Why are Taoist priests so mysterious and powerful?
Why are they so powerful? Imagine that in order to study the habits of monkeys, humans can choose a clever monkey from monkeys, train it to learn to use human language and some tools, and then return to the monkey with some necessary human tools and pretend to be a Taoist.
When a monkey was dying, the clever monkey mixed special antibiotics in the water to save it, and then told the monkey that it was water. When the monkeys need a rain, the clever monkeys ask for the support of artificial rainfall through a special communicator in human language, and then tell the monkeys what an instrument is and what a spell is.
When this clever monkey was about to die, he left the tools given to him by human beings to his disciples and grandchildren in the name of musical instruments, and passed on the necessary human languages in the name of spells and homophones.
In this way, future generations will get real human tools, and monkeys with real human language will continue to be mysterious Taoist priests, while monkeys without these will only make some fakes to deceive the world.
Human civilization is naturally much higher than that of monkeys, so that monkeys can be fooled unintentionally in the above ways. But civilizations higher than human civilization will also exist. Isn't their language a spell on human beings, and the tools they left to human beings are ancient artifacts that human beings can't copy?
Therefore, the mystery is not only the Taoist themselves, but more importantly, the secrets they intentionally or unintentionally hide and the earliest contact with alien civilizations.