The pressure of a Golden Core Realm cultivator spread, silencing every conversation nearby. The cultivators fell as quiet as cicadas in winter.
This was one of the Red Mountain Association's two Golden Core cultivators-Ji Zhi, True Person Ji!
Sure enough, the Red Mountain Association would not let a cultivator like this slip away. By threats or inducements, they intended to bring Song Yan into their fold.
Song Yan did not answer the question. He looked up and stared at the Red-Robed Man, golden light flowing through his blazing eyes.
Under this suffocating pressure, a fire instead rose in Song Yan's heart.
If he could fight a Golden Core cultivator-
In truth, Song Yan knew his current strength very well. Aside from existences like Sect Master Chen, who resembled a banished immortal, he could be said to have no equal below Golden Core.
But he still could not contend with a Golden Core Realm cultivator at full strength.
His only means of crossing that heavenly chasm and wounding a Golden Core Realm cultivator was his Sword Domain, Heavenly Dao in Motion, but the limitations of his Sword Qi still prevented him from using it.
Killing Zhang Xingming at the Dongyuan Sect had relied entirely on a trace of spiritual charm from the withered branch. It could not be replicated.
The differences in spiritual power, divine sense, and cultivation methods created by the gulf between major realms were by no means something mere technique or will could easily bridge.
But perhaps it was precisely this gulf, vast as a heavenly chasm, that could let him take that final step and condense his own slaughter sword intent.
With the Void-Aspect Dharma Body standing by to support him, perhaps-
Seeing that Song Yan not only refused to answer but even revealed soaring battle intent,