His pupils turned utterly black, as if soaked full of endless, icy Gui Water. The Five Elements Cauldron within his Dantian boiled like water, madly squeezing out every shred of spiritual power.
The Guiyi Water-Parting Spike in one hand suddenly vanished, then transformed into a long brush within Li Yan's sleeve, swiftly sketching out a "Black Water Rune."
A ghostly gleam flashed through Li Yan's eyes, and his black pupils contracted sharply. His figure spun wildly through the air as he pursued his opponent.
Amid their desperate entanglement, Li Yan once again caught the fleeting gap in the sword net. The "Black Water Rune" suddenly slammed against the other man's defensive light barrier.
In that instant, Li Yan saw golden lines emerge across the body of the man in the void ahead.
The moment those golden lines appeared, the hand gripping the brush within Li Yan's sleeve moved. The brush tip abruptly lifted and viciously jabbed at the Dantian of the still somewhat blurry golden-lined humanoid...
As the pitch-black brush tip in Li Yan's hand touched the golden-lined humanoid, the situation on the battlefield changed abruptly once more.
"Ah!"
Zhu Hongyi had been mobilizing his spiritual power to resist the other party's venomous corrosion, continuously patching the gaps in his light barrier while rapidly searching for a breakthrough.
The instant the "Black Water Rune" struck his protective barrier, his spiritual power immediately came into contact with it. Then, from deep within his soul, an agonizing pain suddenly tore through him as though his heart and lungs were being ripped apart.
The pain came without warning, making him throw back his head and scream. Li Yan's Soul-Enticing Kill had finally shattered his opponent's hard turtle shell.
Now that Li Yan had employed this technique, it could already affect an enemy's Earth