However, Li Yan still saw something else on Jiang Tingye's body—certainly not anything like a storage ring.
When Xu Yihua appeared, although Li Yan had remained where he was and had not gone over to inspect the bodies himself, his Divine Sense had already swept over them carefully.
Other than their clothes, the two men had left nothing behind.
There were bloodstains on Jiang Tingye's left hand, but they were blood caught beneath his fingernails. Though quite a few wounds covered his exposed skin, none were scratch marks.
The enemy may have been injured as well...
The moment Li Yan saw this, a possibility had already arisen in his mind. During a cultivator's battle, one would only scratch at one's skin if poison had entered it and caused unbearable itching.
Such scratch marks would usually cover large areas. It was impossible for all of them to be concealed by the wounds on his body.
Li Yan guessed that after Yang Zun's group of four entered the core region of the formation, they might have noticed something amiss in advance. While fleeing, the four of them had been scattered apart, just as he and Ming Qi had been.
But it was also possible that the enemy had deliberately used the power of the formation to isolate them.
That was why they had not died together, and why he had not yet come under attack again. The enemy was dividing their forces to hunt them down.
Up to this point, aside from Ming Qi, whose whereabouts were unknown, Li Yan had not seen Yang Zun or Xie Xingzhi either. At the same time, he had not heard the slightest sound of fighting.
What made Li Yan feel even more uneasy was that he kept appearing before the "person"-shaped mountain peak. This meant