A Max-Level Confucian Sage: My Power Comes from Reading

In this world, martial artists can shatter mountains and rivers with their fists, immortals can hide the sun and moon in their sleeves, and sorcerers can shift a mountain with a wave of their hand. In short, the popular saying is, “If you can settle it with your fists, don’t waste your breath.”

And Confucian scholars? Ha, they’re basically “exam-cramming machines” and “personal generators of flattery for the powerful.”

“Carrying the Way through writing”? “Nurturing a righteous spirit”? Those ideas were tossed into history’s wastebasket long ago. They’re not even worth using to prop up a wobbly table.

Yet there was one Mr. Dong Yan, quiet as a piece of scenery.

He had no interest in fighting for a blessed grotto or sacred land, nor any desire to found a school.

If someone asked about his ambitions, he would probably take a leisurely sip of rough tea and say, “Experience life and spread the true Way, I suppose.”

Little did anyone know that this “lazybones” was the only max-level powerhouse in the world to have mastered the Confucian Way!

Deep in his consciousness lay the “Sea of Ten Thousand Books,” making him a walking universe of Confucian classics.

With a “Sagely Heart of Clarity,” he understood people’s hearts better than his own palm lines. And the long-lost divine arts of the Confucian Way? He wielded them with effortless flair.

What if he came across a stubborn diehard who wouldn’t listen to reason and believed only in fists?

Dong Yan didn’t get angry. He simply unrolled a classic, and in an instant, the book of sages grew heavier than a mountain, its sharp corners like divine blades!

Gripping the corner of the book, Dong Yan gently tapped the other fellow on the forehead. “Sometimes, reason needs to be delivered by physical means.”

That was “persuading people with reason (and physical force).” One smack with a classic, and even the thickest skull would see the light and listen.

Dong Yan’s days unfolded in a strange, endlessly amusing cycle: “If reason won’t get through, use force; if nothing will behave, teach it a lesson.”