Sure enough, within a few days, Stone Monkey finally discovered the cave behind the waterfall. From then on, it became his home.
Stone Monkey spent his days playing in the cave like this. He would probably keep playing for more than three hundred years!
Meanwhile, among the Human Race, the contention of the hundred schools finally ended with the Qin State unifying the land, thanks to the Legalist School's efforts to revitalize the state and strengthen its army. The Zhou Dynasty's eight-hundred-year reign came to an end.
Yet the Qin Dynasty ultimately rose through law and fell through law. Law had served to unify the land, but continuing to rely on it to govern the land was no longer appropriate!
After the Qin Dynasty, the land came under the Great Han Dynasty. Having learned from the cruelty of the Qin Dynasty's Legalist School, Great Han began governing through Daoism's nonaction, while Confucianism and the Mohist School still made little headway.
Yet after the Great Han Dynasty had ruled for more than a century, the winds and clouds suddenly shifted. The once-obscure Confucian school rose with the swelling tide, and the hundred schools were dismissed outright, with Confucianism alone exalted!
This immediately drew the attention of Laozi and the Primordial Heavenly Venerable!
Both the Primordial Heavenly Venerable and Laozi were utterly shocked by this development. The Primordial Heavenly Venerable hurried to Laozi to ask how they should respond!
"Elder brother, why has Confucianism, which Jiejiao supports, suddenly gained the Human Sovereign's recognition? He even intends to dismiss the hundred schools and exalt Confucianism alone. Is this meant to give Jiejiao the Human Race's fortune for ten thousand generations?"
Hearing the Primordial Heavenly Venerable's words, Laozi was filled with a sense of crisis as well. "What a Confucian school! Let me calculate