Li Yun had spent a hundred years circling the ring-shaped border of the Eternal Immortal Domain before he knew it.
In that time, he had glimpsed a plan by the Three Great Planes to hunt the Eternal Immortal Domain.
He did not know when the hunt had begun. He only knew the seeds of disaster had already been sown.
The crisis could overturn the entire Eternal Immortal Domain at any moment. Nothing he had faced had been so terrifying.
Li Yun was not truly from the Eternal Immortal Domain and felt little attachment to it. Still, he had become a Great Dao Divine Lord there, won the favor of its Plane Ancient Dao, and gained a share of high-level Plane Authority.
Whether he wanted to admit it or not, his ties of cause and effect to the Eternal Immortal Domain ran deep.
When the nest was overturned, how could any egg remain whole?
If the Eternal Immortal Domain collapsed under the combined schemes of the Abyss, Sacred Heaven, and Ancient God planes, he would likely pay a terrible price. He might even lose his life.
Unless, before the crisis struck, he attained power beyond the First Grade Divine Image, severed every tie of cause and effect binding him to the Eternal Immortal Domain, and transcended the plane altogether.
But was that possible?
Clearly not.
Elevating a Great Dao Divine Image required him to undergo his own cycles of Life and Death bit by bit over a long span of time, transcending himself through each cycle.
He had started high, with a Seventh-Rank Divine Image, but had only raised it to a Sixth-Rank Divine Image so far. He possessed merely eighty epochs' worth of Epoch Divine Power.
Forget surpassing the First Grade Divine Image.
He did not even know when he