Fang Yun seemed not to notice the Legalist scholars' reactions and continued speaking.
"Let us set laws aside and look only at primitive rules. If we take our thinking a step further, where did those primitive rules originate?"
"From survival? Many rules actually have no bearing on survival."
"From settling disputes? If we examine primitive society, we find that people were more equal. They did not even have a concept of private possessions. Everything belonged to the collective, and disputes were actually rare."
"From a divine gift?" Fang Yun's expression suddenly grew solemn. "Our Human Race has endured countless hardships. Countless sages of the past paved the road of progress with their bones, allowing us to reach where we are today and attain countless achievements and accomplishments. If we shamelessly declare all this a divine gift, we defile those sages of every generation. It is tantamount to grinding their bones and scattering their ashes, to denying our bloodline, our wisdom, and the very reason for our Human Race's existence! If everything is a divine gift, what use is there for humans? What have humans accomplished? People like that are beneath even worms, beneath even ants! So I do not wish to hear such voices among the Human Race. Those who say such things are the failed products of our progress and should be nailed to history's pillar of shame!"
The scholars below the stage nodded in agreement with Fang Yun.
"To return to the subject, careful study reveals that our ancient ancestors must have considered many factors when establishing rules. Those factors did indeed include survival and disputes, but because there were so many, no single factor could be the source of primitive rules. Let us therefore continue our reasoning. What made those ancestors who established rules consider so many