Yue Yun's status was truly unusual. His master was Master Lianshan, one of the Three Elders of Emei, which strictly speaking placed him in the same generation as Elder Longbrow. Even the Three Immortals and Two Elders had to address him as martial uncle.
However, Lianshan had taken him in while transmitting teachings outside the sect, and he was only a nominal disciple, not a formal one. He was essentially the illegitimate offspring of an illegitimate branch, far beneath these legitimate heirs of the Emei Sect's main lineage.
In his past dealings with the Three Immortals of the Eastern Sea, he had never dared present himself as their senior. They had set aside their respective standings and addressed one another as fellow cultivators of equal rank. This time, his return to the Emei Sect to acknowledge his roots still required Sect Leader Qi Shouming's approval.
Now that Qi Shouming was in seclusion, Xun Lanyin first took him to pay his respects before the spirit tablets of the Three Elders of Emei, then those of Elder Longbrow and Shuijingzi. At this point, he effectively dropped a generation. As a later entrant, he called Xun Lanyin and the others senior martial sister, while they called him junior martial brother.
Looking at the tablets in the shrine, Shi Feiyang calmly offered incense.
He had assumed Yue Yun's appearance using the Seventy-Two Earthly Fiend Transformations, an art he had developed himself through his understanding of Cosmic Cycle Divine Calculations.
Never mind that the Three Elders of Emei and the others had already ascended—even if he went to the Lingkong Immortal Realm now and met them face-to-face, they might not recognize him as an impostor.
His transformation was no mere illusion. His physical body was completely identical to Yue Yun's.
Even Sun Wukong, whose transformations