Chapter 44: A Bloody Oath, a State Religion Crisis

"Stop, don't you exist as an official?" Zhou Shiren shouted violently, and held out his palm, and suddenly a splash of water came out from his palm, hitting those soldiers respectively!

More than a dozen soldiers were struck by lightning and thrown a few meters away!

"Water droplets! Zhou Tai guards the deep way!" Song Qiqiu said!

Generally, the early congenital monks rest the flame technique, and the middle congenital stage cultivates water attribute spells, and Zhou Shiren's cultivation has reached the middle congenital stage, so it is not surprising that he will be able to drop water!

"It's just that your righteous son openly assassinated the official, and everyone present saw it, so you still can't protect it!"

Zhou Shiren didn't speak, he took a step directly, came to a soldier, grabbed his spear, and then stabbed him in the chest, and immediately bled like a torrent of blood!

"Song Qiqiu, you instructed your subordinates to assassinate a county guard, what do you say about this?"

Song Qiqiu, Si Fu and Gong Haoyue all gasped when they heard this, and they all said that Zhou Shiren was a ruthless person, but they didn't expect it to be so ruthless!

Song Qiqiu's face was ugly, and he was about to speak, but Gong Haoyue had already spoken in advance: "Okay, good! It is worthy of Zhou Taishou, and he is indeed the best among people! I see how this matter is stopped today, as if nothing happened!"

Zhou Shiren and Song Qiqiu glanced at each other, and there was a fierce glint in their eyes, but they still nodded, this is the best result at present, the future is long, and some accounts will be calculated later!

Liu Xie's eyes were still red, but he also understood that he couldn't make any more trouble today no matter what, otherwise his father-in-law would be embarrassed!

Liu Xie walked up silently and merged Zhou Feng's body into one!

Brother Zhou, don't worry, I will definitely let Song Qiqiu die ten times worse than you! Liu Xie silently made an oath in his heart!

"Okay, this matter is over, I have something important to discuss with Zhou Taishou, so let's retreat!" Then, Gong Haoyue and Zhou Shiren left the court and went to the secret talk!

Liu Xie dealt with Zhou Feng's funeral, he is now Zhou Shiren's true righteous son, and he can call Zhou Shiren's subordinates at any time!

He first ordered someone to find Zhou Feng's family, but was told that Zhou Feng had been abandoned by his family since he was a child, and there was no family at all!

Liu Xie was also abandoned by his biological parents and almost killed him, so he had no choice but to flee to this southwest borderland!

In this way, the two also sympathize with each other, perhaps it is this feeling of being an outcast that makes Zhou Feng value Liu Xie so much!

"Prepare for Brother Zhou's funeral according to the specifications of Fang Bu 50!" Liu Xie ordered!

As soon as these words came out, everyone did not change color, in ancient times, the funeral level was strictly regulated, generally speaking, the higher the level, the larger the specification!

From 20 square steps to 100 square steps of the princess, 50 square steps is the specification that can only be used by the five masters!

"Young Master, are you sure you want this?"

Li Jiannai is Zhou Shiren's staff, although he does not have a clear official title, but he can mobilize the strength of the entire Nanzhao County on behalf of Zhou Shiren! Zhou Shiren sent him to replace Zhou Feng and assist Liu Xie!

Liu Xie was about to speak, when suddenly, a majestic voice came out!

"What 50 steps, directly according to the specifications of square step 60!"

When Liu Xie heard this, his body was shocked, and sixty steps would be the level of a four-grade official, and Zhou Shiren was too guarded, just a four-grade official!

Immediately afterwards, Zhou Shiren walked out with a gloomy face, and Gong Haoyue left with a smile on his face!

"Liu Xie, come here, I have something to tell you!" Zhou Shiren said!

Liu Xie agreed, and the two left, and came to the dean's private residence, Zhou Shiren glanced at Liu Xie, his eyes were a little complicated!

"Zhou Feng's revenge can't be avenged for the time being, and the Gong family can't move either!"

Liu Xie gritted his teeth, he understood that Gong Haoyue, a master of the Gong family, came from Suzhou, and his status was slightly higher than that of Zhou Shiren, so it was clear that he wanted to protect the Gong family!

"Then Song Qiqiu collaborated with the enemy, you can kill him!" Liu Xiedao!

"No, do you have any evidence? You can't arrest important members of the army based on just empty words, and you may even be bitten back by someone, giving them an excuse to deal with us!"

"Xie'er, this is a world of the jungle, no matter how reasonable it is without strength, it is useless, besides, now there is a more urgent thing to do than revenge, if something goes wrong, it may affect the entire Holy Sect!"

The Holy Religion is Confucianism, and it is the honorific title given to it by the disciples of Confucianism!

When he said this, Zhou Shiren's expression was very solemn, obviously very worried about this matter!

Confucianism is one of the three major sects of the Dayu Empire, and the two sects of Buddhism and Taoism are equally famous, and their influence is all over the entire Dayu Empire.

Liu Xie was puzzled and said: "Father-in-law, what trouble have you encountered, I am willing to share my worries for my father-in-law!"

Zhou Shiren glanced at Liu Xie and sighed: "You are a genius, it's a pity that you can't help with this matter, I'll try to borrow some talents from other branches of the Holy Sect!"

When Liu Xie heard this, his scalp was numb, and this stepfather still didn't realize how awesome he was, so he hurriedly said: "I beg my father-in-law to tell the truth, even if I can't help, please let me share the hardships with my father-in-law!"

When Zhou Shiren heard this, his face showed a look of relief, and then he spoke!

"Nowadays, the world is divided into three parts, and the three religions of Confucianism, Buddhism, and Taoism are vying for the world, each calling itself the state religion, and opening its own colleges all over the country in an attempt to expand its influence! My Confucianism has a Confucian college, Taoism has a Taoist college, and Buddhism is called the Buddha country!"

In order to avoid this kind of tragedy, the Holy Sect Master and the Taoist Heavenly Master and the Buddha of the Buddha Country have made a contract, and the sectarian dispute will not see the sword soldiers, and the victory will be decided by peaceful competition, and the three sects will send students to participate in the examination every year, and if a certain academy is at the bottom for three consecutive years, then it will be expelled from the state and county, and it will no longer be allowed to preach in the state and county!

"You can challenge again, but it must be ten years later! My Confucian Academy has been at the bottom in the past two years, if I lose again this year, my Confucian Academy must withdraw from Nanzhao County, and I will not allow Confucianism to exist here for ten years from now on!"

Hearing this, Liu Xie couldn't help but gasp, the sectarian dispute was actually cruel, and it was not at all easier than the battle for royal power!

"Moreover, because the Holy Religion is a traditional state religion and its power is deep-rooted, it has been jointly suppressed by the two religions of Buddhism and Taoism, and has been defeated in many places, and now, three-quarters of the religious land has fallen, and the Confucian Academy has been in turmoil! In addition to Kyoto, there are only a few branches such as Chu County and Nanzhao Kingdom, and if it is defeated again, the Holy Religion will only be left with an empty shelf!"

"In this way, we will also become rootless water, rootless source, the forces of the two Shidao families will quickly intervene in Nanzhao County, and it is only a matter of time before we are cleaned up!"

In this way, Liu Xie also felt that the situation was so serious that it was unimaginable! I thought that after dealing with Kong Yu, I could dominate the family in Nanzhao County, but I didn't expect that the most fundamental problem was still not solved!

Zhou Shiren's strength essentially comes from Confucianism, relying on the strength of the Confucian Academy to ascend to a high position, if Confucianism pushes out Nanzhao County, Zhou Shiren will immediately be hollowed out, or even erased!

"Father-in-law, what is the test of the Three Sects?" asked Liu Xie!

Zhou Shiren glanced at Liu Xie and said, "I'm very happy that you want to share your father's worries, but this is not something you can participate in, you better prepare for the final exam!"

After speaking, Zhou Shiren left directly!

Looking at Zhou Shiren's distant back, Liu Xie was like eating a dead child, father-in-law, father-in-law, do you look down on you as a godson?

But if you think about it carefully, it's no wonder that your father-in-law is so useless that the previous owner of his body is so wasteful, and the impression is so impressive that he can't change it for a while!

Liu Xie had no choice but to find Li Jian, Li Jian is Zhou Shiren's cronies, in a sense, he is closer than Zhou Feng, after all, Zhou Feng is just his student and subordinate in the Confucian Academy, but Li Jian is an absolute descendant who follows Zhou Shiren all the way to the north and south!

Finding Li Jian, Liu Xie got straight to the point: "Do you know about the Three Sects Competition?"

"The dean has ordered this, you don't have to tell you, so as not to affect your studies!"

"Say it, if you don't say it, I'll ask others!" Liu Xiedao!

Li Jian shook his head helplessly, after all, he still told the matter and the plate!

It turned out that the Three Sects Contest was about to be held soon, but at this time, Yiqu State was fighting with Nanzhao Kingdom, and Diao Junyuan transferred all the best students of the Confucian Academy before leaving, saying that it was to make suggestions for the march and war!

The Diao family is a wealthy family in the military, and he is also a young martial arts master of Taoism, and this move is obviously helping the Taoist Academy! But in the name of serving the country, he can't stop it at all!

The elite of the Confucian Academy was emptied, and the dean was so anxious that he personally went to Lord Thorn Shi and asked him to delay Dabi as the supreme administrator, and wait for the battle of Yiqu to be over!

However, he was sternly rejected by Kong Yu, and in desperation, the dean had no choice but to ask Chu County for help, asking the Confucian Academy in Chu County to transfer their elite students to Nanzhao County to participate in the Three Teachings Competition!

"What is the Three Sects Dabi?" asked Liu Xie!

"Alchemy, refining, chanting!"

"Holy。。。。。 ”

Liu Xie couldn't hold back any longer, and scolded the two families of Shidao for eighteen generations!

Confucianism is a scribe, and he usually learns the Four Books and Five Classics, Qin, Chess, Calligraphy and Painting, but you compare alchemy and refining tools with us!

Well, this is also endured, after all, this is a martial arts world, and the Confucian Academy also has courses in alchemy and refining, although it is not very in-depth!

But what the hell is chanting? You let a group of Confucian scholars go and recite Buddhist scriptures with Buddhist monks? Why don't you have less hair than anyone? Not who is a virgin?

Obviously, these topics are tailor-made for the two religions of Buddhism and Taoism, and they clearly want to make the Confucian Academy disappear in Nanzhao County!

"Then we don't have no chance of winning?" Liu Xiedao!

"That's not necessarily, the strong reinforcement sent by Chu County this time is very powerful, mixing hundreds of schools, alchemy, qi training, and chanting are all proficient, and everything is fine! The Confucian Academy in Chu County has also been challenged by the Second Sect of Confucianism like us for many years, but he single-handedly single-handedly picked out dozens of young geniuses of the Second Sect of Confucianism, making Chu County the most stable rear of Confucianism!"

"It's so terrifying! What is his name, and what level does he belong to in my entire younger generation of Confucianism?"

"His name is Wu Shidao, a generation of Confucianism, the first person of the younger generation in the south of Confucianism, and is recognized as the most promising young Confucian to inherit the position of the Holy Sect Master!"

As soon as these words came out, Liu Xie's face changed wildly! If Liu Xie was full of admiration for him just now, then it turned into hostility at this moment!

Because the position of the Holy Sect Master of Confucianism has already been determined by Liu Xie, he has come to this world not to die of ordinary old age, but to conquer the whole world and become a great demon king of the mixed world!

All those who are stronger than me will be trampled under my feet and become the cornerstone of my ascendancy! Liu Xie shouted in his heart!

"With this level of talent, is Chu Jun willing to give up easily?" Liu Xiedao!

As far as he knew, if he wanted to represent Nanzhao County, he would have to change his student status and become a student of Nanzhao County's Confucian Academy, which also meant that he couldn't represent Chu County again!

And if you didn't guess wrong, Zhou Shiren and the leader of the Confucian Sect in Chu County must be in competition, after all, everyone wants to enter the Holy Sect headquarters and become the new Holy Sect Master!

"Of course I don't want to, in order to let Wu Shidao participate, the dean allocated 10,000 taels of gold to Chu County, and promised that if Wu Shidao won the Three Sects Competition, he could add fifty points to his graduation exam!"

"Fifty points for the graduation exam?" Liu Xie's eyes lit up when he heard it!

If you want to win the first place in the final exam, hard work alone may not be enough, but with these 50 points, you will basically be 9 out of 10!

Thinking of this, Liu Xie no longer hesitated, and said directly: "Please tell my father-in-law, I want to participate in this three sect competition!"