[You controlled "Number Two Other-Self" and left the Secret Realm.]
[Thanks to your "Other Self's" [Nascent Soul True Lord]-level [Essence], stepping back into the nearly shattered [Supreme True Realm] posed no serious problem.]
[Your "Other-Self" headed straight for the [Dao Yan Sacred Land] in Central Province.]
[Fortunately, the [Dao Yan Sacred Land] was still there!]
[Unfortunately, you were discovered by the strongest combatant currently around—the [Blazing Sun True Lord].]
[Without a word, a sky-blotting giant hand descended to crush you, identical to the one that had killed "Number One Other-Self."]
[Your [nascent soul early stage] combat strength was nowhere near enough!]
[Facing that sky-blotting palm, all you could do now was gamble.]
[Gamble that the [Dao Yan True Lord] would protect you, just as he had protected Void-Proof Five Hundred Years ago!]
[And clearly, your gamble paid off!]
[One moment, "Number Two Other-Self" was facing that sky-blotting giant palm; the next, you had arrived... inside a chessboard?!]
[You recognized this chessboard. It was the [True Treasure] used by the [Dao Yan True Lord].]
[So the [Dao Yan True Lord] had indeed intervened.]
[As though responding to your thoughts, he slowly appeared in the center of the Chessboard.]
[Neither you nor he spoke first. Both of you seemed to be waiting for the other to begin.]
[Finally, you could not hold back any longer and asked, "What exactly is going on? What... purpose does the [Blazing Sun Sacred Land] have in doing this?"]
[You had originally wanted to ask whether the [Blazing Sun Sacred Land's] annexations in recent years were connected to the [Immortal's] descent.]
[After all, if you carefully compared the sequence of events, it was only after the [Blazing Sun Sacred Land] expanded that the [Supreme True Realm] began to shatter, and even the [Immortal] was set to descend.]