When Lin Ke spoke, few others dared interrupt.
Not even Libationer Liu could.
After all, Lin Ke held an official post. Coupled with the musical scores, novels, elementary teaching materials, and other works he had just produced, they had neither the confidence nor the standing to tell him to shut up.
"Beneath the Plum Blossom Tree, I contemplated the great Dao of heaven and earth and sensed that all things possessed their own Dao. It was through this that I previously comprehended the Dao of biology and taught it to Sage Jia, Jia Sixie, and Wang Qingshan of the Beast-Taming Studio."
"But that was only the Dao of biology, and even within it, there are hundreds upon thousands of distinct paths."
Lin Ke seemed to have opened a grand lecture hall. From Minister Gui above to the common people below, everyone listened attentively.
Of course, the most important thing was that what he said truly made sense.
Even one or two individual sections from the Encyclopedia of Biology could form a new school of thought.
Microorganisms, animals, and plants, for example.
The Great Wei Sacred Dynasty had never had such a clear classification of species, incorporating every living thing into a single system.
Of course, it also included something different from his previous life... humans!
With humans treated as a species, there were further divisions such as the Spring and Autumn Human Race, Featherfolk, and Merfolk.
But regardless, with the publication of the Encyclopedia of Biology, Lin Ke was fully qualified to become the founder of a new discipline.
Biology!
Of course, owing to a combination of factors, he had not actually achieved the distinction of founding a school.
"And beyond living things, other great Daos exist between heaven and earth. Why does water flow from higher ground to lower