The Second Elder and Third Elder both looked toward the First Elder. The First Elder was a great cultivator at the late Nascent Soul stage; perhaps he had noticed something just now.
The First Elder also shook his head slightly. He had not swept his Divine Sense over the area with all his strength just now, since that would inevitably have alerted Yan San. Thus, he likewise had failed to detect how Li Yan had cast his technique.
He had only sensed some faint, invisible aura appearing in the basin, then watched Li Yan fly back.
"Could it be that Phantom Sect's poison techniques have reached such an unfathomable, ghost-and-god-defying level?"
The Third Elder's disbelieving voice appeared in the minds of the First Elder and Second Elder. She was also a master of poison and knew she could not accomplish something so effortless.
"I only hope he isn't putting on a mystical act, or believing that the poison he used can truly deal with the wind beasts, merely focusing on making it colorless and invisible while it has no real effect!"
The Second Elder likewise transmitted his disbelief...
An hour later, the great battle erupted again!
"Enemy attack!"
"Defend! Defend!"
Shouts rang out in chaotic succession, instantly flooding every corner of the front-line battlefield like a tidal wave.
Several dozen breaths later, the two sides crashed together with a thunderous impact. In an instant, great sprays of flesh and blood flew through the air, while shrill roars and agonized screams filled the heavens and earth...
Along a section of the defensive line directly north of the wind beast assault, several hundred mortal warriors stared tensely down the mountainside.
Not long after the Tianli Clan cultivators above issued their warning, they would face a massive beast tide of "Wind Iron Beasts."