Solar flames rose like the sun; a golden lotus blazed in the sea of consciousness.
Deep within his sea of consciousness, Jiang Sheng sat on the Azure Profound Lotus Platform and felt as though he had dreamed.
In the dream, Jiang Sheng seemed to have returned to the previous epoch, to the height of the Dual Principles Dao Palace's glory in the Xuanhuang World.
Jiang Sheng saw Jinhao Sun Lord seated high upon the Sun Star, within the Great Sun Divine Palace, looking down upon the mortal realm; he saw Jinhao Sun Lord govern the four seasons, establish a new calendar, and rule the Three Realms by the sun.
As an observer, Jiang Sheng followed Jinhao Sun Lord through the Dual Principles Dao Palace's entire journey from glory to decline.
During that journey, Jiang Sheng saw something Taiyin True Monarch had never told him: there was a problem with the inheritance passed from the Dual Principles Dao Palace to the Yinyang Orthodox Sect!
Or rather, Jinhao Sun Lord and Taiyin Guanghan Moon Lord had never intended to hand the Dual Principles Dao Palace's entire inheritance to Dao Lord Hunxuan and the Yinyang Orthodox Sect.
The scripture hall on the Sun Star made that plain. It held many things the Yinyang Orthodox Sect did not possess.
Jinhao Sun Lord and Taiyin Guanghan Moon Lord knew they could not evade the Epoch End Calamity brought by the changing of epochs. They also understood that every epoch had its own leading figures in the Great Thousand World. But neither was willing to enter reincarnation just yet.
So, using the Dual Principles Dao Palace's resources, Jinhao Sun Lord and Taiyin Guanghan Moon Lord began making arrangements well before the Epoch End Calamity. Under cover of the heavenly secrets thrown into chaos during the calamity,