Buzz!
The aura around him immediately returned to how it had been before he crossed the vacuum of the finger imprint.
The Great Dao Merit gained from suppressing and destroying a fully "realized" corrupted Root Corpse far surpassed that of clearing out the hundreds and thousands of Fallen Ones in the endless Black Mountain.
At the very moment the black tide had swallowed him, Li Qingyun formed the "Cage" seal and narrowly escaped calamity amid the frenzied black cage threads.
Then, the retracting black cage threads treated him as one of their own and drew him back into that Root Corpse's mouth.
Then he would not stand on ceremony. With a tremor of the Immeasurable Seal, he sent the Root Corpse to its deliverance with a thunderous blast!
That terrifying Root Corpse, fully realized, was enough to make even Wei Zu Heaven deeply wary, yet to Li Qingyun, it posed practically no threat at all!
He had grasped the "secret of cage patterns." How could these Root Corpses, driven solely by instinctive cage threads, distinguish friend from foe?
Boom!
Li Qingyun vanished. The next moment, he appeared above another Root Corpse's head and suppressed it.
Jade Pure Great Merit descended, and his cultivation surged by a tremendous margin, actually nearing the great perfection of the Body Root Fruit!
"What a thief!"
Seeing this, Wei Zu Heaven was both shocked and enraged, grinding his teeth in fury.
He did not know why this "outer demon" could completely ignore the erosion and pollution of the black cage threads, moving through them even more like a fish in water than he could.
With a turn of thought, he seemed to guess something and shouted, "At last, I have found you!"
"It was you. Somehow, you deceived that woman who should have died long