The Black Rock Sage left.
The Sage Hua Men left as well.
Li Yun remained alone on Obsidian Mountain.
He could not be bothered to move.
The pages of the Illusory World Book were still too scattered.
Searching for them from place to place was far too slow.
He decided to wait.
He would let the bullets fly for a while, then see who had gathered the most pages of the Illusory World Book and go straight for them.
Meanwhile, he could use the time to consolidate his gains.
In the blink of an eye,
three hundred years passed.
Li Yun lived on Obsidian Mountain, idly watching flowers bloom and fall, sitting beneath clouds as they gathered and drifted apart. Life could hardly have been more pleasant.
Without more pages of the Illusory World Book to help him turn the pages of the Heavenly Scripture of Myriad Wonders, his cultivation had not stopped advancing.
On the contrary, he drew Qi of All Wonders to him from afar at every moment, as though he were being fed one Sage Constant Divine Medicine after another. His strength continued to grow rapidly.
Over those three hundred years, his cultivation advanced steadily. Already atop a hundred-foot pole, he had climbed another step.
From roughly three times the strength of an ordinary Peak Sage Constant, he had surged to five times that strength.
As his power grew, he could sense the Gate of Myriad Wonders—the source hidden within the Forbidden Zone—with increasing clarity.
Though he could not directly call upon the gate's Divine Might, he could already perceive some of its subtle mysteries.
He was now utterly certain.
The Half-Step Ancestors who had entered the Forbidden Zone and never emerged had reached that realm by contemplating the Gate of Myriad Wonders itself.
And there were