First, he disguised the Sacred Court as a Heavenly Dynasty, then cultivated the Twelve Sages.
Could the purpose of the Sun Divine Court have been to prepare for Ye Tong and the Twelve Sages to descend into this world?
Back then, Li Changshou saw the Starry Sky Vision. Perhaps that had been his first attempt.
The living beings of the Land Beyond the World probably would not care about the beings of this world if it meant allowing their respective Heavenly Emperors to truly return.
Moreover, the three Heavenly Emperors looked far too similar. Returning to their True Selves would probably not be easy.
It might even cause the other two Heavenly Emperors to disappear.
Dao Gives Birth to One, One Gives Birth to Two, Two Gives Birth to Three, and Three Gives Birth to All Things.
Now, the three Heavenly Emperors' journey to reclaim their True Selves could be viewed as the process of all things returning to one and going against the Dao.
During this process, they might devour one another.
After all, the Unique was Unique precisely because it was one of a kind.
There could not possibly be three similar-looking existences Above Sacrifice Dao.
Li Zhi even suspected that the reason they had been able to revive in that Mysterious Land back then—to return from extinction and rise from ruin—was not that their cultivation had reached such a level.
Instead, because they resembled the Sick One and shared a Great Karma with him, they had appeared in that Mysterious Land after death.
Perhaps, that place was essentially the same as the High Plateau.
However, that place was very likely where the Sick One had gone from existence to nothingness, then from nothingness back to existence, undergoing Nirvana rebirth.
Even the Sick One's ashes possessed the ability