Cloud-Pillow Peak towered majestically, its summit rising a head above the clouds, hence its name.
The two sat on a rock atop the peak. The summit was bare save for a single green pine, which cast a patch of cool shade over them.
"True Person Zhang Sanfeng spent one sixty-year cycle seeking the Dao and immortals, another attaining the Dao and becoming an immortal, and a final cycle slaying demons and quelling turmoil. His deeds became a celebrated tale, and he submitted a memorial honoring you as True Lord. As for you, True Lord, you entered the mountains to cultivate in your youth, and within a single sixty-year cycle, you accomplished both cultivation to immortality and the suppression of demons and turmoil. Now that you have returned from slaying demons, you still have the body of a youth, no different from when I first met you."
True Person Baoyuan sighed in admiration, then added, "Besides, True Person Zhang Sanfeng and True Person Long Eyebrow each swept through one region, holding down east and west to quell the Demon Tide. And back then, the two True Persons could only be said to have suppressed the demonic unrest and ended the demonic calamity. There were still quite a few Demon Fiends who sealed their mountains and hid. How could that compare to you, True Lord, who slaughtered until the Divine Land was free of demons and the heavens were clear?"
The Daoist smiled at this and replied, "It would be more accurate to say the Divine Land is free of great demons. There is still a heavy burden and a long road ahead before it is free of demons altogether. The seas remain troubled, so I dare not say the heavens are clear."
True Person Baoyuan shook his head. "Where there is