Rise and Fall (8k Great Chapter, Please Vote)

Over these hundred years, Li Qi watched the rise and fall of the True Dao Sect. In just a century, the True Dao Sect experienced its greatest prosperity, then rapidly declined.

The reason was nothing else: empty discourse and impractical theorizing.

Over these hundred years, that batch of students began replacing the elders who had died of old age. With the Supreme Patriarch's ascension and the elders' passing, a new generation of young people began taking over the True Dao Sect.

Then, fully displaying their talent for empty discourse and impractical theorizing, they successfully played the True Dao Sect into a half-dead state.

After that, other sects outside, coveting all the resources the True Dao Sect already possessed, began invading.

This time, the True Dao Sect collapsed all the way through. Cities fell, people died, mountain gates split apart, and everything was plundered.

The True Dao Sect had stood for six hundred years.

During its first hundred years, it endured hardship and poverty. Everyone united as one and established the mountain gate.

Over the next four hundred years, it steadily developed and climbed upward, eventually supporting an immortal. The mountain gate flourished greatly, with countless disciples. In the end, this caused the trend of empty discourse and impractical theorizing to prevail. Such people gradually climbed into the sect's highest ranks, speaking elegantly of abstruse principles while being unable to accomplish a single practical matter, able only to assign work to those beneath them.

Those below used this opportunity to seize great power, effectively becoming something akin to "clerks."

Yes, those in high positions were boastful "governors," while those who actually did the work became lifelong "administrative clerks."

Governance and administration separated. Those who handled practical affairs began hollowing out the empty talkers, yet those practical workers could not obtain cultivation