"That reminds me—I forgot to introduce us. We three brothers are Loose Immortals from Floating Cloud Cliff. I'm Sha Sumu, this is Zuo Qiu Qing, and this is Zhou Jinqian." "So you're the three from Floating Cloud Cliff..." Tang Changsheng was rather dumbstruck. He wanted to offer some polite remark about how their names had long thundered in his ears.
But he had never heard of any of them. He really couldn't bring himself to say it!
Zuo Qiu Qing laughed. "Like I said, we're Loose Immortals. We built huts on Floating Cloud Cliff and live there. We're hardly famous figures. It's no wonder you haven't heard of us, Fellow Daoist Liu!"
Loose Immortals were cultivators who had attained immortality on their own. They neither founded sects nor joined any, preferring a free and unfettered life.
This was Tang Changsheng's first time dealing with Loose Immortals, and he couldn't help asking curiously, "If you fellow Daoists live like idle clouds and wild cranes, what takes you to Azure Breath Heaven?"
After asking, he added, "If that was too forward, you three needn't answer!"
Sha Sumu said, "There's no reason we can't tell you. It's just that the world isn't peaceful these days. Great Calamities have only recently struck the Netherworld and the Mortal World. The Immortal Realm may look like this now, but I fear its peace won't last much longer.
"I heard Azure Breath Heavenly Lord quelled the calamities in both the Netherworld and the Mortal World. Word has spread that he arose in answer to the times... Speaking of which, isn't Azure Breath Heavenly Lord a disciple of your Taiyi Immortal Sword Order?"
Tang Changsheng gave a vague answer, his expression peculiar. "I suppose so. I ascended quite a while ago and haven't paid much attention to worldly