A gentle breeze drifted through Clearwind Courtyard, and the plants stood still.
Li Yun sat cross-legged on a stone platform, his eyes half-closed.
Dao Resonance flowed around him, long and steady. His breathing was as calm as the depths of an ancient well.
Nothing about him suggested he had traveled a great distance, much less fought a fierce battle.
Outside the courtyard gate, Yu Huafeng looked utterly bewildered, his thoughts a muddle.
He kept feeling that something was wrong, but he could not say what.
In the end, he gritted his teeth and turned away without disturbing Li Yun's seclusion.
What he did not know was this:
As soon as he left, Li Yun quietly opened his eyes.
"Phew..."
"So he does suspect me after all!"
"Still, even if Yu Huafeng suspects me, he won't find a single flaw."
Li Yun glanced toward the horizon.
A cold glint flashed through his eyes.
He truly had not expected the remaining Saint Venerables of Great Black Heaven and the Blood God Cult to have the nerve to assault the Evergreen Ancient Domain's Star Formation after he killed those Saint Sects. They had even demanded an explanation from the Evergreen Ancient Domain.
They had blown the whole affair wide open.
The entire Evergreen Ancient Domain had been alerted.
Pulling off anything similar after this would be far from easy.
For fuck's sake...
Fortunately, that lightning raid had brought him a considerable haul.
On the Desolate Star, he had killed ninety-eight Saint Sects and gained a full 980 trillion Myriad Wonders Points—enough to sustain his cultivation for a long time.
Ten-Thousandfold-Speed Cultivation at a hundred thousand times speed cost roughly seven trillion Myriad Wonders Points a day. His haul would last nearly 140 days, more than four months.
Tsk, tsk...
If he quietly entered