But why should he avoid it?
He was no longer the Lower Beast who had fled Flying Earthworm Cave in panic, proceeding cautiously as though treading on thin ice.
Having gained so many opportunities, and having surveyed the great currents of the world from the perspective of a higher cultivator, if he still did nothing but flee, shrinking from everything, he would hardly be doing justice to such an enormous cheat.
He would patrol the frontiers of the world, Mountain-Smiting, Temple-Breaking, slay lurking fiends across the wilderness, and hunt demonic scourges in every direction, teaching all Immortal Mystics to tremble before the might of thunderbolts and making every monstrous villain flee the aura of thunder and fire.
Root out treachery and evil, spread the winds of virtue far and wide; cleanse the world, uphold the righteous path forever...
Of course, all of that was bullshit.
He would have liked nothing better than to hide himself away for the rest of his life, contending with no one. Why would he go out of his way to provoke those evil spirits and Immortal Mystics?
But "Li Thunder" would not let him sit and cultivate in peace.
After the Rift Transformation, "Li Thunder" no longer had the drawback of creating a tremendous spectacle and easily depleting his Dao Attainment, but it had bound his Dao Path firmly to every unrighteous evil between heaven and earth.
Subdue evil and uphold righteousness, Mountain-Smiting, Temple-Breaking—only by doing so could he increase his Dao Attainment and advance his cultivation.
In other words, his cultivation would no longer consist of simply sitting in quiet meditation. He needed to take greater initiative in slaughtering those evil spirits and Immortal Mystics, and even in annihilating the lofty Immortal Sects and Aristocratic Clans that cultivated by consuming blood and devoured people.