Four Gods Star, Eastern Continent.
After moving into the estate he had bought, Li Yun did not immediately resign himself to a life of monastic austerity.
Instead, he hired two servants to look after him, serving him fine wine and good food every day. They did not know who he really was and took him for a young master from elsewhere.
Li Yun paid well, and the servants served him diligently.
After nearly half a month of leisure, Li Yun began quietly roaming the four continents of Four Gods Star.
With strength that made him all but invincible on Four Gods Star, he secretly uncovered what lay beneath the planet's placid surface.
What he found surprised him.
Beyond the hidden Saint King he had already discovered and the Heavenly Sage lineage entrenched on each of the four continents, he found traces of Black Heaven's spies and Blood God Cult followers.
There were also covert agents who had infiltrated from the Through-Ancient Dynasty.
Four Gods Star looked peaceful, but factions had penetrated it from every side. The reality was far more tangled than it appeared.
None of that alone would have surprised Li Yun.
Four Gods Star stood at the edge of the Golden Eagle Dynasty, close to the Through-Ancient Dynasty. By its location, it was practically a major frontier stronghold.
It was only natural for various factions to slip agents inside.
What truly surprised Li Yun was that, besides those factions, he had found traces of the Fairy Sect.
Back on the Purple Moon Continent, just before his battle with the Martial Deity of Imperial Court Mountain, Fairy Sect Cult Leader Ling Qingyue had approached him, hoping to draw him into a joint fight against the Through-Ancient Dynasty's experts.
He had refused her.
Later, a Martial God sent to the