An invisible power stirred faintly above the capital, like an undercurrent in the sea-unseen, unknowable, immeasurable.
Three statements that shook hearts and even stunned the Human Race hammered against everyone's Literary Palace.
Most people stared, dumbstruck, unable to understand or imagine that anyone would utter such outrageously defiant words.
But the reactions of a small minority fell into two extremes.
Some showed clear resistance, believing Fang Yun was merely playing to the crowd.
Others looked excited, wholeheartedly endorsing Fang Yun's three statements.
This was a classic example of a Great Scholar offering commentary on the Classics of the Sages.
However, this was a Sacred Way Literary Assembly, not an ordinary literary assembly, so no supernatural manifestations would arise during the proceedings. Only after the assembly ended would the power of the Sacred Way and its manifestations take shape according to its content.
Every Sacred Way Literary Assembly would condense into a unique sacred object.
Once their shock subsided, everyone pondered the profound meaning behind those three statements.
Their literal meanings were not difficult to grasp.
"Changes in Heaven need not be feared" literally meant that natural disasters, or the Heavenly Way itself, were insufficient to make the Human Race afraid. By extension, people could remake heaven and earth. This could be taken as an ordinary declaration of lofty ambition, rather than anything truly startling.
"Ancestral precedent need not be followed" was more extreme than the previous statement. The rules, customs, laws, and everything else left by the ancestors of the Human Race could not demand complete obedience and imitation. In other words, the present-day Human Race was entirely free to change the rules its ancestors had established.
"Need not" was not an absolute rejection, but meant "not completely." Good things left by the ancestors should be learned, and bad things