[120] Wake-Up Call

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[For more than half a year, you have fully absorbed the myriad mystical arts and techniques from Sima Hui.]

[Sima Hui candidly tells you that you have already graduated, and there is nothing more he can teach you. Yet, he earnestly pleads for you to stay at Water Mirror Manor.]

[This suits you perfectly, as there is indeed nothing more for you to learn here... but you can now teach.]

[You instruct this group of perhaps the most talented youths of this era, imparting knowledge of astronomy, geography, natural laws, the concept of universes, and the conservation of energy. The young men listen, enraptured, but you never speak of utopian ideals or class struggle.]

[The reason is simple... these young strategists are far too clever.]

[A decade ahead is a genius, a millennium ahead is a monster.]

[If you were to propagate such advanced ideas, they would quickly realize that their noble class is precisely the one that needs to be overthrown. Not everyone harbors a sage-like heart to save the world.]

[Your senior brothers... they all undoubtedly admire you, respect you, and praise you. Yet, they all think that one Zhang Jue cannot change this world.]

[You never hide your personal desire to help the people, even openly using it as a bargaining chip for tuition, requesting your peers to write family letters. Everyone is smart enough to see that this earnest attitude is far more effective than repeating 'please save the people of the world' a thousand times.]

[Advanced knowledge naturally leads to enlightenment of thought. The myriad mystical knowledge and modern scientific systems in your mind cannot be fully taught in just a few years.]

[Knowledge begets thought, and thought breeds a thirst for more knowledge. You will use your knowledge as a weapon to conquer their minds and your sincerity as a banner to unite their ideologies.]

[Individuals within a class may betray their class, but a class will never betray itself. Over two thousand years of history, only one pair of Marx and Engels has emerged.]

[But... if one Zhang Jue cannot change the world, what about thousands upon thousands of Zhang Jue?]

[Your name embodies enlightenment.]

[Enlightenment brings eternal happiness.]

[Like a certain good young artist rejected by the arts academy.]

[Like a certain kind-hearted scholar applying to be a librarian.]

[We often say that great torrents begin from tiny streams. Major events in history often originate from seemingly insignificant, unnoticed beginnings.]

[Among the most brilliant youths under the sky, you have sparked a small flame. You know that soon, this flame will spread like wildfire.]

[As time passes, you receive slightly comforting news through letters from your family. Your province has received aid and support from various noble families across the provinces. Although the court has not allocated enough funds and grain, the entire county is gradually settling the refugees.]

[Unfortunately, it seems as though cursed, this ravaged land shows no signs of relief from plague and famine, instead, these calamities are becoming more severe.]

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