"Hmph. Such a good-for-nothing, yet he dares claim he'll capture this Li. How laughable."
A cold snort rang out, and the countless Sword Qi filling the sky abruptly vanished. The young cultivator reappeared before everyone, along with a male cultivator whose face was deathly pale.
At that moment, the young man stood in precisely the same place as before, without the slightest difference. It was as if he had never moved at all.
Yet beneath the young man's feet, the cultivator who had appeared there lay sprawled across the ground.
This male cultivator was one of the seven Profound Spirit cultivators from earlier—the very mid-stage Profound Spirit cultivator who had said he would capture the young man.
A mid-stage Profound Spirit cultivator had been captured from within the crowd in an instant, despite two late-stage and peak Profound Spirit cultivators being among those surrounding him. Such a scene left every cultivator present utterly stunned.
Yet among the crowd, two people showed no unusual expressions.
One was Qin Fengming. The other was the beautiful female cultivator, Zuo Zilin.
Li Xiaodi's ability to capture a mid-stage Profound Spirit cultivator from within the encirclement naturally did not surprise Qin Fengming. The two had fought before, so he naturally knew that Li Xiaodi possessed such methods.
Zuo Zilin stood where she was. Even when the Sword Qi had filled the sky and enveloped the area earlier, she had shown no unusual reaction, treating the terrifying waves of Sword Qi that descended upon her as though they were nothing.
Although she had never met Li Xiaodi, and their formation duel had relied on their respective Old Ancestors, she had already learned of Li Xiaodi's character from her Old Ancestor. She knew he was not someone who killed for no reason.
After learning everyone's origins, and