[You set aside the relationship between [Purple Cloud True Lord] and the [Blazing Sun Immortal Venerable] for now.]
[What concerned you more was another matter—]
[[True Lord Tianyan] was not dead.]
[You kept feeling that it was far too much of a coincidence.]
[You sifted through your memories.]
[Previous simulations had shown that [True Lord Tianyan] possessed the strength of a [Great True Lord] (nascent soul late stage).]
(First mentioned in chapter 67)
[But the [eighth ordinary simulation] had shown that, when necessary, he could unleash the strength of a [Heavenly Venerable] (nascent soul perfection).]
(Mentioned in chapter 102)
[He also seemed to have some connection to [heavenly will].]
[And [heavenly will] was undoubtedly connected to [Heaven and Earth].]
[Following that line of reasoning,]
[—could [True Lord Tianyan] be considered a pawn on [Heaven and Earth's] side?]
[If that were true, there would be room for a new interpretation of the truth behind that game all those years ago.]
[Back then, the [Blazing Sun Immortal Venerable] had struck down [True Lord Tianyan], and mighty beings across the heavens had witnessed his fall.]
[If this True Lord had truly survived, how could someone with an Immortal Venerable's power have failed to notice?]
[Given the [Blazing Sun Immortal Venerable's] disposition, how could he have let the matter slide?]
[Even if the [Tianyan fruit position] had escaped, he would surely have dug three feet into the earth and pursued it to the bitter end.]
[Yet the outcome had been]
[—the [Tianyan fruit position] escaped, the Immortal Venerable prepared to attain the Dao once more, and the matter sank like a stone into the sea, left unresolved.]
[That made no sense.]
[Unless... someone had made all of this "make sense."]
[That patriarch of the [Golden Cloud Hall]—had his [Wedding Robe] divine ability truly transferred