He was an ordinary-looking middle-aged man.
His cultivation, however, was exceptionally profound: he had reached Void Refinement Mid-Stage.
He also wore a Grade Six Mid-Rank Daoist robe of black and white, embroidered with countless suns and stars. One glance was enough to tell that he was no ordinary figure.
"I have long heard of your renown, Fellow Daoist Ling Xiao. I am Liu Dongfang, an elder of the Sun Moon Immortal Sect. I have come specifically to pay you a visit, and I hope you will grant me an audience."
At the same time, the middle-aged man used a voice-amplifying technique to call out toward the Crimson Feather Small Mountain Range.
"He's from the Sun Moon Immortal Sect?"
"One of the Clear Mist Realm's five top Void Refinement powers, each with a cultivator at Void Refinement Perfection?"
"Why has someone so important come to our clan's new grounds? And why did he ask for Patriarch Pengyun by name?"
The Ling Clan cultivators patrolling the Crimson Feather Small Mountain Range were shaken by what they heard, and a faint sense of unease rose in them.
But without explicit instructions from the Lineage, they dared not act rashly.
They welcomed him courteously and invited him into a Guest Hall the Lineage had built outside the Crimson Feather Small Mountain Range not long ago. Not daring to slight him, they swiftly sent word of Liu Dongfang's arrival to Ling Pengyun, who was in seclusion on Crimson Feather Small Mountain.
Meanwhile, elsewhere.
Deep in the Crimson Feather Small Mountain Range, atop the Grade Six Low-Rank Crimson Feather Small Mountain.
Inside a cave residence.
"Liu Dongfang of the Sun Moon Immortal Sect?"
"Just as Fellow Daoist Primordial Unity predicted, once I destroyed the Crimson Feather Immortal Sect and the White Water Immortal Sect, the