The Way of the Confucians: Ten Years of Cultivation in One Day, I Become a Sage on the Spot

This is a world where Confucian scholars attain sagehood. Scholars cultivate themselves through investigating things, extending knowledge, making their intentions sincere, rectifying their minds, cultivating their character, regulating their families, governing their states, and bringing peace to all under Heaven. A great scholar can make a mountain with a single character and form a river with a single word.

Li Changyun was reborn, but became a penniless seventy-year-old scholar. He had failed the imperial examinations his entire life, could not put knowledge into practice to gain power, and lived in poverty, enduring the contempt of others.

Fortunately, he awakened an old, battered brush inherited from his ancestors: the Spring and Autumn Brush.

One day of reading grants ten years of insight.

Writing can summon the power of Heaven and Earth, turning the principles in books into reality.

Li Changyun reread the Analects and grasped the virtue of benevolence in a single day. Even the character for benevolence that he casually wrote could heal the sick and wounded.

Write the character for "calm," and he can suppress demons.

Compose a poem celebrating a bountiful harvest, and the whole county will enjoy favorable weather and abundant crops.

When the demon tribes invade and the court grows corrupt, Li Changyun wields the Spring and Autumn Brush. One essay astonishes the Sage Academy, one war poem drives back a million enemies, and in the end, he enlightens all under Heaven and becomes a sage on the spot.