"They cultivated no true methods and comprehended no Great Dao."
"They constantly recited the sages' classics, putting them into practice, earning the common people's reliance and a resonance between Heaven and humanity, and thus nurtured a breath of Haoran Qi within their hearts."
"This Qi could scourge benighted rulers above and soothe the people below, eradicate the poisonous evil of illicit shrines and sacrifices, and suppress the sinister machinations of evil sects and heterodox paths."
"They planned for the nation and its people, carrying out the Way on Heaven's behalf."
"Only at planning for themselves were they inept..."
The sages' classics from the Confucian scholar's memories flashed rapidly through his mind.
Wang Ba reflected:
So that was it... the Great Qian Imperial Clan had controlled Emperor Pole Continent's cultivation resources for years, filling the cultivators among the populace with complaints. Sect cultivators and rogue cultivators who opposed the Great Qian Dynasty had emerged in an endless stream.
And these Confucian scholars were, in fact, important tools the Great Qian Imperial Clan used to rule the entire Emperor Pole Continent.
Though these scholars had no Dao methods to protect themselves, they could nurture Haoran Qi through these so-called sages' classics, thereby resonating with certain rules between Heaven and Earth. Combined with the mechanical arts in each city that had special suppressive effects on ordinary cultivators, they protected their territories and kept the people at peace, sparing the Great Qian Imperial Clan the effort of managing an enormous continent so it could focus on cultivation.
*The scholars themselves had limited lifespans and no means of protecting themselves. Even if they wished to resist the Great Qian Imperial Clan's rule, they had no possibility of doing so... most importantly, this Confucian Dao Method required no spiritual root, yet allowed mortals to indirectly grasp