[This art had ancient roots. It was no creation of later generations, but a legacy passed down from Ancient Antiquity when the Dao Dominion Sect was first founded.]
[According to legend, it was written by an enlightened cultivator of Ancient Antiquity named Virtuous Conduct Daoist.]
[In Ancient Antiquity, the title "Daoist" was no ordinary thing. None dared claim it without extraordinary fortune. Those who called themselves Daoists were founders of schools, sources of Daoist lineages, and benefactors of all living beings.]
[Later cultivators speculated that such figures had surpassed the Great Dao Golden Core and reached an inconceivable realm.]
[Among the Daoist titles recorded in the Dao Canon today, the most renowned belonged to Five Elements Daoist, Mountain-Moving Daoist, Four Seas Daoist, Yin-Yang Daoist, Heaven-Earth Daoist, and others.]
[At the very least, Mount Fangcun's ancestral lineage had been attached to one such Daoist.]
[But as the years passed and seas turned to mulberry fields, many Daoist legacies vanished without a trace. Some Daoists' names survived only in the records of offshoot branches, while their original lineages had long since ended.]
[The chief reason was that the previous age had endured a decline of magic. The spiritual tide had only just begun to rise again, leaving cultivation lineages effectively severed.]
[Great cultivators of the Daoist Sect speculated that Ancient Antiquity had been an age of flourishing cultivation, but the span between it and Medieval Antiquity before it had also suffered a world-ending tribulation of declining magic.]
[Ancient Antiquity, Medieval Antiquity, Primordial Antiquity, the Primordial Era, Primordial Origin... Each era you traced back was separated by a tribulation of heaven and earth.]
[The cultivators of Ancient Antiquity had viewed Medieval Antiquity much as people today viewed Ancient Antiquity.]
[And looking back on Medieval Antiquity through the eyes of the present was like