Demon-Subduing Force Becomes a War Spear! Kill Confucian Cao! Slay the Second Sage! [Thanks to Smile Again for the Alliance Leader Donation]

Great Wei's Capital.

Everything had settled into peace.

All the phenomena, all the light, had fallen utterly still.

Two Half-Saints had summoned the Haoran Literary Bell and awakened a Second Sage.

This was truly a scene no one could have imagined.

The Great Wei Literary Palace still had a living Second Sage. How could that not shock people? How could they not be astounded?

As the light faded.

Within the Great Wei Literary Palace.

A figure slowly appeared. He was an old man, aged beyond all reason, seated on a meditation cushion. The cushion was a literary artifact, carrying him through the air.

The old man's hair was snowy white, his face deathly pale, almost without a trace of blood. The bags beneath his eyes were swollen so terribly that his eyes were barely visible. He was too old, as though he might die at any moment.

Yet this man was the Literary Palace's Second Sage.

A second-rank Second Sage of the Confucian Dao. One more step forward, and he would be a legendary Sage.

"It's Master Lü!"

"The Second Sage is Master Lü?"

"How is that possible? Didn't Master Lü pass away fifty years ago?"

"Who's Master Lü?"

"Shut up. Don't speak recklessly."

"Master Lü is still alive? By that reckoning, he's already two hundred years old!"

"A Sage who has lived for two hundred years. So it's Master Lü."

"Two hundred years ago, he was Great Wei's most dazzling Confucian Student. He could read at one, compose poetry at three, and entered the ranks at five. At ten, he reached Illuminating the Will; at fifteen, Establishing One's Words. At twenty, he became a Grand Confucian and entered the Literary Palace. Two hundred years ago, this Master Lü was truly no less remarkable than Sage Xu."

"Yes, that history