In midair.
Black true essence and purple true essence each occupied half the space.
The longer the battle went on.
The more alarmed Yan Guan became.
He discovered that his strength could do nothing to his opponent.
After all.
After so many years in seclusion, his strength had long since reached the peak of Skyflight, just one step away from Spirit God Manifestation.
Had he not sensed Shi Jianfeng's sword intent soaring into the heavens.
Yan Guan would never have been forced out of seclusion.
Although he had failed to achieve Spirit God Manifestation, his strength at the Spirit Martial Sixth Layer, the peak of Skyflight, still made him one of the foremost experts of the Void-Stabilizing Sword Sect.
And yet—
Even with such strength.
He still could not defeat Shi Jianfeng.
Or rather.
Throughout the battle, Yan Guan had gained no advantage whatsoever. Instead, he was showing signs of falling behind.
This alarmed him all the more.
The Ji Family!
When had they produced an expert like this?
Even the former head of the Ji Family had barely entered the Spirit Martial Fourth Layer, the early stage of Skyflight. Compared with the man before him, the difference was as vast as heaven and earth.
The Void-Stabilizing Sword Sect had provoked such an expert.
If they failed to deal with him.
The Void-Stabilizing Sword Sect would be in trouble.
By now.
Yan Guan no longer cared how this affair had begun. Since his opponent had stormed the Void-Stabilizing Sword Sect, theirs was plainly a feud that would only end in death.
Thus.
When he noticed the other elders of the Void-Stabilizing Sword Sect joining the battle, he did not stop them, nor did he entertain any notion that winning through numbers would be dishonorable.
Against an expert like this.
Only