Over the past twenty years, aside from A'li, the first to attain the Haotian position, who had now reached the great completion of the Shore Reaching Realm, several more people under Li Qingyun had successively entered the ranks of Heaven Masters.
After A'li came Houtu, who attained Haotian and was now at the middle stage of the Shore Reaching Realm.
Her foundation was there. After comprehending her own Dao anew, her cultivation advanced faster and faster thereafter.
Next, Miaoxuan, Zhenhui, Chihun, and Zhu Yuyan successively reached the Cosmos level and were now in the River Crossing Realm.
Of course, "River Crossing Realm" was somewhat ill-suited to the Three Pure Ones Great Cosmos, because since this world sealed itself away, even the Blackwater Mother River could not be bothered to "flow" in. Thus, there had yet to be any trace of "blackwater" flooding at the Cosmos level.
Yet within the inner voids of A'li, Houtu, Miaoxuan, and the others, the Blackwater Mother River inevitably came into being. The deeper one's foundation, the heavier the blackwater's coverage.
Having received the Dao Ancestor's instruction, they all knew that the "Mother River" was no auspicious omen, but a "Great Dao curse" that accompanied Haotian. It had to be purged over the course of one's life, and before reaching the Vacuum Realm, it had to be completely cleared away.
From this alone, Li Qingyun concluded that the rank of the "Blackwater Mother River" pollution source lay above even the Outer Void!
For one thing, after the Three Pure Ones Great Cosmos sealed itself away, not even the power of Outer Void Saints could penetrate within. Yet blackwater pollution still ran rampant in the inner voids of Three Pure Ones disciples like A'li.
For another, he took the Abyss Clan Quasi-Saint, that old master Yuan Jingzhong,