience was clear, if you had done what a gentleman ought to do, then this sword would have no effect on you.

But if you were a scholar of the Confucian Dao who considered yourself a gentleman, yet acted like a petty villain, would you still dare call yourself a gentleman?

Would you still have the face to say you were a gentleman?

The reasoning was straightforward.

Xu Qingxiao's sword was not meant to take their lives, but to make them truly feel pain.

Because the one who wanted these scholars dead was not him, but Sage Zhu.

Now that he had become a Half-Saint, he could visit Sage Zhu's former residence to seek Sage Zhu's origin. Once he found it, that would be the Literary Palace's doomsday.

No, it would be the doomsday of Sage Zhu's Lineage throughout the world.

Their faith, their forefather, the only god in their hearts would emerge and give them a ruthless lesson. Xu Qingxiao even felt that, with Sage