Yet Li Yan's final attempt had actually succeeded.
That immediately made Li Yan feel that it was not because the answer had been simple, but because the master of this secret realm must have been very lonely—or rather, withdrawn by nature.
Aside from cultivation, that person had likely spent time tending spirit fields, and was probably also an expert in mechanisms, puppetry, or artifact refinement.
In spare moments, they would refine magical treasures, puppets, arrays, and such things.
And somehow, when it came to mechanism puppets, the other party had actually fashioned some of them into the likeness of scarecrows.
Thus, when setting up traps later on, they had added these scarecrows. Their true strength probably was not all that great.
But the principle was easy enough to understand. It was like if he entered Tuban—Li Yan could magnify his own strength many times over.
Therefore, when he had been outside the courtyard, he had been unable to see those scarecrows. That obscuring layer of black shadow was likely the magical treasure's protective barrier as well.
Those scarecrows should have existed within the magical treasure. The reason their attacks had been so astonishingly powerful was because they had drawn upon the treasure's own strength.
This showed just how terrifying that magical treasure was. Yet after the three of them came out, none of them mentioned trying to take it, because they knew they could not do so.
Especially since that magical treasure was connected to the teleportation array they had entered through, and was subsequently linked to the secret realm, like a connecting bond.
They simply did not have the ability to alter an entire secret realm, especially after sensing that heart-pounding danger beyond the magical treasure's southern wall.
Even if the three of them could take the treasure, would