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"Legend has it that ten thousand years ago, there was a great fiend named Tongtian Cult Leader, who was Taishang Laojun's junior brother.

He gathered a host of demons and monsters to wreak havoc upon the mortal realm, until Taishang Laojun and Tathagata Buddha joined forces to suppress him.

Now he has broken free of his seal and seeks to bring disaster upon the world once more. We Eight Immortals have sworn brotherhood precisely to eradicate this fiend and save all living beings."

"Tongtian Cult Leader? A fiend? And he was suppressed by Taishang Laojun and Tathagata Buddha?" Ling Qing was thoroughly bewildered.

What was any of this supposed to mean?

"Yes. Suppressing him took a hundred years. It is said that his magic power and divine abilities have grown even stronger now, and no one in the Heavenly Court can restrain him.

In the end, they could only join forces to set this tribulation in motion, placing their hopes of slaying the fiend and resolving the mortal realm's calamity upon the Eight Immortals.

You and I are among them." He Xiangu nodded.

"Then Taishang Laojun is the Celestial Venerable of Moral Virtue?" Ling Qing asked again.

"How could that be?" He Xiangu looked at him in surprise. "The Three Pure Ones had long since transcended Heaven and Earth, becoming one with the Dao and mingling with the dust.

Taishang Laojun is the disciple of the Celestial Venerable of Moral Virtue, known as Grand Master Xuandu.

He is also often respectfully called Celestial Venerable Miaole."

Though Ling Qing was somewhat surprised, he found it reasonable enough. He asked again, "Then does that mean Tongtian Cult Leader is Laojun's junior brother, and also a disciple of the Celestial Venerable of Moral Virtue?"

"Not that, no. As for why they are called