Spiritual energy resurgence? My former empress wife has also revived!

Qin Zijun and the others followed Zhu Bailu to the small house in the courtyard.

As for the old man who yelled "beast," Qin Zijun personally ordered that he wouldn't get any chicken legs tonight!

Zhu Bailu invited the group to sit down.

As a Confucian sage, Zhu Bailu was respectful to Qin Zijun, but not overly formal.

Wang Shu asked Zhu Bailu where the tea set and tea leaves were, as she wanted to brew the tea herself.

Zhu Bailu immediately got up, insisting on pouring it himself, how could he let Wang Shu, who was a guest and the Moon Goddess, do this job?

However, under Wang Shu's insistence and Qin Zijun's persuasion, Zhu Bailu had no choice but to sit down and cup his hands in greeting to Wang Shu: "This disciple is ashamed, then I will trouble the Moon Goddess!"

Wang Shu glanced smugly at Miss Jiang and Lou Guanxue, as if to say, "Look how respectful this Confucian sage is to me, and look at you two!"

Miss Jiang ignored Wang Shu's youngest daughter's thoughts.

Lou Guanxue chuckled inwardly.

How could you, a mere goddess of the moon, possibly imagine the likes of my ancestor!

Wang Shu went to brew tea.

Zhu Bailu sat upright, like a student being questioned by a teacher.

However, this time, before Qin Zijun could ask, he took the initiative to say, "I already know what the Sage has come for, and I will certainly speak frankly and without reservation!"

It's almost impossible to guess Qin Zijun's purpose in coming; anyone with a normal IQ could guess it.

As he spoke,

Zhu Bailu cupped his hands again to Miss Jiang: "Your Majesty, please don't blame me. This matter is of great importance, and I dare not say more."

"That Dharma-ending Age was so strange and bizarre that some people even suspected it might be related to the demonic path."

"Having experienced reincarnation, I am very wary of this new world. The Emperor suddenly came to find me, and I have never met him before. I do not know who he is or what his character is like, so I dare not say more."

"Our Confucianism governs the world with rites, educates all people, and attaches great importance to people's livelihood and the inheritance of civilization."

"If I misjudge the Empress and do something wrong, I will gladly die ten thousand times over."

Zhu Bailu was frank and open, stating that his initial distrust of the Empress was the reason he ignored her.

Miss Jiang smiled and said, "Mr. Zhu's actions are perfectly reasonable. I am not an unreasonable person, and I can understand Mr. Zhu's decision."

"On the contrary, I've placed Mr. Zhu under 'house arrest' here. I hope you won't blame me."

Both of them were reasonable and polite, and with Qin Zijun present, any lingering resentment between them vanished in just a few words.

Zhu Bailu said, "Even if the Sage hadn't come, I had already decided to speak frankly to the Emperor."

"I have lived in the land of China for some time now, and I am deeply impressed by the Emperor's ability to govern the world. I also know that the Emperor is a rare and wise ruler in the world."

"If I had met a wise ruler like the Emperor in my past life, I would have devoted myself to serving him!"

His words were neither polite nor flattery.

This Confucian sage was open-minded and spoke only his true thoughts.

Even without Qin Zijun, he was prepared to make peace with Miss Jiang.

Miss Jiang joked, "Why a past life? If I were to ask Mr. Zhu to come out of seclusion and assist me now, what would you say?"

Zhu Bailu laughed heartily: "That is indeed my wish, but I dare not ask!"

As she spoke, Miss Jiang, much like someone in an ancient Chinese novel, recruited a chief advisor.

Zhu Bailu's expression turned serious as he looked at Qin Zijun and said with delight, "It is already an immense blessing that I have been able to be reincarnated and live a second life."

"I feel extremely honored to be able to see a saint in person in this lifetime."

"If Bai Sheng knew that I had such good fortune, he would probably jump out of his coffin and curse me."

He spoke with humor: "Besides the joy of meeting the sage, students also hope that the sage can guide them on the right path."

"Perhaps there is a sage who can unlock the secrets of the Dharma-ending Age, or even prevent its arrival."

Qin Zijun frowned and said, "Please explain the situation first, I cannot give you any guarantees."

Although Qin Zijun is the "Primordial Great Luo Heaven", he dares not say that he can solve all problems.

He will not make promises he is not certain of.

You see, I haven't become an immortal yet; this is something I can't do for now.

Wang Shu then brewed the tea and brought over cups of hot tea.

Having done all this, Wang Shu sat beside Qin Zijun, listening to Zhu Bailu's explanation.

Qin Zijun tapped her fingers on the armrest of the wooden chair: "Judging from what you've said, this Dharma-ending Age doesn't seem to have completely ended; it's affecting the modern world... to be precise, Earth?"

Zhu Bailu nodded slowly, his expression extremely serious, and said in a low voice, "Even though students are under house arrest in modern society, they can still access the internet and have seen many people's speculations online."

"I think not only online, but also officially, people are speculating that the emergence of spiritual energy in modern society is a resurgence of spiritual energy, right?"

Miss Jiang nodded.

A place that was originally devoid of spiritual energy suddenly becomes spiritually vibrant. What else could this be but a revival of spiritual energy?

A thought struck her, and she asked, "Don't you think this is a resurgence of spiritual energy?"

Zhu Bailu gritted his teeth and said, "That's right, this is definitely not a resurgence of spiritual energy!"

"If the students are correct, this is probably just a last gasp before the storm!"

"A last gasp before death?" Miss Jiang, Lou Guanxue, and Wang Shu exclaimed in unison.

The term "last flicker of life" refers to a brief period of lucidity or improvement in a person's condition before death.

If Zhu Bailu says this is a final burst of energy before death, doesn't that mean the earth is going to perish?

This might not just mean the end of Earth, but the end of the world, the universe?

If that's true, it's a huge deal.

Miss Jiang looked stern, Lou Guanxue bit her lip, and Wang Shu looked around blankly.

Having finally lived another life, and having achieved their greatest wish, they hope that this happiness can last even longer.

If this is a final burst of energy before death, doesn't that mean they won't live much longer?

Perhaps this incredible reincarnation is just a final burst of energy before death?

It's like when someone is about to die, they suddenly recover.

These cultivators at the upper three realms suddenly came back to life, much like someone who had suddenly recovered from an illness.

But this also means that the end is fast approaching.

Of course, if this brief resurgence could last for ten thousand years, then Miss Jiang and the others wouldn't care.

If I could live for another ten thousand years, and stay with Qin Zijun for ten thousand years, then dying would be the end of it.

Qin Zijun did not react much.

It wasn't that he didn't believe Zhu Bailu's words; his intuition told him that Zhu Bailu was right, and this was indeed a final burst of energy before death.

But Qin Zijun had a vague feeling that this was not just a final burst of energy before death, but also concealed other secrets.

Qin Zijun said, "Why do you think this is a deathbed rally? What evidence do you have? Words are not enough. Since you say so, you must have seen something to make you think this way."

Zhu Bailu took a deep breath: "That's right, this is also my biggest secret, a secret I dared not tell the Empress before."

"From the time the sage was born, taught the world, and created the Confucian method of cultivation, until the end of the Dharma-ending Age, when his students passed away, it will be about 200,000 years later."

"In the past, cultivators of the Immortal Path did not remember history, which often led to the interruption of traditions and the collapse of civilizations."

"But Confucian practitioners are different. Twenty thousand years after the passing of the sage, one of the hundred sages of Confucianism took it upon himself to record history. His lineage of Confucian disciples recorded the history of the next two hundred thousand years in great detail."

"These disciples are scattered throughout the Four Realms. Confucian cultivators in the Upper Three Realms also frequently cross the star seas to exchange ideas with other realms, thereby integrating the history of the Four Realms and ensuring the continuity of the lineage!"

At this point, Zhu Bailu revealed a hint of pride.

Among the cultivators of the past, there may have been those with extraordinary talents and those who dominated their era.

However, their cultivation was disordered; they only mastered supernatural powers themselves, but did not make significant contributions to ordinary mortals or to the civilized society of cultivation.

Confucian practitioners, however, pursue the perpetuation of civilization, ensuring its unbroken transmission from generation to generation.

The history of the Immortal Path, which has baffled countless cultivators, was actually recorded in detail during the last two hundred thousand years of the Immortal Path era.

Zhu Bailu was lost in thought, as if recalling the past, and murmured, "I am the last Taiqing Realm cultivator of the Confucian school, and also the last Taiqing Realm cultivator of the Immortal Dao era."

"When the student passed away, the world was no longer even a tiny piece of land, and not a single one of the myriad races remained. All the lineages of immortality were severed."

"At that time, the students knew that if they went there, the path to immortality would be destroyed, all races would perish, and the flame of immortality would be extinguished forever."

"Therefore, with the consent of the last king of the Xia Kingdom, I took away the supreme Daoist weapon of my Confucianism at the cost of the destruction of the country and the extinction of the clan, namely the two books 'De' and 'Li' written by you, Sage."

"With this supreme weapon, the student summoned the combined power of a hundred saints, and finally overcame all obstacles, burning his own life as the price to see everything."

His words caused Miss Jiang, Lou Guanxue, and Wang Shu to sit up straight involuntarily. It was the last despair of the Immortal Era, the final madness after everyone had lost all hope.

Zhu Bailu made a mistake in one of his statements.

He is probably not only the last person to reach the Taiqing Realm, but also the last Confucian sage.

He is probably the last living being in the cultivation world!

Qin Zijun asked in a deep voice, "What did you see?"

"A book!"

Zhu Bailu's tone was blank and incredulous: "The student saw a book, a golden book!"