When the other Daoists heard this, they all came to a realization.
It seemed... this was indeed the case...
Moreover, the reasoning felt really simple.
But why had they never thought about this issue before?
Or never considered it in this way...
Daoist Qingwei sighed, "I am increasingly impressed by Patriarch Chen, perhaps our Taoist sect is weakening because things are being lost, all due to rigid adherence to old ways."
"What the predecessors say, what books they write, we read those books and understand their meanings, never thinking for ourselves."
"Anyone who can become a great figure in any era might be someone who breaks out of fixed thinking and understands the classics in a contemporary context."
After speaking, Qingwei muttered again, "Perhaps the Taoist sect will soon see another extraordinary figure that hasn't appeared in hundreds of years."
This kind of person will surely be recorded in the Taoist classics and become a founding ancestor of a school.
