Ye Xiwen stood within the formation, looking coldly at Yin Taiping. After the blood and qi within his body surged for a moment, he swiftly suppressed them.
Yin Taiping was somewhat surprised as well, but he did not pursue him. For one thing, he could not possibly break the formation within the First Secret Realm, and it had been set up to guard against external enemies. If he damaged it, the higher-ups would not take his offense lightly.
Furthermore, there was the one-year protection period for newcomers. Unless he could force Ye Xiwen to leave of his own accord, he truly could not do anything to the First Secret Realm within that year.
His attack just now had merely been to regain face at Ye Xiwen's doorstep. That was not the same as genuinely trying to occupy the First Secret Realm. He was not bold enough to forcibly seize it. Still, if that blow had managed to subdue Ye Xiwen and make him leave voluntarily, he could barely have found himself an excuse.
Unfortunately, his strike had failed. Now that Ye Xiwen had entered the formation, he was like a turtle retracting into its shell. Yin Taiping truly had no way to deal with him.
Such a situation was indeed rare, let alone encountering a newcomer protected for an entire year. Normally, newcomers who had just arrived would choose more remote secret realms for cultivation. In those out-of-the-way places, whoever wanted to seize them could go ahead and do so. Yet Ye Xiwen had dropped straight into the First Secret Realm.
As a result, the one-year newcomer protection rule, which people had nearly forgotten, was brought back into everyone's sight. It choked Yin Taiping so badly he wanted to cough up blood.
Besides, if Ye Xiwen kept hiding inside, relying