Sure enough, Master Hai didn't expect to get any answers from me, so he kept talking to himself.
"The reason why I say Confucianism is in such decline is that it has lost its vitality!"
"Is Confucianism big today? Of course it is! But it has lost the power to pioneer, innovate, and forge ahead."
"How many years have it passed? The immortal treasures forged with the majestic river water have been elevated to the level of holy weapons. It is really sad!"
"Sad! Sad!" Master Hai sighed, his voice faded, like an ordinary old man.
"Master, what is the true sacred weapon of our Confucian sect?" I asked quickly.
There was both a desire to clear up the confusion and an idea to pull his mind out of this uneasy state.
Sure enough, as soon as I asked the question, Haifuzi's condition improved instantly.
Although I am still wandering in the memories of the past, I feel less lonely due to the surge of thoughts.
"Since ancient times, the mighty river has flowed there, eventually pouring out a glorious Confucian school."
"Although it is difficult to summon the mighty river to descend, for monks with sufficiently advanced cultivation, the water of the mighty river is not uncommon."
"Let me ask you, if you just take some water from the mighty river and refine it a little, it can be called a holy weapon."
"Then isn't the sacred weapon of my noble Confucian sect too cheap?" Master Hai said hastily, his mood obviously not calm.
As the saying goes, words are vague and unclear, and things do not make sense. After hearing Master Hai's explanation, I actually felt that it made perfect sense.
"Are my Confucian sacred weapons really so cheap?" I asked in my heart, and carefully recalled the scene when my Qitian Sword and Wu Yazi's Wu Ya Sword were forged, and I always felt that something was missing.
According to the Supreme Elder, it is very difficult to cast immortal treasures from the mighty river water, so the immortal treasures cast are extremely rare.
It is also because these immortal treasures have the same origin as the water of the Great River, which makes it easier for Confucian monks to summon the Great River to bless their bodies during use.
Such things are unique throughout the ages, so they are called "holy weapons" by Confucianism!
Thinking of this, I felt as if I had caught something, and blurted out: "Master, is it because the casting conditions are too harsh and the techniques are rarely known, which leads to the rarity of such fairy treasures in the world, and they are called holy treasures?"
Tool?"
"This further illustrates the decline of our Confucian sect!" Master Hai said: "I treasure my own things and keep my own way, which is why I have declined like this!"
"In my time, this casting technique was well known, at least among the top Confucian sects."
"Although the conditions are harsh, with the cooperation of everyone and the strength of the entire Confucian sect, it is still easy to build them in batches."
"In fact, this kind of immortal treasure made from the mighty river water is the real awe-inspiring immortal treasure!"
"Haoran is a title of immortal treasure level. It is exclusive to the elite disciples of our Confucian sect. It is specially used to reward outstanding disciples who have made contributions to the sect."
"Although we can't have one person, there are still some people who are the most important to our Confucian sect!"
Master Hai spoke faster and faster, and became more and more excited.
"In the war that year, our human world was facing annihilation. My true self and the Confucian sect leader at that time led all the elite disciples and most of the Haoran Immortal Treasures to go to the disaster."
"I didn't expect that the demon king was too powerful, and had the power of the entire demon world as support behind him. It caused heavy losses to the three sects of Confucianism, Taoism, and Buddhism. Even my true self did not know where he was."
"I didn't expect that such a change would happen within our Confucian sect. Someone would take advantage of the sect's vitality to fight for power and gain. Alas—"
"You think I don't know what's going on outside? It's precisely because I know that I'm dissatisfied with Wu Yazi! I refuse to truly regard him as the next generation successor of Confucianism."
"Although your senior brother is excellent, he is still far behind me. He is even far inferior to your senior brothers I have never met before. He can't even suppress such a small rebellion and runs away in embarrassment.
Come to this wasteland."
"After practicing for so many years, I forged my own awe-inspiring immortal treasure. If this kind of behavior happened when the Confucian sect was at its peak, it would be a shame!"
"If the three sects hadn't suffered heavy losses back then, I'm afraid the Confucian sect would have been attacked long ago in its current state!"
Master Hai kept talking, his tone full of hatred that iron could not be transformed into steel.
However, from his words, I gradually reconstructed the serious consequences of the split within the Confucian sect after the Demon Emperor's battle.
This is another perspective on what happened back then. It is no different from what Yan Yuan told me, but it is more profound.
Although today's establishment achieved victory in the struggle back then, it also lost many core methods, including the method of casting the Haoran Immortal Treasure controlled by the elites.
This result caused Confucianism to be in a state of serious internal division for a long period of time, and this division led to the continued decline of the overall strength of Confucianism.
The people in power can call upon Confucianism's greatest cultivation resources, but due to the lack of methods, they cannot make good use of them.
Although the defeated elites were in decline, they "controlled core technology", but due to resource constraints, they were unable to transform it into actual combat power for a long time.
This can be seen from the fact that the Supreme Elder took a long time to forge his own Wuya Sword.
Likewise, it is easier to see the desire of today's authentic Confucian sects for the real Haoran Immortal Treasure. Otherwise, a group of Dayan realm masters would not have sneaked into Qitian Academy and attacked me.
Even though the Confucian Zhengzong devoted its entire Confucianism efforts to create many highly advanced Confucian cultivators, due to the extreme shortage of Haoran Immortal Treasures, their combat power could not be fully unleashed.
This split state of Confucianism was gradually noticed by Taoism and Buddhism.
Although the three sects all suffered heavy losses in the Demon Emperor's battle, the two sects of Taoism and Buddhism, which had not undergone major changes internally, would undoubtedly recover faster.
Therefore, in recent years, the two sects have also intensified their testing of Confucianism, especially Buddhism.
The Taoist teachings are natural, pure and inactive. Although they are not truly desireless, in most cases they are not enthusiastic about acquiring external resources.
More importantly, Taoism also has the same philosophy as Confucianism of benefiting the world. When faced with problems, it always puts common people first and benefits the common people.
Therefore, although there are disputes between Taoism and Confucianism, they only occur occasionally.
But Buddhism is different!
It has always been the only purpose of Buddhism to be committed to spreading the Dharma to mainly human beings and covering all living beings in the world, and to develop as many followers as possible.
Taoism's inaction is considered the least threatening to them.
However, the Confucian sect takes the world as its own responsibility, which is considered a serious problem by the Buddhist sect! (To be continued)