For a cultivator blessed with such aptitude, the young man would have been lying if he said he was not jealous. But there was no way he could prevent Li Yan from passing the assessment.
Thus, every time the assessment formation operated, the images within would be recorded and preserved. This was an additional formation specially installed by Master Lan.
Its purpose was so that whenever she came by periodically, she could review how others had used the formation, draw inspiration from it, and continuously improve the formation.
Otherwise, after expending so much effort and spending enormous amounts of "Soul Crystal Sprouts" to purchase soul spirits, if she left this formation here and received only limited feedback, could she really just listen to the disciples here recount things orally? What meaning would that have?
Yet the young man kept his expression perfectly composed. From the techniques Li Yan had displayed in the long alley earlier, he had already seen traces of the Soul-Suppressing Palace in some of Li Yan's spell applications.
Though he was not particularly familiar with the cultivation arts of the Spirit-Slaying Sect, he knew that sect had originally been born from the Soul-Suppressing Palace.
Therefore, seeing traces of the Soul-Suppressing Palace within Li Yan's cultivation arts, he naturally believed Li Yan's identity.
In truth, any cultivator who could travel normally within the Dizhen Domain basically had no issue with his identity. He had to be a Soul Cultivator to do so.
Thus, when screening cultivators, the main thing was simply confirming whether they were Soul Cultivators. Of course, outside Soul Cultivators still had to be treated differently.
"Hahaha... Fellow Daoist Li's cultivation arts are indeed exquisite. Admirable, truly admirable! I am Wang Chengfeng. I will arrange for someone to take you to the 'Exotic Sparrow Hall' at