[Year seventy]
[After making his move that time, the Old Emperor remained inactive, as though he, too, had realized that the Eldest Prince's backing was anything but ordinary, and that the waters surrounding the [Sword Dao Fruit Position] ran deep.]
[You did not particularly care. You had once used [Purple Talent: True-Sight Eye] to inspect the Old Emperor's basic information.]
[—Nothing unusual showed up on that template. The most noteworthy thing was the [A True Lord's scheme] entry among his statuses!]
[Throughout this period, you kept observing the Old Emperor for no other reason than to see what the [Venerable Lord of Yin-Yang Authority] would do.]
[The [Venerable Lord of Yin-Yang Authority] naturally knew about the Old Emperor's earlier attack on the Eldest Prince. If things truly were as you suspected, then besides you and him, another being was interfering with the game.]
[Then, as the mastermind who had created the Great Li Dynasty and single-handedly orchestrated this Life-and-Death Chess Game,]
[He should have acted as he had last time, when "Chen Hei" gathered the Mortal Realm's fortune, intending to use it to draw [Heaven and Earth] into the fray and unleash its Mighty Power to disrupt the fusion between the World Within the Painting and Central Province's heaven and earth, thereby creating a rift.]
(This was mentioned in Chapter 420.)
[Back then, he had directly brought forth a painting scroll containing Senior Lin Feng's Mighty Power. By rights, whenever someone interfered with the game, the [Venerable Lord of Yin-Yang Authority] should have used it to make his move.]
[So why had he remained completely inactive this time? You did not believe for a moment that he had failed to notice this anomaly!]
[Year eighty]
[This year, the Eldest Prince's faction finally waned and began its decline. The Eighth Prince