Not long afterward, Li Yan, disguised as a gray-robed old man, stood at a spot along the dazzling river of light.
This place was only several dozen li from the entrance at the riverbed leading into the third level of the secret realm.
The moment he emerged, he immediately sensed the presence of his incarnation, and only then did he breathe a sigh of relief. What he had feared had ultimately not happened.
But he still did not know what the final outcome of all the measures he had laid down would be.
After sensing that the Ming sisters had gone far away, he had swiftly returned here while concealing his tracks the entire way.
Not long after Li Yan's true body appeared here, another gray-robed old man appeared before him. That person somewhat resembled Li Yan's current appearance.
The reason it was only somewhat similar was that the gray-robed old man who had emerged later was now half-solid and half-illusory, his features already somewhat blurry.
The latter gray-robed old man said nothing. Taking a quick step forward, he directly crashed into Li Yan's true body, and the two figures instantly overlapped.
Afterward, the two figures blurred and twisted slightly, leaving only one gray-robed old man behind. He swiftly closed his eyes.
About ten breaths later, Li Yan abruptly opened his eyes. The gleam in them surged at once, as though two bolts of lightning had shot forth.
"He actually got away? This man's methods truly are formidable. Even with the incarnation and the formation working together, we still failed to keep him.
"And if I had not made preparations beforehand, and if the incarnation had not had this bewildering formation to assist it, leaving him wary of the chaotic formation and unable to focus his mind, that incarnation would