Chapter 715: 300. Movie Star Senior and Junior Brothers (two-in-one Chapter)_3

Though the water’s force was great, it did not harm Chu Kun and the others nearby, nor did it affect the pure white radiance that was rising to the heavens, summoning the Global Spiritual Qi.

The long river roared and surged forward, attacking the enemy and, impressively, even managed to lift up Master Faming, Chu Kun, and the others as well.

With the water’s momentum, Chu Kun and Master Faming’s counterattacks became even harder to resist.

After Fang Yue spoke, the water moved with his will, capable of injuring enemies on its own while coordinating with his allies.

What impressed Lei Jun even more than the magnitude of the water’s momentum was its precision and persistence.

Seeing Fang Yue’s formidable display, the other Heavenly Order Cultivators swiftly joined forces, launching a myriad of ink characters upon him like a meteor shower.

But the spiritual energy drawn from Chapters and verses that Fang Yue had just condensed did not merely manifest as a single massive river of spiritual energy.

A continuous range of mountains rose, towering into the clouds, suspended above the Vast Sea.

The innumerable peaks stood side by side, forming an impregnable wall and fortress that blocked all the ink characters flying like shooting stars.

From a distance, Lei Jun saw the mountains, as if real, crack continuously where struck by the ink characters, with rocks tumbling and sliding down.

Yet, the mountains themselves stood tall, unmoved.

In the exchange of blows among Lower Three Heavens cultivators, the Great Tang Cultivators held an overwhelming advantage over the Scholarly Cultivators.

In the clashes within the Middle Three Heavens, both parties at the same level were generally evenly matched.

In the Upper Three Heavens contests, the Heavenly Order Cultivators began to take the upper hand.

If the Great Tang Cultivators risked attacking first, they could easily jeopardize themselves.

Yet Fang Yue’s move combined both offense and defense.

The continuous mountains that soared into the clouds, unaffected by the opponent’s ink characters, were soon controlled by Fang Yue himself, shaking the earth and causing large tracts of mountain peaks to collapse voluntarily.

The terrifying boulders fell as if from the sky itself, crushing all nearby Scholarly Cultivators and pressing them fiercely towards the ocean floor.

If Fang Yue’s opponents had been given more time to prepare, and their methods—like Prescribed Doctrines, the Ancestor System, and the Principle Constants—grew stronger over time, this battle might still have held some suspense.

But now, they were directly overwhelmed on the spot.

Fang Yue’s expression betrayed no triumph.

Although he could defeat Seventh Heaven Layer Scholarly Great Scholars of the same realm, on average, Scholarly Cultivators blessed by fate surpassed most of the Confucian Chanting Sect’s Seventh Heaven Layer Great Scholars.

Despite seeming stern and rigid, Scholarly Cultivators possessed extraordinary insight.

Having interacted with them extensively, Fang Yue had come to understand the situation.

In the great realms of Confucian cultivation, no matter which Taoist Heritage one followed, the First Heaven Layer was generally known as Enlightenment, and the cultivation process was also largely the same.

The name for the Second Heaven Layer also largely remained the same across different lineages, collectively called Qi Cultivating.

However, the specific cultivation process at the Second Heaven Layer began to diverge.

Hence, it was also customary to refer to the Scripture Studies lineage’s Second Heaven Layer as the Self-Cultivation Realm.

To refer to the Chanting Sect’s Second Heaven Layer as the Rhythm Entry Realm.

And to the Divine Archer Lineage’s Second Heaven Layer as the Bow Drawing Realm.

This kind of nomenclature has its origins in antiquity.

The Confucian Cultivators of the Heavenly Principle were no exception to this. 𝘧𝘳𝘦ℯ𝓌𝘦𝒷𝘯𝑜𝑣𝘦𝓁.𝒸𝘰𝓂

Apart from the Enlightenment Realm of the First Heaven Layer, which is the same for everyone, Scholarly Cultivators typically referred to their Second Heaven Layer as the Qi of Reason Realm.

This is one of the most basic and core foundations of the Scholarly Cultivator lineage.

In the union of principle and qi, principle is the body, and qi is the application.

Principle is the foundation of everything, being the destination to which all methods and things return.

One of the significant methods of Scholarly Cultivators is likewise known as Qi of Reason.

In actual combat, its role is mainly reflected in quickly discerning some of the opponent’s mysteries and turning them to one’s own use, deriving various Qi of Reason regulations.

This was almost invariably one of the life-bound Skills each Scholarly Cultivator mastered at the Second Heaven Layer.

As their cultivation progressed to the Middle Three Heavens and Upper Three Heavens stages, this skill would also sublimate and develop further.

Lei Jun’s perspective in this regard was similar to Fang Yue’s.

Even though he had many reservations about this world’s Scholarly Cultivation methods, he was still interested in some of their unique aspects.

Lei Jun looked back at Chu Kun and Fang Yue; his own actions were by no means slow.

Purple Yang Thunder and black Yin Thunder emerged simultaneously. They merged to form the shape of the Taiji Diagram of Dual Polarity, suppressing the black qi that was surging up from the sea and rising towards the heavens.

The black qi was tenacious. Upon being attacked, it transformed further, extending into the shape of shackles and a cage, attempting to envelop Lei Jun in return.

This Scholarly sacrificial rite possessed a potent self-defense mechanism; if an external force attempted to interrupt the rite, it would immediately counterattack.

What interested Lei Jun was that at the core of this sacrificial rite, there was clearly also a Tai Chi Diagram.

However, it was not a Tai Chi Diagram imbued with Daoist Dharma Essence, but one wholly derived from Confucian Wenhua.

In this respect, Lei Jun was not particularly surprised.

In Ancient Times, the Taoist Heritages of Confucian Chanting, the Daoist Talisman Sect, and even the Divine Dance lineage of the Witchcraft Sect had intersecting points. It was not surprising for some common elements to exist between them.

But as each gradually developed its own complete system, such instances became rarer.

Yet, they had not entirely vanished.

The form of Taiji was one of these common elements, visible both in Taoist Sect traditions and Confucian Sect ones.

In the current Great Tang Cultivation World, it was more commonly seen in Taoist Sect practices.

Although it existed within the Confucian Sect, it was relatively rare.

However, in the contemporary Great Ming Cultivation World, within the mainstream tradition of Confucian Rationalism, the form of Taiji, in Lei Jun’s view, held a very significant position.

Of course, the sacrificial rite at hand posed no challenge to Lei Jun.

He could shatter it with brute force. Alternatively, he could employ his own Mana along with the power of the Dark Side of the Celestial Book to obliterate this Confucian Rationalism sacrificial rite.

But after carefully observing the opponent’s sacrificial rite, Lei Jun had other ideas.

Thus, he merely used his own Mana to condense a purple and black Dual Polarity Taiji, confronting the opponent’s Taiji form, which was constructed from Thick Ink.