Hum—
Deep within the dark Cave, silent for three years, a Dao Sound too faint to detect suddenly rang out.
In Li Yun's sea of consciousness, the ancient, weighty [Myriad Wonders Emperor Scripture] appeared and blazed with light.
Forty-First Level, 100%!
After three years and one month of grueling cultivation at five hundred thousand times the normal speed, without a day or night of rest, he had endured the tedium and drained himself of every last ounce of energy. At last, his efforts bore fruit!
There was no bottleneck to hold him back, no barrier between realms.
He advanced to 1% of the Forty-Second Level almost as naturally as water flowing into a channel!
The instant his realm rose, Li Yun underwent an earth-shaking change.
Before, the Darkness-Eroding Dao Restriction Reversal had allowed him to retain his cultivation in the Endless Dark Abyss, even to keep cultivating. Yet a barrier had always stood between him and the Dark Abyss, like a solid city wall neither side could pass through.
The moment he stopped using the Darkness-Eroding Dao Restriction Reversal, his cultivation would immediately be sealed.
He simply did not belong here.
The facts, hard as iron, had always shown that he was not part of the Endless Dark Abyss.
But now!
That sense of rejection had mysteriously vanished.
Even without the Darkness-Eroding Dao Restriction Reversal, his cultivation was no longer sealed. The aura emanating from him connected directly with the surrounding cold, silent darkness.
It was like a fish finding water, as though he had been born to belong to this Dark Abyss.
It felt utterly natural!
Saint Chu Emperor was so shocked that he rose to his feet in the Cave.
"Li Yun... Li Yun, are you all right?" he exclaimed.
In Saint Chu Emperor's eyes, Li Yun's aura