With a stern expression, his round eyes gleaming like bronze bells, he shouted: "Humph! Don't try to deceive me with your hypocritical words. I say you have the qualifications, then you do! Where is your family's sect? Let us go and wipe them out completely, and then you can rest assured and acknowledge us as your masters!"

  "Right! And our Cloud Horizontal Double Slashing disciples are going all out, no holding back!" Another burly man also shouted loudly.

  Zhao Di felt extremely helpless. The two people in front of him were obviously unreasonable, yet they claimed that someone else had snatched their disciple when in fact it was he who had forcibly taken them on as his apprentice!

  Although this is the territory of Yingzhou Xian Island, it's not far from Yu Gao Peak, and there are often cultivators from various sects passing by. I reckon these two wouldn't dare to openly defy the rules of the three major powers and make a move here! But how to get past them, that's really troublesome!

  At this moment, a young Confucian scholar in a green robe floated over from afar, holding a paper fan in his hand. He bowed and clasped his fists, saying: "Two Taoist friends, please calm your anger! I don't know why the outer sect disciple of our humble sect has offended you two. Wen Hanzong, a certain book, is willing to apologize on his behalf!"

  Zhao Di sensed that this person's cultivation of the initial stage of the Golden Elixir was at a very early stage, and he was slightly stunned. When he saw the person's face clearly, he was even more shocked!

  This man was a Confucian scholar from Jiangnan who had met him briefly decades ago, and unexpectedly, after many years, he has become a senior fellow of the Golden Elixir stage!

  That year, he said that Zhao Di had "the breath of a book" on his body, and could practice Confucianism with half the effort and double the results. He also left a message for him to go to Wenhan Zong to find him.

  Zhaodi had long thrown this matter out of his mind, but today he saw this person and immediately remembered everything! However, the other party said that they were an outer disciple of Wenhan Zong, wouldn't it be easy to expose? If Zhao Di was a disciple of this famous sect, wouldn't he wear clothes with the sect's emblem to seek protection under the sect's name?

  "Hmph! The Wenhan Sect of the Zhengdao Alliance! You think that by bringing up this name, Yun Heng and Shuang Sha will be intimidated? This is the Xuanzhou Immortal Island, do you dare to bully us?! This big man's words were no longer arrogant, but his tone had weakened a lot. Although the cultivator in front of him was only at the initial stage of forming elixirs, Wenhan Sect was one of the five major sects of Zhengdao Alliance, and he and his brother did not dare to provoke them!"

  "That's right, you said he is an outer disciple of your Wenhan Sect, do you have any evidence? If not, then don't interfere with our recruitment!" Another burly man also spoke "forcefully".

  Zhao secretly thought to himself, these two big men may look rough and uncouth, but they're not foolish, every word and sentence is carefully chosen so as not to offend Wen Hanzong, yet at the same time not losing face. As for asking for evidence, it's likely that they saw through the scholar's attempt to mediate and his careless words.

  To Zhao Di and the two big men's surprise, the young Confucian scholar smiled slightly and said straightforwardly: "Of course! How dare I fabricate without evidence!"

  He then lightly tapped out a spell, summoning a several-foot-sized screen made of white spiritual light, on which various colored characters floated, sometimes large and sometimes small, extremely strange.

  "Gentlemen, behold! This is one of the special divine abilities of Confucianism's Gong Fa. It utilizes the breath of the scriptures to activate a radiant shield!" The young Confucian scholar said with a serious expression. Then he gazed at Zhao Di for a moment and slowly released a spell towards him.

  After Zhao Di repeatedly detected and confirmed that this spell contained only a hint of spiritual power, which would not harm him at all, he remained motionless, allowing the spell to hit his body.

  A strange scene appeared!

  Zhaodi's body surface also faintly emitted a white light, and on it were various texts that appeared and disappeared, sometimes large and sometimes small, floating around. Even Zhaodi himself felt inexplicable. Especially when he discovered that these texts seemed to be in a language not from the Tianyuan Continent.

  "Look, you two, this young man also has the aura of books on him, can't this be evidence that he is related to our Confucian school?" The young man explained with a smile to the two big men, then turned to face Zhao and asked: "Are you surnamed Zhao? How did you offend these two seniors, why don't you quickly apologize!"

  "Junior Zhao knows his mistake, please calm down, seniors!" Zhao Di hurriedly bowed and apologized again. Although this matter was entirely the fault of those two evil cultivators trying to forcibly take him as a disciple, in the end, he had to apologize and admit his mistake! However, in the cultivation world, such things were not uncommon. It was unheard of for high-ranking cultivators to humbly apologize to low-ranking ones; instead, they would often kill with just one disagreement.

  "Hmph, if you were going to join the sect, you should have said so earlier! You've wasted my two brothers' time!" The two burly men knew that this disciple was definitely not worth recruiting, and now they had an excuse to leave, so they threw out a sentence and departed together.

  "Congratulations to Shu Qianbei for forming the Golden Elixir and becoming a high-ranking cultivator of the Golden Elixir stage! I also want to thank Shu Qianbei for saving me!" The two walked away, and Zhao Di bowed again to the young Confucian scholar.

  The young Confucian did not respond, quietly gazing at Zhao Di. After a moment, he suddenly let out a long sigh and said: "The aura of the book on your body is actually so weak, it's less than half of what it was decades ago! I'm afraid it's being suppressed by the evil energy emanating from you. You must have experienced a lot of slaughter over the years!"

  "Going back to what the senior said, I was only seeking the demon pill and went to the outer star to hunt and kill the demon beast multiple times." Zhao's heart was slightly shocked. What were the book's aura and the killing energy that the other party mentioned? How would they affect his future cultivation? If he had the opportunity, he must figure out these questions! In the Taoist school's methods, there were very few mentions of these two things. However, the matter of "killing energy" was also mentioned in a jade slip from the young master of the Blood Intent School, but it was only briefly touched upon. There were too many strange events and techniques in the immortal cultivation world. Although he had been cultivating for many years and often read various classics, there were still many things that he did not understand. Now that it concerned himself, he could not help but spend time specifically investigating these matters.

  "All lives are equal, killing humans and killing demons, what's the difference! Your hands have too much blood on them, if you don't cultivate a certain technique to get rid of this evil energy, you'll fall into the devil's path sooner or later!" The scholar shook his head and said, with a tone full of regret.

  "Thank you for your guidance, senior! I will be careful." Zhao Di thanked him sincerely, knowing that the other party was well-intentioned in their advice.

  "Hmm, I have a question about this book. Can you enlighten me, Mr. Zhao?" The young Confucian scholar gazed at Zhao with an inquiring look.

  "Seniors ask whatever they want, juniors answer without reservation." Zhao Di was about 80% sure he had already guessed the other party's question.

  As expected, the young Confucian scholar said: "The breath of the book is generally produced after practicing the Confucian method and closing the door to read for a period of time. This spiritual energy is the foundation for us Confucians to exert our magical powers. Although I can't see what kind of method you are practicing, it must be purely Taoist, why do you have the breath of the book?"

  "As for what the senior said, when I was young, I spent nearly twenty years studying diligently before entering the immortal cultivation world. I don't know if this is one of the reasons?" Zhao Di had already prepared himself and replied half-truthfully.

  "So that's how it is! However, this means that Daoist friend has missed the best period for cultivation. To still have the cultivation of the late stage of foundation building at this age is truly rare!" The young Confucian scholar looked enlightened and nodded in agreement. But he believed only a little, Zhao Di was not clear.

  The young Confucian unfolded the paper fan in his hand, gently shook it a few times, and said: "You and I have met twice, which is also fate. However, with your current cultivation, even if Book certain advises you to relearn the Confucian school's kung fu from scratch, it would be difficult for you! Book certain still has to go escort the disciples of our sect, so let's part ways here!"

  "Thank you, senior!" Zhao Di bowed and paid his respects. By the time he stood up, the young Confucian scholar had transformed into a white light and flew away to several miles outside.

  The speed of a Jiedan period cultivator's escape is indeed extremely fast, far surpassing that of the Treading Wind Python!

  Zhao Di gazed at the receding back of Shu Sheng, a hint of envy flashing in his eyes. He wondered if he would be able to appear with the same dignified demeanor as his seniors when he next came to this Xuanzhou Immortal Island.

  He decided that after returning to Penglai Fairy Island this time, he would prepare everything and then enter the cave to practice closed-door cultivation and seek a breakthrough. He would not leave until he had formed the Mixed Yuan Golden Elixir!

  (Second update!)