"This man had a bit of luck, all right! But next, he still had to pass Third Master Yuan Guǐ's trial."
Watching Yuan Gumo leave, Li Qingyun felt that this man's "luck" truly was quite good when added up. No wonder he was a key talent nurtured by the Yuan Clan's Outer Void Saint.
Time and again, he could encounter tribulation, transform it, and profit from it. That was the bearing of a "chosen son of fate."
Back at the Cosmos level, Li Qingyun had several times entertained the thought of obliterating Yuan Gumo. Yet at critical moments, the man had always been able to lower his head and submit, making Li Qingyun spare him without realizing it.
The same was true after arriving at the Outer Ruin. Under the watchful eye of someone as brutal and sinister as Third Master Yuan, Yuan Gumo had survived until now and was about to enter the Three-Ring Realm. His "achievements" had already surpassed those of untold predecessors.
"When the Great Calamity arrives, the Twelve Superior Clans will naturally have arranged their contingencies long ago. Shi Ji Buddha, Hong Lian Tian, Yuan Gumo—who among them is not a child of fortune..."
After sighing, Li Qingyun looked toward the Huang Yun Altar before him. Within it, two streams of yellow mud qi chased one another like muddy fish, their heads and tails joined in a ring, resembling twin yin-yang fish.
"Come!"
With a sharp command, he activated the Saintly Essence of the Great Dao. The two streams of yellow mud qi immediately spiraled upward and entered through his mouth and nose.
A startling aura instantly erupted within the Great Dao Universe inside his body.
Under the catalysis of the Saintly Essence of the Primordial Great Dao, the yellow mud qi transformed into an incomparably