Confucian and Taoist scholar

Chapter 6 The awe-inspiring spirit
Meng Sheng looked at Lu Zheng and said with a kind smile, "I am good at cultivating my great spirit. Are you willing to learn from me?"

"The students are willing!" Lu Zheng answered without hesitation.

A saint wants to teach him the Dharma, so why would he hesitate about such a thing?
Meng Sheng smiled and nodded, then raised his hand and pointed a finger at Lu Zheng's brow.

Suddenly, Lu Zheng felt that there was some more information in his memory, which was about the method of cultivating the great righteousness.

Meng Sheng said leisurely, "These are troubled times. Nations are at war, demons are everywhere, and people's lives are suffering. Cultivating oneself, managing one's family, and governing one's country are the righteous path, while subduing demons and eliminating evil can also safeguard the Way. You should correct your original heart, uphold benevolence and righteousness, and cultivate a noble spirit. Be good to yourself."

"Student will remember this!" Lu Zheng hurriedly bowed again respectfully.

Meng Sheng said no more, his figure became illusory, and disappeared in the hall in the blink of an eye.

An invisible and gentle force pushed Lu Zheng and led him out of the Haoran Zhengqi Hall.

Lu Zheng suddenly opened his eyes and returned to the outside world.

Lu Zheng: Confucian scholar

[Realm: Second Level of Confucianism and Taoism (Scholar)]

[Literary Aura: 160/1000 (Literary Aura is both righteous and upright)]

[Note: Studying, cultivating oneself, and eliminating evil and upholding morality can all enhance one's literary spirit.]

Lu Zheng felt the changes in himself, his literary aura had transformed into righteousness.

The great and upright energy is the most masculine and masculine energy, which is a qualitative improvement compared to ordinary literary energy.

Among Confucian and Taoist scholars, there are very few who can cultivate a sense of righteousness.

Lu Zheng put two fingers of his right hand together, and his righteous energy transformed into an air blade more than a foot long.

After receiving the teachings from Meng Sheng, Lu Zheng gained a deeper understanding of how to use his own power.

"Good good!"

Lu Zheng was very satisfied and felt that he was invincible.

He looked at the line of notes again and realized that in addition to studying to improve himself and doing just things, he could also improve his literary style.

Thinking of this, Lu Zheng turned his gaze and looked towards the gloomy mass grave.

He walked briskly to look for the ghosts and spirits that existed in this place.

After a while, Lu Zheng saw a ghost with a bloody and murderous aura wandering around.

He quickened his pace and soon came close to the ghost. He gathered energy from his fingers into blades and slashed at the ghost.

The righteous energy struck the ghost, splitting it into two in an instant.

The ghost had no time to react and in the blink of an eye turned into wisps of green smoke and disappeared.

[You killed a first-level evil spirit, doing a righteous deed, Wen Qi +1.]

As expected! Lu Zheng raised his eyebrows.

It is not unreasonable to say that killing demons and monsters can gain literary energy.

In ancient times, Confucian gentlemen were able to both write and wield swords to eliminate evil. They were people who were both civil and military.

In later generations, the two paths of civil and military affairs gradually diverged, and today's scholars tend to emphasize civil over military affairs.

"A little literary flair..." Lu Zheng murmured.

To be honest, killing a first-level evil ghost will increase your literary value by a small amount.

If I could kill seven or eight hundred of them, I would be able to break through to the third level of Confucianism and Taoism, which would be faster than studying for the imperial examinations.

Of course, Lu Zheng didn’t think there were so many evil spirits here for him to kill.

Moreover, things like slaying demons and eliminating evil are somewhat dangerous.

So Lu Zheng decided to learn from the ancient gentlemen. He had to slay demons and monsters, and he also had to study and do research.

Both hands must be grasped, both hands must be hard!
After killing an evil ghost, Lu Zheng continued to search for targets in the mass grave.

He did not kill ghosts indiscriminately, but only targeted those evil ghosts and fierce ghosts that emitted red light and murderous aura.

In the mountains, a grave covered with three feet of grass stood before a large ghost sitting on a broken tombstone. The ghost looked like an ordinary human, but it was filled with a bloody and murderous aura, and a thick yin energy lingered around it.

Suddenly, the evil ghost turned his head and saw a young man walking towards him.

Its eyes paused. It was rare to see living people at this time of the year.

At this time, Lu Zheng was restraining his breath. He would only release his righteous energy when he was about to take action, so as not to scare the ghost away before he got close to it.

Therefore, this evil ghost only felt the yang energy emanating from Lu Zheng, and did not feel any other aura.

A man and a ghost met and looked at each other.

Lu Zheng could clearly see that this evil ghost was different from the evil ghosts he had killed before. It should be a second-level evil ghost.

He was the first to speak, breaking the silence. "Have you ever seen a female ghost in red named Zhusha?"

Seeing that this evil ghost seemed to have some intelligence, Lu Zheng wanted to ask it about cinnabar.

Cinnabar? The evil spirit was stunned when it heard this. It had never heard of this name.

But the evil spirit said in a muffled voice, "What do you want to do with her?"

Lu Zheng's heart moved, and he said, "She usually comes to see me at night, but she has disappeared in the past two days. So I thought of coming here to look for her. I wonder if you know where she is?"

The evil ghost sneered inwardly upon hearing this. It turned out that he was a lustful person! This person might have been bewitched by the female ghost.

The evil ghost grinned, waved his hand, and said sinisterly, "Come here, I'll tell you where she is."

Lu Zheng pretended to be unaware of the danger and quickly stepped closer, saying, "Thank you, sir. If you can find cinnabar, I will..."

Before Lu Zheng could finish his words, the evil ghost, with red light emanating from its body, pounced towards him.

Seeing the evil spirit approaching, Lu Zheng's eyes lit up.

Suddenly, Lu Zheng released a righteous energy from his body.

The evil ghost actually charged towards Haoran Zhengqi headfirst, and had no time to stop.

It was as if the dough was put into a pan of boiling oil.

Wisps of green smoke began to burn from the evil ghost's body, making a sizzling sound, and the ghost gradually disappeared.

"what……"

The evil ghost let out a shrill scream and tried to retreat.

Lu Zheng stretched out both hands and grabbed the evil ghost tightly.

The evil ghost could not break free and could only feel the heat all over his body. The whole ghost felt like it was burned by fire and was in great pain.

"Where is she?" Lu Zheng asked coldly.

The evil spirit said hurriedly: "I don't know who Zhu Sha is, please let me go..."

"You don't know?" Lu Zheng frowned.

The evil ghost cried out in pain, "I really don't know, I just wanted to trick you into coming closer so that I could absorb your yang energy... In this mountain, I'm the only ghost with spiritual intelligence. There are no female ghosts who seduce people."

Hearing this, Lu Zheng couldn't help but ask, "Don't know? Then what's the point of keeping you?"

After saying that, Lu Zheng raised one hand, gathered his righteous energy, and punched the evil ghost.

After a round of punches, the evil ghost was beaten to ashes.

[You killed a second-level evil spirit, clearing a mountain of hidden dangers. Your Wen Qi +10.]

"Huh!" Lu Zheng shook his fist, still feeling a little unsatisfied.

The key to strength restraint is that he can even defeat this second-level evil spirit so badly that the opponent cannot fight back.

Although he did not find out any news about Cinnabar, Lu Zheng had already learned that there were no powerful ghosts in this mass grave.

He decided to take this opportunity to clean up the place thoroughly to prevent any more evil spirits from harming people here. This could be considered as doing good deeds.

(End of this chapter)