The entire mountain path lay in deathly silence. Only the thick fog churned around them...
Li Yan and Mei Hongyu behind him said nothing either. Both were waiting for the other party to attack again.
Time passed breath by breath, yet the storm-like barrage from before never came again. Even as Li Yan remained vigilant, his mind rapidly turned over countermeasures.
"How did you sense the enemy's true attack earlier?"
After a while, without turning his head, Li Yan sent a voice transmission to Mei Hongyu.
Mei Hongyu was still tense. Although Li Yan had blocked the little girl in the blood-red dress's attack, it had left her feeling helpless and despairing.
At the same time, she had no idea whether Li Yan could withstand the subsequent assassination attempts. Even if she could sense the other party's sudden appearance, she simply could not evade it.
When Li Yan had slain those cyan light figures earlier, the battle had also felt quite intense to her, yet it had not driven the two of them into peril.
But now, in just a brief moment, Li Yan had been forced into one danger after another. Even sweat had seeped through the clothes on his back, utterly unlike his earlier calm composure.
Mei Hongyu was also focusing all her attention on sensing the surroundings, afraid that the ghostlike attacks would suddenly strike again.
If Li Yan could not block them, she too would die in an instant.
Upon suddenly hearing Li Yan's question, she snapped somewhat awake from her tense scrutiny of the surroundings. After a moment of stunned silence, Mei Hongyu hurriedly replied.
"It wasn't Divine Sense. The range my Divine Sense can probe here is only about as far as my eyesight, and it cannot distinguish real attacks from false ones.
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