"No! He's become wary!" Li Chengjie's face darkened. "The nodes are shifting even faster!"
Outside the cave, Chen Jieming sneered. "Useless! Within the 'Nine Nether Spirit Binding Lock,' every struggle you make is futile! Just obediently await death!" He increased his Spiritual Energy Output. The curtain of light seemed to grow heavier, while the invisible force draining their Spiritual Energy and life force noticeably strengthened.
Li Sihai panted heavily. Controlling the wheel took no small toll on him as well, and his face had gone pale. "Senior Brother Xiao, this can't go on! We're burning through our Spiritual Energy too quickly!"
Liu Ruyan's breathing had also become slightly disordered. Her cool eyes turned toward Xiao Yan and Li Chengjie, awaiting their next instructions.
Xiao Yan's face was livid. He, too, could feel the rate at which his Spiritual Energy was draining accelerating.
The strategy of forcefully attacking to disrupt the formation seemed ineffective.
His gaze swept over the wavering yet still resilient curtain of light before him, then flicked toward Liu Ruyan beside him, whose aura was beginning to falter. A trace of struggle and resolve flashed through his eyes, too subtle to detect.
Li Chengjie's mind raced as he recalled the scattered fragments of formation knowledge he had come across while copying Han Li's experience, combining them with the actual circumstances of the grand formation before him. Suddenly, an idea struck him, and he sent a voice transmission. "There's one more way! Ordinary methods won't work, naturally. But if we unleash a massive Instantaneous Burst of Spiritual Energy, or... borrow external objects, such as—detonating Dharma Artifacts!"
"Detonating Dharma Artifacts?" Liu Ruyan and Li Sihai were both startled.
Dharma Artifacts were quite precious to Qi Refining cultivators. Self-detonating a Dharma Artifact to wound the enemy by a thousand while harming