Li Yun could not be bothered with any unnecessary moves.
Since the Cloud Cliff Saintess had said so, she definitely had confidence in it.
He should just focus on cultivation.
Having cultivated to his current level, where he could be called invincible within the Heavenly Human Realm, he was increasingly coming to understand what absolute strength truly meant.
Take Li Xin, the Cracked Heaven Crown Prince, and Bai Tianhuang, the head of the White Emperor Family. They tossed schemes back and forth, and in the end even played some game of tacit understanding.
In truth, it was useless.
His strength was simply not great enough yet. Otherwise, why would he need to waste so many words on them?
If only—
If he possessed the strength of the Ninth Realm of Heaven-Piercing, or had even reached the level of the One Venerable Eight Emperors of old, he could have simply walked up and slapped each of them once. Not only would they have to kneel, they would also have to fawn over him and say, "Thank you, Great Emperor, for honoring us with your presence."
Unfortunately, he was still a little ways from that level.
The Nine-Lightning Mythical Heavenly Human had merely given him a higher starting point and a Martial Dao upper limit that might exceed others'. It had not allowed him to ascend to the heavens in a single step.
Like everyone else, what he needed was the accumulation of time.
Moreover, he had discovered that once one's strength reached his current realm, the people one encountered were no longer the Martial Artists from the Three Innate Realms he had met back when he was in Eastern Cloud Prefecture of the Mysterious Moon Kingdom.
Those Martial Artists of the Three Innate Realms from the past—even those at the peak