"Quick, quick, quick—we're going to be late."
"Today, Teacher Ping was supposed to speak about the Dao Ancestor among the Ten Ancestors of old... whether arts came from Sui or whether arts came from Dao, she had the most right to speak on it!"
On Cloud Dragon-Bearing Isle of the Southern Heaven Sui Continent, sacred power transformed into rosy clouds. Two youths were speeding through the skies above the clouds.
The one in front was bright-eyed and energetic, hurrying along.
The one being dragged behind him, however, was bleary-eyed, with two huge dark circles beneath his eyes. He looked as though he had just been yanked out of bed.
Even after rushing all the way, they were still late for this morning class, said to be the most precious one after entering the sect.
By the time the two reached Star Cluster Peak, passed through the cross-realm Heavenly Secrets Formation, and furtively slipped into the inner sect lecture hall of Yin-Yang Dao Palace, Teacher Ping had already been speaking for some time:
"...Thus, Time, Name, and Nuo were all outsider Ancestor Gods. None were Ancestor Gods raised by the cloud-soil of our Heavenly Realm."
"Time Ancestor Kong Yuhen merely had no choice but to steal the Dao Ancestor Yi Ji's name, occupying the vacant 'position' left during that period when the Dao Ancestor was preaching the Dao yet had not entered the world."
"This is the truth."
Teacher Ping lectured from the stage while over ten thousand people listened from the seats amid the sea of clouds below.
Among them were old scholars who researched the history of the ancient Ancestor Gods, senior students who cultivated Sui arts but not Dao arts, and those who believed the Time Ancestor was one of the Ten Ancestors.
Clearly, not everyone accepted these