The crowd was fired up.
Wang Qi kept a strained smile on his face, at a complete loss. He had never expected his nonsense to work so well. Su Junyu, off to one side, looked somewhat confused. Chen Youjia was the only one who slammed her head onto the table.
She was deeply saddened by her fellow disciples' taste and common sense.
—That part was obviously this guy making things up! Could this guy ever give something a proper name? Obviously not!
—Why did you actually believe him?!
After everyone's emotions gradually settled, Wang Qi said, "Very good. It seems that all of you acknowledge this ideal of mine. Then let me explain exactly how we are going to do it."
Wang Qi brushed the stone slab. Under the effect of the Da Xiang Xiangbo Gong, the slab became flat and thin once more, gradually turning into a massive stone board two meters high and three meters wide, like a blackboard.
Countless fine threads of Sword Qi sprayed from Wang Qi's fingertips, writing many tiny words across the slab. They were all names of animals. However, his classification was rather strange: centipedes, spiders, and insects were put together; turtles and toads were grouped into one category; sharks, whales, and the like were all counted as fish...
This was a very ancient method of classification.
"The most primitive classification methods merely sorted living beings according to their appearance." Wang Qi wiped away those words, then drew anew with Sword Qi. This time, a classification resembling a tree diagram appeared on the board, with kingdoms, phyla, classes, orders, families, genera, and species clearly distinguished.
"And this is the classification method currently in use, classifying according to evolutionary kinship. Which of these two methods is better? I'm sure everyone knows perfectly well."
Everyone