Zi Shou was genuinely stunned by Du Yuanxian and Wan Nian's tag-team double assault.
First came the formation of rain, then an explanation of thunder. These two stargazers had actually started dabbling in science in the world of Investiture of the Gods.
Yet in the end, an utterly unscientific lightning strike had completed the grand undertaking of burning the books.
Zi Shou felt this was no big problem. Wasn't talking science in the world of Investiture of the Gods just asking for death?
Actually, science was not hydrogen bombs, nuclear bombs, or atomic bombs. Those things were technological weapons.
Science was merely a method, an attitude, a philosophy. Its process involved observing phenomena, analyzing their essence, deriving conclusions, and conducting research to gradually form a complete system of knowledge.
Science arose from the process of defining everything observable. In that sense, science had nothing to do with which world one lived in. It existed in worlds of immortals and cultivation, too.
So, in fact, this was a very big problem.
Cultivation was essentially the study and understanding of nature and the Heavenly Dao. After Wan Nian and Du Yuanxian explained thunder and rain, Xuandu packed up his fortune-telling stall, felt inspiration stir within him, and immediately began comprehending the Dao.
That bolt of lightning had been Xuandu's way of repaying a karmic debt.
Yun Zhongzi had also felt something stir within him, though over a different matter. He immediately summoned his junior sect brothers, Guangchengzi and Chijingzi.
After putting their heads together, the three reached a decision. Yun Zhongzi continued his divinations, while Guangchengzi and Chijingzi went to the Medical Academy.
At the Medical Academy, Shen Gongbao was helpless against Chong Yingbiao's injuries.
He and Jiang Ziya had studied different specialties. He knew nothing whatsoever about how a man could