At that moment, Li Er knew nothing of this.
He had already left the Earth Immortal Realm and entered the Immortal Realm.
One could enter the Immortal Realm upon reaching the level of a primordial unity golden immortal. This was hardly a secret to the powerful beings of the Earth Immortal Realm.
But any cultivator who wished to enter the Immortal Realm, or descend from it into the Earth Immortal Realm, had to pass through a designated passage.
That passage was the Ascension Platform.
Yet someone like Li Er, who had ascended directly without using any passage, was utterly unprecedented.
Moreover, many beings in the Earth Immortal Realm could sense that the Tao Te Ching Li Er had left behind was anything but ordinary.
They could even sense that the Tao Te Ching was a supreme cultivation art whose brilliance eclipsed past and present. Every word held the Dao, every sentence concealed profound mysteries, and it encompassed the ultimate truths of heaven and earth.
Even ancient recluses were moved, emerging from seclusion one after another to study it.
Following Li Er's ascension, countless legends about him began spreading like wildfire throughout the Earth Immortal Realm.
Countless living beings believed Li Er was a man of great virtue, sent down to teach and spread the Dao because heaven and earth had sensed how difficult it was for all beings to seek it.
The Tao Te Ching he had created was also hailed as the Daoist Scripture and revered as an unsurpassed sacred text.
This undoubtedly sent Daoism's renown in the Earth Immortal Realm soaring even higher, blazing like the sun at its zenith.
Meanwhile, Buddhism was still frantically searching for Shakyamuni.
When its members sensed what Li Er had done, they became all the more furious.
Although their eastward propagation of