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If Han Shuang's plan succeeded, it would be exactly the kind of timely aid he needed.
He had originally been racking his brains for a way to rescue his father, the Celestial Emperor. But with Han Shuang's plan going into motion, that step could be accomplished simultaneously.
This way, it was essentially a two-pronged approach. When the time came, father and son joining forces would surely settle everything once and for all at the Divine King's Assembly.
The more he thought about it, the more confident Jiang Chen became.
The fact that there were Divine King-level cultivators scheming behind Sect Master Han Shuang's back — what did that signify? It meant that the hearts of the people in the Taichuan Grand World were shifting. Everyone longed for the old Taichuan. Everyone was working behind the scenes, striving to change the current state of affairs.
It meant that when his father emerged, he would still have the support of the people.
Any endeavor that enjoyed broad popular support was destined to succeed.
Why had the Taichuan Celestial Emperor been overthrown in the first place? It was because his refinement of the Sun-Moon Divine Pill was deemed a violation of the Heavenly Dao's will — an act of tampering with life and death, of defying fate itself, which would invite the Heavenly Dao's judgment.
So, with the instigation of those with hidden agendas, everyone came to believe that the Celestial Emperor's actions had offended the Heavenly Dao and that he must be punished.
It was precisely this kind of thinking that allowed the situation to spiral out of control, ultimately culminating in a catastrophe.
As the saying goes, when the tide of circumstances surges, its momentum is nearly unstoppable.
But now, that tide had shifted. After hundreds of thousands of years of decline in the Taichuan Grand World, and after the Celestial Emperor's punishment, the situation had not improved — it had only grown worse.
Those with greater insight had begun to wonder: perhaps it had all been a mistake. Perhaps the removal of the Taichuan Celestial Emperor had been a misunderstanding, an error of catastrophic proportions.
And so, the tide gradually turned once more.
Now, after hundreds of thousands of years, looking back and comparing the current Taichuan Grand World with what it had once been, everyone had their own measure of the truth.
Without question, the old Taichuan Grand World had been at least ten times superior to its present state, no matter how you looked at it.
In terms of strength, environment, sense of security, and fortune, the current Taichuan Grand World could not even begin to compare with what it had been.
Under the momentum of this shifting sentiment, nostalgia for the Taichuan Celestial Emperor was only natural. Everything required comparison. Only through comparison could one tell who was better and who was worse.
Compared to the present, the Celestial Emperor's reign had been nothing short of a golden age!
If people thought carefully about the Celestial Emperor — aside from the rather unorthodox business of refining the Sun-Moon Divine Pill, what other faults could be laid at his feet?
He had indeed been somewhat unconventional in his ways, but under his leadership, the Taichuan Grand World had grown ever stronger, its territory ever more vast.
Even the surrounding regions had been so intimidated that interdimensional adventurers dared not trespass. The neighboring grand worlds dared not provoke the Taichuan Grand World either.
With all this in mind, calls of longing for the Taichuan Celestial Emperor only grew louder and more fervent throughout the grand world.
It was precisely under the push of this great tide that figures like Han Shuang kept emerging, each working to drive the current forward and reshape destiny.
Since receiving Jiang Chen's promise, Han Shuang had been very faithful to their agreement and had stopped probing the forbidden grounds of the Crimson Water Celestial Pool.
After all, Jiang Chen had assured her clearly that when the time came, he would find a way for her to slip past all eyes and enter the secret realm of the Crimson Water Celestial Pool without a hitch.
Though she had no idea what secret methods this Junior Elder Zhen possessed, Han Shuang firmly believed that this unfathomable Junior Elder Zhen would find a way.