Purple Tenuity Heavenly Venerable.
Heavenly Venerable of the Primordial Beginning.
Heavenly Venerable of the Way and Its Virtue.
Heavenly Venerable Lingbao.
These were all titles. Not names.
They had never been names.
Yang Wanqing caught on too, slapping the table. "Yaoyao! I remember now!"
"What?"
"Jingwei! That letter Jingwei left for Master! And Yun Wanlan!"
Chen Siyao froze for a moment.
Yang Wanqing spoke in a frantic rush. "In Jingwei's letter, she called him 'Venerable'! And Yun Wanlan calls Master Venerable too!"
"I thought it was strange at the time. Why not just use his name? So this was why!"
Chen Siyao nodded.
It all fit.
All the scattered pieces of information formed a complete chain at that moment. Each of the seven great sects had a supreme expert, an existence at the level of void refinement and Dao integration.
Calling them "Venerable" was not a gesture of respect. It was the only correct way to address them, because their true names could not be spoken outright.
Chen Siyao set the Document Disc back on the table. There was too much information to digest. But another question popped into her head, one directly related to her own cultivation.
All the realms recorded in the Document Disc—the Mahayana stage, Dao tribulation, void refinement and Dao integration—belonged to the qi cultivation system.
She, Yang Wanqing, and Mysterious Resurgence all followed a different path.
Body tempering.
Her brother's body-tempering cultivation had now reached the indestructible battle body. He had mentioned before that this realm corresponded to the Mahayana stage in the qi cultivation system.
Which raised a question.
In qi cultivation, the Mahayana stage was followed by the Dao Tribulation Realm, then void refinement and Dao integration. What came after the indestructible battle body in body tempering?
"Qingqing."
"Hmm?"
"These are all qi