Within the reach of Li Yun's Authority, nothing could be hidden from him—not even the faint Fire Dragon Divine Kingdom mark on Supreme Sage Yuan Zhang.
Li Yun was in no hurry to erase it.
First, he studied it closely.
And that scrutiny revealed more than he had expected.
The mark carried a trace of Authority—the Authority of the Fire Dragon Divine Kingdom. It was faint, like rootless duckweed drifting on water, connected by a thread so fine that even Divine Consciousness could barely pinpoint it.
Following that thread led far beyond the distant heavens. At its end, he could faintly make out an immense Divine Kingdom spanning the Eternal Void.
Li Yun understood at once.
The so-called Divine Kingdom mark had its roots in the Divine Kingdom Order.
That Order produced countless marks like this one. No matter where a mark ended up, the bond of cause and effect would remain unbroken as long as its connecting thread was intact.
Someone who knew what to look for could use such a mark to trace the Divine Kingdom itself.
But over such a distance... who knew what might happen along the way?
Li Yun had no intention of tracing the Fire Dragon Divine Kingdom.
The time for that had not yet come.
For now, he only wanted to test whether erasing the mark on Supreme Sage Yuan Zhang would provoke a backlash from the Fire Dragon Divine Kingdom's Order—and if it did, whether the backlash would affect the Myriad Wonders World, or even Li Yun himself.
So he acted.
With a thought, he raised the Heaven-Slaying Treasure Blade.
He brought it straight down on the invisible thread behind the Fire Dragon Divine Kingdom mark.
The instant the blade touched the thread, Li Yun's expression changed slightly.
*Well, would you look