No harvest was also a kind of harvest.
Li Qingyun thus gained some insight from it. "The gray clouds must be illusory. Perhaps this entire ruin region is 'illusory.' This place is more like some inexplicable residual creation formed from the lingering aura of Hunyuan, or even Hongyuan!"
"So Quasi-Saints cannot tame the gray clouds and use them as nourishment!"
"Perhaps the things of value here are instead Forbidden Zones such as the grotto-heavens formed by bronze fragments, those shattered and disorderly mirror-like spacetime realms..."
Only then did he understand why Yuan Da, Yuan Er, and Yuan San of the Abyss Clan, despite being Quasi-Saints, had no respect for their age and status. They specialized in exploiting generation after generation of descendants, clinging to those top prodigies and Quasi-Saint seedlings to suck their blood.
One major reason was likely that the Outer Ruin was too barren. Every active Quasi-Saint here, whether native gray spirits or Void Devourers, was far from kindhearted.
For a Quasi-Saint to increase cultivation, the most reliable path was naturally still bloodsucking and exploitation of the Cosmos and all Heavens.
Not to mention Quasi-Saints—even the Saints beyond the Void cast things like "bait cages" into the various Great Cosmoses. Yet they likely only did so to satisfy their appetites; it could not truly increase their Dao cultivation.
What those beyond the Void truly wished to devour were those thousand Great Cosmos "giant bubbles"!
If Li Qingyun did not feast upon Quasi-Saint flesh and blood or scheme against the living beings of the Cosmos and all Heavens, then at the level of these ruins, relying solely on self-cultivation would make his progress as slow as a snail on the road. Even after exhausting ten thousand lifetimes, he might not step into the Four-Ring Land.
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