And it was not just them. The Demon Beasts and wild animals nearby were all either burrowing underground or fleeing in panic.
About three breaths after Li Yan and the others vanished, the terrifying power gathering where the "Great-Winged Golden Roc" had last disappeared abruptly caved inward and contracted.
Then, as the light in that patch of space twisted, a succession of golden arcs of electricity sprang into being.
Amid the crackling, leaping arcs, the space filled with warped, blurred light was like a crumpled cloth suddenly stretched flat.
Immediately afterward, a beautiful middle-aged woman appeared.
Her features were stunning, brimming with a mature allure that stirred the desire to possess her. But her most memorable features were her golden phoenix eyes and her exceptionally long limbs.
When the beautiful woman first appeared, there was a trace of confusion in her gaze.
But the next moment, she looked in a certain direction. Killing intent immediately surged through her phoenix eyes.
She could sense the trace of her aura left by the protective talisman's activation rapidly fading away.
That meant someone had fled before the talisman's aura could spread. Their reaction had been remarkably swift.
"Someone actually dared lay hands on a disciple of my clan? You court death!"
She could not sense her clansman's aura. Clearly, some magical treasure had isolated it.
The beautiful woman was merely a wisp of divine thought, capable of unleashing the power of the middle stage of Spirit Transformation. She was the last lifesaving safeguard left to this core disciple.
She should have appeared the instant it was activated, but it seemed she, too, had previously been sealed inside a magical treasure.
Only because her divine thought was stronger than the divine sense of the cultivator controlling that treasure had she managed to seep out