"There is no need to belittle yourself. Fire is just fire. As that shameless fellow from the Western Realm said just now, with a little bit of practice, anyone can produce flames at will. But your dilemma is how to allow ordinary people to obtain fire, isn't that right?"
"Flames can be broadly divided into stone fire, water fire, and wood fire. You should know that heavenly lightning striking trees sometimes gives rise to flames. Why is that?" Zhang Qing did not intend to tell Fuxi directly about drilling wood to make fire; he simply wanted to let Fuxi comprehend a principle on his own.
That principle was that the Human Clan did not need direct assistance; rather, they needed to create things for themselves, so that the flame of civilization could be passed down from generation to generation. Watching Fuxi fall into deep thought, Zhang Qing quietly vanished from where he stood.
Chapter 170