Great Freedom Celestial Venerable—Gao Xian was no stranger to that name.
When he had refined the Blood River Celestial Venerable Transformation Origin Book, the Blood River Celestial Venerable's lingering sliver of divine consciousness had warned him to beware of Great Freedom Celestial Venerable.
After he advanced to the sixth rank and seventh-rank figures such as Mysterious Underworld from the East Sea came to make trouble for him, he naturally began paying closer attention to the East Sea's Penglai Association.
Gao Xian had privately sought Sister Bai's counsel and learned that the Penglai Association's steward was Eastern Pole Heavenly Lord, while the one truly calling the shots was Great Freedom Celestial Venerable, a powerful eighth-rank expert.
According to Sister Bai, Great Freedom Celestial Venerable's true name was Li Zizai. He had already lived through more than ten calamities and was an extraordinarily formidable figure.
Great Freedom Celestial Venerable had another name as well: Xuanming Heavenly Venerable.
He was the Xuanming Heavenly Venerable jointly worshipped by the Profound Bright Church and the Azure Cloud Sect. In other words, Daoist Lord Xuanyang and Shaoyang Heavenly Lord were both disciples under this Xuanming Heavenly Venerable.
The Azure Cloud Sect's inherited secret arts likewise originated from Xuanming Heavenly Venerable's lineage.
At the root of it all, Xuanming Heavenly Venerable could be called his founder's founder. In terms of lineage, there was no denying that.
However, his own sect was the Azure Cloud Sect, while the Great Five Elements Method he cultivated had not originated from the Azure Cloud Sect. Strictly speaking, he truly could not be considered part of Xuanming Heavenly Venerable's lineage.
Gao Xian did not care much about this, either. Even if the secret art he cultivated belonged to Xuanming Heavenly Venerable's lineage, it had nothing to do with that Heavenly Venerable.
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