The Two Principles united with the Dao to transform into Taiyi; the Three Powers, Four Symbols, and Five Elements were divided.
The Three Powers stood only beneath the Two Principles.
The character "three" faintly represented the great thousand worlds and the Great Dao. It was the exalted number of Yang.
The Daoist Three Heavenly Venerables that the Eastern Heaven Daoist Sect was now seeking were three; the Buddhist Three World-Honored Ones that the Buddha of West Heaven's Great Lingyin Temple plotted to attain were also three.
From this, one could see how extraordinary the number three was.
The Three Powers were Heaven, Earth, and Man; the Three Luminaries were Sun, Moon, and Stars.
Within a world, the sun and moon reigned supreme among the stars. They were the most important.
They were not merely the sun and moon among the Three Luminaries, but also referred to the Two Principles.
Thus, although one could see the sun rise in the east and set in the west, and the moon hang in the night sky, the sun and moon themselves were concealed by Heaven and Earth. Without a great opportunity or a catastrophe that shattered heaven and earth, one could not behold them directly.
Had the Sun True Star and Moon True Star within the chaotic cosmos not remained unaccounted for to this day?
Though the suns and moons of All Heavens and Myriad Worlds were formed from the projections of the Sun True Star and Moon True Star, their authority within their own worlds remained unique and unparalleled.
Once the Sun Star and Taiyin Star of a world were occupied, their authority stolen, and their laws seized, then to a certain extent, whoever occupied the sun and moon could gradually replace the will of Heaven and Earth and become the ruler