The Great Dao

"Spread the Way?"

Gu Yue was greatly startled, then his heart burned with excitement. "May I ask where your Dao lineage lies, Daoist Master? Can you teach me to cultivate immortality as well?"

"My Dao is called 'Supreme,' and it is the Supreme Way Sect!"

Aaron declared proudly.

"Supreme Way Sect!" Gu Yue savored the name, then immediately praised it lavishly. "Just hearing the name of this Dao lineage, one can feel the bearing of one Dao crushing ten thousand others. Its arts must surely be extraordinary!"

"The Dao arts passed down by my Supreme Way Sect are called—science!"

Aaron said with a solemn expression, "All things beneath heaven possess their own laws. Through observation, induction, summarization, analysis... one ultimately arrives at truth and makes all things serve one's use. This is the Dao of science! Truth grows clearer through debate. It is there—it will not cease to exist because people ignore it, nor will it change because of Fallacy... Every principle that can be proven is science!"

Spreading the Dao of science in a world with supernatural powers, in his capacity as a great spiritual being!

It seemed utterly absurd.

Yet Aaron found it perfectly reasonable!

Truth was truth!

Even supernatural powers could, in truth, be incorporated into science. They were merely the parts science had yet to explain!

'To overthrow the three teachings, I must bring forth something of my own!'

'Especially the Teaching of Names—it has put down roots too deep... Therefore, I must cut away the past, tear everything down, and begin anew! Set up a new furnace!'

*'With the Dao of science, I'll teach arithmetic, law, natural studies, and countless other subjects... Completely cast aside the scholar-gentry, poor scholars, noble clans, and landlord classes. Select talent from among illiterate peasants and train them... Decades from