That was only natural.
Although Chen Yan had now entered the upper three realms and could barely activate immortal artifacts,
he was still only a cultivator in the guiyi realm, after all.
Chen Yan was certainly confident that, with the advantages of his cultivation method and experience, he could crush any guiyi realm cultivator in the world at the same cultivation level...
Provided he did not run into monsters like Xiao Su or Qin Qingyu.
But facing so many enemies, Chen Yan had already begun to feel the strain.
Had he been somewhere like Chenping Continent, where the spiritual energy of heaven and earth was relatively abundant, Chen Yan would naturally have been confident of finishing off every enemy before him without so much as the effort of blowing away dust.
Because he needed to replenish his spiritual energy.
At present, Chen Yan's only source of spiritual energy was regeneration through his martial spring.
Kunwu Continent lacked the spiritual energy of heaven and earth.
That meant Chen Yan could not use the Great Evolution Art to transform the spiritual energy of heaven and earth into spiritual energy for his own use.
Put more simply, if he could use the Great Evolution Art to transform the spiritual energy of heaven and earth, Chen Yan would have an inexhaustible supply of spiritual energy.
But things were different now.
Merely activating the Li Huo Whip once had consumed nearly a third of Chen Yan's total spiritual energy.
Yet he had no choice.
The guiyi realm cultivators from the Hidden Sects were no fools. They would not readily give Chen Yan a chance to pick them off one by one.
Chen Yan could certainly kill any one of those guiyi realm cultivators in an instant.
But the moment he struck, the others would undoubtedly