Half a month later.
Li Yun returned to the Panic Divine Hall.
This time, though, he no longer looked like himself. Inside and out, even down to his aura, he had become someone else entirely.
He was Sage Hamu, the Origin Constant Sage Hong Hu had sent to follow him.
With the illusory power from thirteen pages of the Illusory World Book enveloping him, he could silently alter others' perceptions in an instant and create the most convincing of illusions.
Along the way, he encountered more than a dozen Sages of the Panic Divine Hall.
Not one saw through his disguise.
Every one of them took him for Sage Hamu and greeted him.
Two Origin Constant Sages who were particularly close to Sage Hamu even stopped Li Yun for a chat. He handled them without revealing the slightest flaw.
Instead, he used the conversation to learn quite a bit more.
Most important of all, the Dreadbound Lord had still not returned.
Li Yun breathed a great sigh of relief.
That did not mean the Panic Divine Hall was completely undefended.
Even without the Dreadbound Lord there, four Sage Constant experts remained to maintain the hall's safety and stability.
But those four were nowhere near as troublesome as the Dreadbound Lord. They were only at the early Sage Constant stage.
And early Sage Constant experts were roughly as strong as Sage Tianji and the other three Li Yun had encountered just after leaving the World-Shaking Sword Gate's Secret Realm.
Li Yun had already proved that, if he used his full strength and did not expose himself, even an early Sage Constant expert would have trouble finding him.
This was an opportunity.
After parting from the Origin Constant Sages, Li Yun went to see Heavenly Constant Hong Hu under Sage Hamu's identity.