In the end, the middle-aged man's limbs had all become extremely thin, while his body swelled like a ball. The sounds of "Bang, bang, bang..." rang without end.
Under the assault, he ricocheted back and forth through the cave.
Li Yan had unleashed the full strength of his physical body—the body forged through the Qiongqi Purgatory Art and the Undying Nether Phoenix cultivation, further enhanced after advancing to the Void Refinement Realm.
Under normal circumstances, even some late-stage Void Refinement cultivators might have been able to withstand it.
But under such a sustained, berserk assault, Li Yan felt that even an Early Body Integration Realm cultivator's surface defenses should have begun to falter.
Yet after smashing through cave after cave and passage after passage, the other party remained utterly silent, allowing Li Yan to attack him.
This was the first time Li Yan had encountered someone within the same major realm who could endure such frenzied attacks from him.
At the same time, every one of his strikes had been laced with Zhili Poison. Yet in this state, the other party's defenses were simply too formidable; the Zhili Poison could not seep in even a fraction.
Instead, Li Yan had to keep detoxifying himself. Every blow he landed on the other party carried the possibility that the other party's deadly poison would infiltrate his own defenses.
Li Yan immediately wanted to summon his magic treasure and stab directly at him, to see whether the other party's defenses were truly as clingy and troublesome as glue.
However, the gap between their strengths was not too great. While Li Yan controlled the rhythm and attacked without pause, he could suppress his opponent by exploiting his slightly slower reactions.
But when he summoned his magic treasure, with merely a thought, the gap should