A cold gleam flashed in Han Li's eyes. He did not draw a sword, merely pressed two fingers together like a blade and lightly slashed toward the Ten-Thousand-Soul Banner from afar.
"Great Evolutionary Sword Art: Star-Pointing."
A streak of supremely condensed Chaos Sword Qi, flecked with golden starlight, struck first despite being launched later. With unerring precision, it hit the most unstable "formation-eye rune" between the brows of a ghost face at the center of the Ten-Thousand-Soul Banner!
Crack!
The crisp sound rang out like shattering glass! The imposing Ten-Thousand-Soul Banner shuddered violently, and thirty percent of the ghostly figures on its surface instantly dispersed. Their shrill wails stopped abruptly as a trace of spacetime Dao Resonance within the sword qi forcibly drove them back into the banner! The gaunt cultivator grunted, his face paling slightly.
"Attack!" The gaunt cultivator was both shocked and furious. Clearly, he had never expected Han Li to grievously damage the Life-Bound Magic Treasure he had refined for years with a single streak of sword qi. He bit through the tip of his tongue and spat a mouthful of blood essence onto the Ten-Thousand-Soul Banner. Bloody light blazed across its surface, and countless solid-looking Soul-Eroding Black Cables shot out. Each was wreathed in the Yin Luo Sect's secret soul-refining fiendfire, a deadly counter to nascent souls and divine souls!
The two nascent soul middle stage cultivators on either side attacked simultaneously! One summoned a bone-white Soul-Slaying Saber that radiated bone-piercing cold. Its light split into three intersecting arcs, cutting off Han Li's escape routes to the left and right. The other formed hand seals, and nine fist-sized Yin Thunder Pearls appeared before him, their surfaces covered in bizarre runes. The pearls hummed, poised to strike!
Surrounded on three sides, he faced a full onslaught of