In a flash, he left the place, silently heading for the nearest gray island to begin developing a new one.
A hundred years passed in the blink of an eye.
Li Qing's Present Body had now explored every one of these gray islands.
Nearly every hidden island contained treasures at or above the evolution grade.
Most were mysterious treasures comparable to spreading the Dao across several hundred or even a thousand universes.
Only Stone Daoist reached the level of spreading the Dao across three thousand universes, and the Principle contained within these treasures involved every conceivable direction.
There were some of the seven supreme mechanism types, but even more followed unknown paths.
All these undiscovered hidden islands had become Li Qing's property, and cities had been built upon them one after another.
He had also refined all the treasures atop them into incarnations. Across the East Sea's hundred thousand islands, he had taken away nearly a million people over the course of a hundred years.
These people were all marginal figures. Under the River of Fate's impact within the Unique Universe, the karmic changes they caused would swiftly be repaired, leaving almost no one aware of them.
By this point, Li Qing's Present Body possessed twenty-seven islands in total, along with twenty-seven evolution-grade or higher incarnations of varying levels—the first batch of powerful forces in his hands.
He had no intention of deploying these forces outside. They would remain bound to the islands, preventing the formation of any karmic entanglements.
As long as these islands remained undiscovered, he would forever have a place to stand in the Unique Universe.
Moreover, these islands naturally possessed a particular trait: even within the River of Fate, their karma remained hidden, as though divine artifacts had concealed their own brilliance.
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