A rainbow streak rose from thin air, and azure light swept in from the horizon.
Their auras kept climbing. Clearly, they intended to settle the outcome with this single strike.
Everyone turned to watch, beginning to anticipate who would emerge victorious from this duel.
Would it be Li Yingling, with her superior cultivation and reserves, or Li Xingtian, who grew fiercer the longer he fought?
But amid their expectant gazes, Yan Yun suddenly stood, her Spiritual Power surging toward the isolation Barrier around the Martial Performance Grounds.
Wang Lin hurriedly looked over, only then discovering that, before the two had even clashed, their pressure alone was making the Barrier tremble. If they actually struck each other... this Barrier probably would not hold for even a moment.
He was surprised at first. The foundations of the Heavenly Derivation Sect's Martial Performance Grounds Barriers were all built to Spirit Transformation standards.
That Spirit Transformation standard was not the one used for outside Rogue Cultivators, but the Heavenly Derivation Sect's own.
Although Sealed Peak's Martial Performance Grounds had fallen somewhat into disrepair and lacked the regular maintenance given to other grounds, its defensive power certainly having weakened, a clash between two Nascent Soul Cultivators could actually shatter it...
That alone was enough to seem unbelievable.
But Wang Lin quickly reacted as well, hurriedly standing to help reinforce it.
Perhaps his Nascent Soul cultivation amounted to little before Yan Yun, but Wang Lin understood one principle very well.
Before the higher-ups, even if it was only an act, you had to act as though you could see work that needed doing.
Even wandering around was better than standing there doing nothing.
As Wang Lin lent a hand, his squad members hurriedly caught on as well.
Chu Xingchen glanced at Wang Lin's squad, who knew