I once took slaughter as my trade, committing countless sins. As I grew older, I found myself unable to sleep at night and wished to draw my blade to end my own life. It so happened that a disciple of the Inkbound Order saw me and stayed my hand. He said to me, "You are a man of Qingzhou; why not learn the art of the culinary knife? To apologize with death leaves the sin uncleansed. It is better to cast aside the butcher's blade and take up the chef's knife; for every life nourished, a life is repaid."
I attained sudden enlightenment and thus established this precept: the descendants of the Sun clan shall never practice the arts of killing, but must solely use the culinary arts to save others. Trading the butcher's blade for the chef's knife is the true legacy of our Sun family. Whoever violates this is no true descendant of mine.
Penned by Sun Baohuan's own hand.
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