The abilities the other party had displayed were undeniably those of an Immortal, yet his conduct and the commotion he had caused did not match the contents of the Celestial Master's Degree.
Surely the Celestial Master's Degree passed down through their Celestial Master Mansion could not actually be false?
According to the Celestial Master's Degree, the ascensions of ancient times were completely different from the ascensions of later Buddhist and Daoist sects. Those recorded in later generations as ascending and becoming Immortals were in fact unable to descend to the mortal world again.
That was why Zhang Zhiwei had previously believed that so-called Immortals descending to the world were most likely nothing more than baseless nonsense.
If the other party truly was an Immortal, then he could only be an Immortal from ancient times. But what were ancient Immortals like, according to the Celestial Master's Degree?
A story that likewise described the ancient era could portray them quite well—
Yi Shooting Down the Suns.
In the tale, ten Golden Crows hung high in the sky, turning the earth into scorched wasteland. Every plant withered, rivers were reduced to cracked beds, and the world became a horrifying scene littered with corpses.
Yet the Golden Crows in the heavens did not care in the slightest. They were merely playing. They did not even bear any ill will toward other living beings, nor could they comprehend the destruction their actions had wrought upon the world.
Even when Great Yi shot the Golden Crows down one by one with his vermilion bow and white-corded arrows, they did not know what they had done wrong.
In Zhang Zhiwei's view, if the leader of the Tai Xuan Sect truly was an ancient Immortal, the disturbance he caused should not have been so small. Nor should he