What do you think?
"What you say is true, Hall Master Jiang."
A voice suddenly rang out.
"However, neither Xie Chongsheng nor He Ping is an ordinary figure. Although Hall Master Jiang has received Five-Passes Devil Master's gift and gained insight into the ninth level of the Mara Great Asa Immortal Body, with your earth-shaking talent, you may have a chance to break through to the Immortal God rank in another hundred years, gaining the great divine powers to move mountains and fill seas, pluck stars and seize moons, and traverse the void. Yet trying to catch up to those two will still be harder than scaling the heavens..."
"Who are you?"
Jiang Lingxu's heart jolted. Brilliant light shot from his eyes. His primordial spirit was now incomparably powerful; the instant his thoughts radiated outward, they shook with boundless force, like mountains roaring and seas crashing, a tidal surge of thought.
Yet no matter how he searched with waves of thought, he could not uncover the true face behind that voice.
"No need to search. I am right here."
Suddenly, a phantom shadow emerged from the void and condensed into a mysterious elderly man clad in black robes.
"I am called Shadow Venerable, the founding patriarch of the Shadow Poison Sect, one of the three great evil sects. With Hall Master Jiang's wisdom, experience, and breadth of knowledge, you should have heard of my name, no?"
"The Shadow Poison Sect... Shadow Venerable?"
Jiang Lingxu froze inwardly. He swiftly recalled that ancient sect and could not help furrowing his brow. "You are Shadow Venerable? As a mighty Loose Immortal, what business do you have in seeking me out?"
"Heh heh, since I have come to find Hall Master Jiang, naturally there is a deeper meaning behind it."
The black-robed elder chuckled.