Li Yan had first probed the area with soul power. He understood that attacks against this cave entrance would not trigger any rules or restrictions to counterattack; it merely defended passively.
So long as one did not come into contact with those powers, there would be no problem.
With a flash, the black ringed saber became a black ribbon cleaving through the sky, slashing viciously onto the curtain of light.
Boom!
A muffled sound struck straight into Li Yan's mind.
This time, the black ringed saber did not immediately collapse. Instead, blinding streaks of dark light continued to erupt from its sharp edge.
At the same time, the entire blade gave off waves of humming.
Yet after holding on for roughly three breaths, shocking cracks appeared all across the black blade.
Then, amid a string of cracking sounds, it turned into countless fragments of black crystalline light that shot back toward Li Yan.
Li Yan swiftly raised an arm and gave it a fierce sweep, drawing those black crystalline fragments into his sleeve, where they vanished.
"Such pure water-element spiritual power. The little fellow's spiritual power is quite abundant as well!"
Although Elder Hao did not look at Li Yan again, he had sensed the depth of Li Yan's spiritual power the moment Li Yan summoned that black ringed saber.
It was far stronger than that of an ordinary early Spirit Transformation cultivator. He knew Li Yan had been in Spirit Transformation for less than a century, and cultivating such a vast amount of spiritual power was already quite impressive.
Yet Li Yan had not actually used all his spiritual power. He had been circulating the "Tidefall" cultivation art the entire time.
Although his methods for concealing his cultivation were utterly useless before a Fusion cultivator,
with the other party