After making all the arrangements, Li Qingyun truly vanished from sight, entering seclusion at Green Cliff and refusing to emerge.
All affairs, great and small, of the Qingyun Dao Lineage were jointly discussed and decided by Cheng Tangyin, the Four Sovereigns, and the others.
As Sect Master, he sat quietly atop the cliff and began stripping away every last trace of "mortal ties," allowing his body and mind, within and without, to enter as pure and boundless a state of great tranquility as possible.
To do so, he had even needed to set aside the thorn lodged deep in his heart—the future Maitreya Buddha.
That Buddha's lifespan had not yet run its course, and he was shielded by the Six Saints of the Outer Void Western Heaven. Every time Li Qingyun exhausted his mind and strength to calculate some trace of him, it was swiftly erased.
For the time being, at least before the Great Calamity plunged Primordial Beginning entirely into chaos, he would not be able to seize hold of that Buddha.
With both his inner and outer self transformed into great purity, half a month later, he finally sensed the intent of "rising on rosy clouds."
In other words, he sensed that he possessed the ability to break free of the Ruined Ruins and step into the Outer Void.
Of course, that was under ideal circumstances. In reality, the instant he stepped into the Outer Void, he would immediately face a catastrophe capable of blotting out heaven and earth. Many beings of the Outer Void had been watching him all along.
This was what he needed to overcome!
Yet what Li Qingyun feared most was not the obstruction of the Outer Void Saints, but the iron law that Primordial Beginning cannot become Saint. The moment he took that