The female cultivator surnamed Yuan had never imagined that the staircase passage the green-robed elder had inspected only a moment ago would suddenly contain another trap.
Both of them were late-stage Spirit Transformation powerhouses, yet their opponent's methods had reached such a terrifying level that, even with their guard up, they had still failed to evade it.
What the female cultivator surnamed Yuan did not know was that Li Yan had previously relied solely on his naked eyes, waiting all along for her to appear.
Moreover, the profundity of Gui Water Immortal Sect's "Stealthy Night Concealment" technique was among the very finest immortal arts in the entire Immortal-Spirit Realm.
With Li Yan himself already comparable to a Spirit Transformation cultivator, unless a cultivator at the Void Refinement realm or above investigated him, it would be exceedingly difficult to discover his existence.
This sudden turn of events inexplicably tightened the female cultivator surnamed Yuan's heart, but her body had already sunk toward an invisible gaping maw.
The green-robed elder was ahead of the female cultivator surnamed Yuan. Although the staircase was nearly thirty zhang long, to people like them, it was as though it lay right before their eyes.
By the time he sensed that something was wrong, more than half of his rapidly falling body had already entered that invisible gaping maw. Only his head remained outside, and terror seized the green-robed elder's heart.
The suction force that had suddenly appeared below came far too abruptly. It had materialized out of thin air just as his feet were about to touch the deck at the bottom of the stairs.
He had never expected that after so many years of remaining hidden, this one time he came out merely to lend a hand, he would nearly fall into a deadly place