Inside the hidden Ice Bear cave, all was still. Only the howling wind and snow outside could be heard faintly through the thick ice.
Li Yun sat cross-legged on a dry slab of ice-covered stone, shutting out every stray thought as he lay low.
He suppressed his aura to the utmost, blending into the ice around him. Neither a Sage's Divine Consciousness nor a Demon Beast's keen sense of smell could detect the living person hidden in the cave.
Outside, the two forces continued their searches in full swing.
The men from the City Lord's Mansion, led by the middle-aged man, advanced cautiously and searched every corner of the Icefield.
The forty elite Sages of the Four Great Hunting Groups still charged about with earth-shaking commotion, stirring up the Icefield until neither chickens nor dogs could rest.
Yet no matter how they searched, they found nothing.
Li Yun seemed to have vanished into thin air, leaving behind neither tracks nor the slightest trace of his aura.
In the blink of an eye, seven days passed.
Li Yun had not cultivated during those seven days, but the support he received from Blue Star and the Purple Moon Continent had not stopped for a second.
Without realizing it, he had accumulated another two hundred million Myriad Wonders Points.
Li Yun chose not to wait any longer. After taking food from the Myriad Wonders World and eating his fill, he activated Hundredfold Cultivation Mode.
[Hundredfold Cultivation Mode activated. Myriad Wonders Points consumed: points/minute] [Cultivation begins!]
As the system notification sounded, violent ice-attributed Spirit Qi surged into his body once more, and his cultivation efficiency soared a hundredfold.
With the solid foundation he had already built—79% progress through the Third Layer of the Cold Mountain Art—this breakthrough came as naturally as water