"Commands?" The Five-Eyed Merciful One trembled uncontrollably as the voice above him spoke coldly, "Such audacity…"0

The Five-Eyed Merciful One frantically kowtowed and cried out in terror, "I understand! I understand! Your Excellency’s immortal merit is vast and boundless, your fate divinely ordained. I am merely a lowly cultivator, my fortune bleak and my path astray. Only by a twist of fate was I granted the chance to glimpse your visage!2

"Now that I have seen Your Excellency, my life is no longer mine… I understand, it is as though all the honored ones have arrived together… to behold an immortal's face and die on the spot, such is the way. I can only offer my absolute obedience from now on!"5

The Five-Eyed Merciful One continued in a sorrowful voice, "I am willing to repay all the karma I have created in the mortal realm with my body. Let me suffer the burning of countless karmic flames. I only wish to shed this impure body and enter your service, as a mere Daoist child in...3