The "story" of the Taiping You Clan and the One Truth Sect did not begin in the present age alone.
In the Taiping You Clan's most glorious era, the One Truth Sect was also nearly forced to lower its banners and still its drums. That Southern Heaven Master, You Yuheng, took an exceptionally hard-line stance toward the One Truth Sect, personally leading multiple crackdowns and killing important members of the sect with his own hands.
Until later, with the confidence of one who stood as the foremost in all the world, he ascended Kunwu Mountain.
He never came back down.
The You Clan then suffered several centuries of fierce suppression by the One Truth Sect.
The foremost illustrious clan under heaven once faded into obscurity.
Until You Qinxu rose once more.
This former foremost True Person of Central State bore the mission of reviving his family and carried immense prestige both within and beyond the Dao state. Yet he unfortunately encountered Jiang Mengxiong, and in an unremarkable operation at Calamity Water, stirred up life-and-death waves.
Was the You Clan truly so bullheaded? Did every generation's peerless Prodigy have to seek out the strongest opponent of their age and pursue the cleanest possible death?
Was there not a single one who could wisely preserve himself, not a single one willing to "wait for later"? Was there not one peerless Prodigy who could plan for the family's long future?
Certainly, they possessed the confidence to ask themselves who could be invincible, fearing no contest with any opponent. But neither could they escape the sweeping current of the world's greater tides.
In the unseen depths, there seemed to be a force setting every story in motion.
Years later, You Que, a descendant of the You Clan, looked back on it all—on his own