"Fellow Daoist, can you tell me why so many powerful cultivators have hidden themselves in the Central Ring and even the Inner Ring?"
"Isn't Calamity thick in the Central Ring and the Inner Ring? Especially in the Inner Ring, where all of it has been stirred awake. Aren't they afraid of being corroded by Calamity?"
Li Yun was curious.
He felt as though he had overlooked a great deal.
He even lacked much of the common knowledge that ancient Ancient Gods ought to possess.
"To refine their Undying Heavenly Wheels, of course..."
"Now I'm genuinely curious. If you don't even know that, why did you come to the Central Ring? Don't tell me you came here just to hide and cultivate."
"Setting aside the refinement of Undying Heavenly Wheels, this is hardly an ideal place to cultivate."
"No Ancient God would risk coming here without that goal in mind... Oh, I see. Did you come to escape an enemy?"
The Blood-Eyed Ancestor looked Li Yun over carefully.
He seemed quite certain of his guess.
A conflicted, guarded expression crossed Li Yun's face. He put it on deliberately. He barely knew the Blood-Eyed Ancestor and had no intention of revealing that he could absorb Calamity Aura directly to strengthen his Life-and-Death Power.
He had been looking for an excuse to fob the Blood-Eyed Ancestor off, but now the man had supplied one himself. Li Yun might as well go along with it.
He feigned resignation. "You guessed right, Fellow Daoist Blood-Eyed. I fled here for refuge. I offended the Second Young Venerable of the Three Saints Palace on the Origin Plane, so I had no choice but to flee to the edge of the Boundary Sea."
"Before I came, I had no idea things were so complicated at the edge of