Chapter 26: Ye Xiuxiu's Persuasion

Finally, after undergoing an arduous and extraordinary battle,

Chen Gong Dong and his companions successfully intercepted all the extraterritorial heavenly demons outside the defense line.

They did not allow them to step into the cultivation world even a single step.

The entire cultivation world was preserved thanks to their brave performance, and people lived a peaceful and harmonious life.

At this moment, Chen Gong Dong was overjoyed.

He couldn't help but shout out loud:

"Great! Everything will follow Xiuxiu's commands and arrangements!"

At that moment, Ye Xiuxiu gave a light cough and reminded:

"When working, please address me by my position."

Only then did Chen Gong Dong realize his mistake.

He hurriedly changed his words, saying:

"All right, President, I understand."

Ye Xiuxiu smiled, nodded, and said softly:

"Not bad!"

She turned her gaze to Chen Gong Dong standing nearby,

Then she instructed: "Left Protector,"

"From now on, we must recruit everyone left here into our Confucian Sage Association."

At this moment, Chen Gong Dong straightened his petite stature,

striving to imitate his father's steady and solemn bearing,

putting on an old-fashioned, solemn posture,

just like a little adult,

making people unable to hold back laughter when they see him.

"Okay, President!"

The Confucian Sage Association's Chen Gong Dong, Left Protector, respectfully answered,

and then prepared to follow the instructions.

After saying that,

Chen Gong Dong suddenly bounced like an energetic little rabbit,

He ran off with light, quick steps, pat-pat-pat.

While running, he excitedly shouted: "Haha, I'm off to find other kids to get them to join our Confucian Sage Association!"

Watching Chen Gong Dong's adorable and mischievous back,

Ye Xiuxiu helplessly shook her head, but her lips involuntarily curled upward.

Just as Ye Xiuxiu had composed herself and was about to turn and leave,

she suddenly heard familiar footsteps approaching from afar!

Her heart suddenly clenched,

she silently thought:

"Could it be… that my mother has come looking for me?"

Thinking this,

Ye Xiuxiu's heart also began to throb,

she felt her little butt start to hurt again.

She wondered if she was about to get hit again.

But soon she realized she had guessed wrong.

Because the person who appeared before her was not her mother,

but Chen Gong Dong, who had just run away a short while earlier.

The little fellow came running up, panting,

He bent down and picked up a dirty brick from the ground,

and gripped it tightly in his hand.

"Why did you come running back?"

Ye Xiuxiu asked curiously. Chen Gong Dong raised his head,

revealing a serious expression as he replied:

"Oh dear, I ran off too hastily,

"and forgot to bring my 'Virtue'!"

"If I meet those who refuse to join our Confucian Sage Association, I still need to win them over with virtue."

After saying that, he waved the brick in his hand,

then ran off again, pat-pat-pat toward the distance, leaving Ye Xiuxiu standing there, laughing and crying.

Time flew by like a white horse fleeting through a gap,

In just a short day's time,

Chen Gong Dong smoothly absorbed all those who had previously studied together in the classroom into the Confucian Sage Association,

and made them official members.

As for Qin Feng, being Ye Xiuxiu's fiancé,

thanks to this special relationship, he rose through the back door to become the Right Protector of the Confucian Sage Association.

Of course,

Qin Feng was forced to go through the back door.

Yet at this time, although the Confucian Sage Association had already begun to take initial shape,

the Words of the Saints that would serve as its rules still needed to be developed slowly.

When it came to the matter of establishing the association's rules, Ye Xiuxiu found herself in a quandary.

She knew full well that if she personally took up the brush to write out these rules,

once her mother found out, a spanking would surely be unavoidable.

But as the saying goes, where there's a policy from above, there's a countermeasure from below,

and Ye Xiuxiu came up with a brilliant idea.

In her daily life, Ye Xiuxiu often found opportunities to go out and stroll about.

Whenever she chanced upon members of the Confucian Sage Association on the road,

they would consult her on questions regarding the words of the saints.

And Ye Xiuxiu would patiently explain things to them,

while instructing them to record in detail everything she said.

Afterwards, these members would pass the records around and carefully review one another's notes.

In this way, not only could all members learn the accurate and error-free Words of the Saints,

but it also cleverly avoided the risk of Ye Xiuxiu being spanked by her mother for personally writing the association's rules.

Watching the Confucian Sage Association grow day by day,

it now already had nearly sixty members,

and its various affairs were proceeding in an orderly manner.

Ye Xiuxiu could not help but feel puzzled:

"By all rights, the Confucian Sage Association is already quite sizable! And the number of members is fast approaching sixty,"

"Why hasn't the system prompted me that the task is complete yet?" This question lingered constantly in her mind.

Could it be that her method of building a faction was flawed?

When Bai Qingxia heard what Ye Xiuxiu had done,

she was dumbfounded, momentarily at a loss for words.

This little girl of merely four years old had actually already learned to form factions and gangs,

and even named her gang the "Confucian Sage Association," going so far as to style herself the "Contemporary Confucian Sage"!

If Ye Xiuxiu were to one day enter the Great Xia Dynasty as an official,

wouldn't she then seize control of the court?

With fifty or sixty people in the court all being Ye Xiuxiu's people,

who would still listen to the emperor?

However, unlike Bai Qingxia's shock, Ye Qingping showed not the slightest concern upon learning of this matter.

He felt it was nothing more than a group of children playing,

so what kind of waves could they possibly make?

And so he let them carry on as they pleased.

As time passed, more and more children were drawn into the Sage Association.

Gradually, a strange phenomenon emerged:

if you had not joined the Sage Association, then among the many children,

you would appear inferior to others;

but once you became a member of the Sage Association,

it was as if you instantly rose above the rest,

and you also had the opportunity to learn the so-called "correct words of the saints" to save the world.

However, for those children who were slightly older and had already begun to embark on the path of cultivation,

they were full of disdain and contempt toward the Sage Association and Ye Xiuxiu's interpretation of the "correct words of the saints."

In their eyes, these snot-nosed little brats simply did not understand what the true words of the saints were,

let alone the so-called correct interpretation.

After all,

those orthodox interpretations of the words of the saints had been passed down for tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of years,

how could they be something these little children could easily comprehend and alter?

And to speak of a Contemporary Confucian Sage—

truly the careless talk of children.

Could it be that the interpretations of the words of the saints had been wrong all along?

That no one had ever noticed this, yet now it had been discovered by you?

What a joke!

Time flew by,

and the short dozen-plus days of the Ascension Festival passed in a flash,

with the Ascension Festival already drawing to a close.

Ye Xiuxiu gathered all the members of the Confucian Sage Association together in one place.

(End of this chapter)