After these three hundred years of comprehension, Lin Yun felt his progress was lightning fast. Combined with the foundation he had comprehended outside before, Lin Yun felt that breaking through to the Forming Dao Realm was already very close.
“Daoist friend Beichen, I have finished comprehending. The gains are quite good. However, now I can no longer comprehend anything more, so I must proceed upwards.” The Dual Sovereign Pavilion elder said.
“Good.” Lin Yun nodded in response.
Lin Yun did not rush straight to the third floor.
Lin Yun did not know what the third floor would hold. Perhaps going first would give an advantage.
But this mural was very important for Lin Yun’s comprehension. It concerned his breakthrough to the Virtual Dao Realm.
Lin Yun still believed that breaking through to the Virtual Dao Realm was more important.
“By the way, Daoist friend Yuan Xia, could I trouble you with something?” Lin Yun said.
“What is it? Speak freely.” Yuan Xia replied.
“If you go to the third floor now, you should leave before me. Once you are out, if people from the Nether Palace are still guarding outside, crush this jade slip to notify me. If there are no people from the Nether Palace outside, crush the other jade slip.”
As Lin Yun spoke, he took out two pairs of jade slips.
“This small matter is naturally no problem. Our Dual Sovereign Pavilion is a member of the Dao Alliance, and the Dao Alliance is hostile to the Heavenly Fire Divine Hall and the God-Slaying Sect. Since you killed their elders, we are naturally on the same side.” Yuan Xia agreed readily.
For the Dual Sovereign Pavilion elder, this matter would not bring him any trouble. It was just a convenient favour, and he was willing to return one.
Hearing this, Lin Yun handed the two jade slips to the Dual Sovereign Pavilion elder.
Lin Yun also understood that the Dual Sovereign Pavilion elder was willing to help because of Lin Yun’s earlier killing of the Heavenly Fire Divine Hall elder and the God-Slaying Sect elder. This had established sufficient deterrence, making him view Lin Yun in a completely different light.
If Lin Yun were just an ordinary third-level Tongtian Realm cultivator, he probably would not even bother with him, let alone help.
Therefore, respect from others was entirely earned through strength.
Without sufficient strength of one’s own, it was hard to even get others to look at you properly, let alone earn their respect.
“Daoist friend Beichen, although I still do not know your exact identity, you could consider joining our Dao Alliance in the future. That way, even if your killing of the Heavenly Fire Divine Hall elder and the God-Slaying Sect elder is exposed, you would have no need to worry at all, because the Dao Alliance would protect you!” Dual Sovereign Pavilion elder Yuan Xia said.
“We can talk about that later.” Lin Yun said with a smile.
“Alright then, I shall take my leave.” After Yuan Xia finished speaking, he headed towards the third floor.
Lin Yun watched Yuan Xia leave, and a doubt arose in his heart.
Why had the Wuji Heavenly Palace not joined the Dao Alliance back then?
If the Wuji Heavenly Palace had joined the Dao Alliance at that time and received their support, then the six great powers wanting to destroy the Wuji Heavenly Palace would have been as difficult as ascending to heaven.
Even though the Wuji Heavenly Palace was extremely powerful at the time, it had still been annihilated without choosing to join a faction. This could not help but make Lin Yun sigh.
This doubt was something Lin Yun clearly could not get an answer to now. He also had no way to know how the Palace Lord of the Wuji Heavenly Palace had considered it back then.
“Continue comprehending.”
Lin Yun withdrew his thoughts and continued to focus entirely on comprehending the mural.
To gain good insights from comprehending the mural, one must be fully focused, with no stray thoughts, and consciousness completely immersed in it.
Just over ten minutes passed, and Lin Yun suddenly sensed that one jade slip had shattered.
It was the Dual Sovereign Pavilion elder transmitting a message to him through the jade slip.
“Does that mean there are no more people from the Nether Palace outside?” Lin Yun murmured.
The shattered jade slip was the one representing that there were no Nether Palace forces outside.
This also made Lin Yun breathe a sigh of relief.
After all, Lin Yun had comprehended on this second floor for three hundred years. That Fusion Dao powerhouse from the Nether Palace must have been unwilling to wait any longer.
“Elder Yuan Xia only went up to the third floor for a dozen minutes, and the jade slip shattered already. He left that quickly?” Lin Yun said in astonishment.
Could it be that Elder Yuan Xia had failed the test on the third floor directly? But that was too fast!
This made Lin Yun even more curious about what the third floor held.
“Continue comprehending.”
For now, it was still best to comprehend the mural first. The rest could wait until later.
When Lin Yun’s consciousness fully entered the mural, he even lost track of time’s passage. In the blink of an eye, another hundred years passed.
“So that’s how it is! So that’s how it is!”
“Haha, everything has been fully integrated!”
Lin Yun suddenly burst into laughter.
