Master

Biodata

Feature	Details
Name	Master (夫子)
Alias(es)	Sage Master
Species/Race	Human
Gender	Male
Affiliation	Calamity Realm’s human cultivators
Occupation/Role	Sage; wartime organizer and leader
Status	Active

Power Progression

Stage / Realm / Level	Chapter	Notes
Sage	473	Ascended to Sagehood after defeating the Demon Empress; afterward presided over the postwar assembly as the newly ascended Sage Master. 473

Appearance

Master is a middle-aged Confucian scholar with long gray-white hair, an unfathomable aura, and eyes likened to a river of stars. After becoming a Sage, he appears almost unchanged to most observers. 473

• Wears the bearing of a Confucian scholar. 473
• Possesses a profound presence difficult for other cultivators to assess. 473
• His eyes are described as bright as a river of stars. 473

Personality

Master is a methodical strategist who prepares for large-scale conflict through healing arrangements, elite forces, formations, and shared intelligence rather than relying on a single plan. 440

He is also pragmatic with resources: during the postwar awards, he arranged the reward order to reduce the cost of repeatedly using the Demon-Sealing Ranking’s time-reversal method. 474 Despite this efficiency, he supports cultivators’ advancement by granting access to his ancient battlefield pocket world and sharing the secret of Sagehood with the ranking’s top ten. 440 474

Abilities & Resources

Sage Cultivation

Master attained the Sage realm after the war against the Demon Realm. His understanding of Sagehood is inaccessible to ordinary cultivators; when he explained its secret publicly, only the Demon-Sealing Ranking’s top ten could comprehend him. 473 474

• Defeated the Demon Empress during the Calamity Realm war. 473
• Can convey the secret to becoming a Sage selectively through an explanation that others hear but cannot understand. 474

Demon-Sealing Ranking

Master uses the Demon-Sealing Ranking as a strategic tool during the war against the Demon Realm. 440

• Marks formations and other relevant locations on a shared map for ranked cultivators. 440
• Broadcasts orders to all cultivators on the ranking. 445
• Is connected to a time-reversal method used in distributing postwar rewards. 474

Ancient Battlefield Pocket World

Master controls an ancient battlefield pocket world used to accelerate cultivation. 440

• Cultivation there can be two to three times more efficient, depending on the cultivator. 440
• Permits cultivators to remain and cultivate there for up to three days. 440

Spatial Access

Master can open the Calamity Realm’s protective world gate, allowing Wang Zhifan to return to the realm. 631

History

During preparations for the Demon Realm war, Master convened cultivators through the Demon-Sealing Ranking and presented a layered defense plan. He arranged a secret healing site for ranked experts, organized several hundred elite Transcendent Xiantian cultivators as a main force, and had formations constructed to support local engagements. 440

When the Demon Realm’s main force advanced on Shuyue City, Master issued a direct call for every ranked cultivator to gather there and fight alongside him. 445 He later defeated the Demon Empress, bringing the decisive conflict to a close and ascending to the Sage realm. 473

After the war, Sage Master presided over the postwar assembly, fulfilled Wang Zhifan’s requested reward, and revealed the path toward Sagehood to the top ten of the Demon-Sealing Ranking. 473 474 He subsequently sought a discussion with Wang concerning a major matter involving the realms of Calamity, Buddhism, Daoism, and Confucianism. 631

Relationships

• Wang Zhifan — A valued combatant and major contributor during the Calamity Realm war. Master granted him access to the ancient battlefield for cultivation, fulfilled one personal wish after the war, and later requested a meeting concerning the four realms. 440 473 631
• Qingfeng Jushi — Messenger sent by Master to invite Wang Zhifan to Shuyue City for an important discussion. 631
• Demon Empress — Enemy commander defeated by Master during the final war against the Demon Realm. 473
• Demon-Sealing Ranking’s top ten — Recipients of Master’s postwar explanation of the secret to becoming a Sage. 474

Notable Quotes

“All cultivators on the Ranking! Gather at Shuyue City immediately! This Master will fight the Demon Realm to the death alongside you!” 445