Suppressed Cultivation! Sinister Blood Essence!

The moment Li Bufan and Lin Zhiyan set foot on solid ground, an invisible pressure surged in from every direction, as though the entire world were rejecting them.

Li Bufan felt the true qi inside him slow, as if an unseen hand had clenched around it. He could bring only seventy percent of his strength to bear.

"Bufan, this place has an extremely powerful suppressive force."

Lin Zhiyan frowned slightly and flexed her fingers. "My True Essence has been suppressed. I only have the strength of someone at Minor Mastery in the Essence Liquid Realm now."

Li Bufan's heart sank.

Lin Zhiyan had been in the Three Flowers Realm, yet she had fallen all the way to Minor Mastery in the Essence Liquid Realm—a drop of an entire major realm. What about him?

He looked inward at his dantian. Although his true qi flowed sluggishly, his cultivation had not been high to begin with, so the suppression was less noticeable. He was still in the Acupoint Realm; only the total amount of true qi he could draw upon had fallen.

"What about your spiritual sense?" Li Bufan asked. "Zhiyan, has that been suppressed too?"

Lin Zhiyan closed her eyes and spread out her spiritual sense. A moment later, she opened them and nodded gravely.

"Yes. My spiritual sense has been suppressed too, to about Minor Mastery in the Night Roaming Realm."

The Night Roaming Realm.

Li Bufan calculated quickly. His spiritual sense was also in the Night Roaming Realm. Here, its strength had been brought level with Lin Zhiyan's.

"It seems the higher a martial artist's cultivation, the harder this place suppresses them."

Li Bufan pondered aloud. "The Three Flowers Realm is suppressed to the Essence Liquid Realm, and the Yang God Realm to the Night Roaming Realm..."

Lin Zhiyan