``` [Central Province]
[The Great Li Dynasty]
[You controlled "Number One Other-Self" as you surveyed this... top-tier power that had lost its former glory.]
[In the dynasty's final years, its dragon qi had dispersed. The court was corrupt and benighted, crushing taxes oppressed the people, and refugees roamed everywhere.]
[Sects carved out their own territories, demons rose on every side, and warfare raged along the borders. The nation's fortune swayed precariously, and all beneath heaven fell into chaos. The old dynasty was already a sun sinking behind the western mountains, teetering on the brink of collapse.]
[You encountered many refugees and bandits and witnessed scenes like a hell on earth. People exchanged children to eat, human lives were treated like weeds, and such horrors could hardly have been more commonplace!]
[But none of this affected you, because you were a cultivator, while they were merely mortals...]
[After so many schemes and calculations, you had long since lost your mortal heart. You cared only about those who mattered to you. Besides, you had not even figured out the situation yet...]
[You watched these mortal tragedies indifferently, but did not intervene to stop them, because you could neither understand nor see through what was happening in this so-called Great Li Dynasty.]
[This was not one of those so-called spiritual-qi Cultivation Worlds, but the Supreme True Realm, where rank conferred supremacy and mechanisms contended.]
[If someone truly established such a mortal dynasty, making it flourish would take no more than a thought. Yet this "hell on earth" now looked like this, which could only mean that some entity wanted it this way?]
[Some entity had wanted to bring about the current situation...]
[Then who was that entity? Was it the one who was already the [Venerable Lord of Yin-Yang Authority]?]
[You did not