Unlike the raw, untamed simplicity of the primordial era, when Haotian slew the Eastern Sovereign and the Daoist Venerable destroyed the Demon Emperor, their grudges laid bare for all to see.
After experiencing the affair of the Dao Fruit, the Other Shore practitioners had all grown wiser by the primordial era. For the sake of Subtraction into Emptiness and the pursuit of perfection, they began compromising and seeking cooperation, each entwined with the others. Unless Transcendence was at stake, they rarely overturned the table.
Never mind the Azure Emperor's identities as the Eastern Prince, Taiyi Celestial Venerable, and Medicine Buddha-even Yuanshi Tianzun, the leader of the Dao Sect, creating an alternate identity as Saint Buddha and joining Vulture Peak to cultivate was nothing unusual. The second Yuanshi had even started out as a bona fide Buddhist novice.
"The Buddha was originally of the Dao" was no empty claim, but genuine history.
After returning and learning these truths, even the Fu Sovereign could not help lamenting that it was not that he failed to understand, but that the world had changed too quickly.
But even so, that had been confined to the Other Shore. Lin Xian, an Immortal Emperor from the Nine Heavens and Ten Earths with such an honest, upright face, had only been in the True World a few years, yet he had already learned these tricks too.
"Thank you, Heavenly Emperor."
The two ancient Buddhas exchanged a glance. Though they did not understand what the Heavenly Emperor meant, affairs between Other Shore practitioners were not theirs to speculate about.
Even those of perfected fortune were merely larger ants, capable of retaining their memories through revisions to history, but powerless to change major events.
In that instant, the World-Sovereign Buddha's and Ancient Buddha Dipankara's desire to reach the Other