In less than ten minutes.
An Eternal Life Realm elder of the Soulbirth Sect, at the ninth level of his realm, had been ruthlessly slain, with not even his bones left behind!
No wonder Zhou Yan had been so profoundly shaken.
An accomplishment like this would have been more than enough as a pledge of allegiance anywhere, proof that he had abandoned the darkness for the light.
High in the sky, the smoke had yet to clear.
"..."
Clad in his gold-and-black Official Robe, Ye Li stood with his hands behind his back, his robes fluttering as he looked down at the bottomless crater below.
The surging divine power within him had not immediately settled with the end of the battle.
Instead, it remained active, poised to strike.
This battle had not actually cost him much strength.
Mostly because Elder Lin Ku had been utterly countered by him.
As a demonic cultivator specializing in the soul path, once his most relied-upon methods failed, his strength had been severely diminished, leaving less than a tenth of what it had been.
He had been utterly unable to stop Ye Li's brutally overwhelming close-quarters assault.
That was why a battle that should have been evenly matched had ended in such an effortless victory.
But Ye Li did not lower his guard.
With such a huge disturbance here, there was no way the Soulbirth Sect's senior figures had failed to notice.
"..."
Ye Li turned his head, his golden eyes piercing the mist as he looked toward the gradually dissipating barrier of laws.
Sure enough.
A figure had appeared there at some unknown point.
It was an unremarkable-looking middle-aged man.
He wore plain robes, and the aura emanating from him was extraordinarily lofty.
When Ye Li looked over, the man's gaze settled on him