Zhu Hongyi and Yan He had never imagined that their opponent would be so willing to throw his life away. Pale with shock, even as they suppressed him, they still tried to persuade Li Yan.
Li Yan turned a deaf ear to their words. The aura of the Spirit Transformation Realm surged skyward...
Almost at the same time, a terrifying tremor sounded from the heavens. The sky full of stars vanished, and amid the roiling clouds, a pitch-black gate covered in intricate runes had opened.
The instant the black gate opened a crack, heaven and earth in this region churned as if rivers and seas had been overturned. Three runes flew from the gate, reaching the three men in a flash.
Even though the three were protected by the strongest defensive barriers in this world, the black runes simply ignored them, piercing through layer upon layer of defenses and landing upon their bodies.
Just as Li Yan had ignored the defenses others deployed while inside the "Tuban" space!
In an instant, all three vanished from where they stood. An incomparably powerful pulling force rose from their bodies at the same time!
At that moment, Zhu Hongyi and Yan He instantly recalled their natal flying swords, attempting to protect themselves with all their strength.
The cultivation of all three, Li Yan included, erupted without the slightest reservation as they desperately resisted the uncontrollable ascending force within their bodies.
Li Yan watched helplessly as the black rune completely ignored the rebound of his spiritual power and landed directly atop his head.
Then, all the spiritual power within him instantly transformed into spirals that rose upward from his dantian. Though he suppressed them at all costs, trying to force them back into his dantian, he simply could not do it.
His spiritual power