Running for Their Lives

The Great Sun [Year Guardian]...

Fang Qing's expression grew grave as he thought of this most dangerous enemy.

Of the four great [Year Guardians] of remote antiquity, this one had been the most terrifying, already showing signs of reaching half a step beyond the [Year Guardian] realm!

At the end of remote antiquity, the Great Sun [Year Guardian] devoured the other three great [Year Guardians]—and perished while attaining the Dao.

During high antiquity, the Lunar Yin [Year Guardian] revived first and destroyed the preparations the Fire Virtue and Metal Virtue [Year Guardians] had left for their resurrection. Then the Great Sun Tathagata, who controlled the Great Sun [Year Guardian]'s remains, defeated her—bringing the era of high antiquity to an end. The Great Sun [Year Guardian] might well have plotted and driven those events!

During near antiquity... who knows whether the Lunar Yin [Year Guardian] revived upon [Weiyue] again and was then devoured by the [Great Sun] Year Guardian, or whether the Great Sun [Year Guardian] revived directly upon [Weiyue]. Through a series of schemes, he has now recovered the source of his own corpse's esoteric treasury, along with [Weiyue] as principal, [Bi Water] as subordinate, [Shi Fire] as follower, and [Room Sun]...

The four great golden seats...

Come to think of it... although breaking through beyond [Year Guardian] is difficult, he already meets the conditions for attempting the [Year Guardian] realm through a different Dao path! With his attainments, he might well succeed!

Could he also be refining the "esoteric treasury source"? Or doing both at once?

A flash of inspiration struck him, and he immediately thought of something else. *And there is the current Water Virtue [Year Guardian] scheme—he may be laying plans along several fronts. Even if one or two fail, he would merely earn a smaller profit