Everything requires a "step-by-step" approach!
The same goes for self-cultivation. Who would throw a newly enlightened Confucian scholar into the complex and turbid environment of officialdom?
Strictly speaking, Qinghuan had just finished his enlightenment when the old man used factors such as "foreknowledge", "martial arts" and "supernormality" to deliberately disturb him and distract him.

Isn’t he worried that Qinghuan’s mind will be completely distracted and turn to the path of martial arts?
Qing Huan was very puzzled and said, "I know the teacher is testing me, so I must pass the teacher's test, but I just don't understand, isn't the teacher forcing things to happen by doing this?"

At least we should wait until Qinghuan's "sincerity" has stabilized for a period of time before we can conduct a test of this level, right?
The old man understood what Qing Huan was worried about, and said with a smile: "Because you are going to have a family!"

Qing Huan pondered and said, "Is it because I am about to start contacting the outside world?"

The old man nodded with satisfaction and said, "You grew up in Shanghe Village and know nothing about the outside world. You don't even know the current dynasty. You are a blank sheet of paper and I can paint on it as I please!

Do you know what I have done in the past few years? "

Qing Huan nodded and said, "The teacher has isolated Shanghe Village from everything in the outside world! I don't even have the chance to get any news from the villagers."

The old man was curious and asked, "When did you realize this?"

Qing Huan said calmly, "On the second day of enlightenment, I asked the teacher's name and the dynasties outside. The teacher said that those had nothing to do with me for the time being. After that, I never heard any news about the outside world from the villagers."

The old man stroked his beard and smiled, "You are indeed smart. You were only six years old at that time, and you noticed all this... You didn't have any questions?"

Qing Huan said: "Of course there was, but at that time I didn't understand anything, I didn't know anything, I could only obey all the arrangements made by the teacher!"

This is not a complaint. It's like if someone knows nothing about an industry and blindly expresses his opinions other than listening to instructions and accepting teachings, it would be a joke.

The old man smiled and asked, "What about now?"

Qing Huan glanced at him and said, "I'm used to it."

"Hahaha……"

The old master laughed, pointed at Qing Huan, and said, "People say that people become more rebellious as they grow older, but you are the opposite... Do you think I will believe it?"

Qing Huan grinned and said, "It's... complicated out there, right?"

The old man smiled, nodded, and said, "Yes, it's complicated outside, but it's also very simple. Strength is everything!"

Qing Huan was stunned for a moment, then suddenly realized, and said: "There are government offices and dynasties, but strength is respected... It is indeed very complicated!"

The old master looked at Qing Huan with a gratified look in his eyes and sighed, "It seems that I was too cautious with you. Over the years, you are smarter than I have ever seen!
Well, since you have passed the test today, I can tell you some things. "

Qing Huan straightened his expression and said, "Students are all ears!"

The old man let out a long sigh and said, "Where should I start? Let's start from the "natural disaster" thirty years ago!"

One day thirty years ago, the entire sky turned into a myriad of colors, which lasted for three hours, and then everything returned to normal.

I originally thought it was just a strange phenomenon in the world, but I didn't expect that it was this phenomenon that led to all the changes that followed...

Before that, the world was very ordinary and normal. The imperial court was incompetent, and the people rose up, overthrew the emperor, and established a new dynasty. The new dynasty lasted for a hundred years, gradually became incompetent, and was overthrown again... and so on.

But after that, extraordinary forces emerged and interrupted the change of history!"

Qing Huan thought for a moment and said, "Brother Zhang San is like that? If it's just that, it shouldn't be that serious, right?"

The old man smiled bitterly and said, "Zhang San, he is not extraordinary, he is just stronger, jumps higher, and leaps farther. With proper arrangements, a dozen ordinary people can deal with him!

Can you imagine a scene where one person fights against tens of thousands of troops and kills tens of thousands of people?"

Qinghuan's eyes narrowed and his expression became serious.

"I have seen it!" The old man sighed and said, "At that time, I was just a compiler in the Imperial Academy, and I saw with my own eyes a man with a knife, killing his way from the gate of the imperial city to the emperor. Behind him, countless corpses of the imperial guards covered the entire palace...

And that was only the eighth year after the heaven and earth phenomenon... Extraordinary power can be continuously cultivated and improved!"

Qing Huan's heart trembled, then he calmed down and said, "One person changed the dynasty?"

"No."

The old man shook his head and said, "He has the ability. As long as he raises his sword and then brings it down, he can change the dynasty. At that time, all the civil and military officials, nobles and princes were already frightened by his killing. No one dared to say a word."

Qing Huan asked curiously, "Then why doesn't he do that?"

The old man said silently: "I stopped him."

Qing Huan was surprised and asked, "The teacher is better than him?"

Why wasn't it stopped before?

The old man glanced at him and said, "I am a weak scholar, so weak that I can't even beat an ordinary soldier."

Qing Huan asked curiously, "Then how did the teacher stop him?"

The old man paused for a moment and said, "He was originally an ordinary person who was oppressed by the government. Later, after the world changed, he gained extraordinary powers. After killing all the local officials, he felt unsatisfied and killed his way to the capital... I convinced him."

Qinghuan was stunned for a moment, then stood in awe!

One man killed thousands of imperial guards, forcing the emperor to surrender and everyone to be terrified and no one dared to speak out. But then a small editor from the Hanlin Academy stood up and used words to persuade and stop this killer?
Thinking about that kind of scene, how could Qinghuan not be respectful?
Qing Huan couldn't wait any longer: "What happened next?"

The old man was silent for a moment, then said, "The emperor was frightened and died not long after. When the current emperor ascended the throne, he found that there were more and more people like him, so he made use of me."

Qing Huan asked, "How did the teacher do it?"

The old man said calmly: "Those who can be subdued will be subdued, those who can coexist will coexist, and those who are unwilling to communicate and wantonly kill... will be killed!"

The last two words were sonorous and powerful, with endless murderous intent revealed in their coldness.

Qinghuan truly realized that her teacher's past experiences must have been extremely brilliant!
Qing Huan asked, "How did you kill him?"

The old man said coldly: "Just like a poor man who suddenly becomes rich, he will eventually be unable to move forward. Those people suddenly gained powerful strength and began to use their own strength to decide everything... like wild beasts!
Can't a human kill a few wild beasts?"

Qinghuan stopped talking. It was easy to imagine that the old man must have used various calculations to kill those extraordinary people who killed people recklessly.

This is wisdom triumphing over strength.

"What happened next? Why did the teacher end up here?"

The old man narrowed his eyes to hide the fierce light in his eyes, and said: "After I killed a few people, other extraordinary people felt that they were not safe anymore and could not tolerate me, so they started to attack me.

As a result, I took the opportunity to kill a few of them, and they got scared, so they started to threaten the emperor..."

Qing Huan suddenly realized and said, "The emperor has compromised? This emperor has no backbone at all. He is breaking his own back!"

The old man glanced at Qing Huan and said, "You saw it clearly, but unfortunately, the emperor was frightened by that scene. No matter how I persuaded him, he still dismissed me from my official position and expelled me from the court.

Fortunately, the man who broke into the imperial city guaranteed me, and other extraordinary people forced me to swear not to serve in the government. In addition, I was also disheartened, so I was able to come here with my life... and met you." (End of this chapter)