"At man's beginning, his nature is good. Our natures are alike; our habits draw us apart. Without instruction, our nature changes. The way of teaching prizes devotion. Of old, Mencius's mother chose her neighbors. When her son would not study, she cut the threads on her loom..."
"Zhao, Qian, Sun, Li; Zhou, Wu, Zheng, Wang..."
The two texts contained barely a thousand characters, yet incorporated many commonly used characters, along with the profound principles of the Sacred Path.
Then they looked at the titles on the paper.
"Three Character Classic," "Hundred Family Surnames."
The written words slowly glowed, and faint voices reading and chanting drifted from the paper.
The manifestation in the sky changed, and everyone seemed to see countless students reading and studying the Three Character Classic and Hundred Family Surnames.
Edification!
This was the Sacred Path of Edification!
"How is that possible?!"
Reading those rhythmic, flowing lines, Yu Kong lost his composure. "Didn't you only know how to speak the language of commoners? Didn't you only know how to compose poems?"
Dongfang Gu and the others wore the same expressions.
Based on their intelligence about Lin Ke, they had long since concluded that he could not write any work of the Sacred Path.
Just look.
Ever since Lin Ke had first made his name, his works had been either poetry or the Preface to Sending Off the Children's Education Bureau.
The problem was that this "preface" was more a work of lyrical expression than a canonical text like the Great Learning or Doctrine of the Mean.
And after that?
The language of commoners-in other words, plain vernacular novels such as Battle Through the Firmament, which were simple and easy to understand.
The new Painting Path, namely oil painting; the men's Dance Path; and even the equally accessible Encyclopedia