Ancient, High Antiquity, Middle Antiquity, and Recent Antiquity—these four periods together divided history. They encompassed all the years before the new beginning of the Dao Calendar.
The final era belonging to Recent Antiquity was called [One Truth].
The Era of One Truth lasted a mere three hundred years, yet it inflicted immense wounds upon this world.
Its closing echoes rang out in a great war that muddled the heavens and overturned antiquity and the present, nearly destroying the present world and restarting all the heavens. Even eternal Transcendents were consigned to everlasting sleep.
The Covenant of the Haotian Supreme End-Kalpa that Ji Furen had demanded the Original Heavenly God sign on Pegasus Plateau was a product of that very period.
Only after the Era of One Truth was ended and the Present World Order reestablished did the Dao Calendar begin anew, continuing unbroken for three thousand nine hundred and thirty years to this day.
Though the One Truth Dao Lord had been eliminated, the One Truth Dao had never vanished.
It was a parasite clinging to the bones of the Daoist Sect, an illness lodged deep in the marrow of Daoist orthodoxy.
For nearly the entire four-thousand-year history of Great Jing's founding, it had been shrouded beneath the lingering doubt of "Who is the One Truth Dao?"
Who was the One Truth Dao?
Yin Xiaoheng was a member of the One Truth Dao! And he was its most brutal, most cold-blooded executioner!
This differed from the "heretical demons and crooked paths" imagined by many in the Outside World.
The true core members of the One Truth Dao were, instead, the most ancient and orthodox cultivators of the Daoist Sect.
Every one of them possessed pure Dao lineages and precious inheritances.
They upheld the ancient glory of the Daoist Sect, carrying