What troubled Li Yan even more was that he had never imagined the second trial would use marked incarnations for the contest.
Thus, he had to carefully reconsider the methods he could still use, because quite a few Gui Water Immortal Sect techniques could not be performed.
For instance, the Five Elements Chaotic Cloak could easily let observant people spot the problem. That would still carry a considerable chance of exposing his hidden cards.
Under such circumstances, Li Yan found it rather vexing.
Only now did he discover many things he had never noticed before. The overwhelming majority of his methods were aimed at killing his opponent with a single strike.
Therefore, when facing enemies, he naturally used every method without regard for the consequences.
Yet those attacks that had always served him so handily had become a burden here. Though he had so many attack methods, he could not let others know about them.
This sort of contest was highly unfavorable to him...
By comparison, Mu Guyue's actual combat strength had basically suffered no further losses.
What still worried her, however, was whether the strength in group combat they had trained through using marked incarnations here would still be effective.
Only after everyone in the valley had truly tested it did she finally set her mind at ease.
Otherwise, they would have spent more than a year tempering those cultivators for nothing, and their tactics this time would have to be completely changed.
An hour after Li Yan and the others entered the Mountain and River Diagram, the members of the Po Jun Sect on a certain hillside were still standing within a patch of restrictions, vigilantly watching the outside.
Then, beneath what had been a cloudless blue sky, vast swaths of dense fog suddenly appeared. Mere breaths after