The dark Dao Resonance filling the heavens slowly dispersed, and the shattered starry sky settled bit by bit.
Li Yun hovered amid the sea of stars. As he watched the Gate of Myriad Wonders swallow and refine the Dao Sage Dao Fruit—so deeply black it almost gleamed, and containing the origin of the ninth-grade Dark Great Dao—a brilliant smile spread across his face.
A single Dao Sage Dao Fruit had brought him a staggering seventeen hundred trillion Myriad Wonders Points.
How outrageous was that?
Then again, it made sense.
Refining a Saint Emperor Dao Fruit could yield thousands of Myriad Wonders Points, and a Dao Sage's path was built upon Emperor Nature. It was only reasonable that a Dao Sage Dao Fruit would yield far more points than a Saint Emperor's.
He sheathed his blade, slowly drew in his vast, 772-zhang Emperor Nature, and swept his gaze across the countless hidden cracks in the void where people were spying. The corner of his mouth curled.
He had crossed one Star Domain after another in pursuit of a Great Black Heaven Dao Sage. The commotion had been so enormous that far too many people had been alerted.
He could even faintly sense danger closing in.
He was certain that Great Black Heaven's Dao Sages, perhaps even its Supreme Sages, were already on their way to hunt him down.
But he did not care.
If they wanted to hunt him down, they would have to catch him first.
"Heh heh..."
He made no attempt to hide it.
After a smug chuckle, he turned and stepped toward the distant river of stars. With a thought, he called upon the Gate of Myriad Wonders, and his figure abruptly vanished from everyone's sight.
Not long after he disappeared, three Great Black Heaven Supreme Sages, each