[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-i-sparked-the-hundred-demon-night-parade-in-toky":3,"chapter-i-sparked-the-hundred-demon-night-parade-in-toky-i-sparked-the-hundred-demon-night-parade-in-toky-chapter-446":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"chinese","I Sparked the Hundred Demon Night Parade in Tokyo",{"chapter":7,"nextChapterSlug":19,"prevChapterSlug":20,"totalChapters":21,"novelImage":22},{"id":8,"novel_id":9,"title":10,"slug":11,"index":12,"content":13,"wordcount":14,"created_at":15,"updated_at":15,"volume":16,"translator":17,"content_hash":18},2326664,4550,"Chapter 446: The Jixia Academy","i-sparked-the-hundred-demon-night-parade-in-toky-chapter-446",446,"\u003Cp>Without cultivating virtue, one cannot pass.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Demon Ancestor Ghost Crow murmured softly, speculating that this might be why the Jixia Academy dared to recruit key individuals across the Initial World.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Bai Yuanxian also held a similar thought: “The major mythologies prohibit gods from teaching the people of the Initial World to cultivate because the one they teach might become a future terror. Once taught, the river of time flows onward, and the future becomes unchangeable.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But not all people of this Initial World will achieve greatness in the future; some will become invincible, while others will become stepping stones, mere bleached bones on the path to achievement.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>These people are innocent.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The major mythologies adhere to the principle of killing the wrong rather than letting the guilty go free, forbidding gods from teaching anyone in the Initial World—these innocent souls are unfairly burdened, yet it is necessary to prevent the rise of future terrors.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yet the major mythologies are not without solutions; the Jixia Academy is precisely the institution capable of identifying those who will one day become terrors—those harmful to the past.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>That is why the Jixia Academy exists.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As for the prohibition against gods teaching, it is simply to prevent gods from teaching recklessly and accidentally instructing those who will become future terrors. After all, the major mythologies have countless gods, and not all know these secrets—hence the strict ban, so that the Jixia Academy may teach instead.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Zhang Hao agreed with this view: “I think the same. The major mythologies forbid gods from teaching the Initial World’s people not to truly cut off instruction, but to avoid burdening the Jixia Academy with even the slightest future complication.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Here, Zhang Hao fell silent for a moment, finally recalling the origin of the Jixia Academy.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In his college history elective, he had indeed heard his professor mention the “Jixia Academy,” confirming the three’s hypothesis.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Immediately, Zhang Hao recounted what he knew of the Jixia Academy to Ghost Crow Demon Ancestor and Bai Yuanxian.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ghost Crow Demon Ancestor did not idle either—he shared the information he gathered with the group members.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Xiang Hong, upon seeing his master Ghost Crow Demon Ancestor’s message, was stunned: “The Jixia Academy?!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Having studied Chinese history, Xiang Hong naturally knew what the Jixia Academy meant.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Jixia Academy was the world’s earliest state-sponsored higher learning institution and China’s earliest social science academy and government think tank.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Legend says it was founded during the Warring States period by King Wei of Qi, with the purpose of transmitting the teachings of Huang Di and Laozi.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even by global standards, the Jixia Academy was the world’s first higher learning institution operated officially but privately managed in a unique form.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The unparalleled and magnificent “Hundred Schools of Thought” in the history of Chinese academic thought centered on the Jixia Academy of Qi, where official doctrine was Huang-Lao, meaning the teachings of Laozi and Huang Di.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As the central arena for the contention of a hundred schools, it powerfully catalyzed the formation of a nationwide academic debate.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In Chinese history, the Jixia Academy played an extremely important role.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Now, it seems the Jixia Academy was not merely about teaching academics.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Before the emergence of the transcendent, people only assumed ancient times were marked by slash-and-burn farming and chaos and war—but after the transcendent emerged, views changed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In ancient times, demons and gods walked everywhere, immortals and fiends flew across the heavens, and gods and mortals coexisted in a brilliantly flourishing civilization.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Its splendor surpassed today’s era, more magnificent and grand, beyond ordinary imagination—and the more ancient the era, the more unimaginably brilliant the divine-civilization.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>China’s Warring States period was an ancient era; naturally, gods and immortals walking among mortals was standard.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As a product renowned in that era, could the Jixia Academy have been merely teaching academics? Unlikely—it probably taught immortal arts!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This was a… divine academy!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A sacred place sought by cultivators and immortals alike.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Aaaah!!!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A piercing scream shattered Zhang Hao’s three’s thoughts.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>On the peak of the Immortal Mountain, the sky had suddenly become occupied by the Immortal King of the Dead.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Immortal Bridge refused him entry into the Immortal Mountain’s paradise, so he chose to force his way through—leaping past the bridge, aiming to fly directly into the rift in the sky. The Jixia Academy held everything he desired; this mere Immortal Bridge could not block his will.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Then he stepped forward, plunging into the rift.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As if committing a grave sin, he summoned heaven’s wrath, provoking the wrath of the heavens.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A purple thunderclap descended from the rift, striking the Immortal King of the Dead directly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The purple thunderclap was thunder, yet not thunder—a slender streak no thicker than an arm, yet it surged like a furious dragon ascending, a Kunpeng emerging from the abyss, its might overwhelming.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This tiny thunderclap was composed of countless symbols, densely packed, converging into a single purple thunderclap.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Boom.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Not a ripple, not a splash—the Immortal King of the Dead vanished.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The thunderclap struck him, and in an instant, his infamous name echoed across one hundred thousand years; the once-unrivaled Immortal King of the Dead was reduced to ash.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>All living beings on the Immortal Mountain, along with every other creature and god-demon watching nearby, witnessed this—and all shuddered, including Ghost Crow Demon Ancestor and Bai Yuanxian.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A being of Immortality vanished in the blink of an eye.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This was no mere street vendor, no common mortal—it was a true Immortal.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“The Supreme—there must be at least a Supreme being within the Jixia Academy. No—perhaps even the Transcendent.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ghost Crow Demon Ancestor thought of the Lost One.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The one who gave him the token was almost certainly deeply connected to the Jixia Academy.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Perhaps… the Jixia Academy was founded by the Lost One himself.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Similar scenes unfolded in other worlds—ancient beings who forcibly breached the boundaries all died without exception, none survived.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Countless beings were terrified; their earlier fervor had cooled, and they hesitated whether to step onto the Immortal Bridge.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>What if they climbed the bridge, only for a purple thunderclap to strike? Even Immortals couldn’t withstand it—what chance did they, mere shrimp and crabs compared to Immortals, have?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“We must first understand that phrase.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Zhang Hao spoke, scanning those standing on the Immortal Bridge and those who had stepped into empty air.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>What exactly counts as cultivating virtue?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Soon, someone devised a method: extend a hand into the bridge to test whether contact was possible.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Then,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>By questioning those who could touch the bridge and those who could not, they determined what qualified as cultivated virtue.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Immortal Bridge was a Bridge of Virtue; the standard for virtue was lenient—trivial deeds were not counted.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Anyone who had done more good than harm, whose good intentions outweighed their ill ones, could generally cross.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Taking an Initial World person as an example: if someone had committed petty theft frequently, they would sink up to their calves on the bridge, as if wading through water, moving with excruciating slowness, overtaken easily by others.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If their sins were worse, they sank to their knees—such people were likely violent, having maimed others; they could not cross, even if they stepped onto the bridge, they could not proceed far, forced to halt.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If the water reached their waist, they could only stand there, unable to move—such people had surely killed, deliberately, possibly fugitives.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At this moment,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Many looked meaningfully down beneath the bridge.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Those who had fallen without a single splash—what crimes had they committed? Surely they bore at least several, perhaps dozens, of lives.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“The Immortal King of the Dead was infamous—he was no good man. Before his fame, he was a villain, his hands stained with countless innocent lives. No wonder he couldn’t cross.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Zhang Hao turned his gaze to the living beings present on the Immortal Mountain.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In this transcendent world, it was nearly impossible to live without blood on one’s hands; the law of the jungle—survival of the fittest—was relentlessly emphasized here.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Thus, it was rare for transcendent-world beings to stand fully upright on the Immortal Bridge; most sank to their knees, having killed at least a few.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After all, this was a transcendent world—“I won’t harm you unless you harm me” was hard to uphold; even if you avoided conflict, others would attack you if you possessed what they desired.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“It seems difficult for beings from transcendent worlds to cross the Immortal Bridge. In the Initial World, the proportion who pass is far higher.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Zhang Hao sighed. Indeed, Earth was better—at least people didn’t kill on a whim, unless you lived in America…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>…\u003C\u002Fp>",1439,"2026-06-20T17:56:09.718Z",1,"Qwen3-Next 80B","4e5f41804bdf2ff2a6ee5481de8b2abcf397bf275d43501eae72434a59b6b31f","i-sparked-the-hundred-demon-night-parade-in-toky-chapter-447","i-sparked-the-hundred-demon-night-parade-in-toky-chapter-445",477,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fi-sparked-the-hundred-demon-night-parade-in-toky-cover.jpg"]