The One Truth Dao Lord had been active during the Recent Antiquity Era, but the One Truth Dao had not been born only in that era.
Its ideals flowed from antiquity into the present, deeply rooted in the course of the Daoist order's development.
The One Truth Dao Lord was an unparalleled hero of the age, the very culmination of the One Truth Dao.
Because of His existence, the One Truth Dao—a secret organization of ideals carried to their utmost extreme—had a period in which it could step into the spotlight, even dominate the situation, and brazenly eliminate dissidents. Because of Him, too, the One Truth Dao became widely known and impossible to ignore.
It even gave rise to an era!
Before the One Truth Dao Lord, and after the One Truth Dao Lord, the One Truth Dao had always existed.
Zong Dezhen had never believed himself inferior to Ji Yusu.
Back then, with the Daoist order's support, Ji Yusu pioneered the state system and established the greatest empire in All Under Heaven. He was a trailblazer of his age, the direction toward which countless people gazed in admiration.
As a follower of the One Truth Dao in the "Era of Ruin," Zong Dezhen had struggled to preserve its last spark and secretly consolidate its power. In the open, he had fallen a step behind.
Even so, he had won the support of a great portion of the Daoist order's strength. In secret, he had risen to become one of the One Truth Dao's highest-ranking leaders, gaining the support of all its power. Thus he founded the Sui Kingdom and joined the great struggle across the realm when the Dao Calendar began anew.
At its height, the Sui Kingdom had also possessed the foundations to attain the Dao, inferior to