Li Yun had not deliberately investigated anything. Once he focused on cultivation, he had no idea what the outcome had been after the six Mystic Venerables and the Cang Life Master fought following his departure.
Nor did he know that, because they could not find him, the six Mystic Venerables had all exclaimed that he was even more terrifying than the Cang Life Master, and that if he were allowed to grow, even Supreme Venerables might find him troublesome.
Had he known, he probably would have chuckled three times.
Immortal Venerables were divided into Heaven, Earth, and Human. Above Heavenly Venerables stood Mystic Venerables—beings who used their own Fate Number as a foundation and fused Immortal Substance into themselves.
Supreme Venerables stood even above Mystic Venerables.
They were extreme beings who used Immortal Substance to temper their Fate Number and Configuration, Immortal Body, Immortal Physique, and even Great Dao Fruits... to the utmost limit, until they had nearly undergone transformation.
Such beings were considered the limit beneath Immortal Beings.
Even Supreme Venerables would find him troublesome—that was practically the highest praise possible, just short of saying that Li Yun possessed the potential to become a Supreme Venerable as well.
Still, he merely smiled at it.
How could sparrows and swallows know the ambitions of swans and geese?
They could never have imagined that Li Yun's goal, from beginning to end, had been to become an Immortal Being, then climb to the summit and glimpse the true ultimate vista.
Compared to that goal, what did becoming a Supreme Venerable amount to?
It was merely one stop on a long journey.
And time passed swiftly.
Before he knew it, four hundred years had gone by.
Within Golden Oriole Mountain of the Immortal Scar Realm, Li Yun and Chen Xiu had nearly become