This Down-and-Out Blind Man Speaks Nothing but the Truth?

The literary tradition holds arcane power. Great scholars wield their brushes to decide life and death, while learned men recite ancient texts to subdue mountains and rivers!

The down-and-out storyteller Shen Hui drifts through the streets, where everyone laughs at him for being crude and ignorant, and for daring to read the sages’ books.

But no one knows he can see the underlying logical flaws in ancient sacred texts. With a casual change of punctuation, he can instantly reverse the rules of their divine words!

“‘The people may be made to follow the Way, but not to understand it’? What a joke. I’ll add a question mark and send all the sages back to heaven!”

While scholars in the hall are still memorizing sacred words by rote, Shen Hui has already shattered illusions with the common tongue of the streets. In the darkness of his blindness, he smiles as he watches the gods fall!