Stepping out of the cosmos just moments ago, Li Qingyun was ambushed by Akshobhya Buddha and Second Master Yuan. It was as if the opponents had known precisely when and where he would seek to attain the Dao, leaving him inevitably perplexed.
There could only be one reason for this: either the quasi-saints of the Yuan Clan and Western Heaven Clan had been perpetually keeping watch over the Land of the First Cosmos, or some outside existence had "foreseen" his actions in advance.
The closer one got to the Outer Ruin, the more it equated to exposing oneself under the very noses of the outside entities, making it exceedingly difficult to conceal one's presence.
Yet, while he remained within the cosmos, Li Qingyun had harbored no such sensation.
He had even felt that the Outer Void Saints were nothing particularly formidable and could not genuinely do much to him. With the Dark Tome shielding him, any attempt by the outside to cast their gaze upon him was nothing more than a pipe dream.
Within the cosmos, beneath the ruins, it was like a "safe zone" in a certain sense, drifting apart from the outside existences.
Once he stepped outside, however, and instantly encountered this Great Calamity of Achieving Dao, a sudden jolt of terror stirred his awareness: he could no longer hide himself!
He seemed to be completely exposed to the gaze of the outside void!
At this moment, with Akshobhya Buddha and Second Master Yuan staging such a precise ambush against him, Li Qingyun simply refused to believe that there was no outside "guidance" involved.
To shatter my Dao heart and disrupt my saintly foundation? They are looking down on the poor Daoist far too much!
*Since even Akshobhya Buddha has been lured here, attaining the Dao with my