Li Yun suddenly remembered the experts from the Sacred Heaven Plane who had quietly slipped into the Eternal Immortal Domain. After so long in seclusion, he felt the urge to venture out again.
So he quietly left the Great Ming Heaven Realm.
After three months of travel, he reached a stretch of the Eternal Immortal Domain's border.
The border formed a vast ring around the Eternal Immortal Domain, like a giant swim ring slipped over it. Only a small section of that immense frontier touched the Sacred Heaven Plane.
The place Li Yun had reached lay far from that section.
Even here, the Plane Authority struggled to extend its full reach, and the land was barren.
Fortunately, the Plane Authority Li Yun controlled was of a higher order and ran deeper. Drawing on it briefly, he easily located someone from the Sacred Heaven Plane.
The man hid like a rat in a world along the border. Posing as a Great Dao Divine Lord, he directed its inhabitants to inscribe strange runes into the world's Three Thousand Great Daos.
The cultivators of this border world worked themselves to the bone, never once questioning the identity of the Great Dao Divine Lord from the Sacred Heaven Plane.
They had no idea he was not a Great Dao Divine Lord of the Eternal Immortal Domain. They took him for one of its great figures, eagerly carrying out his orders.
As though that might win his favor.
The Great Dao Divine Lord from the Sacred Heaven Plane, meanwhile, watched them work at his leisure. His lips curved faintly, his expression haughty and amused.
In his eyes,
every living being in that border world was an ant. Even the strongest among them was only a Saint Gold Divine Lord.
Under his direction, strange runes silently