Once the ancestral land of the Daoist sect at Taibai Mountain, within the Scripture Platform, atop a high stage.
Two "Scholars" were performing a kneeling salute.
The place was utterly silent, thousands in respectful stillness.
The Daoist gentlemen lost, Confucian Scholar Zhao Ziyu, "the unity of essence and function", the Lin of Lanxi unexpectedly won, Chongxu Temple...
Everyone was still savoring and digesting the events.
Instead of the applause that should have come after the third clear discussion, silence then was the highest homage.
But before long, outside the Scripture Platform, or rather outside Luojing City around Taibai Mountain, there came a sound that, despite traveling hundreds of miles through the air and taking several moments to dissipate, still made people furrow their brows in annoyance at the disturbance.
It only made the silence inside the Scripture Platform more apparent.
Still, nobody spoke.