Chapter 3004
Order.
The more Zheng Qing studied those two words, the more confused he became.
The Codex was order, rules were order, and front, back, left, and right were also order; the Three Pure Ones and Four Imperial Deities were order, Zeus was order, and Odin was order as well; Alpha, which championed "Freedom and Justice," remained devoted in practice to the ancient order of bloodlines and inheritance; even the many Starry Sky entities born of chaos and blindness followed their own order.
The ancients said, "The Five Elements have no constant victor, the four seasons have no fixed place, days have their lengths, and moons have their births and deaths." It sounded as though this world were drowned in uncertainty, yet upon closer thought, was that not also a kind of order?
At that moment, Master Baoyangzi's question seemed to confirm some of his vague thoughts—Relevant Department had its order. Thus there was Buzhou Mountain, then the Garden of Eden, and then the Tower of Babel; with a Mountain Chief came a Garden Master, followed by a Tower Master.
Then what about "order"?
How should his "order" fit into such an order?
"But you just said that forms of address were a trivial matter."
The young headmaster chuckled softly, not answering the old wizard's question directly.
Master Baoyangzi gave him a serious look.
"The fact that you did not casually describe 'order' shows that you already understand it well enough. That is very good."
The old man nodded approvingly. After pondering for a moment, he continued, "As for 'forms of address,' the 'name of order' I mentioned is not the same concept as names like 'two, four, five, six' that you asked about earlier. What a ruler governs is only names and vessels; they must not be entrusted