Farewell to Yuan Danqiu, the Star Venerable's Command, and the Pure Yang Patriarch's Divine Sense!

Half a month later.

The members of the Outer Dao's Fate Star Sect and Artifact Refining Valley arrived one after another.

Four of the Fate Star Sect cultivators on this journey had survived the Second Nine Heavenly Tribulation. Artifact Refining Valley had always been affiliated with the Fate Star Sect and had come along this time as well.

The Fate Star Sect's leader was named Xingyao, a handsome young man with a gentle bearing. His face was a little pale, his eyes long and narrow, and a trace of composure rested between his brows.

As vice sect master, Xingyao held an exalted position in the Fate Star Sect. Now that the Heavenly One lived in seclusion within the Outer Dao, Xingyao oversaw much of the sect's affairs. His cultivation had reached the Dao Embryo Dharma Aspect, putting him on par with the Beast Emperor and the Moon Venerable.

At Xingyao's side walked a burly, dark-skinned man: Ao Donglai, master of Artifact Refining Valley. He, too, had survived the Second Nine Heavenly Tribulation.

Cultivators from every Outer Dao faction received Xingyao's invitation and boarded the Fate Star Sect's treasure ship.

Aboard the Taihua Sect's treasure ship.

"Xingyao has always been the Star Venerable's confidant. I expect this is the Star Venerable's will as well," Shi Jinghong said. "Sect Master Chen, I seem to recall you've never met the Star Venerable?"

In the centuries since you had become master of the Taihua Sect, the Star Venerable had remained in seclusion, never revealing his true form.

You nodded. "I've never seen the Star Venerable's true face."

In fact, you had encountered the Heavenly One in the Heavenly Emperor's Treasury, though he had appeared as an old man then.

Shi Jinghong had told you that everyone who had seen the Star Venerable described him