Within a mountain ravine, Li Yan's face darkened as he set up an array. Then, disregarding the drain on his Divine Sense once more, he drew the gray-haired elder into "Tuban"...
After the time it took to burn an incense stick, Li Yan's expression outside suddenly stiffened. Within "Tuban," the gray-haired elder beneath the palm of his phantom suddenly revealed a pained expression.
The next moment, a deathly aura spread from his body. He gave no further sign of life and perished on the spot.
Startled, Li Yan hurriedly examined the black-robed elder again. Once he saw through the condition within his body, he found that the man's soul had already scattered and dispersed. He was dead beyond death.
Still, Li Yan had already obtained much information from the gray-haired elder. He had merely touched a forbidden zone within the man's memories, and the old fellow had abruptly died.
This elder was a deacon from a nearby sect, with cultivation at the late Nascent Soul stage.
Upon learning this, Li Yan's heart trembled. Today, he had truly faced, face-to-face, the terror of a late Nascent Soul Soul Cultivator.
Back in the outside world, cultivators of this level could no longer harm him. Yet if he had not reacted quickly to this Soul Cultivator's attack, it was still uncertain who would have lived and who would have died.
After the gray-haired elder's sect received a message several days ago, it had not merely sent him out to lie in ambush. Three Spirit Transformation elders had also been dispatched. ??
This made Li Yan's heart pound wildly. The methods Soul Cultivators used for detection did not rely on Divine Sense at all. Instead, they used magic treasures, arrays, or secret arts to search for fluctuations of soul power nearby and locate living