Sect Master Jinghong died, and the natural disaster instantly vanished. Yulingzi woke up from his daze with a startled cry. Seeing himself stark naked without a thread on his body, he hurriedly covered his private parts, casually found a dropped skin sack, stripped the clothes off it, and slipped them onto himself.
"Living in this world, people come into it stark naked. Now that you are stark naked, why feel any shame?"
An old voice reached his ears. Yulingzi traced the sound to find that the speaker was Daoist Jingtai, one of the Taihua Four Elders.
This old daoist priest was bare-naked, standing at a high spot beneath the sun without the slightest sense of shame.
He looked toward the place where Sect Master Jinghong had died. There, flesh and blood covered the mountain, still writhing.
Yulingzi randomly picked a daoist's robes, pulled them off, walked forward, and draped them over Daoist Jingtai.
"I don't like wearing them."
Daoist Jingtai stroked his beard and glared, shaking his shoulders to cast the robes off, and sneered, "At my advanced age, what is wrong with being naked? Can I not go naked? I was born stark naked in the first place!"
Yulingzi said, "Martial Granduncle speaks the truth. It's just that clothing is originally meant for warding off the cold and keeping warm, while also serving propriety. If one does not wear it, it is inevitably impolite."
Daoist Jingtai had not yet managed to speak when another old voice came over: "When a person is first born, where does propriety come from?"
Yulingzi looked back, only to see Daoist Jingyue, one of the Taihua Four Elders, also walking over completely naked, striding boldly to stand shoulder-to-shoulder with Daoist Jingtai.
Yulingzi felt his head swell and hurriedly said, "When an infant is first