Great Accomplished Supreme Sage!
The grandest conception of the Era of All Sages, the most arrogant design, the greediest desire—and also one of the hardest possibilities to realize.
It was a path to ultimate power that existed only in theory.
From ancient times to the present, no one had ever completed it.
Yet people had always tried.
The most recent to try was Zong Dezhen, First Patriarch of the One Truth Sect, who had just died. He had sought to replace the Daoist sects with the One Truth Sect, let the Jing Kingdom swallow All-Under-Heaven, unite learning under one truth, unite governance under one state, hold both the office of Cult Leader and sovereign, and thereby attain eternal proof.
He had failed beyond all doubt.
Before him, the Three Daoist Venerables—the most remote and ancient of all—seemed to have harbored the same ambition, wishing to attain this eternal supremacy.
They supported the state system, placing their hopes in Jing Grand Ancestor Ji Yusu. They wished for All-Under-Heaven to be settled in Tianjing City, and for every sect to return to the Dao.
In the end, they had failed as well.
Then, in the Era of All Sages when this great conception was first truly proposed, had anyone ever come close?
The histories recorded nothing. No tales passed it down.
Yet today, the Nameless One seemed to be expounding one possible path!
In the comparatively recent Era of All Sages, those great cultivators and great scholars honored with the title of "Sage" seemed once to have drawn near it, rather than merely conceived of it—yet in the end, they too appeared to have strayed onto a crooked road!
Forty-nine heads, every one with exactly the same features. Neither beautiful nor ugly, not the least bit unusual or striking. From their eyes