With a flicker, Li Qingyun stepped out of Primordial Beginning's twisted "atmosphere," instantly sensing three faint streams of mind power settling upon this patch of void around him.
Without needing to think, he knew that La, Jieyin, and Dingwang had "locked onto" him.
"Looks like over these past two months, you've been watching my every move. I've really troubled you."
With a smile, he formed a Dao seal. The approximate locations of the three immediately surfaced in his perception.
They were scattered across the heavens and earth, nowhere near one another, and had deliberately kept a great distance apart.
Li Qingyun made as though to dart toward the Mount Sumeru grotto-heaven. In his senses, the auras of the three Saints moved as well, slowly drawing closer to Mount Sumeru.
He suddenly accelerated. Jieyin immediately lost his composure and swiftly rushed back toward Mount Sumeru.
Yet in the very next instant, Li Qingyun abruptly stepped beneath the void, traversing the chaotic currents of cosmic spacetime, his whereabouts impossible to grasp.
"Brat!"
Thinking that the sure-kill trap they had laid had been discovered by Li Qingyun, Jieyin, La, and Dingwang unwillingly stepped through time as well, pursuing him without relent.
The three Saints had now confirmed that Li Qingyun had been hiding within the Twisted Ocean at the edge of Primordial Beginning—a place even they did not dare enter casually.
After all, as Beyond Tribulation Realm peak existences, the twisted corruption within each of them was surely severe enough to border on losing control. Unless driven into a corner, they would never charge into the Twisted Ocean to search for Li Qingyun's traces.
After waiting two months, Li Qingyun had finally appeared. This chance to encircle and kill him was rare; though Jieyin and the other two Saints knew it would be