"What's wrong with a sneak attack?"
"Tch... naive!"
"If a little trick lets me take you down in one go, why would I be stupid enough to fight you for three days and nights?"
"You're the fool, yet you call me shameless... Pah!"
After taking Sage Anche down in one fell swoop, Li Yun gave a disdainful snort and turned to leave.
This time,
he truly went far away.
He crossed dozens of Boundary Seas and vanished without a trace.
Only after Li Yun had been gone for some time did Hengjing and Yuantai, two Late Sage Constant experts, arrive at the former site of the Azure Nightmare Sacred Hall.
A brief investigation left both their faces as black as the bottom of a pot.
"Gone!"
"Every last trace of his aura is gone."
"Something's probably happened to Anche..."
"Damn it!"
"That damned Li Yun! Destroying the Azure Nightmare Sacred Hall was bad enough, but he even dared lay a hand on a Sage Constant like Anche. He's openly set himself against us!"
"If we don't kill that bastard, everyone will make a laughingstock of Changqing Sacred City!"
"Call for reinforcements. Tell the Sacred City to send several more Late Sage Constants, each with a team to support us. And have our informants in Ancestral City spread word."
"Say Li Yun has been spotted in the Primordial Land. Get Ancestral City moving too, put pressure on him, and cut off any chance of his sneaking back there."
"All right..."
Several days later.
In a Boundary Sea three thousand Boundary Seas away from the Azure Nightmare Sacred Hall,
Li Yun quietly appeared in one of its planes.
He stood inside a dark cave.
Radiant light shone from his body, illuminating the cave as brightly as day.
His hands moved, countless