The Sage of Confucianism and Taoism

Chapter 988 September Crisis!

Ji Zhibai got off the armored ox cart, feeling agitated in his heart. He looked at the door of Zuo Xiang's residence, and as usual, he knocked on the door knocker and said, "Students have come to pay homage to their mentor."

Normally, the concierge would have come running over and even called Master Ji, but today, no one opened the door for a long time, and finally an impatient voice was heard from inside.

"Who?"

Ji Zhibai frowned, patted the door knocker hard, and said loudly: "Student Ji Zhibai, please pay homage to your mentor!"

"Wait a minute!"

After a while, the door opened with a creak, revealing the head of a middle-aged man, who said impatiently: "Who is it? Oh? It turns out to be Lord Ji. Look at me, I'm so old. It's so late, you What is this going to do?”

Ji Zhibai clenched his fists tightly, with flames of humiliation and anger surging in his eyes. He wanted to punch the concierge on the bridge of his nose. As the proud disciple of Zuo Xiang and the top scholar in the country, how could he have ever been so despised by the concierge!

Ji Zhibai did not argue with the concierge, but coldly cupped his hands and said, "I want to pay my respects to my mentor."

The porter sighed softly and said, "The master has been very busy recently and it's getting late. Why don't you, Master Ji, please come back first and wait until tomorrow?"

Ji Zhibai felt evil fire rushing through his head and almost turned around to leave, but he suppressed his anger with reason. He then took out a piece of broken silver from his purse, handed it to the concierge, forced out an ugly smile, and said, "Please be accommodating. I have something important to discuss.”

The porter put the broken silver in his mouth and bit it, then smiled and said: "Since Lord Ji said so, it's not easy for me to stop you, please!"

"Thank you."

Ji Zhibai entered the door, suppressed the anger in his heart, and walked slowly towards Zuo Xiang's study. Along the way, his mood was ups and downs, and he kept guessing what his mentor would look like when he saw him.

Along the way, he kept meeting servants or maids from Zuo Xiang's Mansion. These people were all respectful in front of him, but there was something in their eyes. Before Ji Zhibai could walk away, they started talking in low voices.

"Well, at first I wanted to be his concubine and show my kindness to him, but he didn't pay attention to me at all. Now? I still don't pay attention to him!"

"It's a pity. I had the chance to become the Prime Minister."

"Just him? Apart from our master, who in Panorama Country can compare with Fang Xusheng? He touches an egg against a stone, no one else can blame him!"

"A few days ago the housekeeper forbade us to discuss Ji Zhibai, but he doesn't bother to do anything about it these days."

"A Jinshi who cannot be an official and whose literary courage is broken, can he still be called a scholar? Let's wait for retirement..."

Ji Zhibai felt a stinging pain in his head and infinite sadness in his heart. He held it back in Ning'an County, and he held it back on the road, but facing the contempt of these servants, he almost couldn't control his emotions. However, he was the number one scholar in the country after all. With red eyes, he walked outside the study door.

The light in the study was on, and Ji Zhibai was about to knock on the door, but the door opened automatically, and a gentle voice came from inside.

"My master said that when you enter the Liu Mansion, you don't need to knock on the door. The concierge will be shot with a cane tomorrow."

Ji Zhibai couldn't bear it any longer, and big tears rolled down from his eyes.

"Teacher, the student is incompetent!" Ji Zhibai stepped into the study, saw Liu Shan's kind face, and looked at the many white hairs he had grown in just one year. His tears were like a curtain, covering the sky and the earth, and then he knelt down heavily.

Liu Shan stood up, quickly helped Ji Zhibai up, put his hands on Ji Zhibai's shoulders, looked up and down, nodded, and said with a kind smile: "Well, I suffered a lot, but I, Liu Shan, am still the best." student!"

"Teacher..." Ji Zhibai's tears flowed out like floods bursting from a dam, and then he burst into tears like a child.

Liu Shan patted Ji Zhibai's back gently, the circles under his eyes were slightly red, but they soon dissipated.

"Victory and defeat are common things for military officers. When I was a teacher, I was punished by the late emperor and almost collapsed, but I still survived? It's not your problem. It's because Fang's luck is too evil. It's not an exaggeration to say that he is the first genius in a thousand years. If he is a teacher If you met him back then, you would definitely be defeated. What does it mean to lose to a Void Saint?"

"Um……"

Liu Shan persuaded him kindly, and his voice contained the power to calm people's hearts. In just a moment, Ji Zhibai vented the negative emotions in his heart and cheered up.

"Teacher, I have joined Juwen Pavilion..." Ji Zhibai told what happened.

Liu Shan laughed dumbly and said: "I have thought about telling you in a few days. Since the young prince has come to visit me, I will tell you in advance that you are suitable to go to Bakong Mountain and make a comeback!"

"Yes!" Ji Zhibai cheered up. Although there was a look of decadence on his face, he was far more excited than when he entered the door.

Liu Shan smiled and said: "However, if we want to leave, we must leave after September."

Ji Zhibai couldn't suppress the excitement in his heart and asked in a low voice: "Teacher, can you tell me a little bit about the kind of person who took action against Fang Yun."

Liu Shan pondered for a moment and said: "If it were someone else, I wouldn't reveal even a single word. Since it's you, I'll reveal a little. Two Half-Saints took action!"

"What!" Ji Zhibai screamed, he was ecstatic at first, and then his smile disappeared, "Teacher, this is impossible! If the foreign semi-saints dare to enter Ning'an City, they will definitely force the saints in the holy courtyard to take action. , if the full power of "Spring and Autumn" is activated, it may directly kill hundreds of millions of grass barbarian creatures! Even if the Wolf Slaying Demon Saint is from the Ancestral God clan, he will definitely die."

Liu Shan smiled and said nothing, sat back in his seat, and looked at the bright moon outside the window.

Ji Zhibai showed doubts. After thinking for a long time, he suddenly realized and said: "I understand..." After saying that, he looked at the full moon outside the window like Liu Shan.

We share the beauty of the moon even though we are thousands of miles apart.

In the backyard of Ning'an City, Fang Yun's family was admiring the moon.

Ao Huang, Nu Nu, Yan Gui, Mo Nu, Wu Die and Xiao Meteor ran around the yard as if they were having fun.

"It's a little cold. If you get cold, go back to the house." Fang Yun said to Yang Yuhuan.

Yang Yuhuan smiled and said: "Thanks to you and Ao Huang, the great tonic has not been broken, and I have not been sick for many days. It doesn't matter if I am blown by the autumn wind. But you should pay more attention to your health and wait until dawn every day." Go to sleep."

"I don't have to worry about anything. I have enough talent. Even if I don't sleep all year round, it won't matter."

"Ji Zhibai's matter is over. You should be able to pass the next palace examination peacefully. As long as the palace examination is over, you will be the number one scholar." Yang Yuhuan said.

"I hope you'll be safe and sound." Fang Yun smiled and looked up at the full moon in the sky, with a flash of worry in his eyes.

Yang Yuhuan focused all his attention on Fang Yun, vaguely aware that Fang Yun seemed worried, and asked in a low voice: "Could they still stop you?"

"Don't be afraid of ten thousand, just be afraid of the unexpected. There is nothing wrong with being careful." Fang Yun said.

"Too."

Fang Yun looked at the full moon in the sky and thought of last year's Mid-Autumn Festival. Now the Holy Ruins are broken and the Comet Corridor has collapsed. From now on, no one can enter the Holy Ruins and the Comet Corridor.

"I wonder how Niushan and Quanxi are doing." Fang Yun thought to himself.

The same sky, under the same bright moon.

The Nuzhi tribe of the Wu Kingdom is home to hundreds of thousands of naturalized barbarians. Many of the barbarians are no different from the people of the Wu Kingdom if they don't look at their faces and only listen to their accents.

Every time the moon is full, it is the time for some barbarian religions to worship, and the Moon God Cult pays the most attention today.

The Moon God Sect was originally an ordinary religion in the Nuzhi tribe. After receiving divine grace in Niushan, the Moon God Sect grew rapidly. Now it has more than 30,000 followers, making it the largest religion in the Nuzhi tribe.

After worshiping the moon god, the powerful Niushan looked at the full moon and murmured to himself.

"It's still too little..."