The preaching of Master Shi actually propagated a doctrine of moderation, selling books at eighty percent, converting elixir through nine cycles, essentially conveying that: one should always leave margin, never be absolute, not to compete is to compete, to compete is not to compete... In the end, won't you still honestly return to the front of the Laojun furnace?
Extended to the present, its implication is self-evident, and all the cultivators present are adept at solving riddles, clearly understanding this roundabout reasoning more than ever.
Master Shi eloquently preached for an hour, aiming to express such thoughts, even using demonstrations to prove his Daoist Method, which enraptured the audience.
When he concluded, the next to ascend the pulpit was supposed to be Master Yan from the Situ Mansion, but a figure had already preempted him, and upon looking up, it was the long-unseen Master Quan, one of the Idle Cranes in the Wilds.
