The appearance of a suspected protagonist like Ye Han undoubtedly filled Zhang Qingyuan with an enormous sense of crisis.
For what accompanied a protagonist
was often a massive calamity.
Fortunately, he was now in the South Sea, far from the sect and still on the fringes of the storm. A small ripple could not yet reach him.
But this state of remaining outside the situation probably would not last long.
After all, when the nest was overturned, how could any egg remain intact?
If things truly developed as they did in those fantasy novels, with the sect collapsing, then swept up in the torrent of the greater age, anyone who had not reached Cave True Transcendence would possess little power to resist.
It was because of this
that Zhang Qingyuan became even more urgent in his pursuit of strength.
Only by breaking through to Cave True would he have the qualifications to transcend these dangers!
At present,
the envisioned Five Elements Great Dao was nearly complete, lacking only the final Gold Element.
As long as he could complete the Metal Element Path, he would achieve Five Elements balance and use the Five Elements to evolve methods, retracing the ancient Five Elements Great Dao. His combat power would then far surpass that of ordinary Cave True Realm Cultivators!
Pressed by the sense of crisis in his heart,
Zhang Qingyuan continued his hard cultivation.
As he cultivated with the high-grade spirit stones he had seized, he also mobilized the forces under his command to secretly investigate factions within Yuzhou that primarily cultivated Gold Element inheritances through the Black Market.
At the same time, he did not forget to keep constant watch on news from within the sect regarding Ye Han, that suspected protagonist.
And so time slipped away.
In the blink of