The Jade Records Fan Qingqing had presented essentially recorded the Five Immortals Sect's founder's understanding of the Ten Thousand Immortals Paying Homage Scroll.
First of all, the founder had rewritten the opening passage in its entirety using Yang Kingdom characters.
The characters used in Qi State today had developed by incorporating Yang Kingdom characters, so Jiang Wang found them easy enough to read.
These Yang Kingdom characters also aligned with the history of Yang Kingdom's fall: two thousand three hundred people had set sail for the sea in a single day, and the sects of the sea had been established. This corroborated that the writing was indeed the work of the Five Immortals Sect's founder.
After carefully comparing the two, Jiang Wang found that his understanding of the passage was largely the same as the founder's, with only two differences.
The first was the opening sentence: "All things possess a spirit; among all things, humans are the foremost."
The founder of the Five Immortals Sect had written, "Among all things, humans are the source of spirit."
One spirit was the "foremost"; the other was the "source."
The former suggested standing out above all others, leaning toward "the best."
The latter carried the sense of being the root of all things, leaning toward "the first."
It was hard to say which was right. Jiang Wang had great confidence in his own judgment, but he also felt the founder's interpretation made good sense.
The second difference was the line, "From head to toe, every vein, tendon, and muscle faces the original sect."
The founder had written, "...all face our sect."
One used "original"; the other, "our."
The two characters were quite similar, but there were some differences as well.
The former emphasized the "core," while the latter emphasized the "self."
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