The place Li Yan had been staring at was merely an ordinary clump of shrubs, no different from the surrounding brush. Nothing about it stood out.
Li Yan stepped down from the air, his entire body flying toward it. Before he had even landed, he waved a hand and launched a wind blade.
The massive wind blade swept out with a sharp howl and struck the clump of shrubs in an instant.
With a "chi," the seemingly ordinary shrubs did not shatter into pieces as expected. Instead, a gray light flashed across their surface and actually blocked Li Yan's attack.
"Oh? There's even a decent defensive formation here!"
No surprise showed on Li Yan's face. Instead, he remained perfectly calm, as though everything had been within his expectations...
More than ten breaths later, a muffled "rumble" sounded from the ground, and the entire earth trembled several times.
When he looked again, the clump of shrubs had vanished. In its place floated a gray pebble nearly identical to the one in Li Yan's hand, slowly spinning just above the ground.
Li Yan reached out and drew the gray pebble into his hand.
After sensing the aura within it, he found that it was indeed identical to the aura of the stone in his possession. He could not help nodding in satisfaction.
Li Yan glanced around and carefully identified the direction. He determined that this place should be somewhere southwest of the sect.
Li Yan was fairly familiar with the terrain and locations near his own sect. To his surprise, he discovered that this place was roughly three thousand li from where he had previously torn through space and entered.
Yet he had not flown for very long in the turbulent space before. Li Yan estimated that he had traveled at most