Inside Tuban, Li Yan's Divine Thought avatar entered and appeared in the Far West Region. The Ice Ant Heaven-Shaker Beast appeared alongside him.
Li Yan had not let this demon die. He still had many things to clarify, including matters he was almost certain of, such as whether the information Bai Yan and Chi Wu had obtained had been deliberately leaked by this demon.
But Li Yan still wanted genuine confirmation and would not rashly jump to conclusions. Moreover, he wanted to understand everything about this secret realm, and this Ice Ant Heaven-Shaker Beast was undoubtedly the key to unraveling it all.
The moment Li Yan sealed the Ice Ant Heaven-Shaker Beast, he immediately took him out of the formation. Once activated, that formation would relentlessly attack any living creature that entered, displaying no reason whatsoever.
Even Li Yan, who controlled the formation, could only stop its attacks by shutting it down. Fortunately, because he had refined the formation diagram, the formation did not attack him when he entered.
This gave Li Yan quite a headache. Even other cultivators he personally brought inside under normal circumstances would be attacked. It made no distinction between friend and foe, refusing to recognize even its own kin!
Thus, even if Li Yan wanted others to enter the formation to help him, refining the diagram had not made that possible. He knew the reason: Bai Yan and Chi Wu had not worked out the true control incantations. When the couple encountered him, they had still been continually researching this formation.
Nevertheless, it was precisely those research jade slips that had allowed Li Yan to easily obtain the incantations currently capable of controlling the Great Annihilation Star-Burial Diagram. Otherwise, who knew how many years he would have needed to research it himself from scratch!
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