Borrow the False to Cultivate the True, Burial-Star Sand Sea

"What a grand Daoist title!"

As the knowledge in his mind continued to grow, Wang Ping finally gained a relatively clear understanding of their target: the Dao Lord of that ancient tradition.

"A cultivator of the Breath-Consuming Method, and one who practiced the Dao before True Cultivation even existed. He had ties to the Great Rebellion, too. Now he wants to pursue True Cultivation, even seek a Heavenly-Earthly Ultimate Position, so he's joined forces with the Water-Fire Dual Qi. But which trigram does he intend to cultivate through?"

Wang Ping had no idea.

Nor did he know which Heavenly-Earthly Ultimate Position the other party sought, or even what he himself was supposed to do as a pawn.

Ask him three questions, and he couldn't answer a single one.

As for his own True Lord, he had given him just one task.

"The Nonaction Unchanging Dao Ground is on the verge of collapse because of all sorts of problems left over from its past. It needs someone to help restore its former glory."

Beyond that, not a single hint.

"Borrow the False to Cultivate the True..."

Wang Ping pondered. After his experience with the Eight Trigrams Furnace, he had gained some understanding of what the True Persons and True Lords meant by "Borrow the False to Cultivate the True."

"The first step is for a True Person or True Lord to descend from a higher dimension and personally take part in the mortal world, leaving events tied to themselves behind. Then they guide false, mortal things—pawns like us—to drive some event forward and accomplish a particular Merit Deed."

The Eight Trigrams Furnace affair was one example.

Profound Firmament Responsive-Origin True Person had fashioned Great Shun as a vessel and handed it to Immortal Talisman, planning for the entire nation to ascend