When Ying Chong saw the disciple who had left not long ago return, he set down the document he had been about to approve and said slowly, "It seems circumstances have changed."
The disciple stepped forward and lowered his head. "Teacher, this disciple has been incompetent..."
Ying Chong said, "No hurry. Speak slowly."
The disciple said, "This disciple has been lax these past few days and did not keep watch at all times. As a result, I discovered that the situation on Celestial Xia's side has changed drastically. Many revised Dao books have appeared there. The Dao books Teacher ordered me to send out are now utterly ignored..."
After Zhang Yu distributed the remade and revised Dao books, the Heaven-Training Dao Canon was suddenly flooded with several versions of similar Dao books, each claiming itself to be the authentic original. This left many cultivators dazzled and confused for a time.
After examining the Dao books circulating within the Heaven-Training Dao Canon, people naturally gained different insights and harvests according to their varying comprehension and knowledge. Yet without question, compared with the first Dao book to appear, the later books all brought tangible benefits. Moreover, the earliest Dao book had been denounced as a forged text by the Profound Residences of several Upper Continents, so it was quickly cast into a corner.
This did not mean that everyone was convinced it was a useless book. There were always some who clung to a flicker of hope. But before, there had been few Dao books and no choice; now that there were so many, they naturally read the useful ones first. Those that seemed useless could only be pushed to the back of the line.
There was also a humorous tale here. Whether deliberately or not, some people truly followed Gan Bai's