In the abyss, Li Yun's strength had been weakened; even his Divine Consciousness perception was suppressed.
Immersed within the Demon Cave, wholeheartedly devouring, refining, and fusing with it, he truly had not noticed that Abyssal Demons in the abyss outside the Demon Cave had set their sights on him.
Only when he was about to fuse the entire Demon Cave did he sense that something was wrong.
Outside the Demon Cave, powerful auras seemed to be closing in on his location from all directions.
The vast majority of those presences were Demon Venerables.
There were as many as twelve Great Demon Venerables, every one of them absolutely possessing more than 2,900 strands of Dominator's Authority.
Though so many Abyssal Demons had surrounded his location, they seemed to be waiting for someone and were in no hurry to attack.
"Damn it..."
Li Yun could not help drawing in a slight breath of cold air.
Since setting out on his path, from the early days in the Celestial Martial Sect until now, he had pulled plenty of underhanded moves, but never before had he been quietly surrounded like this.
This was not because he had been careless.
In truth, he had never let success go to his head.
The main reason was that this was no longer the world he had once known, but the abyss.
It was filled everywhere with Abyssal Rules, perhaps even permeated by traces of the Lord of the Abyss's will, greatly weakening his perception, including his ability to foresee danger.
"Fortunately, the situation isn't too bad. The ones surrounding me are merely some Great Demon Venerables with fewer than three thousand strands of Dominator's Authority, along with ordinary Demon Venerables."
"If some top-tier Archaic Demon Venerable, or a Demon Emperor, had quietly shown up..."
"Then I'd really