The Five-Passes Devil Master was a mysterious, peerlessly powerful existence from beyond the domain.
According to the Purple Armor Hall's <General Record of the Five Saints' Cavern Spirit Immortal Veins>, a tome chronicling the lives and origins of successive patriarchs, the Five-Passes Devil Master first manifested his holiness when the Purple Armor Hall's founding patriarch spent the night in a desolate mountain. In his dream, the patriarch's soul wandered into Mara Great A Heaven, where he received the Five-Passes Devil Master's teachings and sermons, obtaining the Devil Master's true transmission. Only then did he comprehend the path to the Dao known as the Five-Passes Body.
The Five-Passes Devil Master dwelled in Mara Great A Heaven amid the starry skies beyond the domain. This Great A Heaven was hazy and ever-changing, its nature empty yet real, seeming true yet illusory, endlessly mutable. It had traversed mysterious interstellar distances of hundreds of millions of light-years from the present world.
One had to know that the route was fraught with unparalleled danger. Cosmic magnetic storms born from distortions between the stars swept across every starfield. Even powerhouses at the True Immortal level could not cross such vast distances at will. Thus, even with the Devil Master's heaven-reaching magic power, transmitting his thoughts into the present world was no easy matter.
Ordinarily, to attempt contact, one had to arrange all manner of rites through blood-sacrifice techniques, prepare countless offerings, and have the hall master swear a blood oath and devoutly offer sacrifice to Heaven before receiving a response from the Five-Passes Devil Master in distant Mara Great A Heaven.
"...The Devil Master actually responded to me on his own!"
At this moment, Jiang Lingxu was beside himself with joy.
He had never expected the Five-Passes Devil Master to seek him out of his own