[Yang Qi Taixiang Heaven].
Jiang Yi stood with his hands behind his back, a gleam flickering in his eyes, as though he had grasped that thread of inspiration in the Unseen.
He murmured thoughtfully,
"So it was a struggle over the Dao Path."
Why had Ji Fuyao, borne aloft by the [Immortal Dao] and manifest in the world for five thousand years, remained so fixated on Yu Shenxiu alone?
So much so that he had stirred the Three True Supreme Heads into jointly laying a scheme to draw [Lesser Yang] in and force him to keep the appointment at White Jade Capital.
The answer emerged as the waters receded to reveal the stones.
"Unless Ji Fuyao could attain the Yang Administration, he could advance no further."
Jiang Yi looked once more at the ten great characters, vast as stars, suspended high in the heavens, and his admiration deepened.
That True Lord Yu had effectively used his life to block the Dao Path of the [Sun].
"So all three Dao Lords could no longer sit still. They had to suppress [Lesser Yang] and let Ji Fuyao defeat him in battle.
Only then might he attain perfection in [the Yang Administration]."
Jiang Yi clapped his hands and laughed. The more he understood the threads and details of this game a thousand years ago, the more he marveled at Yu Shenxiu's world-shaking brilliance.
"Three Dao Lords stepped forward to kill a single True Lord.
No wonder [Lesser Yang] found it so hard to turn its gaze away afterward. Such an achievement was truly rare throughout the ages."
Jiang Yi raised a hand to tease the whiskers of Profound Mystery True Person. The events of that year were now clear.
Standing upstream in the long river of time and looking back upon the past,