novelhk Chapter 2396 Something to Ponder
Chapter 2396 Something to Ponder
Chapter 2396 Something to Ponder Silvermist's words hung in the air for a long time, neither he nor Alex saying anything to it.
Silvermist was just happy to have finally spoken out loud his feelings to someone else, someone who might understand him a bit more than Grimsight, someone who was an alchemist.
Meanwhile, Alex was simply stunned speechless at the fact that his master was aiming for something so grand. In the first place, Alex wasn't even sure if the Dao of Alchemy existed or not. He had cultivated for so long and had made pills the entire time, and yet he had not even felt an inkling of gaining the Dao of Alchemy.
His master
Alex nodded in confirmation.
"So say you record your understanding down and present it to someone else without the Dao. If they read your understandings, would they be unable to learn the Fire Dao?" Silvermist presented the question.
Alex wasn't sure. "My understanding on the matter has taught me that there is a great likelihood that they won't be able to."
"Let us believe for a moment that this is the absolute truth—that you cannot learn a Dao if you've learned the mysteries from someone else," Silvermist said. "Why do you believe that happens? Think for a moment, see how many reasons you can come up with."
That forced Alex to take a moment from all the thoughts that roamed in his mind currently and focus on just this question. His master had brought up an excellent question.
He had thought about this a few times throughout his life, trying to understand what the cause could be. It was but a stray thought that would come across him from time to time, and he would simply have an answer that made sense for the time being and move on from it.
Even now, the answer showed itself almost immediately, but Alex forced himself to dwell on the topic a little longer. He distanced himself from his knowledge, his bias, and his preconceived notions of the matter, and tried to look at the topic from a first timer's perspective.
Why was someone incapable of learning a Dao, or even had a hard time with it, if they were taught the Dao? This was different from presenting people with the aura of said Dao.
Presenting aura was like presenting them with questions to ponder. Presenting one's understanding was simply giving them the answers.
Alex looked through the answer that came to him first.
He believed that one couldn't learn a Dao by reading someone else's record of it because the Heavens didn't like it when someone took a shortcut.
A person had to work for their Dao, and putting absolutely no effort into learning the topic was something the Heavens abhorred. That was why they refused to give someone the Dao.
That was Alex's answer, but his master had asked him to think of all the possible answers, so he tried to look at the problem from a different direction.
What other answer could he have been ignorant of this entire time?