The cave was dim and deathly silent.
Li Yun sat cross-legged in meditation. His five-hundred-thousandfold-speed cultivation had already stopped.
A month of cultivation had raised the Myriad Wonders Emperor Scripture to 4% of its Forty-First Level. The slow progress did not surprise Li Yun.
But the Gate of Myriad Wonders had quietly absorbed the Darkness Profundity within the Power of Darkness, and that worried him.
He feared the Darkness Profundity might influence him without his realizing it.
As a Martial Artist, he had no desire to lose himself and become some Darkness Follower. Nor did he think the Dark Heavenly Lord deserved to have him sacrifice himself in service!
So he immediately steadied his mind, immersed his consciousness in the Gate of Myriad Wonders, and carefully studied the changes within it.
After more than half a month of repeated contemplation, Li Yun made a delightful discovery.
The Darkness Profundity the Gate of Myriad Wonders had quietly absorbed had not harmed him at all. Instead, it had deepened the torrents of mysteries within the Gate.
They had even brought the Gate of Myriad Wonders to the verge of deriving the Forty-Second Level of the Myriad Wonders Emperor Scripture.
What did that mean?
The answer went without saying.
Before the Gate of Myriad Wonders, even the so-called Power of Darkness could only become fuel.
The claim that the Endless Dark Abyss was the End of Heaven and Earth, a place where the rules of heaven and earth did not exist... was fundamentally a contradiction.
The Power of Darkness had never escaped the bounds of the myriad ways of heaven and earth.
This apparent contradiction—a place without the rules or ways of heaven and earth—existed because a trace of the Dark Heavenly Lord's will lay within the Power of Darkness. It forcibly drove