Above Yang Lake.
Ripples flashed, and Xie Yang's figure appeared.
"Second Senior Brother!!" Ge Xian'er froze.
"Senior Brother Xie Yang came out too?!" Wang Yuan stared at the figure above and could not help freezing.
He knew what his Second Senior Brother was capable of.
Though he was not as peerless and unparalleled in talent as their First Senior Brother,
he could still be called an outstanding prodigy. Even if placed in the Primordial Era, he would have shone just as brilliantly.
To become the Qingyang Sect's Second Senior Brother, he had not relied on connections. After all, his surname was Xie, not Wang like his.
Xie Yang had earned his position through his cultivation in the Immortal Dao and his soul realm.
In the Grotto-Heaven world, even though his Martial Dao realm was extraordinary, he was still no match for Xie Yang.
Moreover, he knew that although entering the Grotto-Heaven secret realm and being unable to use storage artifacts had caught them somewhat off guard,
cultivators like them relied even more heavily on external objects such as magic treasures, formation foundations, and talismans.
Without those external objects, they could display at most thirty to fifty percent of their full strength.
But Xie Yang was different. He carried all his treasured swords with him.
He also carried magic swords engraved with the foundation of the Four Spirits Formation.
With those four magic swords, Xie Yang could set up the Four Spirits Formation in an instant.
With the formation's augmentation, Xie Yang could display as much as seventy to eighty percent of his strength at his peak.
After coming out yesterday, he had not seen any sign of Xie Yang emerging. He had originally thought that, with the advantage of the Four Spirits Formation, Xie Yang should have victory securely in