Although Li Yan was capturing golden runes, he had been keeping an eye on everyone else nearby.
When he saw the yellow-skirted woman inside the barrier obtain her fourth rune, someone pulled her out. In just moments, she passed through the barrier.
At that instant, Li Yan noticed another problem, and his heart stirred.
Because he saw the pale green belt around her waist. When it was tugged by someone outside the barrier, the entire light green belt instantly went taut.
The yellow-skirted woman inside the barrier was lifted into the air in an instant and almost immediately dragged out.
Yet Li Yan had seen that pale green belt before. It had merely been prepared as a fallback, a safeguard.
Thus, the belt had been hanging loosely and curved around the woman's waist.
But when she was pulled taut and dragged out, one part of the pale green belt—which should have been stretched completely straight—remained bent and folded.
That bent section was right where the edge of the barrier formed. It was as though someone had creased the belt at an angle there.
The sight gave the impression that the person pulling from outside had not used their full strength at all.
Yet Li Yan could tell that the yellow-skirted woman had been flung out by a tremendous force transmitted through the belt around her waist, rather than shooting out on her own.
At this moment, Li Yan finally understood a question that had troubled him before.
Why was it that when they stood outside the barrier, no matter how earnestly they tried to capture the golden runes within, they always came up empty-handed?
It was because the spaces inside and outside the barrier were not on the same visual plane.
What appeared to be a straight line actually had