Could it be that a true Confucian Sage has come to my Great Water Palace? Not only that, but it seems like he's not just an ordinary Confucian Sage, like the mountain master of a certain academy. 

The great river god was gritting his teeth so tightly that they were about to shatter.

His posture was extremely rigid, and his entire body was tightly wound. He had been a dominant force in the northern region of Yellow Court Nation for centuries, yet at this moment, he was having to clench his fists tightly and slam them heavily down onto the armrests of his chair just to suppress the urge to fall to his knees and kowtow for mercy.

Yellow Court Nation was nothing more than one of Great Sui Nation's subsidiary nations, so there was no way that this uninvited guest was a local cultivator. The great river god knew all of the powerful cultivators of Yellow Court Nation like the back of his hand, so he knew who he could afford to mess with and who he had to suck up to. 

This was one of the keys to the safe and prosperous reign that the great river god had enjoyed over the past few centuries.

There were 72 academies of Confucianism, and the mountain master of every single one of them had to have been at least a 10th tier cultivator to have been considered qualified for their role.

Almighty cultivators of the Upper Five Tiers were often extremely enigmatic and reclusive, so these academy mountain masters, who were generally 10th tier cultivators that were relatively closer to mortal empires, were already worthy of being referred to as Confucian Sages by the mortal empires. Aside from that, there were also Arhats of Buddhism and terrestrial...