[After stating your purpose in visiting Heavenly Monarch Skycang, you waited.]
["Golden-Mask True Lord."]
[Several Grand Cultivators practicing body cultivation from the Ultimate Dao Pavilion cautiously came out to welcome you.]
[Had they not known you had come to visit their Heavenly Monarch, these Grand Cultivators would not have dared come out.]
["Mm."]
[You nodded slightly.]
[The Grand Cultivators from the Ultimate Dao Pavilion relaxed inwardly.]
[For now, this Golden-Mask True Lord did not seem as overbearing as he had been during his previous displays of power.]
[A little under an hour later.]
[Grand Cultivator Mang Yan hurried out.]
["Fellow Daoist Golden Mask, the Heavenly Monarch invites you inside."]
[Grand Cultivator Mang Yan spoke while carefully studying you.]
[The aura you radiated was immensely powerful. Your black robes were mysterious and unfathomable, faintly drawing in Grand Cultivator Mang Yan's mind.]
[What secret art is this?]
[Alarmed, Grand Cultivator Mang Yan hurriedly looked away.]
[Next, with Grand Cultivator Mang Yan leading the way, you followed him into the Ultimate Dao Pavilion.]
[The Ultimate Dao Pavilion was magnificent. Its body cultivation disciples cautiously studied you. Your fearsome reputation had shaken the Human Realm, and your personal arrival naturally drew crowds of disciples.]
["That's the Golden-Mask True Lord?"]
["They say the Golden-Mask True Lord is the first Legendary Grand Cultivator of the Near Ancient Era. His body, divine soul, and magic power have all broken through the limits of the Nascent Soul Realm. Even in the Primordial Era, he would have been an astonishing talent..."]
["Of course. Even the Heavenly Monarch has personally summoned him. In all these years, this is the first time I've seen the Heavenly Monarch receive a Grand Cultivator from outside."]
[The disciples of the Ultimate Dao Pavilion discussed you animatedly.]
[As disciples of a foremost power, they