"Have you all immortal friends seen clearly?" Yu Linfeng called out. "This is the character 'Confucian,' personally written by Senior Kong Liwen of the Confucian school. When he wrote this scroll, he had already stepped one foot into the realm of the Literary Star. Thus, even the auspicious clouds of Five Qi Ascending to the Origin could draw down starlight from beyond the heavens, shattering evil and driving out demons!"
"If this writing had been penned by Confucius, Sage Confucius himself, there would surely have been but a single cloud of clear qi, and that Vast Righteous Qi would be neither dense nor faint. Let alone drawing down starlight—even someone with slightly poor eyesight might not have been able to see it at all!" Fu Zhiwen sighed. "What a pity. I had only heard of the handwriting of great Confucian scholars before; this was also my first time seeing it!"
"Oh, why was that?" Xiao Hua was somewhat puzzled.
"Confucianism emphasizes The Doctrine of the Mean. The Mean is neither biased nor tilted, neither excessive nor insufficient; it is the ordinary principle, what Heaven's mandate naturally dictates, the utmost refinement of subtlety. Master Confucius's Vast Righteous Qi must have been tranquil and without trace, entirely devoid of mortal smoke and fire!"
"This Xiao understands!" Xiao Hua nodded. Though he did not entirely understand the meaning of those words, among Daoist spells, those that shone brilliantly were not necessarily tremendously powerful. On the contrary, spells containing terrifying force were often exceedingly restrained, never wasting spiritual qi for no reason.
Seeing Yu Linfeng put away the Wen Scroll and the Vast Righteous Qi soaring into the sky vanish, Xiao Hua listened to the competing bids below and felt an itch in his heart as well. He secretly wondered whether he should get