Green radiance reflected from the runes, casting an eerie glow across Li Yan's face. Yet against Mei Hongyu's snow-white skin, it possessed another kind of bewitching beauty.
The instant the golden giant hammer entered the black-light vortex, Li Yan's expression changed. He did not dare send his Divine Sense in after it, instead using the spiritual-power tether to sense what was happening to the hammer.
Startled, Li Yan swiftly flicked the hand holding the spiritual-power tether and immediately severed his connection to it.
Having lost its pull, the giant hammer merely spun once within the black-light vortex before being churned into the vortex and vanishing without a trace.
The artifact only caused a flash of yellow light to flare within the black-light vortex. Then the enormous vortex, spanning dozens of li, completely returned to its previous state.
Li Yan's seemingly formidable action had been like tossing a small stone into a river. It had not stirred up much of a splash before quietly disappearing...
"Did... did you sense anything?"
Mei Hongyu spoke hesitantly. She had been watching Li Yan all along. His actions were clearly testing the black-light vortex, for this vortex might very well have been the exit.
But if this black-light vortex truly was the exit, Mei Hongyu felt that the two of them might be trapped here for the rest of their lives.
Thus, even as she stared unblinkingly at Li Yan's movements, her heart was filled with unease, praying that this black-light vortex was not the exit.
"The power inside is exceedingly terrifying. We probably can't withstand it!"
Li Yan gave a brief answer, still contemplating what he had sensed just now. First of all, even upon contact, the black-light vortex here had not unleashed any violent force.
This was truly different from the vortexes in